her.

_Wild_. 'Sdeath! what are you about? You know her not.
She'll brain thee!

_True_. Fear not: come along with me.
Fair Mistress Constance!

_Con_. Well, sir!

_Wild_. [To TRUEWORTH.] Mind!

_True_. Don't fear.
Love you not neighbour Wildrake?

_Con_. Love, sir?

_True_. Yes,
You do.

_Con_. He loves another, sir, he does!
I hate him. We were children, sir, together
For fifteen years and more; there never came
The day we did not quarrel, make it up,
Quarrel again, and make it up again:
Were never neighbours more like neighbours, sir.
Since he became a man, and I a woman,
It still has been the same; nor eared I ever
To give a frown to any other, sir.
And now to come and tell me he's in love,
And ask me to be bridemaid to his bride!
How durst he do it, sir!--To fall in love!
Methinks at least he might have asked my leave,
Nor had I wondered had he asked myself, sir!

_Wild_. Then give thyself to me!

_Con_. How! what!

_Wild_. Be mine,
Thou art the only maid thy neighbour loves.

_Con_. Art serious, neighbour Wildrake?

_Wild_. In the church
I'll answer thee, if thou wilt take me; though
I neither dress, nor walk, nor dance, nor know
"The Widow Jones" from an Italian, French,
Or German air.

_Con_. No more of that.--My hand.

_Wild_. Givest it as free as thou didst yesterday?

_Con_. [Affecting to strike him.] Nay!

_Wild_. I will thank it, give it how thou wilt.

_W. Green_. A triple wedding! May the Widow Green
Obtain brief hearing e'er she quits the scene,
The Love-Chase to your kindness to commend
In favour of an old, now absent, friend!

Footnotes:

{1} Project Gutenberg released the first play, The Hunchback, together
with the introduction to this book, as a separate eText. Neither are
included here.--DP.

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