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The cheats a comedy : written in the year, M.DC. LXII.
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Wilson, John, 1626-1696.
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M. D. I indeed Husband that you have and more behind your back than ever I told you of T. T. Comes up and salutes D. D. T. T. Worthy Sir your servants humble servant D. D. Alas good Captain Indeed and truly sweet Sir The Major and I are old friends T. T. And may you long continue so D. D. I thank you Sir Come my Joy shall 's walk I should be loth to have Mr. Alderman there before us M. D. I my Dear I stay for thee Exit D. D. Bil. But heark you Hussy He whispers her back Where shall you and I exercise Can 't you drop him or give him the slip for an hour or two M. D. Oh No No We are to be at Repetition at Mr. Alderman's 'T is Fryday Night But I shall see you anon Farewell good Major Your servant Sir Exit T. T. Your servant Lady Bil. Captain Prithee let 's meet to morrow in the Afternoon at Mother Formalls the Midwife's and bring your small Harlotry with you we 'll be merry T. T. A match A match Exuent ACT. I. SCE. 2. Enter Jolly Afterwitt Aft. You are so Wise I have observ'd This World Dwells most abroad seldom or nev'r at home Most men can counsel others few themselves Jol. Hah Sentences There 's somewhat troubles you What is 't And can you call me friend and yet Not let me bear my part Friends should be one Breath Hope Fear Will and Nill the same in common Aft. Why What were you the better if you knew You cannot give me ease Jol. However try A handsome Fellow And a fair Estate And wit at will Thou mayst command the Town Leave off this fooling Aft. I 'm beholding to you Can you with all your wisdom tell me now Where this shooe wrings me Jol. No Aft Then pray believe I know and if you are my friend forbear A further scrutiny Jol. My life in Love Not past that Boyes disease That troublesom itch Come We 'll be Jovial and divert the humor Aft. Suppose I were Is not the World the same Love is the Bond of Nature and without it The Universe were but a Besome unbound Sand without Lime Jol. I need no further Symptomes To make the Crisis Hah And you believe This dainty Phylosophical Poultis Will work the Cure If I have any skill There were a better Remedy Aft. For shame Thou Infidel to all that 's good or lovely May'st thou dye in thy Heresie and nev'r know What a good Woman means unless perhaps For thy conversion Jol. This was intended For a small Curse But I must thank my friend And if he were not turn'd Bigott I think Might satisfie him You 're in love forsooth All in good time But have you yet consider'd What ' t is How much more misery beyond it Then on this side of ' t you may fancy Castles And forty I know not what 's But they 're of Snow Come one good showre and farewell my sine Guegaw Aft. Thou' rt a strange Fellow What dost think of those Have gone before us and commend it too Jol. One Woodcock makes no Winter But I pray What are the persons Are they not concern'd These marry'd Men are like Boyes in the water Ask 'um how 't goes Oh! wondrous hot they cry When yet their Teeth chatter for very cold If you must love love on But go no further Women enjoy'd like Rivers in the Sea Lose both their Taste and Name suppose 'um Junoes In the pursuit they 're Clouds in the enjoyment Aft. Thou 'rt like the Fox that having lost his Tayle Would fain perswade the rest to make 't a fashion Prithee give over Jol. Troth I 've scarce begun Suppose her handsome She 's a Honey-pot I' th' Sun If otherwise you 'll ne're endure her If honest Insolent though ne're so ugly She thinks you are beholding to her for 't And yet who knows how long she may be so Is she the Map of Modesty perhaps 'T is but your own Opinion Love is blind There 's many pass for such whose Husbands yet Could if they durst tell you another Tale. Is she a Housewife Can she make a Band Order a Dairy Cure a broken Shin Examine your Accounts and at Years end Pray tell me what you 've sav'd Is she high born Twenty to one She 's proud and quickly scorns you What are you better for those doughty Acts My Lord Her great great Grandfather perform'd The Lord knows where Or t' ave her Portion paid you In Genealogies Gilt Spurs and Cantons Aft. Come I can hold no longer Have you done Jol. With your good patience a word Consider 'T is like a Battel to be fought but once And therefore if it must be so Be sure She be your Equal and if possible Vertuous At least not tainted with her Mothers Vices And now if after this thou dar'st be wiving Th' art a bold Fellow and that 's all I 'll say Heav'n keep thee yet within the power of Heleboure Aft. Prithee be n't so severe Thou art my friend And I 'll deal plainly with thee That Estate Which you believe so fair And were 't not for My father's Debts and some small slips of mine Might have look't somewhat like it is at present At that low Ebb That if I don't look to 't In time 't will be quite past Recovery Come The Red Petticoat must piece up all Jol. 'T ' as a half-face of Reason As you say Desperate Causes must have desperate Cures But what is he has got this hank upon ' t Aft. Did you never hear of Alderman Whitebroth Jol. I there 's a Jew indeed I 'll tell thee what He has a Daughter Thou shalt have her too Though it be but to be reveng'd of him Aft. There spake my friend O but her father Jol. What Aft. Will never give consent Jol. To choose She 'll make The better Wife to justifie her folly Aft. Prithee be serious Jol. Good faith I am And if thou hast her not one way or other I 'll be thy Bondman We 'll about it streight Exuent ACT. I. SCE. 3. Enter Mopus Solus with a Book c. Mo. SAturne and Jupiter come to a Trine in Taurus and Capricorne Huh We shall have strangers come to Town and their Wives nev'r miss 'um in the Countrey Next Month they all meet in the house of Mercury he being Lord thereof and Significator of Speech It may intend Advocates Cryers of Courts Splitters of Causes Oysters Wives and Broom Men Hold Saturne nothing but this malevolent Planet in the sign Virgo in conjunction with Venus in her detriment Beware Women of green Gowns Great men of Stone and Collick and Costermongers of rotten Pippins Agen Pars torturae coupled with the Catabibason That is to say The Dragons Tayle Huh Huh Children shall be subject to Convulsion sits young Wenches to the Falling Evil and old Women to Cough out their Teeth He makes a pause But all this is no Money Many an honest man
Jol. And much good may she do thee Thou sha't have her I 've laid the Plot and I am sure 't will take Aft. As how my Jolly Jol. Not so hasty I have an odd humor in my pocket will strike fair to it He pulls out a printed Bill Aft. What 's here A printed Bill Prithee le ts hear 't Jol. In the Name of God Through the light of the Son By the Revelation of the Spirit I cure these Diseases perfectly and speedily without any annoyance to the body which commonly happens through Colledge Bills and Apothecaries Medicines with which the Devil has deceiv'd the World these many Hundreds of Years The new Disease otherwise call'd the Great POX with all its Appendices in few dayes with Herbs which I gather in the Woods and Gums of Trees Agues of all sorts in three fits Gout whither-knotted or running in four or five dressings Dropsie Timpany Rickets Spleen Convulsion Yellow and black Jaundies Stone Stâ—angury and Chollick in six hours All kinds of Fluxes Most distempers of the Head Shortness of Breath and Ptisick at first sight And have ever by me a most approv'd Remedy against Green-sickness Barrenness And fits of the Mother Aft. 'T was fairly vied Who bids more Jol. He comes again As also To let the World see how wide of their mark they are like to run That as boldly as ignorantly dare adventure on Physick without the knowledge of Astrology I resolve these ensuing Astrological Questions The sick whither they shall recover or not The party absent whither living or dead How many Husbands or Children a Woman shall have Whither one shall marry the party desir'd or whom else Whither a Woman has her Maiden-head or not Or shall be honest after Marriage Or her portion well paid If a man be wise or a fool Whither it be good to put on new Cloaths If Dreams be for good or evil Whither a Child be the reputed fathers or shall be fortunate or not Ships at Sea whither safe or not Of Law-suits which side shall have the better And generally all Astrological Questions whatever Iátros Iátrophilus Mopus A Servant of God and Secretary of Nature Aft. Hah Boyes If this wo'n't take 'um The Devil take 'um But what are those hard words Jol. Oh A Physitian a friend to Physitians The only true thing in all his Bill These Quacks are the best friends Physitians have they make work for 'um What dost ' think is come into my head Aft How is it possible I should know I am no Oedipus Jol. Why This Fellow must be a Cheat and I am confident with a little help would be able to do your business 'Prithee lets to him Enter Bea. and Cis. But see your Mistress To her Aft. This is such fortune I forgive my stars All their unkindness Bea. Is this Natural Or do you carry set-forms about you to be us'd as occasion shall serve Aft. Faith neither So much Excellence must needs inform a Statue and make a very Post Rhetorical Bea. Demonstrations Why how now Mr. Afterwitt Aft. Just as you see How d' you like him Jol. Well said To her again If I can make no sport I 'll marr none How now Cis Cis. The better for your asking I thank you Sir Jol. Heark you A word Jol. and Cis walk aside Aft. So fair and so unkind Sure Nature dotes She twists such contradictions or what 's worse Has lost her wits and would have all like her Bea. Whence this new fury Aft. Can you read your self And ask that question Were you made thus lovely To make me miserable Would you'd less Divinity or more Humanity Bea. Then you 're in Love it seems Or at least would Make me believe it Don't I know you Men Speak anything Women are fools and can't For shame but credit it Aft. You wrong my Truth By all that 's good Bea. No more Admitting yet What I can scarce believe Why must you crop That flower which as it grows may peradventure Look fair and lovely but once gather'd withers Give me a Love refin'd A Love that flames Upon it self not fed with grosser fuel A Love that loves the Vertue not the Sex Aft. And such is mine But fancy not this new Philosophy of immaterial flames Hearts may meet Hearts and Souls piquere with Souls But if they come no nearer than the Eyes For want of matter to maintain 'um dye Bea. Be judge your self Who but the needy pray Once fill your belly yo 've no more to say Aft. Yes to give thanks and ruminate upon Those blessings which grow faster than we reap um Come come be wise and trifle not away That youth would make an Emperor too happy All seek their like And like the Needle tremble And never settle till it reach that North I 'd rather be an Owle than Phaenix If I must live alone Bea. These Morals Sir Might have been better spent But since you 'll needs Make me believe you love me Court my father For notwithstanding the Respect I bear you I must declare I 've neither eyes nor ears To any thing but what he shall direct Jol. You need say no more Mind what I told you and leave the rest to me He speaks this to Cis. What have you done yet A good Souldier now would have carry'd the Town with half this do Ha' done your Grace for shame and fall to your meat Aft. Sure my father went to Heaven I am so unfortunate Well be it as 't will I love you and were I to speak seven year I could but say the same thing Come I 'll wait on you Exeunt ACT. II. SCE. 3. Enter Scruple Mrs. Whitebroth Sc. I Can't away with it unfeignedly I cannot A man may profess it is lawful Yea assuredly it is And therefore I say I profess If any of my flock shall so much as straggle into his pastures I say I profess I shall not only turn them out of my fold for rotten sheep but they shall for ever be to me as Publicans That is to say As the Learned have most ingeniously observ'd Publicanus quasi publicus canis M. W. Why good Mr. Scruple A Member should not be cut off for one failing Sc. Good me no goods Good Mrs. Whitebroth I tell thee here sister of mine it is a wilful failing A very wilful failing M. W. For why I pray The man is learned I am sure he told me all my Husband's distemper before he so much as saw him Sc. Told ye I there 's the point And I must tell you too he must needs use some unlawful means M. W. Alas It cannot be His Wife good woman is one of us And do you think if he were such he would ever sufferit Sc. Why there 's the blind The woman is a good sisterlie woman and an often frequenter which he allows of only to deceive the World as if he were Well well Mark what I say If he has not made some secret express contract with