your wife's
chamber! do you lie in common? the wife and husband, the keeper and
the mistress?

_Mrs Brain._ I am afraid they are quarrelling; pray heaven I get off.

_Brain._ Once again, I am the sultan of this place: Mr Limberham is
the mogul of the next mansion.

_Wood._ Though I am a stranger in the house, it is impossible I should
be so much mistaken: I say, this is Limberham's lodging.

_Brain._ You would not venture a wager of ten pounds, that you are not
mistaken?

_Wood._ It is done: I will lay you.

_Brain._ Who shall be judge?

_Wood._ Who better than your wife? She cannot be partial, because she
knows not on which side you have laid.

_Brain._ Content.--Come hither, lady mine: Whose lodgings are these?
who is lord, and grand seignior of them?

_Mrs Brain._ [_Aside._] Oh, goes it there?--Why should you ask me such
a question, when every body in the house can tell they are 'nown
dear's?

_Brain._ Now are you satisfied? Children and fools, you know the
proverb--

_Wood._ Pox on me! nothing but such a positive coxcomb as I am, would
have laid his money upon such odds; as if you did not know your own
lodgings better than I, at half a day's warning! And that which vexes
me more than the loss of my money, is the loss of my adventure!
[_Exit._

_Brain._ It shall be spent: We will have a treat with it. This is a
fool of the first magnitude.

_Mrs Brain._ Let my own dear alone, to find a fool out.

_Enter_ LIMBERHAM.

_Limb._ Bully Brainsick, Pug has sent me to you on an embassy, to
bring you down to cards again; she is in her mulligrubs already; she
will never forgive you the last _vol_ you won. It is but losing a
little to her, out of complaisance, as they say, to a fair lady; and
whatever she wins, I will make up to you again in private.

_Brain._ I would not be that slave you are, to enjoy the treasures of
the east. The possession of Peru, and of Potosi, should not buy me to
the bargain.

_Limb._ Will you leave your perboles, and come then?

_Brain._ No; for I have won a wager, to be spent luxuriously at
Long's; with Pleasance of the party, and Termagant Tricksy; and I will
pass, in person, to the preparation: Come, matrimony.
[_Exeunt_ BRAINSICK, _Mrs_ BRAIN.

_Enter_ SAINTLY, _and_ PLEASANCE.

_Pleas._ To him: I'll second you: now for mischief!

_Saint._ Arise, Mr Limberham, arise; f