Lo._ How will that satisfie my word to her?
_Lady._ 'Tis not to be kept, and needs no satisfaction,
'Tis an error fit for repentance only.
_Elder Lo._ Shall I live to wrong that tender hearted Virgin so? It may
not be.
_Lady._ Why may it not be?
_Elder Lo._ I swear I would rather marry thee than her: but yet mine
honesty?
_Lady._ What honesty? 'Tis more preserv'd this way:
Come, by this light, servant, thou shalt, I'le kiss thee on't.
_Elder Lo._ This kiss indeed is sweet, pray God no sin lie under it.
_Lady._ There is no sin at all, try but another.
_Wel._ O my heart!
_Mar._ Help Sister, this Lady swounds.
_Elder Lo._ How do you?
_Wel._ Why very well, if you be so.
_Elder Lo._ Since a quiet mind lives not in any Woman, I shall do a most
ungodly thing. Hear me one word more, which by all my hopes I will not
alter, I did make an oath when you delai'd me so, that this very night I
would be married. Now if you will go without delay, suddenly, as late as
it is, with your own Minister to your own Chapel, I'le wed you and to bed.
_Lady._ A match dear servant.
_Elder Lo._ For if you should forsake me now, I care not, she would not
though for all her injuries, such is her spirit. If I be not ashamed to
kiss her now I part, may I not live.
_Wel._ I see you go, as slily as you think to steal away: yet I will pray
for you; all blessings of the world light on you two, that you may live to
be an aged pair. All curses on me if I do not speak what I do wish indeed.
_Elder Lo._ If I can speak to purpose to her, I am a villain.
_Lady._ Servant away.
_Mar._ Sister, will you Marry that inconstant man? think you he will not
cast you off to morrow, to wrong a Lady thus, lookt she like dirt, 'twas
basely done. May you ne're prosper with him.
_Wel._ Now God forbid. Alas I was unworthy, so I told him.
_Mar._ That was your modesty, too good for him.
I would not see your wedding for a world.
_Lady._ Chuse chuse, come _Younglove_.
[_Exit_ La. Elder Lo. _and_ Young.
_Mar._ Dry up your eyes forsooth, you shall not think we are all such
uncivil beasts as these. Would I knew how to give you a revenge.
_Wel._ So would not I: No let me suffer truly, that I desire.
_Mar._ Pray walk in with me, 'tis very late, and you shall stay all night:
your bed shall be no worse than mine; I wish I could but do you right.
_Wel._ My humble thanks:
God grant I may but live to quit your love. [_Exeunt._
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