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low you, and will know. [_Runs out._ _Vizard._ The Lady Lurewell his mistress! He loves her: but she loves me.----But he's a baronet, and I plain Vizard; he has a coach, and I walk on foot; I was bred in London, and he in Paris.----That very circumstance has murdered me----Then some stratagem must be laid to divert his pretensions. _Enter_ WILDAIR. _Sir H._ Pr'ythee, Dick, what makes the colonel so out of humour? _Vizard._ Because he's out of pay, I suppose. _Sir H._ 'Slife, that's true! I was beginning to mistrust some rivalship in the case. _Vizard._ And suppose there were, you know the colonel can fight, Sir Harry. _Sir H._ Fight! Pshaw--but he cannot dance, ha!--We contend for a woman, Vizard. 'Slife, man, if ladies were to be gained by sword and pistol only, what the devil should all we beaux do? _Vizard._ I'll try him farther. [_Aside._] But would not you, Sir Harry, fight for this woman you so much admire? _Sir H._ Fight! Let me consider. I love her----that's true;----but then I love honest Sir Harry Wildair better. The Lady Lurewell is divinely charming----right----but then a thrust i' the guts, or a Middlesex jury, is as ugly as the devil. _Vizard._ Ay, Sir Harry, 'twere a dangerous cast for a beau baronet to be tried by a parcel of greasy, grumbling, bartering boobies, who would hang you, purely because you're a gentleman. _Sir H._ Ay, but on t'other hand, I have money enough to bribe the rogues with: so, upon mature deliberation, I would fight for her. But no more of her. Pr'ythee, Vizard, cannot you recommend a friend to a pretty mistress by the bye, till I can find my own? You have store, I'm sure; you cunning poaching dogs make surer game, than we that hunt open and fair. Pr'ythee now, good Vizard. _Vizard._ Let me consider a little.--Now love and revenge inspire my politics! [_Aside._ [_Pauses whilst_ SIR HARRY _walks, singing_. _Sir H._ Pshaw! thou'rt longer studying for a new mistress, than a waiter would be in drawing fifty corks. _Vizard._ I design you good wine; you'll therefore bear a little expectation. _Sir H._ Ha! say'st thou, dear Vizard? _Vizard._ A girl of nineteen, Sir Harry. _Sir H._ Now nineteen thousand blessings light on thee. _Vizard._ Pretty and witty. _Sir H._ Ay, ay, but her name, Vizard! _Vizard._ Her name! yes--she has
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