and if this fail I 'le find some other way to live there are more kind men than one Enter Lucia gives her the Book Lucia Here Madam but I hope you are not in earnest Emi. Peace Baggage and if Lysander come tell him I 'me not to be disturb'd Sits down and turns over the Book Luci. Since you are so serious you shall have none of my Company I 'le e'ne go sing a brisk song or two i' th' next room and bless the first man that comes to put you out of this humor Enter Lysander Oh here 's Lysander then I must run for 't Emi. Aside He 's come now all that 's woman help me to dissemble Yet I can find no Prayer that 's fit for me Sure never any woman was so wicked She turns the book over Lys. Come Emelia throw away thy book and fly to my embraces thou need'st not study any new charms Come let me see what 't is that tempts thee thus some smutty Novells on my life How 's this A Prayer book I should sooner expect to see the French King turn Calvinist than to find thee in this posture What sad affliction has brought thee to this misery Hast spotted thy new gown lost thy little dog or dost want a new fashion'd pair of Pendants Prithee tell me Emi. No No Sr. None of these But I have spotted all my life lost my innocence which you have rob'd me off and want a new heart Lys. Hey day turn'd Canter this becomes thee worse than fine dress and youthful cloths an old woman There 's scarce a Nun will talk thus through a grate Emi. But I shall when I 'me there as I resolve I will and if I can teach you repentance Lys. Aside Pox o' this wheadle I see through it and will cure her by one as extravagant Emi. It is but Just I help to wash away your guilt who have been the unlucky cause Lys Aside Now for my trade Oh Emilia from this minute I 'me happy give me your hand my bloud 's obedient and I can touch thee now with as chast thoughts as Virgins pray Emi. Aside If this be real I 'me undone but I must on Lys Methinks I loath my former life Oh could vve but call it back Emilia Emi. Then vve vvere blest indeed But since that cannot be I 'le double all my Orisons and that way make up my arrears And never speak or think of man but vvhen I put up prayers for you O Lysander Aside Hang me if I can hold for laughing if I make a good end of this if I ever undertake to Preach again may I turn Nun in earnest Lys Aside She will out-do me they have th' advantage of a voyce for whining but I 'le try I 'le to a cloyster too for 't is but just the residue of life be spent in punishing this too much pamper'd flesh There in our several cells we 'll fast and watch and wash away our guilt and when we 're fit to dye remove to heaven Oh Emilia Emi. Aside This is counterfeit too but how to come off I can't imagine Well dear Lysander for now I dare call thee so since our designs agree let 's time our Prayers that Heaven may hear us both together Lys We 'll rise before the morn Emi. Out-watch the pale-faced moon Lys Nor eat to satisfie our appetite but lengthen out our lives for our devotion Emi. We will not drink but what our tears have season'd Lys Nor sleep Emi. Nor think Lys Nor dream Emi. Nor live Lys Nor any thing but Emi. They both burst out a laughing I can hold no longer Lys Nor I by heaven You idle rogue could you imagine I could think thee in earnest Emi. I was once half afraid that you was till I consider'd how ill it became you Lys Now what amends for all this Will you never leave this jealousie Emi. You shall find that within I did it only for to try you after your absence Lys No more of these tricks there needs none I am as fond as ever come let 's in and enjoy our selves and some twenty years hence we may venture on such a discourse in earnest Exeunt ACT. II. SCENA I. Pisauro Leandro Pis YEt you resolve to have this wench Lea. Why I 'me sure thou wouldst not have me dye if it were only to save the trouble of praying for me Pis Faith it would put me a little out of my road that 's the truth on 't but why must you needs dye Thou hast not seen her above twice and that at Church too if you had been at your appointment you might have avoided such temptations for my part I 'me resolv'd to keep out of harms way Lea. Away you 're profane Pis Prithee stay till thy Saint's Canoniz'd before thou say so do you think it religion to kneel squinting at your mistriss two or three hours with your beads in your hands and only cast up your eyes because she 's i' th' gallery above you Lea. Heaven made such beauty for to be ador'd Pis And she 'l make use of it for to be whor'd Aside Why don't you go on I thought you had a coppy of verses on it Heaven made c. I shall believe you are in love when once you talk your sublime nonsence Heaven Beauty Fate Adoration Sun Divinity and a few such words will make thee Poet too and then thou' rt fit to court a Queen Lea. I was bewitch't to tell you I knew you vvould but mock at my misfortunes I should hardly serve Pisauro so Pis Misfortunes do you call it will you make me believe women can run through thee like lightning and set what brand upon a heart they please Let me be thy Doctor and prescribe thee two or three of my infallible cures against this witchcraft of love Feed high Wench discreetly And go to bed with a jolly cup. Probatum est 't is as infallible as the Jesuites poâ—der for a Quartan Lea. I see I must find some other friend to help me in my affaires Adieu Pis I 'le be serious By my troth I had such a qualm came over me once 't was troublesome and lasted about a quarter of an hour but since a she friend of mine taught me to draw the humor downward I 'me free Lea. I have no patience to bear this fooling Pis I have done pray pardon me but which way do'st thou intend for to obtain her The old man keeps her with more care than he does his gold He cut of a dog's ears t'other day to search for lettters And has a gun ready charged to kill pidgeons for fear they should be Carryers He swounds at the sight of a post or any thing that runs of errands Lea. This difficulty makes me need thy help I know thee expert in all the tricks of women art read in their winks and nods canst tell how to answer with a shrug or sigh knowst how to wheadle Chamber Maids and make love to old
You seem angry Madam Ism Not I Sir 't is not in the povver of man to make me so Aside but that vvoman does Boy Aloud You think me Sir too free I fear Ant. No dearest our old love may challenge this and more Ism May they poison thee Salutes her Ped. Aside I smell it 't is Antonio's Boy he courts And she must love by her concern Now I 'le strike home Ant. You have your story ready for Camillo Boy Yes Sir Ant. Aloud And you 'l not fail to meet me there Dearest Boy I shall ne're deny my self a happiness Mar. To Ped. But are you sure my Sister will be found so easy as to yield Ped I only beg the promise that you 'l follow her example Mar. I may have confidence enough in her to grant and yet shew little kindness Aside at worst it saves my blushes Ped. That little 's all I ask Madam Ant. I 'le only end a formal compliment or two Ism Aside Treacherous base man Ant. Pisauro shall I beg you would conduct this Lady Pis You honor me with the trust Exeunt Pisauro Boy Ism Will you go Sister Ant. You 'l give me leave to wait on you Madam Ism No Sir you have your hands full I see already and may spare your formal compliments Would you fail your assignation with so great a beauty Am. Aside As I could wish She is not ugly Madam Ism I don't intend a quarrel on the subject 'T is indifferent to me what she is Ant. I see it is Madam nor could you blame me for courting her when I found you so cruel Ism I blame you Why did you not leave Pisauro here and go your self there 's no body so fond of your company Come Sister to Pedro I hope Sir you 'l be so kind as to shew us the way home Mar. Nay fie Sister part friends to Pedro You see Sir we are like to meet Ped. I 'le take my fortune Madam Aside and know I have a sure card to play Ant. 'T is pretty to fall from the discourse of marriage into this of chiding Ism Marriage I 'le rather be shut up with Leandro in a grave than ever have a thought of you Ant. But I 'me sure you will more know you must Nay what is more yet am confident 't will be a match Ism Now you 're impudent Did I ever shew the least kindness to you Ant. Confest but this anger makes me think you have had no unkindness for me Ism To vex you I will confess it true but add to it that I hate you now Ant. 'T is very strange all that you can say can never make me believ 't Ism I tell you I should hate my self should I ever have the least good thought of you Nay I shall hate all mankind for your sake scarce spare my Brother for beginning our acquaintance Ant. This still confirms me more in my opinion Mar. This is mad courtship Ped. I know it must succeed for nothing heightens love so much as a misgrounded jealousie Ant. What if I would promise I would love no woman besides you is there no hopes of pardon Ism No I scorn it now Ant. If I swear I never did love a woman Ism Nothing I know it false and if I doated on you should hate you for this lie Enter Tutor Tut. Ladies you must thist for yourselves and that with speed your Father is awake has sent for Leandro and to the Senate that he may force you home where e're he finds you Ped. You know your old retreat Ism I 'le die first Mar. And I 'le be as good as my word and follow my Sister Ant. Now I begin to find I 'me wretched If this unlucky woman had not come I had been happy Ism And I more miserable far than now Come Sister let 's fly any whither from these men Ant. Pray stay Madam since I have work't you to a height and am confirm'd you love me by this jealousie know that Lady was my Boy drest in that habit to procure your liberty I knew I had no other way to make this blest discovery Will you yet give me leave Ism I am worse angry than before to be betrai'd by this trick Ant. Consider Madam you 'd better do 't I 'le make good my promise liberty and Revenge Ism No no such matter it may be I 'le vouchsafe to hear your story out Tut. A minutes stay will ruine all Mar. What do you resolve on Sister Ism Only that I will not have Leandro Ped. My hopes are fair yet Madam Mar. You know the grounds on which they stand Tut. Away I say I easily guess where this quarrel will end Exeunt Omnes Enter Camillo Leandro Cam. Never plead for them to be made the talk and story of all the town Sung in Ballads for 't will come to that The careful father gull'd or old Camillo's dream I can nor will hear no more Lean. Threatning will but make them fly your fury whereas a promise of pardon brings them with submission into your power and then you may contrive their punishment Cam. Contrive do you hear me For the first I 'le have a dungeon so dark and streight that she shall grope the way unto her mouth and have no other air but sighs to live on The second you should never wed did I not believe you would invent some lasting terrors unto all that are or shall be Wives Lea. Trust me with that but first it 's necessary I seek 'em out and bring them home Cam. If they refuse use force the Senate cannot deny their power to so just designs Lea. I hope we shall not need it Exit Leandro Cam. Never was man at my age so rid To be rock't asleep like a great Baby whilst they are all a revelling Well I shall meet with these dap-chicks That Jay my son with the Owl his Tutor and if I do Enter Boy in womans cloaths Hah who have we here Boy You may wonder at a strangers rudeness Sir and why a woman thus intrudes Cam. By my troth so I do but the Divel 's in you all for impudence Boy When you know I have necessity and Justice on my side I cannot doubt but you 'l relieve my misery Cam. A beggar in this garb be gon I have no time to hear long stories nor will to supply your wants Boy To relieve my wants will never make you poorer Sir Cam. The right religious Cant to you know the way be gon Boy Pray hear me out and then I know you will have pitty Camillo turns away she kneels If e're you had a Mother you owed a duty to or wife you lov'd Cam. 'T is a pretty tone this turns away Boy If you have daughters as I knovv you have whose honor you 'd preserve from stain if any thing that 's yet more dear by all I do conjure you to hear me out Cam. Now am I such a Coxcomb that though I know it is a cheat yet I
nere discover 't he 's as private as a Confessor Ant And upon the same account for he gets money to conceal her vices nay your Confessor is like him too in this that he seldome hides the Womens faults but in the same time he saves his own credit But if it be a Woman much good may it do him I shall never envy him Ped. Nor I He had better thrash or be chain'd to the Gallyes Ant. No more here he is Enter Pisauro Pis Save ye Gallants I interrupt you Ped. No Pisauro we were just now guessing how thou did'st to live Pis Faith Gentlemen ye are both my Friends but we Chymists always conceal our great secret by which we thrive Ped. Heaven send the Furnace where you make your gold don't prove too hot for you Ant. But why in this Garb thou usest to outshine the Sun Pis I am sorry Gentlemen you have hit upon two Questions I must be so uncivil as not to answer but hereafter when things grow ripe Ant. There needs no excuse Pisauro Pis Your design goes forward with Pacheco Ant. Yes yes I intend to carry Pedro thither Pis And 't is odds but I 'le bring a Friend Ant. Dost think the Women will come in Pis Nere fear 't they 'l not stand out at any thing that makes for pleasure Ped. These are mysteries Gentlemen Ant. I 'le unriddle all as we go Pis Wee 'l all meet anon for the present I must leave you and to a patient though I think he is past cure Ant. What 's his Disease prethee that thou art turn'd Quack Ped. The Gentile one I 'le warrant you he cures that by his own experience Pis No Faith worse he 's taken o' th' sudden with a love frenzy and runs mad for a Wench Ant. Pox on him get him one then Pis That will not do I have offer'd him as fair as any one but he is come to his Sonnets and Serenades sighs and walks with his Hat over his Eyes in deep meditation of doggrell love verses calls her by fine Romantick names sometimes she is Celia fair then Phyllis Amarillis Clelia and the Devil and all but her right name and that I am now going to learn Ped. Prethee give him a little Ratsbain or some cold Poyson to cool his pluck in love I thought the World had learn't more witt above this 12 month Ant. May we know the man Pis I 'le try but one Medicine more and if that cure not deliver him over to be baited In the mean time if you chance to guess pray conceal it till the game grows hot Gallants adieu Ant. Adieu â—isauro Come Pedro you won't fail Exeunt Scena Secunda Enter Juliana Jul. I wish she were return'd for I 'me impatient till I hear some news Heaven send shee meet him and me rid of this fond Husband I am as weary of him as a VVoman can be of a Man she has married for money I think I hear her Enter Lelia Oh Lelia did you find him and will he come Lel. Yes Madam Jul. But art sure he said so for thou art so apt to forget Lel. As sure Madam as that you long for his coming Jul. Did'st remember the hour too Lel. Lord Madam what makes you so mistrustful I did if you 'le have me swear Jul. No I believe thee prithee Cozen pardon me and think what a sorment 't is to want the thing we love Alas now 't is a whole long VVeek since I saw him and besides all the while to be troubled with a doating Husband would make any body impatient Lel. Is kindness troublesome I thought no VVoman had complain'd on that side Jul. O more then any thing from one I cannot love Lel. Pray Madam why did you marry then Jul. Poor innocent do'st think that love 's the only cause there are a thousand stronger Lelia that 's the very last in any VVomans thoughts that 's wise Lel. Pray instruct me then it may be my fortune one day Jul. I will and dare with confidence since I know thee private Before I married people flatter'd me or else they thought me fair and that little beauty Lelia was the greatest of my Fortune Lel. and trust me Madam a very great one too Jul. As it was it proved of strength to tempt Lysander who was and still continues one of the richest Merchants of the Town my Parents thought the Match so great that it vvas in vain for me to seem unvvilling to be short I married him but not for love Cozen but to maintain my Dear Pisauro vvho long before had ransackt all my Virgin Treasure and still enjoys my heart Lel. I shall endeavour to learn Madam Jul. Trust me Lelia no vvay's so direct to Misery as to marry one you love Love added to a Husbands povver makes him perfect Tyrant now let him do or say his pleasure all 's indifferent Lel. But is it not as much trouble Madam to doat on your Gallant Jul. No Lelia He has dependance on me and all my happiness is I know his fortune's low Oh! that he were but here once dearest Pisauro Lel. Here 's your Husband Madam Enter Lysander Jul. Then I have a new Trade she weeps Lys Come Dearest I must take leave what weeping Thou hast too much love Jul. If I had thought I could have loved so well I never should have married sure scarce a Week but I am left to misery and solitude methinks I could curse him that e're invented your profession Lel. Aside Brave Woman thou shalt instruct all our Sex Lys Chear up dearest 't is but for a few days and I 'le return and love still more if possible Jul. A day 's an age to be from one I love nay my mind give 's me you 'le nere come agan stay but one day Lel. Aside Heaven send he does not take her at her word Lys Fond Rogue my word 's engag'd I cannot for a World Jul. No you 'le nere do any thing I ask you stay but one hour come prethee do let this beg for me Lel. Aside Rarely acted she might deceive an Angel Lys Why if I should thou'lt be the same then and trust me my time is gone nothing in the World should tempt me from thee but my credit prethee Dear be patient Jul. I have no other remedy you are always tâ—us cruel if you find me sick or dead when you return it will never trouble you Lys Come prethee be not so unkind thou know'st I love thee thou mak'st me weep to hear thee talk thus Lel. Aside Loving Cuckold you would have cause if you knew all Jul. VVell if we must part for ever Lys I tell thee 't is but a day or two Jul. Farewel Heaven prosper you I must have the last look Lys No prethee go or else you hinder me Lelia wait on your Mistress Jul. One kiss more I 'me all obedience and then Lys Adieu dearest Jul. One look more VVas 't not rarely acted Lelia Lel. To the
Ant. Send you joy Sir we believe our own eyes Lean. I 'le never stay for to be baited thus Ant. Nay prethee stay a while and let me tell you a secret you 'l want news else We gave this sleeping portion to Camillo and the Nurse to gain an opportunity of going out to laugh and dance Remember Sir and kept you in discourse till this time when we were sure it would work for to prevent your marriage Do you mark Sir some few houres hence he wakes and then you may come again and tell your story Lea. Yes and be revenged Pis If you dare make a second triall this is but purgatory you know the next punishment Lean. Sunk in the height of all my hopes Exit Leandro Pis Well Gallants I 'le before and leave you to wait upon the Ladies Ant. But whither prithee Pis To Lysandro's here hard by Ped. He 's not at home Pis But his wife is that 's as good Ant. Nay 't is much better does your furnace stand there Pis Ladies I shall wait you Exit Ma. Whose within there Enter Tutor Pray Tutor call some body to carry these in and set them warm Enter Servants carry off Cam. Nurse Ant. Now have I a strange design comes into my head Ped. What is 't Ant. You know Gallants I promised to reform the old men what if we should shave Camillo head and chin and let him wake in a great white wig Ism For heavens sake that would make him irreconcileable Ped. No No that 's driving on too fast we 're pretty well advanced Ant. I only do propose Come Ladies shall we go Mar. Yes Sir I wish our mirth ends well Is Fie Sister to think of that before it does begin Exeunt Enter Pacheco Lelia Pa. I vow to gad Madam nothing but an affair of this moment and that Lel. Oh Sir you have honoured me Pa. Oh Gad Madam the honour and but that I know your goodness Dear Madam let me perish but one minute returns me as much your humble Servant as your Servant Madam your servant Exit Pacheco Scena Secunda Juliana and Lelia laughing Jul. I 'me glad to find your new gallant tickles so Lel. He would make a Nun laugh that 's just profest and that 's the sorrowful'st laughs time I can think of all I wonder at is that I live Jul. What 's the matter did he stand upon his head or conjure that he 's such a miracle Lel. I know not what you mean by conjuring but all the juglers at a Carnival have not so many tricks laughs Jul. I must get some musick for thee O' my conscience thou art stung wench prithee leave and speak Lel. Why Madam all the Painters since the art was found out ne're drew half the postures he was in in less than half an hour he goes as puppets do by wiers Pray Madam have a little patience and I 'le shew you After a shrug and a salute which he tells me is the new mode he gives his little whalebone a twirle or two Jul. Well then I make my curtsy Lel. Right Madam then the Divel refuse him But mine 's the pleasant'st seat in Venice and that gives him opportunity to take as strut or two to view the room but all this time the wig and shirt is order'd and as soon as e're the looking glass was spied out comes the comb and I had twenty tunes begun and never ended or ended and ne're begun Jul. But what must I do all this while Lel. Admire Madam then the posture 's alter'd and off goes the glove vvhich shovvs the diamond ring and out comes the gold Watch vvhich must be placed vvith art for fear the chain hang not out enough to be seen Jul. Thou' rt a Divel to abuse him thus Lel. Next he approaches and knovvs I am a vvit by the chosing of my ribbons and rails at the poor Country Madam for making him svveat in Summer vvith her hot colours Next subject of discourse vvas the alteration of the mode in Laces commends my vvork and calls all the stitches by their proper names and in the midst of this begins a nevv tune svvears 't is good and from thence takes occasion to run over all the Plays and his acquaintance vvith the Poets Jul. Could'st thou desire better company Lel. Nay he has not done yet Madam then he talks o're all the women of the town and how Tom such a one had turn'd off Betty and Dick such another kept Mall and call'd them all by their names as freely as if he had been Pimp to all the company Jul. And ten to one their names is all he knows them by but you must know 't is modish and a great attainment Lel. At last when he came into the discourse of travel I concluded we should ne're have done but all o' th' suddain he makes me three or four cringes of several fashions begs leave for to dispatch some great affair which I suppose was to look upon some new wig he had bespoke and hee 'd be here immediatly Jul. And vvhat dost thou think of him after all this Lel. You must needs guess Madam as of a most egregious Fop. I 'm beholden to Pisauro for his good vvishes Enter Pisauro And here he comes in time for to receive my thanks Jul. I am ashamed to hear thee talk thus vvhat blessing can'st thou imagine greater than a husband that 's a fool and rich Lel Heaven forbid Madam Jul. Thou' rt an Idiot Is 't not better to have him busy himself with points and ribbons toys and laces than to be alwayes grave and melancholy which in a while will make him jealous too and mark your very looks Pis 'T is odds but that you 're lock't up and see the Sun but once a twelvemonth and have no other company but some old woman that does the office of a deaths head and puts you in mind of dying Jul. You see what arts I 'me forc'd to use to cheat Lysander with such a man as this will manage all your purpose himself Lel. I will be rul'd by you Madam Pis 'T was well said how did he behave himself Jul. I have had that at full no more now I beseech you Pis How did you carry it Lel. I took your directions and had as many modish postures as I then could think on sometimes thus then thus Pis That must needs take him did he speak any thing of Love She acts several ridiculous conceited postures Lel. I can't tell how to answer you or what his way of courtship is when he 's in earnest but he commended me as if I was to sell grip'd my hand and kist it talk't of the power of love and women and all the time screw'd up and down as if he had been netled Pis These are good signs I shall know all as soon as e're I see him Pacheco sings within heark I believe he 's coming yes 't is he I hear him sing pray withdraw the Ladies will
nurses Prethee be serious and advise me Pis Now I see thou art in earnest I can and will Leandro Lea. But how dear Pisauro Pis Why thus old Camillo Father to thy Ismena has a son lately return'd from England whither he went with our Embassador Lea. This way I can foresâ—e no hopes Pis Yes very much You knew him humorsome and conceited before his voyage but this has added to him all the fopperies of that Nation which they borrow from the French so that he 's the strangest piece of Fantastickness that can make droll for a play in short he is a meer singing switching Fopp Lea. Still you amaze me Pis Suffer me Amongst the rest of the English customes 'tis one and faith almost the only one that pleases me to allow all possible freedom to their women This he resolves to bring up in Venice and will in spight of his father begin with his own sisters There is a Royal society of us call'd the Reformers Dost thou yet understand me Lea. Yes this sounds like something Pis We 'l admit thee into the number and then shift for thy self I must leave you and to the business that concerns my life as I was telling you my little Merchant adventures Oh! 't is the kindest thing so like matrimony and yet no trouble Now vve talk of reforming could you all thrive like me and leave off the damn'd trade of keeping vvenches and let them keep you 'tvvould be a happy vvorld Lea. But I 'me for neither I 'me for the honest vvay of marrying Pis Heaven forbid but that somebody should like that dull trade for if there vvere no vvives there vvould be no husbands to rob to maintain us younger Brothers Lea. You still keep your old humor but vvhy no better drest man Pis I 'le tell you I serve her as the vvenches used to serve me alvvays pretend to vvant something thou shalt see me as glorious as the day at our next meeting Lea. Stay vvho are these Enter Antonio and Pedro. Pis Antonio and Pedro tvvo of the society I 'le admit you presently Ped. Thou' rt a rare rogue Hovv the Divel could'st thou find Rhetorick enough to vvheadle him to this Ant. He did it himself Sir And tells me in England 't is thought honorable to bring their sisters acquainted as they call it I believe some fashionable name for Pimping 'T is ordinary there to do it for a kins woman and that may save a portion Heaven send them good faces and they never need work for their livings Oh ' t is Pis Save you Gallants how does the Society go forward Ant. With full sail Pisauro Pis Shall I beg admission for my friend here Ped. Leandro The only man we wished but he must be sworn according to form Lea. Your Servant Gentlemen I shall willingly pass any ceremony Pis They are easie only an oath or two to swallow and they are gilded Ant. Lay your hand upon the book 'T is Ovid de arte amandi and begin You shall swear to the uttermost of your power to reform Venice according to the Pattern of Enland in manners and discipline and that you will without respect of persons endeavour the extirpation of Tyranny that is the government of Husbands and Fathers by Sisters Aunts Nurses and all other officers depending upon that Usurpation And that you will with the same sincerity root out the spreading errors of Vizards Masques Veyles Padlocks both for the restoring of lost pleasures to your self and the freedom of the distressed Ladys So help you Cupid Ant. So now you are a sworn Brother we need keep nothing secret Pis Where 's our Grand-master Pacheco Ant. I left him with his Tutor the English man contriving which way to get his Sisters out of Prison Lea. That 's the English man I warrant that pretends so much to Poetry and breeding and censures all the old Authors with as much Authority as if he had been their School-master Pis The same if he gets but the upper end of a Table at an Ordinary you shall have him run them over as fast as a Dutch-man tells money Ant. Sometimes he pretends to Plays too and then he damns French Spanish and Italian in a wind yet steals out of the very worst of them He would be thought to have a little kindness for an Author or two of his own Nation but will be sure to ruin their reputation too with some exception or other before he leaves them Lea. Does he ever write himself Ant. Yes Yes but as all your profest Criticks do damnably ill To tell you the truth for I have made it my business to understand him the fellow has wit but broke with driving a trade too big for his stock and when Pacheco took him in all he had to subsist on was confidence and the favour of two or three fopps Ped. Faith he 's bravely fitted with a Master Ant. 'T is very pleasant to hear him talk of the advantages of this Reformation his Lectures of Repartes Converse Regales and an hundred more unintelligible fopperies Ped. To end he has order'd us to expect him at the old place where we shall hear the Result of all Pis There you may expect me then an hour hence Ant. But how shall we find a Mistress for Pacheco Ped. Why faith I have a wench I grow something weary of he shall have her Lea. No that 's too cruel Ant. What think you of my boy finely drest The rogue has a smooth face and sings well Pis Nor that neither I have a Cozen witty and handsome whose Fathers fortunes were ruin'd in our last wars at Candy what if we set her up she may teach him wit Ped. As you can agree But prithee now you talk of singing let Leandro hear the song you made upon the Reformation Ant. Sing boy SONG Beauty no longer shall suffer Eclipse Nor jealousie dare to confine The power of those eyes or use of those lips Which nothing but kindness design Our Ladies shall be As frolick as we Nor shall husband or Father repine We'el banish the stratagems us'd by the State To keep the poor women in aw Henceforth they themselves shall rule their own fate And desire shall be to them a law Thus they being free From Padlock and Key May with their Reformers withdraw Where in private we'el teach them the Mysteries of Love And practise that Lecture over Till we the fond Scruple of honor remove And the end of our passion discover No maid shall complain Or wife sigh in vain For each may be eas'd by her Lover Away with all things that sound like to Laws In this our new Reformation Let the Formalists prate the good old cause Is a general toleration From this time they 're free A veyl's Heresie And a Vizard Excommunication Lea. 'T is a brisk design and must needs take among the Ladies but are the so free in England as you pretend Ped. Freer than you can think Sir 'T is