her an honourable amends by marriage; for
to-morrow morning a parson shall authorise my labours, and turn
fornication into duty. And, moreover, I will enjoin myself, by way of
penance, not to touch her for seven nights after.

_Wood._ Thou wert predestinated for a husband, I see, by that natural
instinct: As we walk, I will instruct thee how to behave thyself, with
secrecy and silence.

_Gerv._ I have a key of the garden, to let us out the back-way into
the street, and so privately to our lodging.

_Wood._ 'Tis well: I will plot the rest of my affairs a-bed; for it is
resolved that Limberham shall not wear horns alone: and I am impatient
till I add to my trophy the spoils of Brainsick. [_Exeunt._

ACT V.--SCENE I.

_Enter_ WOODALL _and_ JUDITH.

_Jud._ Well, you are a lucky man! Mrs Brainsick is fool enough to
believe you wholly innocent; and that the adventure of the
garden-house, last night, was only a vision of Mrs Saintly's.

_Wood._ I knew, if I could once speak with her, all would be set right
immediately; for, had I been there, look you--

_Jud._ As you were, most certainly.

_Wood._ Limberham must have found me out; that _fe-fa-fum_ of a keeper
would have smelt the blood of a cuckold-maker: They say, he was
peeping and butting about in every cranny.

_Jud._ But one. You must excuse my unbelief, though Mrs Brainsick is
better satisfied. She and her husband, you know, went out this morning
to the New Exchange: There she has given him the slip; and pretending
to call at her tailor's to try her stays for a new gown--

_Wood._ I understand thee;--she fetched me a short turn, like a hare
before her muse, and will immediately run hither to covert?

_Jud._ Yes; but because your chamber will be least suspicious, she
appoints to meet you there; that, if her husband should come back, he
may think her still abroad, and you may have time--

_Wood._ To take in the horn-work. It happens as I wish; for Mrs
Tricksy, and her keeper, are gone out with father Aldo, to complete
her settlement; my landlady is safe at her morning exercise with my
man Gervase, and her daughter not stirring: the house is our own, and
iniquity may walk bare-faced.

_Jud._ And, to make all sure, I am ordered to be from home. When I
come back again, I shall knock at your door, with,
_Speak, brother, speak;_ [_Singing._
_Is the deed done?_

_Wood._ _Long ago, long ago;_--and then we come