A little room for Life--but such a Life
As Hell it self shall wonder at--I'll have a care
To do no one good deed in the whole course on't,
Lest that shou'd save my Soul in spite of Vow-breach.
--I will not die--that Peace my Sins deserve not.
I'll live and let my Tyrant Uncle see
The sad effects of Perjury, and forc'd Marriage.
--Surely the Pow'rs above envy'd my Bliss;
Marrying _Celinda_, I had been an Angel,
So truly blest, and good. [_Weeps_.
Sir _Tim_. Why, how now, _Frank_--by Fortune, the Rogue is Maudlin--So,
ho, ho, so ho.
_Bel_. The matter?
Sir _Tim_. Oh, art awake--What a Devil ail'st thou, _Frank_?
_Bel_. A Wench, or any thing--come, let's drink a round.
_Sham_. They're come as wisht for.
_Enter_ Flauntit, Driver, Doll _and_ Jenny _mask'd_.
_Bel_. Oh, damn 'em! What shall I do?
Yet it would look like Virtue to avoid 'em.
No, I must venture on--Ladies, y'are welcome.
Sir _Tim_. How, the Women?--Hold, hold, _Bellmour_, let me choose too--
Come, come, unmask, and shew your pretty Faces.
_Flaunt_. How, Sir _Timothy_! What Devil ow'd me a spite. [_Aside_.
Sir _Tim_. Come, unmask, I say: a willing Wench would have shew'd all
in half this time.
_Flaunt_. Wou'd she so, Impudence!
[_Pulls off her Mask_.
Sir _Tim_. How, my _Betty_!
_Flaunt_. This is the Trade you drive, you eternal Fop, when I sit at
home expecting you Night after Night.
Sir _Tim_. Nay, dear Betty!
_Flaunt_. 'Tis here you spend that which shou'd buy me Points and
Petticoats, whilst I go like no body's Mistress; I'd as live be your
Wife at this rate, so I had: and I'm in no small danger of getting the
foul Disease by your Leudness.
Sir _Tim_. Victorious _Betty_, be merciful, and do not ruin my Reputation
amongst my Friends.
_Flaunt_. Your Whores you mean, you Sot you.
Sir _Tim_. Nay, triumphant _Betty_, hear thy poor _Timmy_.
_Flaunt_. My poor _Ninny_, I'm us'd barbarously, and won't endure it.
Sir _Tim_. I've won Money to Night, _Betty_, to buy thee Clothes--hum
--hum--Well said, _Frank_, towse the little Jilts, they came for that
purpose.
_Flaunt_. The Devil confound him, what a Prize have I lost by his being
here--my Comfort is, he has not found me out though, but thinks I came
to look for him, and accordingly I must dissemble.
_Bel_. What's here? A Lady all in Tears!
Sir _Tim_. An old Acquaintance of mine, that takes it unkindly that I
am for Change--_Bett
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