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A25891
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The reformation a comedy acted at the Dukes theater.
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Arrowsmith, Joseph, fl. 1673.
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1673
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Wing A3780; ESTC R15912
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them They offer to go out Nay faith Ladies one dance more for my sake I shall grieve that I disturbed you else Musick there Dance Lys Now be but pleas'd to take a small collation in the next room and I shall believe you think your selves welcome Ant. We 'l wait you Sir Ma. Yet I 'me impatient till I 'me gone Ped. There 's no danger Madam Ism I fear none Sir Pac. Let me perish else To Lelia Lel. You make me blush Sir Pa. Let me die if any thing 's more serious Lys Come how is 't joy Jul. Thank thee Dearest Lys The world may laugh and names of scorn invent But to be Cuckolds nothing if content ACT V. SCENE I. Lysander Lys T Is strange that we can fasten no such thing as honor upon the Sex whereas a man's lies every where Twinge him by the nose his honour 's there and presently must be redeem'd Kick him and 't is remov'd to 's backside and must be engaged But this of woman-kind is really nothing For if one unmarried chance to kick up her heeles the reproach returns upon the family Or if a wife prove gamesome more than ordinary shee 's thought a wit and cunning and 't is the husband's branded with the name of scorn Now should I go kill Pisauro to redeem my honour and if I do die honourably by an Executioner or fly my Country Or if I fall my self they 'l cry there died a silly cuckold worth the while I thank my stars I 'me less nice in these points and have found out a safer way Enter Juliana Welcome dearest I was sending for thee Jul. I fear'd you might be angry Lys What for such petty faults Jul. Nay now you speak as if you did not think me honest Lys Not honest Why you know I have no reason to the contrary Prithee no more on 't I wou'd make a bargain with thee Jul. With me Sir What do you mean Lys In short what is 't you're willing to take a year for alimony Jul. This is harder than the first Lys 'T is that that must be understood for I resolve to carry on my part in the Reformation by this means Consult your self and friends for I would have you live in credit still Jul. Pray Sir be plain Lys Why thus Write me down so much for cloaths so much for diet and lodgings something too for pleasure I 'le allow 't is the saving English way and 't is but reasonable when a wife proves false she should be stinted and the overplus should keep a Miss Come come I 'me out of my frollick humor now and am serious Jul. Now you are cruel will you quite ruine me Lys No such matter I 'le be as civil too as any man only retrench some small sums you us'd to spend in charitable uses as fourty pound to such a Nunnery aliàs for a new suit twenty unto such a Monastery aliàs a new Wigg why should you be lavish in your good deeds There 's scarce a Covent in the town but 's bound to pray for you Jul. Pray pardon me you us'd to say you loved me Lys I pardon you with all my heart but I 'le take care that you shall sin no more with my purse nor let Pisauro brave it with my wealth as I know he does come it is in vain for to deny Jul. Nay if you grow angry once Emilia does so to why should not I have the same liberty Lys There are some thirty and odd reasons to the contrary besides the common practice but that which must satisfie you is I will not have it so and 't is in my power to hinder it remember what I say Exit Lysander Enter Pisauro and Lelia Jul. Oh Pisauro we 're undone Pis Come no such matter I have overheard it all if Pacheco marry Lelia as 't is almost out of doubt this sore will soon be heal'd besides my fortune 's not so very low but I can live and your allowance will be fair I dare promise Jul. But will you still love me Pis I 'le double it if possible Jul. All that troubles me is I shall want my wealth to serve you with Pis Prithee no more we lose time Lelia be careful not to seem too coy but if he comes to steal you let him carry off the prize Friends or the grave will soon reconcile Camillo I must thither and see how affairs go come courage Madam we can never want Jul. I fear nothing but losing my Gallant Lel. I 'me resolv'd to make sure of mine Exeunt Omnes Scena Secunda Pacheco Tutor Pa. Am I exact in every thing the colours suited and my cloaths cut with the modish air Tut. To a thought You see what 't is to imploy a Taylor knowing in the fashion There 's nothing like your French cut Sir you shall have a country Gentleman come to town and throw away a years revenue on a suit on purpose to be laught at hang me if a Livery been't more creditable Pac. Then there 's much in the wearing of them too why here now what would this belt be valued at without I wore it Now it imploys the hands and gives a grace to all the gate Tut. I joy to see you thus improved you may read to me shortly Oh dear Pupil Pac. Then there 's the cock of the hat tying of the shirt fashions of crevats the wearing of a Wig that 's friz'd or curl'd things that alter daily and that these poor fools can ne're pretend to Tut. You amaze me Sir I shall grow proud of my success Pa. Take me if I had not rather pass a judgment of a man from a shake a la mode wearing of a Mistresses faver or the tying of a knot there 's a perfect Genius shown in that than from a months converse Tut. You have reason Sir these are the things men travel for trust me you may be a pattern to the very Author of the fashion Nay if you 're once resolved I know you must needs carry her but Pa. No more objections good Tutor Tut. Not I Sir I see she 's fair believe her vertuous and a fortune but yet Pa. More but 's yet now I begin to think thou enviest me 't is certain I will do something shall make me chief truth is Lysander bid fair for the command but at the last I 've found it and defie him and all the rest to think of Conquest Tut. May I know it Pa. Yes on condition you 'l not speak a word to hinder my design Tut. Since you are so resolute I engage Pa. Then thus I will to Lelia thus drest as I am which certainly must do 't and without the least enquiry after fortune or consent of friends marry her for love the height of Gallantry and top of Reformation hah Tut. I may Sir Pach. Not a word Tut. I may go with you Sir Pac. No I 'le have the honor of the action my self when I return expect me conqueror Tut. No