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ee doodle, doodle do, etc. I vow, my own town song has put me into such topping spirits that I believe I'll begin to do a little, as Jessamy says we must when we go a-courting.--[Runs and kisses her.] Burning rivers! cooling flames! red-hot roses! pig-nuts! hasty-pudding and ambrosia! JENNY What means this freedom? you insulting wretch. [Strikes him.] JONATHAN Are you affronted? JENNY Affronted! with what looks shall I express my anger? JONATHAN Looks! why as to the matter of looks, you look as cross as a witch. JENNY Have you no feeling for the delicacy of my sex? JONATHAN Feeling! Gor, I--I feel the delicacy of your sex pretty smartly [rubbing his cheek], though, I vow, I thought when you city ladies courted and married, and all that, you put feeling out of the question. But I want to know whether you are really affronted, or only pretend to be so? 'Cause, if you are certainly right down affronted, I am at the end of my tether; Jessamy didn't tell me what to say to you. JENNY Pretend to be affronted! JONATHAN Aye, aye, if you only pretend, you shall hear how I'll go to work to make cherubim consequences. [Runs up to her.] JENNY Begone, you brute! JONATHAN That looks like mad; but I won't lose my speech. My dearest Jenny--your name is Jenny, I think?--My dearest Jenny, though I have the highest esteem for the sweet favours you have just now granted me--Gor, that's a fib, though; but Jessamy says it is not wicked to tell lies to the women. [Aside.] I say, though I have the highest esteem for the favours you have just now granted me, yet you will consider that, as soon as the dissolvable knot is tied, they will no longer be favours, but only matters of duty and matters of course. JENNY Marry you! you audacious monster! get out of my sight, or, rather, let me fly from you. [Exit hastily.] JONATHAN Gor! she's gone off in a swinging passion, before I had time to think of consequences. If this is the way with your city ladies, give me the twenty acres of rock, the Bible, the cow, and Tabitha, and a little peaceable bundling. SCENE II. The Mall. Enter MANLY. It must be so, Montague! and it is not all the tribe of Mandevilles that shall convince me that a nation, to become great, must first become dissipated. Luxury is surely the bane of a nation: Luxury! which enervates both soul and body, by opening a thousand new sources
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