the rich Scrivener and serves him as a Clerk to get admission to her which the watchful Fop her Father denies to all others Ran. I thought you had been nibling at her once under pretence of love to her Aunt Dap. I confess I have the same design yet and Addleplot is but my Agent whilst he thinks me his he brings me Letters constantly from her and carries mine back Vin. Still betraying your best friends Dap. I cannot in honour but betray him let me perish the poor young Wench is taken with my person and wou'd scratch through fowr walls to come to me Vin. 'T is a sign she is kept up close indeed Dap. Betray him I 'll not be a Traytor to Love for any man Sir Simon Addleplot to them with the Waitor Sir Sim. Know 'em you are a sawcy Jack-straw to question me faith and troth I know every body and every body knows me All. Sir Simon Sir Simon Sir Simon Ran. And you are a welcom man to every body Sir Sim Now son of a Whore do I know the Gentlemen a dog he wou'd have had a shilling of me before he wou'd let me come to you Ran. The Rogue has been bred at Court sure Get you out Sirrah Sir Sim. He has been bred at a French house where they are more unreasonable Vin. Here 's to you Sir Simon Sir Sim. I cannot drink for I have a Mistress within though I wou'd not have the people of the house to know it Ran. You need not be asham'd of your Mistresses for they are commonly rich Sir Sim. And because she is rich I wou'd conceal her for I never had a rich Mistress yet but one or other got her from me presently faith and troth Ran. But this is an ill place to conceal a Mistress in every Waiter is an Intelligencer to your Rivals Sir Sim. I have ' trick for that I let no Waiters come into the Room I 'll lay the Cloth my self rather Ran. But who is your Mistress Sir Sim. Your Servant your Servant Mr. Ranger Vin. Come will you pledge me Sir Sim. No I 'll spare your Wine if you will spare me Dapperwits company I came for that Vin. You do us a double favour to take him and leave the Wine Sir Sim. Come come Dapperwit Ran. Do not go unless he will suffer us to see his Mistress too Aside Sir Sim. Come come man Dap. Would you have me so incivil as to leave my company they 'll take it ill Sir Sim. I cannot find her talk without thee pray Gentlemen perswade Mr. Dapperwit to go with me Ran. We will not hinder him of better company Dap. Yours is too good to be left rudely Sir Sim. Nay Gentlemen I wou'd desire your company too if you knew the Lady Dap. They know her as well as I you say I know her not Sir Sim. You are not every body Aside Ran. Perhaps we do know the Lady Sir Simon Sir Sim. You do not you do not none of you ever saw her in your lives but if you cou'd be secret and civil Ran. We have drunk yet but our Bottles a peice Sir Sim. But will you be civil Mr. Vincent Ran. He dares not look a Woman in the face under three Bottles Sir Sim. Come along then but can you be civil Gentlemen will you be civil Gentlemen pray be civil if you can and you shall see her Exit Sir Sim. Returns with my Lady Flippant and Mrs. Joyner Dap. How has he got his Jilt here Aside Ran. The widow Flippant Aside Vin. Is this the Woman we never saw Aside Flip. Does he bring us into company and Dapperwit one though I had marryed the Fool I thought to have reserv'd the Wit as well as other Ladies Aside Sir Sim. Nay look as long as you will Madam you will find them civil Gentlemen and good Company Flip. I am not in doubt of their civility but yours Joyn. You 'll never leave snubbing your Servants did you not promise to use him kindly Behind Flip. 'T is true Aside We wanted no good company Sir Simon as long as we had yours Sir Sim. But they wanted good company therefore I forc'd them to accept of yours Flip. They will not think the Company good they were forc'd into certainly Sir Sim. A pox I must be using the words in fashion though I never have any luck with 'em Mrs. Joyner help me off Joyn. I suppose Madam he means the Gentlemen wanted not inclination to your company but confidence to desire so great an honour therefore he forc'd ' em Dap. What makes this Bawd here sure Mistress you Bawds should be like the small Cards though at first you make up the Pack yet when the play begins you should be put out as useless Joyn. Well well jibeing companion you wou'd have the Pimps kept in only you would so Vin. What they are quarrelling Ran. Pimp and Bawd agree now a days like Doctor an Apothecary Sir Sim. Try Madam if they are not civil Gentlemen talk with e'm while I go lay the cloath no Waiter comes here My Mother us'd to tell me I should avoid all occasions of talking before my Mistress because silence is a sign of love as well as prudence Aside Flip. Methinks you look a little yellow on 't Sir Simon laying the Cloath Mr. Dapperwit I hope you do not sensure me because you find me passing away a night with this Fool he is not a man to be jealous of sure Dap. You are not a Lady to be jealous of sure Flip. No certainly but why doe you look as if you were jealous then Dap. If I had met you in Wheatstones-Park with a drunken Foot-Soldier I should not have been jealous of you Flip. Fye fye now you are jealous certainly for people always when they grow jealous grow rude but I can pardon it since it proceeds from love certainly Dap. I am out of all hopes to be rid of this eternal old acquaintance when I jear her she thinks her self prais'd now I call her Whore in plain english she thinks I am jealous Aside Flip. Sweet Mr. Dapperwit be not so sensorious I speak for your sake not my own for jealousie is a great torment but my honor cannot suffer certainly Dap. No certainly but the greatest torment I have is your Love Flip. Alas sweet Mr. Dapperwit indeed Love is a torment but 't is a sweet torment but Jealousie is a bitter torment I do not go about to cure you of the torment of my love Dap. 'T is a sign so Flip. Come come look up man is that a Rival to contest with you Dap. I will contest with no Rival not with my old Rival your Coach-man but they have heartily my resignation and to do you a favour but my self a greater I will help tye the knot you are fumbling for now betwixt your Culley here and you Flip. Go go I take that kind of jealousie worst of all to suspect I would be debauch'd to beastly
it then Vin. Come come her Relations can do you no hurt I dare swear If her Mother shou'd but say your Hat did not cock handsomly she wou'd never ask her blessing again Val. Prythee leave thy fooling and tell me if since my departure She has given evidences of her love to clear those doubts I went away with for as absence is the bane of common and bastard Love 't is the vindication of that which is true and generous Vin. Nay if you cou'd ever doubt her love you deserve to doubt on for there is no punishment great enough for jealousie but jealousie Val. You may remember I told you before my flight I had quarrell'd with the defamer of my Mistress but thought I had kill'd my Rival Vin. But pray give me now the answer which the suddenness of your flight deny'd me how cou'd Clerimont hope to subdue her heart by the assault of her honour Val. Pish it might be the stratagem of a Rival to make me desist Vin. For shame if 't were not rather to vindicate her then satisfie you I wou'd not tell you how like a Penelope she has behav'd her self in your absence Val. Let me know Vin. Then know the next day you went she put her self into mourning and Val. That might be for Clerimont thinking him dead as all the world besides thought Vin. Still turning the daggers point on your self hear me out I say she put her self into mourning for you loc'kd up her self in her chamber this month for you shut out her barking Relations for you has not seen the Sun or face of man since she saw you thinks and talks of nothing but you sends to me daily to hear of you and in short I think is mad for you all this I can swear for I am to her so near a Neighbour and so inquisitive a friend for you Servant to them Ser. Mr. Ranger Sir is coming up Vin. What brings him now he comes to lye with me Val. Who Ranger Vin. Yes pray retire a little till I send him off unless you have a mind to have your arrival publish'd to morrow in the Coffee-houses Ran. What not yet a-bed your man is laying you to sleep Valentine retires to the door behind with Usquebaugh or Brandy is he not so Vin. What Punk will not be troubled with you to night therefore I am is it not so Ran. I have been turn'd out of doors indeed just now by a Woman but such a Woman Vincent Vin. Yes yes your women are always such women Ran. A Neighbour of yours and I 'm sure the finest you have Vin. Prythee do not asperse my Neighbourhood with your acquaintance 't would bring a scandal upon an Alley Ran. Nay I do not know her therefore I come to you Vin. 'T was no wonder she turn'd you out of doors then and if she had known you 't would have been a wonder she had let you stay but where does she live Ran. He whispers Vin. Pish pish Ran. What 's the matter Vin. Does she live there do you say Ran. Yes I observ'd them exactly that my account from you might be as exact do you know who lives there Vin. Yes so well that I know you are mistaken Ran. Is she not a young Lady scarce eighteen of extraordinary beauty her stature next to low and in mourning Val. What is this Behind Vin. She is but if you saw her you broke in at window Ran. I chas'd her home from the Park indeed taking her for another Lady who had some claim to my heart 'till she shew'd a better title to 't Vin. Hah hah hah Val. Was she at Park then and have I a new Rival Behind Vin. From the Park did you follow her do you say I knew you were mistaken Ran. I tell you I am not Vin. If you are sure it was that house it might be perhaps her woman stollen to the Park unknown to her Lady Ran. My acquaintance does usually begin with the Maid first but now 't was with the Mistress I assure you Vin. The Mistress I tell you she has not been out of her doors since Valentines flight she is his Mistress the great Heiress Christina Ran. I tell you then again I followed that Christina from the Park home where I talk'd with her half an hour and intend to see her to morrow again Val. Would she talk with him too behind Vin. It cannot be Ran. Christina do you call her faith I am sorry she is an Heiress lest it should bring the scandal of interest and design of lucre upon my Love Vin. No no her face and vertues will free you from that censure but however 't is not fairly done to Rival your friend Valentine in his absence and when he is present you know 't wil be dangerous by my Lord Clerimont's example faith if you have seen her I would not advise you to attempt it again Ran. You may be merry Sir you are not in Love your advise I came not for nor will I for your assistance good night Val. Here 's your Penelope the woman that Ex. Ranger had not seen the Sun nor face of Man since my departure for it seems she goes out in the night when the Sun is absent and faces are not distinguish'd Vin. Why do you believe him Val. Shou'd I believe you Vin. 'T were more for your interest and you wou'd be less deceiv'd if you believe him you must doubt the chastity of all the fine Women in Town and five miles about Val His reports of them will little invallidate his testimony with me Vin. He spares not the Innocents in Bibs and Aprons I 'le secure you he has made at best some gross mistake concerning Christina which to morrow will discover in the mean time let us go sleep Val. I will not hinder you because I cannot enjoy it my self Hunger Revenge to sleep are petty Foes But only Death the jealous Eyes can close Exeunt ACT. III. SCENE I. Crossbites House Enter Mrs. Joyner Mrs. Crossbite Joyn. GGod morrow Gossip Cros. Good morrow but why up so early good Gossip Joyn. My care and passionate concern for you and yours wou'd not let me rest intruly Cros. For me and mine Joyn. You know we have known one another long I think it be some nine and thirty years since you were marryed Cros. Nine and thirty years old Mistress I 'de have you to know I am no far born Child and if the Register had not been burn'd in the last great fire alas but my face needs no Register sure nine and thirty years old said you Mistress Joyn. I said you had been so long marryed but indeed you bear your years as well as any she in Pepper-Alley Cros. Nine and thirty Mistress Joyn. This it is a woman now-adays had rather you should find her faulty with a man I warrant you then discover her age I warrant you Cros. Marry and 't is the greater secret far tell a Miser he is rich and
Matrimony but who are those Gentlemen pray are they men of Fortunes Mrs. Joyner Joyn. I believe so Flip. Do you believe so indeed Gentlemen Advancing towards Ranger and Vincent Ran. If the civility we owe to Ladies had not controul'd our envy to Mr. Dapperwit we had interrupted e're this your private conversation Flip. Your interruption Sir had been most civil and obliging for our discourse was of Marriage Rang. That is a subject Madam as grateful as common Flip. O fye fye are you of that opinion too I cannot suffer any to talk of it in my company Ran. Are you married then Madam Flip. No certainly Ran. I am sure so much Beauty cannot despair of it Flip. Dispair of it Ran. Only those that are married or cannot be married hate to hear of marriage Flip. Yet you must know Sir my aversion to marriage is such that you nor no man breathing shall ever perswade me to it Ran. Curs'd be the man shou'd do so rude a thing as to perswade you to any thing against your inclination I wou'd not do it for the World Madam Flip. Come come though you seem to be a civil Gentleman I think you no better then your Neighbours I do not know a man of you all that will not thrust a Woman up into a corner and then talk an hour to her impertinently of marriage Ran. You wou'd find me another man in a corner I assure you Madam for you shou'd not have a word of marriage from me whatsoever you might find in my actions of it I hate talking as much as you Flip. I hate it extreamly Ran. I am your man then Madam for I sind just the same fault with your Sex as you do with ours I ne're cou'd have to do with a Woman in my life but still she wou'd be impertinently talking of marriage to me Flip. Observe that Mrs. Joyner Aside Dap. Pray Mr. Ranger let 's go I had rather drink with Mr. Vincent then stay here with you besides 't is Park-time Ran. I come To Dap. Since you are a Lady that hate marriage I 'll do you the service to withdraw the company for those that hate marriage hate loss of time Flip. Will you go then Sir but before you go Sir pray tell me is your aversion to marriage real Ran. As real as yours Flip. If it were no more real then mine Aside Ran. Your servant Madam Flip. But do you hate marriage certainly Plucks him back Ran. Certainly Flip. Come I canot believe it you dissemble it only because I pretend it Ran. Do you but pretend it then Madam Flip. I shall discover my self Aside I mean because I hold against it you do the same in complaisance for I have heard say cunning men think to bring the coy and untractable women to tameness as they do some mad people by humoring their frenzies Ran. I am none of those cunning men yet have too much wit to entertain the presumption of designing upon you Flip. 'T were no such presumption neither Dap. Come away 's death don't you see your danger Ran. Those aims are for Sir Simon good night Madam Flip. Will you needs go then the gentlemen are a going Sir Simon will you let ' em Sir Sim. Nay Madam if you cannot keep 'em how should I Flip. Stay Sir because you hate marriage I 'll sing you a new Song against iâ— She Sings A Spouse I do hate For either she 's false or she 's jealous But give us a Mate Who nothing will ask us or tell us She stands on no terms Nor chaffers by way of Indenture Her love for your Farms But takes her kind man at a venture If all prove not right Without an Act Process or Warning From Wife for a night You may be divorc'd in the morning When Parents are Slaves Their Bratts connot be any other Great Wits and great Braves Have always a Punk to their Mother Flip. Though it be the fashion for women of quality to sing any Song whatever because the words are not distinguish'd yet I should have blush'd to have done it now but for you Sir Ran. The Song is edifying the Voice admirable and once more I am your servant Madam Flip. What will you go too Mr. Dapperwit Sir Sim. Pray Mr. Dapperwit do not you go too Dap. I am engag'd Sir Sim. Well if we cannot have their company we will not have their Room ours is a private back Room they have paid their reckoning let 's go thither again Flip. But pray sweet Mr. Dapperwit do not go keep him Sir Simon Sir Sim. I cannot keep him Exeunt Vin. Ran. Dap. It is impossible the World is so One cannot keep ones Friend and Mistress too Ex. Omnes ACT. II. SCENE I. St. James's Park at night Enter Ranger Vincent Dapperwit Ran. HAng me if I am not pleas'd extreamly with this new fashioned catterwouling this midnight coursing in the Park Vin. A man may come after Supper with his three Bottles in his head reel himself sober without reproof from his Mother Aunt or grave relation Ran. May bring his bashful Wench and not have her put out of countenance by the impudent honest women of the Town Dap. And a man of wit may have the better of the dumb shew of well trim'd Vest or fair Perruque no man's now is whitest Ran. And now no woman's modest or proud for her blushes are hid and the rubies on her lips are died and all sleepy and glimmering eyes have lost their attraction Vin. And now a man may carry a Bottle under his arm instead of his Hat and no observing spruce Fop will miss the Crevat that lies on ones shoulder or count the pimples on ones face Dap. And now the brisk reparty ruins the complaisant Cringe or wise Grimace something 't was we men of virtue always lov'd the night Ran. O blessed season Vin. For good-Fellows Ran. For Lovers Dap. And for the Muses Ran. When I was a Boy I lov'd the night so well I had a strong vocation to be a Bellman's Apprentice Vin. I a Drawer Dap. And I to attend the Waits of Westminster let me perish Ran. But why do we not do the duty of this and such other places walk censure and speak ill of all we meet Dap. 'T is no fault of mine let me perrish Vin. Fye fye Satyrical gentlemen this is not your time you cannot distinguish a Friend from a Fop. Dap. No matter no matter they will deserve amongst 'em the worst we can say Ron. Who comes here Dapperwit Dap. By the toss of his head training of his People walking slowly over the Stage feet and his elbows playing at bo-peep behind his back it should be my Lord Easy Ran. And who the woman Dap. My Lord what d'ye call's Daughter That had a Child by Vin. Dapperwit hold your tongue Ran. How are you concern'd Vin. Her Brother 's an honest Fellow and will drink his Glass Ran. Prithee Vincent Dapperwit did not hinder drinking to night though
impotent Letcher at a Wedding Vin. Thou art either mad or as vain as a French-man newly return'd home from a Campagn or obliging England Ran. Thou art as envious as a Rival but if thou art mine there 's that will make you desist Gives him the Letter and if you are not my Rival intrusting you with such a secret will I know oblige you to keep it and assist me against all other interests Vin. Do you think I take your secret as an obligation don 't I know Lovers Travellers and Poets will give money to be heard but what 's the Paper a Lampoon upon Christina hatch'd last night betwixt Squire Dapperwit and you because her maid us'd you scurvily Ran. No 't is only a Letter from her to shew my company was not so disgustful to her last night but that she desires it again to day Val. A Letter from her Behind Vin. A Letter from Christina Reads Ha ha ha Ran. Nay 't is pleasant Vin. You mistake I laugh at you not the Letter Ran. I am like the winning Gamester so pleas'd with my luck I will not quarrel with any who calls me a Fool for 't Vin. Is this the stile of a woman of honour Ran. It may be for ought you know I 'm sure 't is well if your female correspondents can read Vin. I must confess I have none of the little Letters half name or title like your Spanish Epistles Dedicatory but that a man so frequent in honourable Intrigues as you are should not know the summons of an impudent common woman from that of a person of honour Ran. Christina is so much a Person of Honour she 'l own what she has writ when she comes Vin. But will she come hither indeed Ran. Immediately you 'l excuse my liberty with you I cou'd not conceal such a happiness from such a friend as you lest you shou'd have taken it unkindly Vin. Faith you have oblig'd me indeed for you and others wou'd often have made me believe your honourable Intrigues but never did me the honour to convince me of 'em before Ran. You are merry I find yet Vin. When you are happy I cannot be otherwise Ran. But I lose time I shou'd lay a little Person in Aside ambush that lives hard by in case Christina shou'd be impatient to be reveng'd of her Friends as it often happens with a discontented Heiress Women like old Souldiers more nimbly execute then they resolve Going out Vin. What now you will not dis-appoint a woman of Christina's quality Ran. I 'le be here before she comes I warrant you Ex. Ran. Vin. I do believe you truly what think you Valentine Val. I think since she has the courage to challenge him she 'l have the honour of being first in the Field Vin. Fye your opinion of her must be as bad as Rangers of himself is good to think she wou'd write to him I long till his bona-roba comes that you may be both dis-abus'd Val. And I have not patience to stay her coming lest you shou'd be dis-abus'd Enter Christina and Isabel. Vin. Here she is i'faith I 'm glad she 's come Val. And I 'm sorry but I will to my post again lest she shou'd say she came to me Vin. By heavens Christina her self 't is she Aside Christina pulls off her Mask Val. 'T is she curs'd be these eyes more curs'd then when they first betray'd me to that false bewitching face Behind Chris. You may wonder Sir to see me here Vin. I must confess I do Chris. But the confidence your Friend has in you is the cause of mine and yet some blushes it do's cost me to come to seek a man Val. Modest creature Behind Vin. How am I deceiv'd Aside Chris. Where is he Sir why does he not appear to keep me in countenance pray call him Sir 't is something hard if he shou'd know I 'm here Vin. I hardly can my self believe you are here Madam Chris. If my visit be troublesome or unseasonable 't is your Friends fault I design'd it not to you Sir pray call him out that he may excuse it and take it on himself together with my shame Vin. How impatient she is Aside Chris. Or do you delay the happiness I ask to make it more welcom I have stay'd too long for it already and cannot more desire it dear Sir call him out where is he above or here within I 'le snatch the favour which you will not give Goes to the dore and discovers Valentine What do you hide your self for shame Val. I must confess I do Chris. To see me come hither Val. I acknowledge it Val. offers to go out Chris. Before you came to me but whither do you go come I can forgive you Val. But I cannot forgive you Chris. Whither do you go you need not forge a quarrel to prevent mine to you nor need you try if I wou'd follow you you know I will I have you see Val. That impudence should look so like innocence Aside Chris. Whither wou'd you go why wou'd you go Val. To call your servant to you Chris. She is here what wou'd you with her Val. I mean your Lover the man you came to meet Chris. Oh heavens what Lover what Man I came to seek no man but you whom I had too long lost Val. You cou'd not know that I was here Chris. Ask her 't was she that told me Points to Isabel. Val. How cou'd she know Chris. That you shall know hereafter Val. No you thought me too far out of the way to disturb your assignation and I assure you Madam 't was my ill fortune not my design and that it may appear so I do withdraw as in all good breeding and civility I am oblig'd for sure your wish'd for Lover's coming Chris. What do you mean are you a weary of that title Val. I am asham'd of it since it grows common Going out Chris. Nay you will not shall not go Val. My stay might give him jealousie and so do you injury and him the greatest in the world Heavens forbid I wou'd not make a man jealous for though you call a thousand vows and oaths and tears to witness as you safely may that you have not the least of love for me yet if he ever knew how I have lov'd you sure he wou'd not cou'd not believe you Chris. I do confess your Riddle is too hard for me to solve therefore you are oblig'd to do 't your self Val. I wish it were capable of any other interpretation than what you know already Chris. Is this that generous good Valentine who has disguis'd him so She weeps Vin. Nay I must with-hold you then Stops Val. going out methinks she shou'd be innocent her tongue and eyes together with that floud that swells 'em do vindicate her heart Val. They shew but their long practice of desimulation Going out Vin. Come back I hear Ranger coming up stay but till he comes Val. Do you think I have
night Dap. Madam do not take it ill For loss of happy thought there 's no amends For his new jest true Wit will lose old Friends That 's new again the thought 's new Exeunt Enter Gripe leading Mrs. Lucy Joyner Crossbite following Gripe Mrs. Joyner I can conform to this mode of publick walking by Moon-light because one is not known Lucy Why are you asham'd of your company Gripe No Pretty one because in the dark or as it were the dark there is no envy nor scandal I wou'd neither lose you nor my reputation Joyn. Your reputation indeed your Worship 't is well known there are as grave men as your Worship nay men in office too that adjourn their cares and businesses to come and unbend themselves at night here with a little vizard mask Gripe I do believe it I do believe it Mrs. Joyner Lucy I God-mother and carries and treats her at Mulberry Garden Cros Nay do's not only treat her but gives her his whole gleanings of that day Gripe They may they may Mrs. Crossbite they take above six in the hundred Cros. Nay there are those of so much worth and honour and love that they 'l take it from their Wives and Children to give it to their Misses now your Worship has no Wife and but one Child Gripe Still for my Edification Aside Joyn. That 's true indeed for I know a great Lady that cannot follow her Husband abroad to his Haunts because her Farrendine is so ragged and greasie whilst his Mistress is as fine as sippence in her embroidered Satens Gripe Politickly done of him indeed if the truth were known he is a States-man by that umph Cros. Truly your women of quality are very troublesom to their Husbands I have heard 'em complain they will allow them no separate maintainance though the honourable Jilts themselves will not marry without it Joyn. Come come Mistress sometimes 't is the craft of those Gentlemen to complain of their Wives expences to excuse their own narrowness to their Misses but your Daughter has a Gallant can make no excuse Gripe So Mrs. Joyner my friend Mrs. Joyner Cros. I hope indeed he 'l give my Daughter no cause to dun him for poor wretch she is as modest as her Mother Gripe I profess I believe it Lucy But I have the boldness to ask him for a Treat come Gallant we must walk towards the Mulberry Gard'n Gripe So I am afraid little Mistress the rooms are all taken up by this time Joyn. Will you shame your self again Aside to Gripe Lucy If the rooms be full we 'l have an arbor Gripe At this time of night besides the Waiters will ne'r come near you Lucy They will be observant of good Customers as we shall be come along Gripe Indeed and verily little Mistress I wou'd go but that I shou'd be forsworn if I did Joyn. That 's so pitiful an excuse Gripe In truth I have forsworn the place ever since I was pawn'd there for a reckoning Lucy You have broken many an Oath for the good old cause and will you boggle at one for your poor little Miss come along Lady Flippant behind Flip. Unfortunate Lady that I am I have left the Herd on purpose to be chas'd and have wandred this hour here but the Park affords not so much as a Satyr for me and that 's strange no Burgundy man or drunken Scourer will reel my way the Rag-women and Synder-women have better luck then I but who are these if this mungril light do's not deceive me 't is my brother 't is he there 's Joyner too and two other women I 'le follow 'em it must be he for this world hath nothing like him I know not what the Devil may be in the other Ex. Omnes Enter Sir Simon Addleplot in fine cloaths Dapperwit and Mrs. Martha unseen by him at the dore Sir Sim. Well after all my seeking I can find those I wou'd not find i 'm sure 't was old Gripe and Joyner with him and the Widow follow'd he wou'd not have been here but to have sought his Daughter sure but vigilant Dapperwit has spy'd him too and has no doubt secur'd her from him Dap. And you Behind Sir Sim. The Rogue is as good at hiding as I am at stealing a Mistress 't is a vain conceited fellow yet I think 't is an honest fellow but again he is a damnable Whoring fellow and what opportunity this air and darkness may encline 'em to Heaven knows for I have heard the Rogue say himself a Lady will no more shew her modesty in the dark then a Spaniard his courage Dap. Ha ha ha Sir Sim. Nay if you are there my true Friend I 'le forgive your harkning if you 'l forgive my censures I speak to you dear Madam Martha dear dear Behold your worthy Knight Mar. That 's far from neighbours Sir Sim. I's come to reap the fruit of all his labours Mart. I cannot see the Knight well but i 'm sure I hear Jonas Sir Sim. I am no Jonas Mrs. Martha Mart. The night is not so dark nor the Perruque so big but I can discern Jonas Sir Sim. Faith and troth I am the very Sir Simon Addleplot that is to marry you the same Dapperwit solicited you for ask him else my name is not Jonas Mart. You think my youth and simplicity capable of this cheat but let me tell you Jonas 't is not your borrow'd cloaths and title shall make me marry my Fathers man Sir Sim. Borrow'd title I 'le be sworn I bought it of my Landress who was a Court Landress but indeed my cloaths I have not pay'd for therefore in that sense they are borrow'd Mart. Prethee Jonas let the jest end or I shall be presently in earnest Sir Sim. Pray be in earnest and let us go the Parson and Supper stay for us and I am a Knight in earnest Mart. You a Knight insolent sawcy Fool Sir Sim. The Devil take me Mrs. Martha if I am not a Knight now a Knight Baronet too a man ought I see to carry his Patent in his Pocket when he goes to be marry'd 't is more necessary then a License I am a Knight indeed and indeed now Mrs. Martha Mart. Indeed and indeed the trick will not pass Jonas Sir Sim. Poor wretch she 's afraid she shall not be a Lady come come discover the Intrigue Dapperwit Mart. You need not discover the Intrigue 't is apparent already unworthy Mr. Dapperwit after my confidence repos'd in you cou'd you be so little generous as to betray me to my Fathers man but I 'le be even with you Sir Sim. Do not accuse him poor man before you hear him tell her the intrique man Dap. A Pox she will not believe us Sir Sim. Will you not excuse your self but I must not let it rest so know then Mrs. Martha Mart. Come I forgive thee before thy confession Jonas you never had had the confidence to have design'd this cheat upon
me but from Mr. Dapperwits encouragement 't was his Plot. Sir Sim. Nay do not do me that wrong Madam Mart. But since he has trapan'd me out of my Fathers house he is like to keep me as long as I live and so good night Jonas Sir Sim. Hold hold what d'y ' mean both prethee tell her I am Sir Simon and no Jonas Dap. A Pox she will not believe us I tell you Sir Sim. I have provided a Parson and Supper at Mulberry Gard'n and invited all my Friends I cou'd meet in the Park Dap. Nay rather then they shall be dis-appointed there shall be a Bride and Bridegroom to entertain 'em Mrs. Martha and I 'le go thither presently Sir Sim. Why shall she be your Bride Dap. You see she will have it so Sir Sim. Will you make Dapperwit your Husband Mart. Rather then my Fathers man Sir Sim. Oh the Devil Mart. Nay come along Jonas you shall make one at the Wedding since you help'd contrive it Sir Sim. Will you cheat your self for fear of being cheared Mart. I am desperate now Sir Sim. Wilt thou let her do so ill a thing Dapperwit as to marry thee open her eyes prethee and tell her I am a true Knight Dap. ' Twou'd be in vain by my life you have carry'd your self so like a natural Clerk and so adieu good Jonas Ex. Martha and Dapperwit Sir Sim. What ruin'd by my own Plot like an old Cavalier yet like him too I will plot on still a plot of prevention so I have it her Father was here ev'n now i 'm sure well I 'le go tell her Father of her that I will And punish so her folly and his treachery Revenge is sweet and makes amends for leachery Ex. Enter Lydia and her Woman Leonore Lyd. I wish I had not come hither to night Leonore Leon. Why did you Madam if the place be so dis-agreeable to you Lyd. We cannot help visiting the place often where we have lost any thing we value I lost Ranger here last night Leon. You thought you had lost him before a great while ago and therefore you ought to be the less troubled Lyd. But 't was here I miss'd him first i 'm sure Leon. Come Madam let not the loss vex you he is not worth the looking after Lyd. It cannot but vex me yet if I lost him by my own fault Leon. You had but too much care to keep him Lyd. It often happens indeed that too much care is as bad as negligence but I had rather be rob'd then lose what I have carelesly Leon. But I believe you wou'd hang the Thief if you cou'd Lyd. Not if I cou'd have my own again Leon. I see you wou'd be too merciful Lyd. I wish I were try'd Leon. But Madam if you please we will wave the discourse for people seldom I suppose talk with pleasure of their real losses Lyd. 'T is better then to ruminate in them mine i 'm sure will not out of my head nor heart Leon. Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater but the way to lesson it is by a comparison with others losses here are Ladies in the Park of your acquaintance I doubt not can compare with you pray Madam let us walk and find 'em out Lyd. 'T is the resentment you say makes the loss great or little and then i 'm sure there is none like mine however go on Exeunt Enter Vincent and Valentine Vin. I am glad I have found you for now I am prepar'd to lead you out of the dark and all your trouble I have good news Val. You are as unmerciful as the Physician who with new Arts keeps his miserable Patient alive and in hopes when he knows the disease is incurable Vin. And you like the melancholy Patient mistrust and hate your Physician because he will not comply with your despair but I 'le cure your jealousie now Val. You know all Diseases grow worse by relapses Vin. Trust me once more Val. Well you may try your experiments upon me Vin. Just as I shut the dore upon you the woman Ranger expected came up stairs but finding another woman in discourse with him went down again I suppose as jealous of him as you of Christina Val. How do's it appear she came to Ranger Vin. Thus Dapperwit came up after who had brought her just then in a Chair from St. Jamses's by Rangers appointment and it is certain your Christina came to you Val. How can that be for she knew not I was in the Kingdom Vin. My man confesses when I sent him to enquire of her woman about her Lady's being here in the Park last night he told her you were come and she it seems told her Mistress Val. That might be Aside But did not Christina confess Ranger was in her lodging last night Vin. By intrusion which she had more particularly inform'd me of if her apprehensions of your danger had not posted me after you she not having yet as I suppose heard of Clerimonts recovery I left her poor creature at home distracted with a thousand fears for your life and love Val. Her love i 'm sure has cost me more fears then my life yet that little danger is not past as you think till the great one be over Vin. Open but your eyes and the Fantastick Goblin's vanish'd and all your idle fears will turn to shame for Jealousie is the basest cowardize Val. I had rather indeed blush for my self then her Vin. I 'm sure you will have more reason But is not that Ranger there Ranger enters follow'd by Christina and her Woman after them Lydia and her Woman Val. I think it is Vin. I suppose his friend Dapperwit is not far off I will examine them both before you and not leave you so much as the shadow of a doubt Rangers astonishment at my lodging confess'd his mistake Val. His astonishment might proceed from Christina's unexpected strangeness to him Vin. He shall satisfie you now himself to the contrary I warrant you have but patience Val. I had rather indeed he shou'd satisfie my doubts then my revenge therefore I can have patience Vin. But what women are those that follow him Val. Stay a little Ran. Lydia Lydia poor Lydia Lyd. If she be my Rival 't is some comfort yet To her Maid to see her follow him rather then he her Leon. But if you follow them a little longer for your comfort you shall see them go hand in hand Chris. Sir Sir To Ranger Leon. She calls to him already Lyd. But he do's not hear you see let us go a little nearer Vin. Sure it is Ranger Val. As sure as the woman that follows him closest is Christina Vin. For shame talk not of Christina I left her just now at home surrounded with so many fears and griefs she cou'd not stir Val. She is come it may be to divert them here in the Park I 'm sure 't is she Vin. When the