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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