is in other Countries they have opportunities for Courtship which we have not they are not mew'd up with double Locks and Grated Windows but may receive Addresses at their leisure Jac. But our Love here is like our Grass if it be not mow'd quickly 't is burnt up Enter Bellamy Wildblood Maskall they look about ' em Theo. Yonder are your Gallants send you comfort of 'em I am for my Devotions Jac. Now for my heart can I think of no other Prayer but only that they may not mistake us Why Sister Sister will you Pray What injury have I ever done you that you should Pray in my company If your servant Don Melchor were here we should have you mind Heaven as little as the best on 's Beat. They are at a loss Madam shall I put up my Vail that they may take aime Jac. No let 'em take their Fortune in the dark we shall see what Archers these English are Bell. Which are they think'st thou Wild. There 's no knowing them they are all Children of darkness Bell. I 'll besworn they have one sign of Godliness among 'em there 's no distinction of persons here Wild. Pox o'th is blind-mans-buffe they may be asham'd to provoke a man thus by their keeping themselves so close Bell. You are for the youngest you say 't is the eldest has smitten me And here I fix if I am right happy man be his dole By Theodosia Wild. I 'll take my fortune here By Jacinta Madam I hope a stranger may take the libertie without offence to offer his devotions by you Jac. That Sir would interrupt mine without being any advantage to your own Wild. My advantage Madam is very evident for the kind Saint to whom you pray may by the neighbourhood mistake my devotions for yours Jac. O Sir our Saints can better distinguish between the prayers of a Catholick and a Lutheran Wild. I beseech you Madam trouble not your self for my Religion for though I am a Heretick to the men of your Country to your Ladies I am a very zealous Catholick and for fornication and adulterie I assure you I hold with both Churches Theo. to Bell. Sir if you will not be more devout be at least more civil you see you are observ'd Bell. And pray Madam what do you think the lookers on imagine I am imploy'd about Theo. I will not trouble my self to guess Bell. Why by all circumstances they must conclude that I am making love to you and methinks it were scarce civil to give the opinion of so much good company the lye Theo. If this were true you would have little reason to thank 'em for their Divination Bell. Meaning I should not be lov'd again Theo. You have interpreted my riddle and may take it for your pains Enter Alonso and goes apart to his devotion Beat. Madam your Father is return'd Bell. She has nettled me would I could be reveng'd on her Wild. Do you see their Father let us make as though we talk'd to one another that we may not be suspected Beat. You have lost your Englishmen Jac. No no 't is but design I warrant you you shall see these Island Cocks wheel about immediately Beat. Perhaps they thought they were observ'd The English gather up close to them Wild. to Bell. Talk not of our Countrie Ladies I declare my self for the Spanish Beauties Bell. Prethee tell me what thou canst find to doat on in these Castilians Wild. Their wit and beauty Theo. Now for our Champion St. Jago for Spain there Bell. Faith I can speak no such miracles of either for their beautie 't is much as the Moores left it not altogether so deep a black as the true Aethiopian A kind of beautie that is too civil to the lookers on to do them any mischief Jac. This was your frowardness that provok'd him Sister Theo. But they shall not carry it off so Bell. As for their wit you may judge it by their breeding which is commonly in a Nunnerie where the want of mankind while they are there makes them value the blessing ever after Theo. Prethee dear Jacinta tell me what kind of creatures were those we saw yesterday at the Audience Those I mean that look'd so like Frenchmen in their habits but only became their Apishness so much worse Jac. Englishmen I think they call'd ' em Theo. Crie you mercy they were of your wild English indeed that is a kind of Northern Beast that is taught its feats of activity in Monsieurland and for doing 'em too lubberly is laugh'd at all the world over Bell. Wildblood I perceive the women understand little of discourse their Gallants do not use 'em to 't they get upon their Gennits and prance before their Ladies windows there the Palfray curvets and bounds and in short entertains 'em for his Master Wild. And this horse-play they call making love Beat. Your Father Madam Alon. Daughters what Cavaliers are those which were talking by you Jac. Englishmen I believe Sir at their devotions Cavalier would you would try to pray a little better then you have railly'd aside to Wildblood Wild. Hang me if I put all my devotions out of order for you I remember I pray'd but on Tuesday last and my time comes not till Tuesday next Mask You had as good pray Sir she will not stir till you have Say any thing Wild. Fair Lady though I am not worthy of the least of your favours yet give me the happiness this Evening to see you at your fathers door that I may acquaint you with part of my sufferings aside to Jacinta Alon. Come Daughters have you done Jac. Immediately Sir Cavalier I will not fail to be there at the time appointed if it be but to teach you more wit henceforward then to engage your heart so lightly aside to Wildblood Wild. I have engag'd my heart with so much zeal and true devotion to your divine beauty that Alon. What means this Cavalier Jac. Some zealous ejaculation Alon. May the Saint-hear him Jac. I 'll answer for her Ex. Father and Daughters Wild. Now Bellamy what success Bell. I pray'd to a more Marble Saint than that was in the Shrine but you it seems have been successful Wild. And so shalt thou let me alone for both Bell. If you 'll undertake it I will make bold to indulge my love and within this two hours be a desperate Inamorado I feel I am coming apace to it Wild. Faith I can love at any time with a wish at my rate I give my heart according to the old law of pawns to be return'd me before sun-set Bell. I love only that I may keep my heart warm for a man 's a pool if love stir him not and to bring it to that pass I first resolve whom to love and presently after imagine I am in love for a strong imagination is requir'd in a Lover as much as in a Witch Wild. And is this all your Receipt Bell. These are my principal ingredients
as for Piques Jealousies Duels Daggers and Halters I let 'em alone to the vulgar Wild. Prethee let 's round the street a little till Maskall watches for their Woman Bell. That 's well thought on he shall about it immediately We will attempt the Mistress by the Maid Women by women still are best betray'd Exeunt ACT. II. Wildblood Bellamy Maskall Wild. DId you speak with her Woman Mask Yes but she was in hast and bid me wait her hereabouts when she return'd Bell. Then you have discover'd nothing more Mask Only in general that Donna Theodosia is engag'd elsewhere so that all your Courtship will be to no purpose To Wild. But for your Mistress Sir she is waded out of her depth in love to you already Wild. That 's very hard when I am scarce knee-deep with her 't is true I have given her hold of my heart but if she take not heed it will slip through her fingers Bell. You are Prince of the Soil Sir and may take your pleasure when you please but I am the Eve to your Holy-day and must fast for being joyn'd to you Wild. Were I as thou art I would content my self with having had one fair flight at her without wearying my self on the wing for a retrieve for when all 's done the Quarry is but woman Bell. Thank you Sir you would fly 'em both your self and while I turn tail we should have you come gingling with your bells in the neck of my Patridge do you remember who incourag'd me to love and promis'd me his assistance Wild. I while there was hope Frank while there was hope but there 's no contending with one's destiny Bell. Nay it may be I care as little for her as another man but while she flyes before me I must follow I can leave a woman sirst with ease but if she begins to fly before me I grow opiniatre as the Devil Wild. What a secret have you found out why 't is the nature of all mankind we love to get our Mistresses and purr over 'em as Cats do over Mice and then let 'em go a little way and all the pleasure is to pat 'em back again But yours I take it Frank is gone too far prethee how long dost thou intend to love at this rate Bell. Till the evil constellation be past over me yet I believe it would hasten my recovery if I knew whom she lov'd Mask You shall not be long without that satisfaction Wild. ' St the door opens and two women are coming out Bell. By their stature they should be thy gracious Mistress and Beatrix Wild. Methinks you should know your Q. then and withdraw Bell. Well I 'll leave you to your fortune but if you come to close fighting I shall make bold to run in and part you Bellamy and Maskall withdraw Wild. Yonder she comes with full sails i'faith I 'll hail her amain for England Enter Jacinta and Beatrix at the other end of the Stage Beat. You do love him then Jac. Yes most vehemently Beat. But set some bounds to your affection Jac. None but fools confine their pleasure what Usurer ever thought his Coffers held too much No I 'll give my self the swinge and love without reserve If I 'll keep a passion I 'll never starve it in my service Beat. But are you sure he will deserve this kindness Jac. I never trouble my self so long beforehand Jealousies and disquiets are the dregs of an amour but I 'll leave mine before I have drawn it off so low when it once grows troubled I 'll give vent to a fresh draught Beat. Yet it is but prudence to try him first no Pilot ventures on an unknown Coast without sounding Jac. Well to satisfie thee I am content partly too because I find a kind of pleasure in laying baits for him Beat. The two great vertues of a Lover are constancy and liberality if he profess those two you may be happy in him Jac. Nay if he be not Lord and Master of both those qualities I disown him But who goes there Beat. He I warrant you Madam for his Servant told me he was waiting hereabout Jac. Watch the door give me notice if any come Beat. I 'll secure you Madam Exit Beatrix Jac. to Wild. What have you laid an ambush for me Wild. Only to make a Reprisal of my heart Jac. 'T is so wild that the Lady who has it in her keeping would be glad she were well rid on 't it does so flutter about the Cage 'T is a meer Bajazet and if it be not let out the sooner will beat out the brains against the Grates Wild. I am afraid the Lady has not fed it and 't is wild for hunger Jac. Or perhaps it wants company shall she put another to it Wild. I but then 't were best to trust 'em out of the Cage together let 'em hop about at libertie Jac. But if they should lose one another in the wide world Wild. They 'll meet at night I warrant ' em Jac. But is not your heart of the nature of those Birds that breed in one Countrie and goe to winter in another Wild. Suppose it does so yet I take my Mate along with me And now to leave our parables and speak in the language of the vulgar what think you of a voyage to merry England Jac. Just as Aesop's Frog did of leaping into a deep Well in a drought if he ventur'd the leap there might be water but if there were no water how should he get out again Wild. Faith we live in a good honest Country where we are content with our old vices partly because we want wit to invent more new A Colonie of Spaniards or spiritual Italians planted among us would make us much more racy 'T is true our variety is not much but to speak nobly of our way of living 't is like that of the Sun which rises and looks upon the same things he saw yesterday and goes to bed again Jac. But I hear your women live most blessedly there 's no such thing as jealousie among the Husbands if any man has horns he bears 'em as loftily as a Stag and as inoffensively Wild. All this I hope gives you no ill Character of the Country Jac. But what need we go into another Climate as our love was born here so let it live and die here and be honestly buried in its native Country Wild. Faith agreed with all my heart For I am none of those unreasonable lovers that propose to themselves the loving to eternity the truth is a month is commonly my stint but in that month I love so dreadfully that it is after a twelve-months rate of common love Jac. Or would not a fortnight serve our turn for in troth a month looks somewhat dismally 't is a whole Aegyptian year if a Moon changes in my love I shall think my Cupid grown dull or fallen into an Apoplexie Wild. Well I pray heaven we both get off
Bell. What need you bring matters to that extremity you have your ransome in your hand here are three men and there are three women you understand me Jac. If not here 's a sword and there 's a throat you understand me Alon. This is very hard Theo. The propositions are good and marriage is as honorable as it us'd to be Beat. You had best let your Daughters live branded with the name of Strumpets for what ever befalls the men that will be sure to be their share Alon. I can put them into a Nunnery All the Women A Nunnery Jac. I would have thee to know thou graceless old man that I defie a Nunnery name a Nunnery once more and I disown thee for my Father Lop. You know the Custome of the Country in this case Sir 't is either death or marriage the business will certainly be publick and if they die they have sworn you shall bear 'em company Alon. Since it must be so run Pedro and stop the Corigidor tell him it was only a Carnival merriment which I mistook for a Rape and Robbery Jac. Why now you are a dutiful Father again and I receive you into grace Bell. Among the rest of your mistakes Sir I must desire you to let my Astrologie pass for one my Mathematicks and Art Magick were only a Carnival device and now that 's ending I have more mind to deal with the flesh than with the devil Alon. No Astrologer 't is impossible Mask I have known him Sir this seven years and dare take my oath he has been alwayes an utter stranger to the Stars and indeed to any thing that belongs to heaven Lop. Then I have been cozen'd among the rest Theo. And I but I forgive him Beat. I hope you will forgive me Madam who have been the cause on 't but what he wants in Astrologie he shall make up to you some other way I 'll pass my word for him Alon. I hope you are both Gentlemen Bell. As good as the Cid himself Sir Alon. And for your Religion right Romanes Wild. As ever was Marc Anthony Alon. For your fortunes and courages Mask They are both desperate Sir especially their fortunes Theo. to Bell. You should not have had my consent so soon but only to revenge my self upon the falseness of Don Melchor Aur. I must avow that gratitude for Don Lopez is as prevalent with me as revenge against Don Melchor Alon. Lent you know begins to morrow when that 's over marriage will be proper Jac. If I stay till after Lent I shall be to marry when I have no love left I 'll not bate you an Ace of to night Father I mean to bury this man e're Lent be done and get me another before Easter Alon. Well make a night on 't then Giving his Daughters Wild. Jacinta Wildblood welcome to me since our Starres have doom'd it so we cannot help it but 't was a meer trick of Fate to catch us thus at unawares to draw us in with a what do you lack as we pass'd by had we once separated to night we should have had more wit than ever to have met again to morrow Jac. 'T is true we shot each other flying we were both upon wing I find and had we pass'd this Critical minute I should have gone for the Indies and you for Greenland e're we had met in a bed upon consideration Mask You have quarrell'd twice to night without bloodshed ' ware the third time Jac. A propos I have been retrieving an old Song of a Lover that was ever quarrelling with his Mistress I think it will fit our amour so well that if you please I 'll give it you for an Epithalamium and you shall sing it Gives him a Paper Wild. I never sung in all my life nor ever durst trie when I was alone for fear of braying Jac. Just me up and down but for a frolick let 's sing together for I am sure if we cannot sing now we shall never have cause when we are married Wild. Begin then give me my Key and I 'll set my voice to 't Jac. Fa la fa la fa la. Wild. Fala fala fala Is this your best upon the faith of a Virgin Jac. I by the Muses I am at my pitch Wild. Then do your worst and let the company be judge who sings worst Jac. Upon condition the best singer shall wear the breeches prepare to strip Sir I shall put you into your drawers presently Wild. I shall be reveng'd with putting you into your smock anon St. George for me Jac. St. James for me come start Sir SONG Damon Celimena of my heart None shall e're bereave you If with your good leave I may Quarrel with you once a day I will never leave you 2. Celimena Passion 's but an empty name Where respect is wanting Damon you mistake your ayme Hang your heart and burn your flame If you must be ranting 3. Damon Love as dull and muddy is As decaying liquor Anger sets it on the lees And refines it by degrees Till it workes it quicker 4. Celimena Love by quarrels to beget Wisely you endeavour With a grave Physician 's wit Who to cure an Ague fit Put me in a Feavor 5. Damon Anger rouzes love to fight And his only bayt is 'T is the spurre to dull delight And is but an eager bite When desire at height is 6. Celimena If such drops of heat can fall In our wooing weather If such drops of heat can fall We shall have the Devil and all When we come together Wild. Your judgement Gentlemen a Man or a Maid Bell. And you make no better harmony after you are married then you have before you are the miserablest couple in Christendome Wild. 'T is no great matter if I had had a good voice she would have spoil'd it before tomorrow Bell. When Maskall has married Beatrix you may learn of her Mask You shall put her life into a Lease then Wild. Upon condition that when I drop into your house from hunting I may set my slippers at your door as a Turk does at a Jews that you may not enter Beat. And while you refresh your self within he shall wind the horn without Mask I 'll throw up my Lease first Bell. Why thou would'st not be so impudent to marry Beatrix for thy self only Beat. For all his ranting and tearing now I 'll pass my word he shall degenerate into as tame and peaceable a Husband as a civil Woman would wish to have Enter Don Melchor with a Servant Mel. Sir Alon. I know what you would say but your discoverie comes too late now Mel. Why the Ladies are found Aur. But their inclinations are lost I can assure you Jac. Look you Sir there goes the game your Plate-fleet is divided half for Spain and half for England Theo. You are justly punish'd for loving two Mel. Yet I have the comfort of a cast Lover I will think well of my self and despise my Mistresses Exit DANCE Bell. Enough enough let 's end the Carnival abed Wild. And for these Gentlemen when e're they try May they all speed as soon and well as I. Exeunt omnes Epilogue MY part being small I have had time to day To mark your various censures of our Play First looking for a Judgement or a Wit Like Jews I saw 'em scatter'd through the Pit And where a knot of Smilers lent an eare To one that talk'd I knew the foe was there The Club of jests went round he who had none Borrow'd o th' next and told it for his own Among the rest they kept a fearfull stir In whisp'ring that he stole th' Astrologer And said betwixt a French and English Plot He eas'd his half-tir'd Muse on pace and trot Up starts a Monsieur new come o're and warm In the French stoop and the pull-back o th' arm Morbleu dit il and cocks I am a rogue But he has quite spoil'd the feint Astrologue Pox sayes another here 's so great a stir With a son of a whore Farce that 's regular A rule where nothing must decorum shock Dam ' me 'ts as dull as dining by the clock An Evening why the devil should we be vext Whither he gets the Wench this night or next When I heard this I to the Poet went Told him the house was full of discontent And ask'd him what excuse he could invent He neither swore nor storm'd as Poets do But most unlike an Author vow'd 't was true Yet said he us'd the French like Enemies And did not steal their Plots but made 'em prize But should he all the pains and charges count Of taking 'em the bill so high wou'd mount That like Prize-goods which through the Office come He could have had 'em much more cheap at home He still must write and Banquier-like each day Accept new Bills and he must break or pay When through his hands such sums must yearly run You cannot think the Stock is all his own His haste his other errors might excuse But there 's no mercy for a guilty Muse For like a Mistress she must stand or fall And please you to a height or not at all FINIS
Essay of our faces They pull up their Vails and pull 'em down agen Wild. Ah Bellamy undone undone dost thou see those Beauties Bell. Prethee Wildblood hold thy tongue and do not spoil my contemplation I am undoing my self as fast as e're I can too Wild. I must go to ' em Bell. Hold Madman dost thou not see their father hast thou a mind to have our throats cut Wild. By a Hector of fourscore Hang our throats what a Lover and cautious Is going towards them Alon. Come away Daughters we shall be late else Bell. Look you they are on the wing already Wild. Prethee dear Frank let 's follow 'em I long to know who they are Mask Let me alone I 'll dog 'em for you Bell. I am glad on 't for my shooes so pinch me I can scarce go a step farther Wild. Cross the way there lives a Shoomaker away quickly that we may not spoil our man's design Ex. Bell. Wild. Alon. offers to go off Now friend what 's your business to follow us Mask Noble Don 't is only to recommend my service to you A certain violent passion I have had for your worship since the first moment that I saw you Alon. I never saw thee before to my remembrance Mask No matter Sir true love never stands upon ceremony Alon. Prethee begone my sawcie companion or I 'll clap an Alguazile upon thy heels I tell thee I have no need of thy service Mask Having no servant of your own I cannot in good manners leave you destitute Alon. I 'll beat thee if thou follow'st me Mask I am your Spaniel Sir the more you beat me the better I 'll wait on you Alon. Let me intreat thee to be gone the boyes will hoot at me to see me follow'd thus against my will Mask Shall you and I concern our selves for what the Boyes do Sir Pray do you hear the news at Court Alon. Prethee what 's the news to thee or me Mask Will you be at the next Juego de cannas Alon. If I think good Mask Pray go on Sir we can discourse as we walk together And whither were you now a going Sir Alon. To the Devil I think Mask O! not this year or two Sir by your age Jac. My Father was never so match'd for talking in all his life before he who loves to hear nothing but himself Prethee Beatrix stay behind and see what this impudent Englishman would have Beat. Sir if you 'll let my Master go I 'll be his pawn Mask Well Sir I kiss your hand in hope to wait on you another time Alon. Let us mend our pace to get clear of him Theo. If you do not he 'll be with you agen like Atalanta in the fable and make you drop another of your golden Apples Ex. Alon. Theod. Jacinta Maskal whispers Beatrix the while Beat. How much good language is here thrown away to make me betray my Ladies Mask If you will discover nothing of 'em let me discourse with you a little Beat. As little as you please Mask They are rich I suppose Beat. Now you are talking of them agen but they are as rich as they are fair Mask Then they have the Indies well but their Names my sweet Mistress Beat. Sweet Servant their Names are Mask Their Names are out with it boldly Beat. A secret not to be disclos'd Mask A secret say you Nay then I conjure you as you are a Woman tell it me Beat. Not a syllable Mask Why then as you are a Waiting-woman as you are the Sieve of all your Ladies Secrets tell it me Beat. You lose your labour nothing will strain through me Mask Are you so well stop'd i' th' bottom Beat. It was enjoyn'd me strictly as a Secret Mask Was it enjoyn'd thee strictly and can'st thou hold it Nay then thou art invincible but by that face that more than ugly face which I suspect to be under thy Vaile disclose it to me Beat. By that Face of thine which is a Natural Visor I will not tell thee Mask By thy Beat. No more Swearing I beseech you Mask That Woman's worth little that is not worth an Oath well get thee gone now I think on 't thou shalt not tell me Beat. Shall I not Who shall hinder me They are Don Alonzo de Ribera's Daughters Mask Out out I 'le stop my Eares Beat. They live hard by in the Calle maior Mask O infernal Tongue Beat. And are going to the next Chappel with their Father Mask Wilt thou never have done tormenting me in my Conscience anon thou wilt blab out their Names too Beat. Their Names are Theodosia and Jacinta Mask And where 's your great Secret now Beat. Now I think I am reveng'd on you for running down my poor old Master Mask Thou art not fully reveng'd till thou hast told me thy own Name too Beat. 'T is Beatrix at your service Sir pray remember I wait on ' em Mask Now I have enough I must be going Beat. I perceive you are just like other Men when you have got your ends you care not how soon you are going Farewell you 'l be constant to me Mask If thy face when I see it do not give me occasion to be otherwise Beat. You shall take a Sample that you may praise it when you see it next She pulls up her Vail Enter Wildblood and Bellamy Wild. Look there 's your Dog with a Duck in 's mouth Oh she 's got loose and div'd again Exit Beatrix Bell. Well Maskall What newes of the Ladies of the Lake Mask I have learn'd enough to embarque you in an Adventure they are Daughters to one Don Alonzo de Ribera in the Calle major their Names Theodosia and Jacinta and they are going to their Devotions in the next Chappel Wild. Away then let us lose no time I thank Heaven I never found my self better enclin'd to Godliness than at this present Exeunt SCENE II. A Chappel Enter Alonzo Theodosia Jacinta Beatrix other Ladies and Cavaliers as at their Devotion Alon. By that time you have told your Beads I 'll be agen with you Exit Jac. Do you think the English Men will come after us Beat. Do you think they can stay from you Jac. For my part I feel a certain qualm upon my heart which makes me believe I am breeding Love to one of 'em Theo. How Love Jacinta in so short a time Cupids Arrow was well feather'd to reach you so suddenly Jac. Faith as good at first as at last Sister 't is a thing that must be done and therefore 't is best dispatching it out o' th' way Theo. But you do not mean to tell him so whom you love Jac. Why should I keep my self and Servant in pain for that which may be cur'd at a dayes warning Beat. My Lady tells you true Madam long tedious Courtship may be proper for cold Countries where their Frosts are long a thawing but Heaven be prais'd we live in a warm Climate Theo. The truth
convinc'd all his fear with a smile Which added new flames to his fire O Sylvia said he you are cruel To keep your poor Lover in awe Tken once more he prest with his hand to my brest But was dash'd with A ha ha ha ha 3. I knew 't was his passion that caus'd all his fear And therefore I pity'd his case I whisper'd him softly there 's no body near And layd my cheek close to his face But as he grew bolder and bolder A Shepherd came by us and saw And just as our bliss we began with a kiss He laughd out with A ha ha ha ha Wild. If you dare be the Sylvia Lady I have brought you a more confident Amyntas than that bashful Gentleman in your Song Goes to lay hold of her Jac. Hold hold Sir I am only an Ambassadress sent you from a Lady I hope you will not violate the Laws of Nations Wild. I was only searching for your Letters of Credence but methinks with that beauty you look more like a Herauld that comes to denounce war to all mankind Jac. One of the Ladies in the Masque to night has taken a liking to you and sent you by me this purse of gold in recompence of that she saw you lose Wild. And she expects in return of it that I should wait on her I 'll do 't Where lives she I am desperately in love with her Jac. Why Can you love her unknown Wild. I have a Banque of Love to supply every ones occasions some for her some for another and some for you charge what you will upon me I pay all at sight and without questioning who brought the Bill Jac. Heyday You dispatch your Mistresses as fast as if you meant to o're-run all Woman-kind sure you aime at the Universal-Monarchy Wild. Now I think on 't I have a foolish fancy to send thy Lady a taste of my love by thee Jac. 'T is impossible your love should be so humble to descend to a Mulatta Wild. One would think so but I cannot help it Gad I think the reason is because there 's something more of sin in thy colour then in ours I know not what 's the matter but a Turky-Cock is not more provok'd at red then I bristle at the sight of black Come be kinder to me Young and slip an opportunity 'T is an Evening lost out of your life Jac. These fine things you have said over a thousand times your cold Compliment's the cold Pye of love which you serve up to every new guest whom you invite Wild. Come because thou art very moving here 's part of the Gold which thou brought'st to corrupt me for thy Lady truth is I had promis'd a summ to a Spanish Lady but thy eyes have allur'd it from me Jac. You 'll repent to morrow Wild. Let to morrow starve or provide for himself as to night has done to morrow is a cheat in love and I will not trust it Jac. I but Heaven that sees all things Wild. Heaven that sees all things will say nothing that is all eyes and no tongue Et la lune les estoiles you know the Song Jac. A poor slave as I am Wild. It has been alwayes my humour to love downward I love to stoop to my prey and to have it in my power to Sowse at when I please When a man comes to a great Lady he is fain to approach her with fear and reverence methinks there 's something of Godliness in 't Jac. Yet I cannot believe but the meanness of my habit must needs scandalize you Wild. I 'll tell thee my friend and so forth that I exceedingly honour course Linnen 't is as proper sometimes in an under Garment as a course Towel is to rub and scrub me Jac. Now I am altogether of the other side I can love no where but above me methinks the ratling of a Coach and six sounds more eloquently then the best Harrangue a Wit could make me Wild. Do you make no more esteem of a Wit then Jac. His commendations serve onely to make others have a mind to me He does but say Grace to me like a Chaplain and like him is the last that shall fall on He ought to get no more by it then a poor Silk-weaver does by the Ribband which he workes to make a Gallant fine Wild. Then what is a Gentleman to hope from you Jac. To be admitted to pass my time with while a better comes to be the lowest step in my Stair-case for a Knight to mount upon him and a Lord upon him and a Marquess upon him and a Duke upon him till I get as high as I can climb Wild. For ought I see the Great Ladies have the Appetites which you Slaves should have and you Slaves the Pride which ought to be in Ladies For I observe that all women of your condition are like the women of the Play-house still Piquing at each other who shall go the best Drest and in the Richest Habits till you work up one another by your high flying as the Heron and Jerfalcon do If you cannot out-shine your fellow with one Lover you fetch her up with another and in short all you get by it is onely to put Finery out of countenance and to make the Ladies of Quality go plain because they will avoid the Scandal of your bravery Beat. running in Madam come away I hear company in the Garden Wild. You are not going Jac. Yes to cry out a Rape if you follow me Wild. However I am glad you have left your treasure behind you farewel Fairie Jac. Farewel Changeling Come Beatrix Exeunt Women Mask Do you know how you came by this money Sir you think I warrant that it came by fortune Wild. No Sirrah I know it came by my own industry Did not I come out diligently to meet this gold in the very way it was to come what could Fate do less for me they are such thoughtless and undesigning rogues as you that make a drudge of poor providence and set it a shifting for you Give me a brave fellow like my self that if you throw him down into the world lights every where upon his legs and helps himself without being beholding to Fate that is the Hospital of fools Mask But after all your jollitie what think you if it was Jacinta that gave it you in this disguise I am sure I heard her call Beatrix as she went away Wild. Umh thou awaken'st a most villainous apprehension in me methought indeed I knew the voice but the face was such an evidence against it if it were so she is lost for ever Mask And so is Beatrix Wild. Now could I cut my throat for madness Mask Now could I break my neck for despair if I could find a precipice absolutely to my liking Wild. 'T is in vain to consider on 't There 's but one way go you Maskal and find her out and invent some excuse for me and be sure to beg
only try'd you in hope you would be false and rather than fail of my design brought gold to bribe you to 't Beat. As people when they have an ill bargain are content to lose by 't that they may get it off their hands Mask Beatrix while our principals are engag'd I hold it not for our honor to stand idle Beat. With all my heart please you let us draw off to some other ground Mask I dare meet you on any Spot but one Wild. I think we shall do well to put it to an issue this is the last time you shall ever be troubled with my addresses Jac. The favour had been greater to have spar'd this too Mask Beatrix let us dispatch or they 'll break off before us Beat. Break as fast as thou wilt I am as brittle as thou art for thy heart Wild. Because I will absolutely break off with you I will keep nothing that belongs to you therefore take back your Picture and your Handkerchief Jac. I have nothing of yours to keep therefore take back your liberal promises Take 'em in imagination Wild. Not to be behind hand with you in your frumps I give you back your Purse of Gold take you that in imagination Jac. To conclude with you take back your oathes and protestations they are never the worse for the wearing I assure you therefore take 'em spick and span new for the use of your next Mistress Mask Beatrix follow your leader here 's the sixpenny whittle you gave me with the Mutton haft I can spare it for knives are of little use in Spain Beat. There 's your Cizars with the stinking brass chain to 'em 't is well there was no love betwixt us for they had been too dull to cut it Mask There 's the dandriffe Comb you lent me Beat. There 's your ferret Ribbaning for garters Mask I would never have come so near as to have taken 'em from you Beat. For your Letter I have it not about me but upon reputation I 'll burn it Mask And for yours I have already put it to a fitting imployment Courage Sir how goes the battel on your wing Wild. Just drawing off on both sides Adieu Spain Jac. Farewel old England Beat. Come away in Triumph the day 's your own Madam Mask I 'll bear you off upon my shoulders Sir we have broke their hearts Wild. Let her go first then I 'll stay and keep the honor of the Field Jac. I 'll not retreat if you stay till midnight Wild. Are you sure then we have done loving Jac. Yes very sure I think so Wild. 'T is well you are so for otherwise I feel my stomack a little maukish I should have doubted another sit of love were coming up Jac. No no your inconstancy secures you enough for that Wild. That 's it which makes me fear my own returning nothing vexes me but that you should part with me so slightly as though I were not worth your keeping well 't is a sign you never lov'd me Jac. 'T is the least of your care whether I did or did not it may be it had been more for the quiet of my self if I but 't is no matter I 'll not give you that satisfaction Wild. But what 's the reason you will not give it me Jac. For the reason that we are quite broke off Wild. Why are we quite broke off Jac. Why are we not Wild. Well since 't is past 't is past but a pox of all foolish quarrelling for my part Jac. And a mischief of all foolish disguisements for my part Wild. But if it were to do again with another Mistress I would e'en plainly confess I had lost my money Jac. And if I had to deal with another Servant I would learn more wit then to tempt him in disguises for that 's to throw a Venice-glass to the ground to try if it would not break Wild. If it were not to please you I see no necessity of our parting Jac. I protest I do it only out of complaisance to you Wild. But if I should play the fool and ask you pardon you would refuse it Jac. No never submit for I should spoil you again with pardoning you Mask Do you hear this Beatrix they are just upon the point of accommodation we must make haste or they 'll make a peace by themselves and exclude us from the Treaty Beat. Declare your self the Aggressor then and I 'll take you into mercy Wild. The worst that you can say of me is that I have lov'd you thrice over Jac. The prime Articles between Spain and England are seal'd for the rest concerning a more strict alliance if you please we 'll dispute them in the Garden Wild. But in the first place let us agree on the Article of Navigation I beseech you Beat. These Leagues offensive and defensive will be too strict for us Maskall a Treaty of commerce will serve our turn Mask With all my heart and when our loves are veering We 'll make no words but fall to privateering Exeunt the men leading the women ACT. V. Lopez Aurelia and Camilla Lop. T Is true if he had continu'd constant to you I should have thought my self oblig'd in honor to be his friend but I could no longer suffer him to abuse a person of your worth and beauty with a feign'd affection Aur. But is it possible Don Melchor should be false to love I 'll be sworn I did not imagine such a treacherie could have been in nature especially to a Lady who had so oblig'd him Lop. 'T was this Madam which gave me the coufidence to wait upon at an hour which would be otherwise unseasonable Aur. You are the most obliging person in the world Lop. But to clear it to you that he is false he is at this very minute at an assignation with your Cousin in the Garden I am sure he was endeavouring it not an hour ago Aur. I swear this Evenings Air begins to incommode me extremely with a cold but yet in hope of detecting this perjur'd man I am content to stay abroad Lop. But withall you must permit me tell you Madam that it is but just I should have some share in a heart which I endeavour to redeem in the Law of Arms you know that they who pay the ransome have right to dispose of the prisoner Aur. The prize is so very inconsiderable that 't is not worth the claiming Lop. If I thought the boon were small I would not importune my Princess with the asking it but since my life depends upon the grant Cam. Mam I must needs tell your Laship that Don Lopez has deserv'd you for he has acted all along like a Cavalier and more for your interest than his own besides Mam Don Melchor is as poor as he is false for my part I shall ne're endure to call him Master Aur. Don Lopez go along with me I can promise nothing but I swear I will do my best to disingage my heart