spair, will stick at nothing; there's no medium in their actions.
They must be bright as angels, or black as fiends. But now for my
revenge; I'll kick her cully before her face, call her whore, curse the
whole sex, and leave her. [_Goes in._
SCENE IV.
_A Dining Room._
_Enter_ LADY LUREWELL _and_ CLINCHER SENIOR.
_Lady L._ Oh lord, sir, it is my husband! What will become of you?
_Clinch. sen._ Ah, your husband! Oh, I shall be murdered! What shall I
do? Where shall I run? I'll creep into an oven--I'll climb up the
chimney--I'll fly--I'll swim;----I wish to the lord I were at the
Jubilee now.
_Lady L._ Can't you think of any thing, sir?
_Clinch. sen._ Think! not I; I never could think to any purpose in my
life.
_Lady L._ What do you want, sir?
_Enter_ TOM ERRAND.
_Tom._ Madam, I am looking for Sir Harry Wildair; I saw him come in here
this morning; and did imagine he might be here still, if he is not gone.
_Lady L._ A lucky hit! Here, friend, change clothes with this gentleman,
quickly, strip.
_Clinch. sen._ Ay, ay, quickly strip; I'll give you half a crown to
boot. Come here; so. [_They change Clothes._
_Lady L._ Now slip you [_To_ CLINCH. SENIOR.] down stairs, and wait at
the door till my husband be gone; and get you in there [_To_ TOM
ERRAND.] till I call you. [_Puts_ ERRAND _in the next Room_.
_Enter_ COLONEL STANDARD.
Oh, sir, are you come? I wonder, sir, how you have the confidence to
approach me, after so base a trick.
_Colonel S._ Oh, madam, all your artifices won't avail.
_Lady L._ Nay, sir, your artifices won't avail. I thought, sir, that I
gave you caution enough against troubling me with Sir Harry Wildair's
company, when I sent his letters back by you; yet you, forsooth, must
tell him where I lodged, and expose me again to his impertinent
courtship!
_Colonel S._ I expose you to his courtship!
_Lady L._ I'll lay my life you'll deny it now. Come, come, sir: a
pitiful lie is as scandalous to a red coat, as an oath to a black.
_Colonel S._ You're all lies; first, your heart is false; your eyes are
double; one look belies another; and then your tongue does contradict
them all--Madam, I see a little devil just now hammering out a lie in
your pericranium.
_Lady L._ As I hope for mercy, he's in the right on't. [_Aside._
_Colonel. S._ Yes, yes, madam, I exposed you to the courtship of
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