your lovely Bride, long may you
live and love.
_Enter_ Bellmour _above_.
_Bel_. Who is't has sent that Curse?
Sir _Tim_. What a Pox, is that _Bellmour_? The Rogue's in choler, the
Bride has not pleas'd him.
_Bel_. Dogs! Do you upbraid me? I'll be with you presently.
Sir _Tim_. Will you so?--but I'll not stay your coming.
_Cel_. But you shall, Sir.
_Bel_. Turn, Villains!
[_Sir_ Tim. _&c. offers to go off_, Celinda _steps forth, and
draws, they draw, and set upon her. Enter_ Bellmour _behind them:
They turn, and_ Celinda _sides with_ Bellmour, _and fights. Enter_
Diana, Bellmour _fights 'em out, and leaves_ Celinda _breathless,
leaning on her Sword_.
_Dia_. I'll ne'er demand the cause of this disorder,
But take this opportunity to fly
To the next hands will take me up--who's here?
_Cel_. Not yet, my sullen Heart!
_Dia_. Who's here? one wounded--alas--
_Cel_. 'Tis not so lucky--but who art thou
That dost with so much pity ask?
_Dia_. He seems a Gentleman--handsome and young-- [_Aside_.
Pray ask no Questions, Sir; but if you are what you seem,
Give a Protection to an unhappy Maid.
--Do not reply, but let us haste away.
_Cel_. Hah--What do I hear! sure, 'tis _Diana_.
--Madam, with haste, and joy, I'll serve you.
--I'll carry her to my own Lodgings.
Fortune, in this, has done my Sufferings right,
My Rival's in my Power, upon her Wedding-Night. [_Aside_.
[_Exeunt_.
_Enter_ Bellmour, _Sir_ Tim. Sham, _and_ Sharp.
Sir _Tim_. Lord, Lord, that you should not know your Friend and humble
Servant, _Tim. Tawdrey_--But thou look'st as if thou hadst not been
a-bed yet.
_Bel_. No more I have.
Sir _Tim_. Nay, then thou losest precious time, I'll not detain thee.
[_Offers to go_.
_Bel_. Thou art mistaken, I hate all Woman-kind--
Sir _Tim_. How, how!
_Bel_, Above an Hour--hark ye, Knight--I am as leud, and as debaucht
as thou art.
Sir _Tim_. What do you mean, _Frank_?
_Bel_. To tell a Truth, which yet I never did.
--I whore, drink, game, swear, lye, cheat, rob, pimp, hector, all,
all I do that's vitious.
Sir _Tim_. Bless me!
_Bel_. From such a Villian, hah!
Sir _Tim_. No, but that thou should'st hide it all this while.
_Bel_. Till I was married only, and now I can dissemble it no longer--
come--let's to a Baudy-House.
Sir _Tim_
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