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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