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dergo for my sake. _Will._ Faith, Child, I have been bred in Dangers, and wear a Sword that has been employ'd in a worse Cause, than for a handsom kind Woman-- Name the Danger-- let it be any thing but a long Siege, and I'll undertake it. _Hell._ Can you storm? _Will._ Oh, most furiously. _Hell._ What think you of a Nunnery-wall? for he that wins me, must gain that first. _Will._ A Nun! Oh how I love thee for't! there's no Sinner like a young Saint-- Nay, now there's no denying me: the old Law had no Curse (to a Woman) like dying a Maid; witness _Jephtha's_ Daughter. _Hell._ A very good Text this, if well handled; and I perceive, Father Captain, you would impose no severe Penance on her who was inclin'd to console her self before she took Orders. _Will._ If she be young and handsom. _Hell._ Ay, there's it-- but if she be not-- _Will._ By this Hand, Child, I have an implicit Faith, and dare venture on thee with all Faults-- besides, 'tis more meritorious to leave the World when thou hast tasted and prov'd the Pleasure on't; then 'twill be a Virtue in thee, which now will be pure Ignorance. _Hell._ I perceive, good Father Captain, you design only to make me fit for Heaven-- but if on the contrary you should quite divert me from it, and bring me back to the World again, I should have a new Man to seek I find; and what a grief that will be-- for when I begin, I fancy I shall love like any thing: I never try'd yet. _Will._ Egad, and that's kind-- Prithee, dear Creature, give me Credit for a Heart, for faith, I'm a very honest Fellow-- Oh, I long to come first to the Banquet of Love; and such a swinging Appetite I bring-- Oh, I'm impatient. Thy Lodging, Sweetheart, thy Lodging, or I'm a dead man. _Hell._ Why must we be either guilty of Fornication or Murder, if we converse with you Men?-- And is there no difference between leave to love me, and leave to lie with me? _Will._ Faith, Child, they were made to go together. _Lucet._ Are you sure this is the Man? [Pointing to _Blunt_. _Sancho._ When did I mistake your Game? _Lucet._ This is a stranger, I know by his gazing; if he be brisk he'll venture to follow me; and then, if I understand my Trade, he's mine: he's _English_ too, and they say that's a sort of good natur'd loving People, and have generally so kind an opinion of themselves, that a Woman with any Wit may flatter 'em into any sort of Fool she pleases. _Blunt._ 'Tis so-- she is
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