ointment thus _En
Cavalier_, one shou'd have some comfort in being beat for you.
_Char._ The Fool comprehends nothing.
Sir _Geo._ Nor wou'd I have him; prithee take him along with thee.
_Char._ Enough: _Marplot_, you shall go home with me.
_Marpl._ I'm glad I'm well with him however. Sir _George_, yours. Egad,
_Charles_, asking me to go home with him, gives me a shrewd suspicion
there's more in the Garden-Gate, than I comprehend. Faith, I'll give him
the drop, and away to _Guardians_, and find it out.
Sir _Geo._ I kiss both your Hands--And now for the Garden-Gate.
_It's Beauty gives the Assignation there,_
_And Love too powerful grows t' admit of Fear._
(_Exit._
_The End of the Third Act._
ACT the Fourth.
SCENE the Out-side of Sir _Jealous Traffick_'s House, _Patch_ peeping
out of Door.
_Enter _Whisper_._
_Whisp._ Ha, Mrs. _Patch_, this is a lucky Minute, to find you so
readily, my Master dies with Impatience.
_Patch._ My Lady imagin'd so, and by her Orders I have been scouting
this hour in search of you, to inform you that Sir _Jealous_ has invited
some Friends to Supper with him to Night, which gives an Opportunity to
your Master to make use of his Ladder of Ropes: The Closet Window shall
be open, and _Isabinda_ ready to receive him; bid him come immediately.
_Whisp._ Excellent, He'll not disappoint I warrant him: But hold, I have
a Letter here, which I'm to carry an Answer of: I can't think what
Language the Direction is.
_Patch._ Pho, 'tis no Language, but a Character which the Lovers
invented to avert Discovery: Ha, I hear my old Master coming down
Stairs, it is impossible you shou'd have an Answer; away, and bid him
come himself for that--begone we are ruined if you're seen, for he has
doubl'd his Care since the last Accident.
_Whisp._ I go, I go.
[_Exit._
_Patch._ There, go thou into my Pocket. [_Puts it besides, and it falls
down._] Now I'll up the back Stairs, lest I meet him. Well, a dexterous
Chamber-maid is the Ladies best Utensil, I say.
[_Exit._
_Enter Sir _Jealous_ with a Letter in his Hand._
Sir _Jeal._ So, this is some Comfort, this tells me that _Seignior Don
Diego Babinetto_ is safely arriv'd, he shall marry my Daughter the
Minute he comes, ha. What's here [_takes up the Letter _Patch_ drop'd_]
a Letter! I don't know what to make of the Superscription. I'll see
what's within side, [_opens it_] humph; 'tis _Hebrew_ I think. What can
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