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damn'd for that one Sin alone. Enter two Bravoes, and hang up a great Picture of _Angelica's_, against the Balcony, and two little ones at each side of the Door. _Belv._ See there the fair Sign to the Inn, where a Man may lodge that's Fool enough to give her Price. [_Will._ gazes on the Picture. _Blunt._ 'Sheartlikins, Gentlemen, what's this? _Belv._ A famous Curtezan that's to be sold. _Blunt._ How! to be sold! nay then I have nothing to say to her-- sold! what Impudence is practis'd in this Country?-- With Order and Decency Whoring's established here by virtue of the Inquisition-- Come let's be gone, I'm sure we're no Chapmen for this Commodity. _Fred._ Thou art none, I'm sure, unless thou could'st have her in thy Bed at the Price of a Coach in the Street. _Will._ How wondrous fair she is-- a Thousand Crowns a Month-- by Heaven as many Kingdoms were too little. A plague of this Poverty-- of which I ne'er complain, but when it hinders my Approach to Beauty, which Virtue ne'er could purchase. [Turns from the Picture. _Blunt._ What's this?-- [Reads] _A Thousand Crowns a Month!_ --'Sheartlikins, here's a Sum! sure 'tis a mistake. --Hark you, Friend, does she take or give so much by the Month! _Fred._ A Thousand Crowns! Why, 'tis a Portion for the _Infanta_. _Blunt._ Hark ye, Friends, won't she trust? _Brav._ This is a Trade, Sir, that cannot live by Credit. _Enter _Don Pedro_ in Masquerade, follow'd by _Stephano_._ _Belv._ See, here's more Company, let's walk off a while. [_Pedro_ Reads. [Exeunt _English_. Enter _Angelica_ and _Moretta_ in the Balcony, and draw a Silk Curtain. _Ped._ Fetch me a Thousand Crowns, I never wish to buy this Beauty at an easier Rate. [Passes off. _Ang._ Prithee what said those Fellows to thee? _Brav._ Madam, the first were Admirers of Beauty only, but no purchasers; they were merry with your Price and Picture, laught at the Sum, and so past off. _Ang._ No matter, I'm not displeas'd with their rallying; their Wonder feeds my Vanity, and he that wishes to buy, gives me more Pride, than he that gives my Price can make me Pleasure. _Brav._ Madam, the last I knew thro all his disguises to be Don _Pedro_, Nephew to the General, and who was with him in _Pampelona_. _Ang._ Don _Pedro_! my old Gallant's Nephew! When his Uncle dy'd, he left him a vast Sum of Money; it is he who was so in love with me at _Padua_,
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