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e Proof you have already given of that, in this kind Invitation: come, come, do not lose my little new-gotten good Opinion of thee, by being coy and peevish. [Offers again. _Euph._ You're strangely impatient, Sir. _Alon._ O you should like me the better for that, 'tis a sign of Youth and Fire. _Euph._ But, Sir, before I let you see my Face-- _Alon._ I hope I must not promise you to like it. _Euph._ No, that were too unreasonable, but I must know whether you are a Lover. _Alon._ What an idle Question's that to a brisk young Fellow? A Lover! yes, and that as often as I see a new Face. _Euph._ That I'll allow. _Alon._ That's kindly said; and now do I find I shall be in love with thine as soon as I see't, for I am half so with thy Humour already. _Euph._ Are you not married, Sir? _Alon._ Married! _Euph._ Now I dread his Answer. [Aside.] Yes, married. _Alon._ Why, I hope you make no Scruple of Conscience, to be kind to a married Man. _Euph._ Now do I find, you hope I am a Curtezan that come to bargain for a Night or two; but if I possess you, it must be for ever. _Alon._ For ever let it be then. Come, let's begin on any Terms. _Euph._ I cannot blame you, Sir, for this mistake, since what I've rashly done, has given you cause to think I am not virtuous. _Alon._ Faith, Madam, Man is a strange ungovern'd thing; yet I in the whole course of my Life have taken the best care I could, to make as few Mistakes as possible: and treating all Women-kind alike, we seldom err; for where we find one as you profess to be, we happily light on a hundred of the sociable and reasonable sort. _Euph._ But sure you are so much a Gentleman, that you may be convinc'd? _Alon._ Faith, if I be mistaken, I cannot devise what other use you can make of me. _Euph._ In short this; I must leave you instantly; and will only tell you I am the sole Daughter of a rich Parent, young, and as I am told not unhandsom; I am contracted to a Man I never saw, nor I am sure shall not like when I do see, he having more Vice and Folly than his Fortune will excuse, tho a great one; and I had rather die than marry him. _Alon._ I understand you, and you would have me dispatch this Man. _Euph._ I am not yet so wicked. The Church is the only place I am allowed to go to, and till now could never see the Man that was perfectly agreeable to me: Thus veil'd, I'll venture to tell you so. _Alon._ What the Devil will this come to
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