se I never met with a man that I
liked before.

_Bon_. Pray, sir, as the saying is, let me ask you one
question: are not man and wife one flesh? {60}

_Sir Chas_. You and your wife, Mr. Guts, may be one
flesh, because ye are nothing else; but rational
creatures have minds that must be united.

_Squire Sul_. Minds!

_Sir Chas_. Ay, minds, sir; don't you think that the mind
takes place of the body?

_Squire Sul_. In some people.

_Sir Chas_. Then the interest of the master must be
consulted before that of his servant {69}

_Squire Sul_. Sir, you shall dine with me to-morrow!--
'Oons, I always thought that we were naturally one.

_Sir Chas_. Sir, I know that my two hands are naturally
one, because they love one another, kiss one another,
help one another in all the actions of life; but I
could not say so much if they were always at cuffs.

_Squire Sul_. Then 'tis plain that we are two.

_Sir Chas_. Why don't you part with her, sir?

_Squire Sul_. Will you take her, sir?

_Sir Chas_. With all my heart. {79}

_Squire Sul_. You shall have her to-morrow morning, and
a venison-pasty into the bargain.

_Sir Chas_. You 'll let me have her fortune too?

_Squire Sul_. Fortune! why, sir, I have no quarrel at her
fortune: I only hate the woman, sir, and none but
the woman shall go.

_Sir Chas_. But her fortune, sir--

_Squire Sul_. Can you play at whisk, sir?

_Sir Chas_. No, truly, sir.

_Squire Sul_. Nor at all-fours?

_Sir Chas_. Neither. {90}

_Squire Sul_. [_Aside_.] 'Oons! where was this man bred?--
[_Aloud_.] Burn me, sir! I can't go home, 'tis but two
a clock.

_Sir Chas_. For half an hour, sir, if you please; but you
must consider 'tis late.

_Squire Sul_. Late! that's the reason I can't go to bed.--
Come, sir! [_Exeunt_.

_Enter Cherry, runs across the stage, and knocks at
Aimwells chamber door. Enter Aimwell in his
nightcap and gown_.

_Aim_. What's the matter? you tremble, child; you're
frighted. {99}

_Cher_. No wonder, sir--But, in short, sir, this very
minute a gang of rogues are gone to rob my Lady
Bountiful's house.

_Aim_. How!

_Cher_. I dogged 'em to the very door, and left 'em breaking in.

_Aim_. Have you alarmed anybody else with the news?

_Cher_. No, no, sir, I wanted to have discovered the whole
plot, and twenty other things, to your man Martin;
but I have search