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Show l8* Sir ANTONY LOVE: Or, Abb. With all m y Heart. Val. Or if I cut his Throat ? Sir Ant. With all m y Heart. Vol. O r Bed-rid him with a beating. llf. With all m y Heart. Sir Ant. If none of thefe will do, let him marry her. Val And I muft fay with all m y Heart. - Sir Ant. If you can't make her your Wife, make him your Cockold. Abb. With all m y Heart. V*l. A h ! if I durft but hope that Way. Abb. Hope, you muft hope, Man, and you muft dare Man, if you wou'd do any thing with the Women. Vol. Can you encourage me? Abb. Why, Faith, what ever her Father defigns, fhe does not defign to marry him: And Difobedience may make way for other Sins. Val. I k n o w fhe hates him., Abb. And I k n o w fhe likes you. And if I have any Authority from the Church ///. Which is not to be difputed. Abb. Or any Intereft from m y Eft ate* Val. Which muft be considerable Sir Ant. Not to be o p p o s ' d -- Abb. And which muft furnifh the better part of her Fortune, he fha'nt have her. Val. That's gaining Time at leaft. llf He's naturally jealous. Sir Ant. And has fettled that Nature by a Sfanifh Education, they fay. Abb. H e was bred in Spam indeed. llf A miferable W o m a n ihe muft be then. Abb I wou'd not have a Neice of mine marry'd into a Family or Nation, where, if (lie diflike her own Man, fhe can have no Body elfe. Val. Our W o m e n are the happy Women, Sir. Abb. Why, indeed your EngUfhmen are the fitteft Mffl for Husbands in the World! wou'd ail m y Female R a tions were marry'd into your Country! llf. Wou'd they thought a* well of », as you do. The RAMBLING LADY. 183 Abb. There if a Lady quarrels at her Condition, or likes another rtfan better than her Husband ; which fome-times may happen, you k n o w - - - Val. Such Things have happen'd indeed. Abb. There they fay Cuckoldom is in Famion. Sir Ant. Nay, more than in Fafhion, Sir, '(is according to Law; Cuckoldom is the Liberty, and a feparate Main-tenance, the Property of the Free-born W o m e n of England. llf. W e give our W o m e n fair PJay for't. Val. And fcorn any Tie upon 'cm, more than their Inclinations. Abb. Why, what wou'd a Lady ask more in Marriage > I'll maintain it, fuch a Privilege is better than her Dower; and in a prudent Woman's Thoughts, muft take place of any other Confideration. llf. 'Tis as much before a Dower in Profit too, as in Time ; for a Husband may cheat a Wife of her Dower, Sir Ant. Or wear out her Title by out-living her; and then fhe is bobb'd of her Reverfion. Val. Or leave her fo old, fhe may be paft having any good from it. Sir Ant. Unlefs fhe lays it out in redeeming fome younger B r o t h e r- ///. That had fpent his Annuity in a Lord's Comp a n y - Sir Ant. Or in following a C o m m o n Whore Val. Or in following * as C o m m o n a Miftrefs, the Court. Sir Ant. And being redue'd to the laft Fifty, had ven-tur'd it prudently on a Birth-day Coat, and the Hopes of an Employment. llf. One, w h o in fpight of having been once undone, will have no more Profit from his Experience, than to fall into the fame Folly again, with the fame Occafion. Abb. Then hang him tor a Fool, enough of h i m- I am convince1 with what you % , Gentlemen: And you ftiall have m y Neice, you have her Confent, and m y Confent, and Sir Antony, good Word ; which I promife you gees a great way with the Women. * Val |