ay.
_Isab._ Thou art mistaken, leave me,--whatever he says here to satisfy
my Jealousy, I am confirm'd that he was false: yet this assurance to
free me from this intended Marriage, makes me resolve to pardon him,
however guilty.--
Enter _Wittmore_.
How now! what means this Insolence? How dare you, having so lately made
your guilty approaches, venture again into my presence?
_Wit._ Why? Is there any danger, but what's so visible in those fair
Eyes?
_Isab._ And there may lie enough, Sir, when they're angry. By what
Authority do you make this saucy Visit?
_Wit._ That of a Husband, Madam; I come to congratulate the mighty Joy
this Day will bring you.
_Isab._ Thou darst not marry me, there will be danger in't.
_Wit._ Why, sure you do not carry Death in your Embraces, I find no
Terror in that lovely Shape, no Daggers in that pretty scornful Look;
that Breath that utters so much Anger now, last night was sweet as
new-blown Roses are,--and spoke such Words, so tender and so kind.
_Isab._ And canst thou think they were address'd to thee?
_Wit._ No, nor cou'd the Shade of Night hide the Confusion which
disorder'd you, at the discovery that I was not he, the blessed he you
look'd for.
_Isab._ Leave me, thou hated Object of my Soul.
_Wit._ This will not serve your turn, for I must marry you.
_Isab._ Then thou art a Fool, and drawest thy Ruin on; why, I will hate
thee,--hate thee most extremely.
_Wit._ That will not anger me.
_Isab._ Why, I will never let thee touch me, nor kiss my Hand, nor come
into my sight.
_Wit._ Are there no other Women kind, fair, and to be purchas'd? he
cannot starve for Beauty in this Age, that has a stock to buy.
_Isab._ Why, I will cuckold thee, look to't, I will most damnably.
_Wit._ So wou'd you, had you lov'd me, in a year or two; therefore like
a kind civil Husband, I've made provision for you, a Friend, and one I
dare trust my Honour with,--'tis Mr. _Knowell_, Madam.
_Isab._ _Lodwick!_ What Devil brought that Name to his knowledge?--Canst
thou know him, and yet dare hope to marry me?
_Wit._ We have agreed it, and on these conditions.
_Isab._ Thou basely injurest him, he cannot do a Deed he ought to blush
for: _Lodwick_ do this! Oh, do not credit it,--prithee be just and kind
for thy own Honour's sake; be quickly so, the hasty minutes fly, and
will anon make up the fatal Hour that will undo me.
_Wit._ 'Tis true, within an hour you must submit to _H
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