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breeds Liking; and Liking, Love; and Love a damn'd thing, call'd Desire;
and Desire begets the Devil and all of Mischief to young Wenches--Get ye
gone in, I say--here's a Lord coming--and Lords are plaguy things
to Women.
_Isa_. How, a Lord! oh, heavens! _Jacinta_, my Fan, and set my Hair in
order, oh, the Gods! I would not but see a Lord for all the World! how
my Heart beats already--keep your Distance behind, _Jacinta_,--bless
me, how I tremble--a little farther, _Jacinta_.
_Fran_. Come, come, Huswife, you shall be married anon, and then let
your Husband have the plague of you--but for my Gentlewoman,--Oh Lord
--they're here.
_Enter_ Guiliom, Carlos, _and_ Pages, _&c_.
_Gull_. How now, Fellow, where's this old Don _Francisco_?
_Fran_. I'm the Person, Sir.
_Isa_. Heavens, what an Air he has!
_Guil_. Art thou he? Old Lad, how dost thou do? Hah!
_Fran_. I don't know.
_Guil_. Thou knowest me not it seems, old Fellow, hah!
_Fran_. Know you--no, nor desire to do,--on what acquaintance, pray?
_Guil_. By Instinct; such as you ought to know a Person of Quality, and
pay your Civilities naturally; in _France_, where I have travel'd, so
much good manners is used, your Citizen pulls off his hat, thus--to
every Horse of Quality, and every Coach of Quality; and do you pay my
proper Person no more respect, hah!
_Isa_. What a Dishonour's this to me, to have so dull a Father, that
needs to be instructed in his Duty.
_Guil_. But, Sir, to open the eyes of your understanding--here's a
Letter to you, from your Correspondent a Merchant of _Sevil_.
[_Gives him a dirty Letter which he wipes on his Cloke and reads,
and begins to pull off his hat, and reading on bows lower and lower
till he have finisht it_.
_Fran_. Cry Mercy, my Lord,--and yet I wou'd he were a thousand Leagues
off.
_Guil_. I have Bills of Exchange too, directed to thee, old Fellow, at
_Sevil_; but finding thee not there, and I (as most Persons of my
Quality are) being something idle, and never out of my way, came to this
Town, to seek thee, Fellow--being recommended as thou seest here, old
Vermin--here--
[_Gives him Bills_.
_Isa_. Ah, what a graceful Mein he has! how fine his Conversation! ah,
the difference between him and a filthy Citizen!
_Jul_.--_Clara_ has told me all.-- [Jac. _whispering to_ Jul.
_Car_. That's she in the middle; stand looking on her languishingly,
--your head a little on
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