ll repent it; you, therefore, have my
sincerest benediction. [_Raising her._

MARIA. I give you joy, my dear. [_To HARRIET._

FRANKTON. Now all my fears have vanished.
[_Aside, and goes to YOUNG LOVEYET._

LOVEYET. By my body, you have made quick work of it, Charles.

CHARLES. For fear of the worst, I have. [_Aside._

LOVEYET. But--but are you in favour of the new Constitution yet?

CHARLES. At present I can think of no Constitution but that of Love and
Matrimony, sir.

LOVEYET. And I shall be sorry if your matrimonial Constitution does not
prove the better one of the two.--Eigh, Maria?

WORTHNOUGHT. Dick Worthnought, esquire, thou art an ass and a liar; and,
what is worse than both,--as poor as poverty. Oh, Fortune, thou blind
disposer of human events, when wilt thou make a man of me?

[_Going angrily._

CHARLES. Stay a little, if you please, sir.--My happiness is too great at
present, to let me take that revenge, which the baseness of your conduct
deserves: but justice bids me accuse you of having wickedly, and without
cause, endeavoured to injure the reputation of this lady, whom it is my
highest boast and felicity now to call my wife; my making her such,
however, at the very time when the baneful tongue of Slander is so diligent
to damn her spotless fame,--[_Looking significantly at CANTWELL and
HERALD._]--will at once convince the public of her innocence, and the
cruelty of her enemies. With her, you have also injured her connexions; but
I, for my own part, am fully satisfied with those symptoms of shame and
repentance, which you now evince.

TRUEMAN. Upon my education, I did not think him susceptible of either.--A
few minutes ago, I received this audacious epistle from him.

"Sir, I have the honour to--acquaint you--that I have an inclination--to
marry your daughter,--notwithstanding--the late scandalous--reports that
are transpiring to her disadvantage, and (what is still worse)
the--comparative meanness--of her fortune to mine."--The comparative
meanness of her fortune to mine.

HARRIET, }
MARIA, }
LOVEYET, } Ha, ha, ha.
CHARLES, }
FRANKTON,}

WORTHNOUGHT. Never was put so much to my trumps, 'foregad.

[_Exit._

HERALD. Unmannerly wretches! [_Scornfull