but trust to me for your security; come away, I have your Habit ready.
[Goes out.] --This day shall make thee mine, dear _Isabella_.--
[Exit _Lodwick_ and _Wittmore_.
Enter Sir _Patient_, _Leander_, and _Roger_.
Sir _Pat._ Marry _Lucretia_! is there no Woman in the City fit for you,
but the Daughter of the most notorious fantastical Lady within the
Walls?
_Lean._ Yet that fantastical Lady you thought fit for a Wife for me,
Sir.
Sir _Pat._ Yes, Sir, Foppery with Money had been something; but a poor
Fop, hang't, 'tis abominable.
_Lean._ Pray hear me, Sir.
Sir _Pat._ Sirrah, Sirrah, you're a Jackanapes, ingenuously you are,
Sir: marry _Lucretia_, quoth he?
_Lean._ If it were so, Sir, where's her fault?
Sir _Pat._ Why, Mr. Coxcomb, all over. Did I with so much care endeavour
to marry thee to the Mother, only to give thee opportunity with
_Lucretia_?
Enter Lady _Knowell_.
_Lean._ This Anger shews your great Concern for me.
Sir _Pat._ For my Name I am, but 'twere no matter if thou wert hang'd,
and thou deservest it for thy leud cavaliering Opinion.--They say thou
art a Papist too, or at least a Church-of-_England_ Man, and I profess
there's not a Pin to chuse.--Marry _Lucretia_!
L. _Kno._ Were I querimonious, I shou'd resent the Affront this
_Balatroon_ has offer'd me.
_Isab._ Dear Madam, for my sake do not anger him now. [Aside to her.
L. _Kno._ Upon my Honour, you are very free with my Daughter, Sir.
Sir _Pat._ How! she here! now for a Peal from her eternal Clapper; I had
rather be confin'd to an Iron-mill.
L. _Kno._ Sure _Lucretia_ merits a Husband of as much worth as your
Nephew, Sir.
Sir _Pat._ A better, Madam, for he's the leudest Hector in the Town; he
has all the Vices of Youth, Whoring, Swearing, Drinking, Damning,
Fighting,--and a thousand more, numberless and nameless.
L. _Kno._ Time, Sir, may make him more abstemious.
Sir _Pat._ Oh, never, Madam! 'tis in's Nature, he was born with it, he's
given over to Reprobation, 'tis bred i'th' bone,--he's lost.
_Lean._ This is the first good Office that ever he did me.
L. _Kno._ What think you, Sir, if in defiance of your Inurbanity, I take
him with all these Faults my self?
Sir _Pat._ How, Madam!
L. _Kno._ Without more Ambages, Sir, I have consider'd your former
Desires, and have consented to marry him, notwithstanding your
Exprobrations.
Sir _Pat._ May I believe this, Madam? and has your Ladyship that
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