pes, as I am spotless to you,
If I rest once assur'd you do but doubt me,
Or curb me of that freedom you once gave me--
_Cham._ What then?
_Lam._ I'le not alone abuse your bed, that's nothing,
But to your more vexation, 'tis resolv'd on,
I'le run away, and then try if _Dinant_
Have courage to defend me.
_Champ._ Impudent!
_Verd._ And on the sudden--
_Beau._ How are ye transform'd
From what you were?
_Lam._ I was an innocent Virgin,
And I can truly swear, a Wife as pure
As ever lay by Husband, and will dy so,
Let me live unsuspected, I am no servant,
Nor will be us'd like one: If you desire
To keep me constant as I would be, let
Trust and belief in you beget and nurse it;
Unnecessary jealousies make more whores
Than all baits else laid to entrap our frailties.
_Beau._ There's no contesting with her, from a child
Once mov'd, she hardly was to be appeas'd,
Yet I dare swear her honest.
_Cham._ So I think too,
On better judgement: I am no Italian
To lock her up; nor would I be a Dutchman,
To have my Wife, my soveraign, to command me:
I'le try the gentler way, but if that fail,
Believe it, Sir, there's nothing but extreams
Which she must feel from me.
_Beau._ That, as you please, Sir.
_Charl._ You have won the breeches, Madam, look up sweetly,
My Lord limps toward you.
_Lam._ You will learn more manners.
_Charl._ This is a fee, for counsel that's unask'd for.
_Cham._ Come, I mistook thee sweet, prethee forgive me,
I never will be jealous: e're I cherish
Such a mechanick humour, I'le be nothing;
I'le say, _Dinant_ is all that thou wouldst have him,
Will that suffice?
_Lam._ 'Tis well, Sir.
_Cham._ Use thy freedom
Uncheck'd, and unobserv'd, if thou wilt have it,
These shall forget their honour, I my wrongs.
We'll all dote on him, hell be my reward
If I dissemble.
_Lam._ And that hell take me
If I affect him, he's a lustfull villain,
(But yet no coward) and sollicites me
To my dishonour, that's indeed a quarrel,
And truly mine, which I will so revenge,
As it shall fright such as dare only think
To be adulterers.
_Cham._ Use thine own waies,
I give up all to thee.
_Beau._ O women, women!
When you are pleas'd you are the least of evils.
_Verd._ I'le rime to't, but provokt, the worst of Devils. [_Exeunt._
_Enter Monsieur_ Sampson, _and three Clients_.
_Samp._ I know Monsieur _La-writ_.
_1 Cly._ Would he knew himself, Sir.
_Samp._ He was a pretty Lawyer,
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