you do not love Wild. Both true to Heaven and you I both confess To you who next that Heaven I dare most trust Yet may I feel there all revenging Ire If this Moment that I speak my Heart 's not free From any Chains but hers As Infant Babes before they heard Love nam'd From Fate and Want 't is true first sprung my Love But by that aweful Deity I swear Her Coldness by a Power well known to him Has so fomented nay encreas'd my Flame I 'd rather live upon some Desart Rock The Weeds for Food Repentant-Tears my Drink Her only for my All Than ' midst the greatest Luxury and Pomp This World this nauseous World can give without-her Hon. Trust me your Words and Actions are so full Of true Repentance and of generous Passion That had I Tears for any but my Trulove I could spare some for you But go be prosperous in your matchless Flame Matchless indeed to any but my Trulove's Perswade her you 're but what y'appear to me You 'll find her kind or force her to be Just Wild. You as my better Genius I obey I ne'er can miss while that points out the way Hon. And may you find it tho' I miss my own Thou Mirrour of a reclaim'd repentant Lover Oh Trulove Could I wish the least of Ill. To one whose Love so far surpasses mine Thus could I wish you that I might at least Merit you better or you less deserve me Enter Trulove observing Oh Trulove Trulove Charmer of my Soul Thou dear Disturber of my Virgin Peace Thou Ever-present Object to my Mind Trulove as constant Trulove runs and catches her in his Arms she faints As Honoria's kind Look up thou drooping Cherubin look up Thou noblest Compound of True Love and Honour Oh! why so pale Why close you up those Eyes That cause my Adoration sooth my Love Hon. And may the Powers be deaf unto my Prayers Now deaf when most I need their piteous Help If I don't love you with an equal Flame Nay greater by my Soul for it forebodes Should I our Ruines grant join Want to Want And then you see the Products of our Loves The tender Sprouts of our engrafted Souls Nipp'd by the frozen Blasts of chilly need Those Flames you now think durable as mine Would turn to Tears your Love would pine to pity Bat yet if I which Omen Heaven avert Should be reduc'd by Love to that sad State To see those groveling Infants on my Lap Making with Tears their fruitless Signs for Bread For want of that expiring on my Breasts Embracing I 'd hug the darling Cause of our Destruction On his Mouth And thus sigh out my unreproaching Soul Enter Jenny Jen. So close Nay then I 'm come before my cue Exit Tru. More than enough thou exquisitely good I must desist for fear so great a Saint Shou'd bear within her a Prophetick Mind Yet of you Heavens that ne'er deny what 's Just Kneeling My Heart as humbl'd as my bended Knee I crave this mighty Boon Grant me but Means to shew this gen'rous Maid How much I lov'd how much my Soul ador'd But to requite this Seraphin of Love And then as one whose earthly Frame 's too base Raving To rival those that twirle the spinning Spheres Rising abruptly I 'll grudging yield to your abstruse Decrees Hon. Your Sence seems unconnected Actions wild O stem this raging Torrent of your Passion Call up your Reason Srength and Resolution With all those heavenly Gifts adorn your Mind Methinks I see through those condensed Mists Through this long dismal and afflicting Night A glorious Dawn that scatters all the Clouds And brings a welcome Day-break to our Loves What if kind Heaven should at the last relent Tru. musing For you it may for me it never can Hon. O shield him all ye glorious Sprights above Whose Divine Talents are to Know and Love Kindly distil into my lab'ring Soul Such Charms as may his wandring Sense controll Or by th' Omniscient Deity I must Be base yet still methinks I would be just How fare you Sir Enter Jenny Jenny Very well Madam or he shall be so shortly I bring that along with me will cure all Distempers Hon. It must be little less I assure you that can excuse this unseasonable Intrusion Jenny O! Madam I bring that which will attone for this or any other Crime yet with Respect I think I came most opportunely for if ever Maid help'd her Mistress out at a dead Lift 't was my self I gad if I had not watch'd my Cue you must have fell to hugging again for the speaking part was out I 'm sure Hon. Bless me the Wench is mad Jenny I must have been or worse to have let you run on at this rate when I had that in my Eye to reconcile the Difference Hon. Worse and worse still What Difference or with whom Jenny Why with Mr. Trulove as I take it He doats on you you doat on him and yet you won't marry him because because I've a Notion on 't in my Head but that 's such a new kind of a mad Whim that there 's neither Name nor Reason for 't Pray Sir what do you call this same What-ye-call't Tru. madly Dim-sighted Maid I 'll couch thy Cataract Rear thy Crystalline Eye-balls to the Skies Ay there the Hah yet higher higher yet Through that transparant water'd tabby Veil Just by the Star-embroider'd Throne of Jove The Strife of Honour Gratitude and Love Soberly There 's the Name Ask the Women the Reason they have monopoliz'd that to Quilt Petticoats with and 't is Treason by the Laws of the Ladies for Men but to tread on Pea-hens Trains Madly Hon. weeping He raves he raves unpitying Powers he raves Jenny aside I gad I think ye both rave This is the maddest Courtship I ever saw I could almost cry my self to see what Fools they make of one another Hon. giving her Hand Here take this fatal forc'd Restorative Jenny aside Ay right if the Operation of that don't fetch you both to your Senses 'fore to Morrow Morning we must proceed to Hellebore Hon. What yet unmov'd Trulove kisses Honoria 's Hand No Thanks to Heaven he mends Tru. weeps See the Distemper purging at his Eyes And the Sympathick Virtue moist'ning mine This sure of all Extreams must be most sad Both by Love perish or for Love be mad Jenny There 's no Occasion for either Madam that I know but one retire into the next Room if I don't give you an Antidote ' gainst both may I not have the licking of the Gallipot Hon. Surely the Disease is catching the Girl talks like Jen. Like an Apothecary who has a Most Excellent Elixir Salutis within I assure you Madam Hon. Be plain or I shall have fresh Straw and a dark Chamber provided What is' t you talk of Jenny Why Lands Lordships Pounds by Thousands Nay Madam I don't dream nor is there any Inchantment in the Case Hon. Defend me My
much indebted to Fortune had she lent me any thing more worthy your Acceptance Wild aside Good Let Women alone for taking old Occasions by the topping Fickle Bear Witness Gentlemen Madam you have that i' th bottom of your Bag would make an Emperor proud of accepting Eugen. Then name it Sir once more 't is yours Fickle Why 't is your self your Love I ask for all Eugen. ' Lass Sir my Heart 's too full of Grief to harbour the least Thought of Love a grateful Acknowledgement is the little All I 'm Mistress of 't is yours if you think it worth the receiving Weeping Wild. aside Excellent Jade How she drills him Fickle whispering Nay don't cry Sugar-Candy don't cry trust me you 'll make me do so too Chear up Honey I 'll be thy Father and Mother and Sister and Brother and all thy good Friends Wild aside Now for me to Eugen. Come Cousin you are mine by your dead Father's Will committed to my Care speak Is your Heart engag'd Eug. pointing to Fickle Alas 't was free till first I saw those Eyes Fickle staring Hum hum Wild. Then thus I give you to your Wishes so you consent Eug. Witness these Blushes let them supply my Speech Fickle Make room make place by your Leave there Gentlemen that I may receive my Princess as I ought kneeling Thus as your Prentice I pay my Respects unto your Beauty Eug. raising him Then rise my Lord my Master and my Husband Fickle Madam you 'll kill me with Kindness as the Song says in the new Opera Ay do if you can why I 'm happier than the Pope in the midst of his Seraglio Let. The Turk Sir the Turk Fickle The Pope Mrs. Pert the Pope I say Turk or Pope pray where 's the difference ha Let. Nay Sir I confess you are the better Historian Holinshead Stow and Baker were Fools to you I believe Fickle Yes that they were Mrs. Hammershine Mrs. Puspaws find me out e'er a Stower that ever stow'd e'er a Baker that ever eat or e'er a Brewer that ever had the first sup of so dainty a Firkin as this is To Mr. Wildman I beg your Pardon but this same Madam Kicke-te-scratch there with her Bakers and Stowers and Hollingsheads and the Devil and all has put me so besides my self that I for got the best of my Friends Pray Sir study how I may requite you Wild. pointing to Let. There 's one Sir would over-rate the Service if Fickle If what Sir If what Sure I'm Master of my own Come Mrs. Nimble-toes no shall I shall I This or none I 've heard of your Pranks you see If I were not in good Company I should ay that I should Come come Let. aside to Wild. Forbear or as I live I 'll discover all Wild. Sir your Good Will I esteem as a perfect Proof of your Affection hers by after-Services I shall endeavour to deserve if possible Fickle Nay Sir if you 're for Consideration pray take your own time To Eugen. Come Pruine Eyes let 's not interrupt their Loves nor our own To Let. And do you hear Mrs. Fly-at-all ' ware worrying or I 'll musle chain and to Kennel with you I will Come my Sugar-Plumb my Mackaroon come along Exit Fickle Eugen. Wild. Now fair Letitia what is' t yet remains Let. Only to take your Labour for your Pains Ha ha ha what a rhiming again I gad I hate that worse than your Contrivance for that was pretty tollerably carried on for a Beginner Hon. What Contrivance Sister what was 't Let. Why Wild. aside All will out Now shall I ' spight of my Modesty have my good Qualities laid open before my Face Hon. But what was 't good Sister Let. Why only to make a small Swop of Wild. aside Ah! it 's a coming To them Ladies I beg Pardon for the Abruptness of my Departure but Business Madam Business Let. Nay pray Sir Wild. Nay Good Madam Let. catching him Nay pray good dear plotting contriving bantring wenching Sir hear but your Indictment Sentence shall immediately pass and then you may go Wild. aside And be hang'd so I may faith and troth the Halter 's all I have then left to trust to And by good Luck I 've just Money enough left to buy one Let. over-hearing Bless me how a Woman may be mistaken Wild. Mistaken Madam what do you mean Let. Why I thought you had been a Beau Wild. Not I Madam by my Faith Let. So I find by your Pocket Three Half Pence Why I have heard of a Beau at a Nonplus for a Half Penny worth of Ferretting to tie up his Breeches till the poor Punk at the Expence of her Garter had recruited the Damage he had sustain'd in her Service which he himself was not able to repair Hon. Come Sister to the Contrivance Let. Why that was so small I 'd almost forgot it 't was only to make an Exchange of his Cousin looking at him for himself As for the rest the bloody Battery he complains of was caus'd by his own Assault he was for forcing me with him to the World in the Moon I think to some Seat he has lately purchas'd there as I take it Was it not Sir Wild. Rapture Madam Rapture Aside I was most plaguily affraid of a full and true Discovery Hon. Nay if you blame him for that Sister I must tell you now you 're too cruel I protest had I a Heart to dispose of Let. As I have yet thank my Stars it would scarce be in his Favour So Sir I beg your Pardon for the abruptness of my Departure but Business Sir Business Exit laughing Wild. The first Woman that ever I knew leave her Pleasure for Business Exit Hon. What Pleasure Sir believe me you 're ill acquainted with our Sex's Passions they 'll laugh for Sorrow as well as cry for Joy Wild. But in her Smiles I read a grating Scorn Heavens In what curs'd Minute was I born To be thus tortur'd with Disdain Malignant Planets Hon. Curse not your Stars they 're more auspicious to you Than you imagine or thine to me O Trulove Wild. For Pity sake untie this Gordian Knot That keeps my fetter'd Soul in dark Suspence The Virgin Bride with eager trembling Joy Ne'er long t' embrace the lov'd and lovely he As I for some Relief to ease my Soul Hon. What Ease you can imagine I can give Wild. Oh no! your Trulove's kind Letitia's coy Nay worse Hon. Nay better Sir if that her Love you prize Wild. Letitia Hon. Loves you Sir I 'd almost said As I love Trulove or as Trulove me In Tears I 've heard her sigh it to her self And make the Simily Wild. Amazement siezes me Can this be true Yes it is true for Honoria speaks But pardon Madam if I ask for once What means her Shiness mingled with Disdain Hon. She doubts 't is Int'rest-forces your Addresses She thinks your Heart has been enslav'd before And then she well may fear
Jinny Not that I know of Madam but I 'm mightily mistaken or he has got a Mistress and that may be as bad on all sides Hon. A Mistress Tru. Aside What disconsolate Scavingers Relict can this be Jinny I think so Madam she came with Mr. Wildman he calls her Cousin Eugenia Tru. Aside Eugenia and Wildman Cousins I thought they had been nearer related Jenny Lately come out of the Country I vow Madam I dare lay my Maidenhead if my Master holds on his rate if she don't return very speedily she 's like to leave hers behind her and follow the Example of her Predecessors Tru. Aside Gamester-like would slur that off in a Bett she 's afraid won't pass currant in a Bargain Hon. Surely you surprize me Jinny Nay Madam that 's not all there 's Mr. Wildman e'en as sweet upon your Sister I must confess she keeps him somewhat more at a distance than t'other does my Master Alas these Country Ladies are the kindest Creatures Tru. Aloud Ha ha ha Hon. Bless me Sir whence this Alteration Tru. From that which will cause if I mistake not the like in you But to your Post and take this Word of Advice Our Fortunes may in all probability depend on Eugenia therefore use her with respect promote your Uncle's Affection and leave me alone for the rest For when a Miser once gives up his Heart With all the rest he easily does part Hon My Obedience shall shew my Love So Prosperity and my best Wishes attend you And to encourage you and end our Strife Find me a Fortune I 'll find you a Wife Exit Truelove As Honoria is going out Enter Letitia who stops her Let. O Sister I arrest you in the Name of Cupid One moments Audience for Love's sake I come from this same Master mine to be you know who I mean I see prithee what kind of Creature what do'st think of him Hon. Mr. Wildman I suppose you mean Let. Ay ay who else coud'st imagin But once more What kind of Creature do'st take him to be Hon. Why a Man and if by the little Acquaintance I have with him I may guess bating some Flights which Youth may excuse and Slaunder encrease except my Trulove inferiour to few or none Let. Nay as for that matter I strongly suspect he 's no Novice in the World But 'twixt you and I I like a Journeyman ne'er the worse for having serv'd a Prentiship to his Trade so he but mind my Business when I take him to me I shall ne'er fall a reaping up of old Trespasses done in Strangers Inclosures As for your Comparison Faith you might have spar'd it I think Mr. Wildman as good a Man as your Trulove as you call him Hon. Prithee why Let. somewhat hastily Prithee why not Hon. Nay no Passion Sister Sir Novelty says 't is a Mortal Enemy to the Complexion Let Reason take place I 'll give you these First Whether he loves you as my Trulove me is a question Let. Which is more than I can resolve However if a Man be to be believ'd by his Words he 's not far short and the hindmost Dog you know may chance to be first in with the Hare As for my part I love Mr. Wildman as well as you your Trulove so you may tell him if it be but neatly done you 'll pleasure me However I 'm resolv'd to have a Course or two with him 'fore he snaps me up an 't be but to shew him the difference 'twixt my self and I know who tho' perhaps he may have no great need of a Whet. But all 's one I 'm resolv'd to venture my Maidenhead with my Affection and go Supercargo of my own Goods Hon. Your Resolution shews your Discretion and seems to me a happy Augury of our better Fortunes Fortune 's a Goddess scorns the limmed Slave But Loves Caresses Crowns the Soul that 's brave Exeunt omnes The End of the First ACT. ACT II. SCENE I. Enter Letitia followed by Wildman Let. AND so as you was saying you love me as How was 't Lord what a treacherous Memory have I Wild. Then I 'll repeat it Myriads of times I love Letitia more than herself she loves than Zealots Passion or Court Upstarts Pride than English Let. Beef Wild. Dutch Let. Brandy or Wildman Flattery Ha ha ha Wild. Now by your Beauteous Self the greatest Oath By that which knows the Candor of my Vows My Heart 's too nobly plac'd to entertain So mean a Vice Crush'd as it is and broken by your Scorn A truer yet ne'r Homage paid to Beauty Which if you thus go on tho' then too late Perhaps you 'll find to be but too too true Tho' Pardon dearest Angel if I wish Rather belov'd than for your Love to die Then when the Sand allotted for our Lives Had been employed in Miracles of Love Wonders to most Examples to the best With equal Pace we 'll soar to th' Seat o' th' blest Embracing Our Souls thus link'd we 'd both together fly Lifting her up Cut through the Clouds and Let. singing Hey boys up go we Pushing him rudely Ha ha ha Why what Gallymaufry Stuff 's this I 'd undertake a Journeyman Cobler courts not his Doxy half so ridiculously Why what Puddle-dock Pettifogger gave you Advice thus to open your Case Or how much Money and Time have you spent in mustering up from the Refuse and Scraps of Auxiliary Penny Pamphlets this nauseous Hodg-podg of Banter and Bombast Ecud it turns my Teeth an edge worse than the Filing of a Saw Wild. Madam tho' my Deserts merit not your Favour yet my Civility may justly claim a Requital Neither is my Person if my Friends bely me not so monstrous ugly as to turn the Stomach of a more queasie Person than I take your Ladyship to be Why 'sfoot Madam I 'm a Man Let. So Madam Eugenia has partly inform'd me or in Truth your Chattering would have made me somewhat dubious Wild. aside A Whore Foolish Whore Fire and Brimstone she lies Let. Frost and Snow but she does not for 't is to your self I 'm beholden for this double Discovery the most she gave me was indeed but a strong Suspicion which you have more strongly confirm'd But tho' a Town Spark's Cast-off be good enough for a Citizens Lady yet her Keeper I suppose is too modest after a Discovery to intrude himself upon his Niece which as occasion presents I shall acquaint him with So leaving you to your more serious Consideration I remain in Expectation of a Second Meeting yours Letitia Ha ha ha ha Exit laughing Wild. Meet thee again I 'd rather meet my Great Grandmother's Ghost at Midnight in the bottom of a Cole-pit What Wild-cats are these City Virginities I 'd undertake to lick a Bears Cubb into Shape sooner than to reclaim one of these Haggerds from their Quirks and Freeks into a competency of Sobriety and good Manners ' Sbud is this the Quarry the Old Gentleman sent me
it Here Enter Singer sing the Song my Sister made t'other Day SONG 1. HOpe thou Friend to the Distressed Kind Reviver of the Mind None that Hopes can be oppressed Tho' Fortune frowns thou' rt ever kind 2. Hope thou sov'reign Ease to Grief Bless'd Encreaser of our Joy Thou shouldst have Proof thou best Relief ' Gainst what would my Love destroy 3. Welcome Hope Adieu Despair The tott'ring Wheel at last will turn Tho' I languish for my Dear I 'll not consume but ever burn Twice Tho' I languish c. Let. Well Sir this I hope has some Effect on you Tru. Medicines Madam are but at best cast away where the Malady of the Patient is misapprehended Let. Nay Sir I must confess your late Symptoms have been so strange that I cannot but guess your Distemper to be of the most unusual Tru. True Madam in the Age we live but I have reap'd this Benefit by my Misfortune to find the strongest Passion too weak to withstand a generous Resolution Let. Your Words Sir are as mysterious as ever but here comes your Cathollicon If that does not work effectually your Condition's deplorable indeed Enter Honoria who runs and embraces Trulove Hon. O my dear Trulove thus let me embrace thee Thus let me clasp thee in my longing Arms Kissing And thus cement our Hands Lips Hearts together Pardon if Love o'ercome my Modesty For now I count you as my better Part. Tru. Look down ye Powers and view this matchless Love Steal my faint Heart direct my trembling Hand Assure my fault'ring Tongue grant Strength of Mind To act that which you only could inspire Gives the Papers to Hon. With these take back your Vows and with them mine May you be happier in a nobler He As far 'bove me as is your Love and Honour Nay by the Pains I feel if it might be I 'd wish him so divine as to deserve you Then when I see you circl'd in his Arms Ravish'd with Joys dissolv'd in Exstasie I 'll send up Vows unenvious Vows to Heaven To make them infinite your Loves eternal Hon. What can this mean O my Prophetick Fears Tru. I mean you 've trusted such a Stock of Love With one so far unable to requite it That it were Baseness beyond all Excuse Still to run on when so much is unpay'd I mean to teach th' admiring Powers above My Gratitude's as great more gen'rous than your Love Exit Trulove Wild. Hum Why I must confess this is somewhat surprizing However I shall rather imitate than discommend it Here Madam Gives the Papers to Let. receive your own and with them all I can call mine My Heart 's disingag'd my Affection entirely yours to bragg of more would be but to relapse into what you have so severely but justly reprov'd Let. Nay now you 're serious somewhat may be done But I fear'd Capitulations before Surrender which if they had happen'd But no more hope well you know I hear you 're not indifferent to me 't is with Joy I own it Wild. This is too much But see the fair Honoria Bedew'd and silent as a Summer's Night Let. Come cheer up Sister What a-la-mort Woman whining for a lost Lover when you have wherewithal to buy a Score of Husbands But three Days Patience and on my Life you 'll have more Suitors than you 'll dispatch in three Months Hon. No may I live by all Mankind disdain'd And die a wretched Object of Despair If e'er within this Heart I entertain A second Thought for any but my Truelove What tho' to you perchance he seem unkind Yet I that view the Treasures of his Mind Adore him still as from the Powers above Take this Correction as a Sign of Love Nay by my fleeting Love-sick Soul I swear Should he be cold nay farther yet severe The little space then doom'd me for to live To th' pleasing Thoughts of our past Loves I 'd give Then when you 'd think that I forsaken lie You 'd see my Trulove beg me not to die Let. Cold Comfort by my departing Maidenhead Sister if this be all but I hope there 's warmer in store To Wild. You know Sir your Obligations to my Sister I need not tell you the Occasions present to require them and oblige me Wild. Madam I do as well as I am acquainted with his Temper 'T is honourable to Obstinacy but not perverse to Reason So good a Cause can never want a happy Issue I go with Confidence of good Success to serve you Exit Wild. Hon. Unhappy Maid what Crimes have I committed Doubly to suffer by Excess of Love Whom shall I accuse The Gods Oh no They 're Just and Trulove is in Honour next 'em No 't is my Self my Frowardness my Pride Nay worse My black Ingratitude to so much Love Has forc'd this unexampl'd Judgment on me Yet still methinks I did but that which he So lately and so strictly did pursue As if h' had taken Copy from my Actions And he 's too wise nay too divinely good To act or follow ought that is amiss Heavens in what a Lab'rinth am I got Lend me the Clew or kindly end my Pain Enter Wild. with Tru. Let. I hope they have heard you look back Tru. kneeling Thus stubborn Criminals that Grace refuse Trembling when late the proffer'd Mercy crave Sure 't was some Evil Genius led me out From Paradice thus to run to my Destruction Yet you can pardon Hon. raising him Unkind thus to upbraid me with that Act That first was mine by you but faintly trac'd Pardons for Crimes You may command my Love If in Exchange you grant me yours I 'm bless'd Tru. Then ye propitious Powers smile kindly on us And yet prepare your direst worst Revenge If ought save you I like Honoria prize If next to you I do not her adore If her whilst Life nay after Death I love not With the same Passion that now fills my Breast And dart it down nay worse be she unkind Wild. So much for that Now Madam 't is my turn If I perform it not with so much Zeal 'T is want of Words not Passion pleads Excuse Besides Faith to tell you neatly my Mind these far-fatch'd Expressions and new-fangl'd ways of Courtship become a Stage far better than a Lady's Bed-Chamber Let. Well that I expect not but this you must If I catch you in the old Haunt or any where else But Wild. Ay ay if I elope bar me of my Thirds I 'm content as to that Point to reinverse the Law and become Baron-Covert Let. Of your Thirds Don't so much as expect a bare Allimony Wild. And Faith I 'll say so much for my self if we 're once join'd I shall ne'er hope for a separate Maintenance Come agreed agreed Let. As for the rest I bring you a plentiful Fortune and as Jonathan says a tite neat and convenient Tenement Use me like a Gectleman I entirely trust in you Wild. Come give me your Hand Let. giving