ay of honour--

_Wood._ Paw, paw! that word honour has almost turned my stomach: it
carries a villainous interpretation of matrimony along with it. But,
in a civil way, I could be content to deal with you, as the church
does with the heads of your fanatics, offer you a lusty benefice to
stop your mouth; if fifty guineas, and a courtesy more worth, will win
you.

_Pleas._ Out upon thee! fifty guineas! Dost thou think I'll sell
myself? And at a playhouse price too? Whenever I go, I go all
together: No cutting from the whole piece; he who has me shall have
the fag-end with the rest, I warrant him. Be satisfied, thy sheers
shall never enter into my cloth. But, look to thyself, thou impudent
belswagger: I will he revenged; I will. [_Exit._

_Wood._ The maid will give warning, that is my comfort; for she is
bribed on my side. I have another kind of love to this girl, than to
either of the other two; but a fanatic's daughter, and the noose of
matrimony, are such intolerable terms! O, here she comes, who will
sell me better cheap.

SCENE _opens to_ BRAINSICK'S _Apartment._

_Enter Mrs_ BRAINSICK.

_Mrs Brain._ How now, sir? what impudence is this of yours, to
approach my lodgings?

_Wood._ You lately honoured mine; and it is the part of a well-bred
man, to return your visit.

_Mrs Brain._ If I could have imagined how base a fellow you had been,
you should not then have been troubled with my company.

_Wood._ How could I guess, that you intended me the favour, without
first acquainting me?

_Mrs Brain._ Could I do it, ungrateful as you are, with more
obligation to you, or more hazard to myself, than by putting my note
into your glove?

_Wood._ Was it yours, then? I believed it came from Mrs Tricksy.

_Mrs Brain._ You wished it so; which made you so easily believe it. I
heard the pleasant dialogue betwixt you.

_Wood._ I am glad you did; for you could not but observe, with how
much care I avoided all occasions of railing at you; to which she
urged me, like a malicious woman, as she was.

_Mrs Brain._ By the same token, you vowed and swore never to look on
Mrs Brainsick!

_Wood._ But I had my mental reservations in a readiness. I had vowed
fidelity to you before; and there went my second oath, i'faith: it
vanished in a twinkling, and never gnawed my conscience in the least.

_Mrs Brain._ Well, I shall never heartily forgive you.

_Jud._ [_Within._] Mr Brainsick, Mr Brainsick, what d