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inward Guilt lies heavy on my Soul, and Horror with all her dreadful Forms still haunts my Sight. And did you love this _Bonvile_? _Cla._ The Queen of Beauty never doted more on her beloved _Adonis_ than I on him. _Fri._ And now as much you hate him: O the unheard-of Inconstancy of Women! All that they have is feign'd; their Teeth, their Hair, their Blushes, and their Smiles; nay their very Conscience (if any such they have) is feign'd; all counterfeit and false: Let them wash, patch and daub themselves with all the Helps for Nature that Art cou'd e're invent, still they are Women: And let 'em rob all _India_ of its store to adorn themselves therewith, still are they not all that thing call'd Woman: I know not what to do, for I love and hate this Creature both at once. _Cla._ What ails my _Friendly_? _Fri._ But _Bonvile_ yet must feel his Enemies Rage; shall he succeed in Love, whilst I am cross'd in mine? No, it must not, cannot, nay it shall not be. _Four Heads I have, to make a Plot not common; Malice, Revenge, the Devil, and a Woman._ [_Offers to go._ _Cla._ What will you leave me then? _Fri._ Leave thee; yes, forever: Fly thee as I wou'd a Blast from Hell: Thou art thy self a Hell; thy base detested hateful Woman's Breath infects the purest Air: _May my Friend's Blood, which I for thee have spilt, Light on thy Head, and your's be all the Guilt._ [_Exeunt_ severally. _Enter_ Compasse _new clothed_, Pettifog, _and two or three Men Neighbors._ _Comp._ Gentlemen and Neighbours, as you have been Witnesses to our Divorce, so shall ye now be Evidences to our next Meeting, which I look for every Minute. 1st _Neigh._ I came for that Intent, Neighbour. _Comp._ I thank you: well, I do not think but you'll all see me come off with as smooth a Forehead, and make my Wife as honest a Woman as a Man wou'd desire sometimes, I mean of her Rank; and a teeming Woman, as you know she has been: Nay, I do not think but the Child too will be found to be as lawful a Child as any Couple of unmarried People can beget. 2d _Neigh._ We long to see it Neighbour _Compasse_, that so some of us may do the like upon the same occasion. _Comp._ You're in the right, old Stitch of the World: But soft, see where she comes with a whole Bundle of as good sound Maidens as her self. _Enter_ Peg _new cloth'd, with three or four Women Neighbours._ Stand aside a little, and mind me I pray. _Omnes._
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