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Show £ Love and a Bottle. Roeb. Nay, Madam, fince you're fo good at minding folks, have with you. [Catches her fajl, carrying her i£*\HeIp! help! help! 'J Enter Lovewell. Love. Villain,unhand the Lady,and defend thy felf. [Drm. Roeb. W h a t ! Knight-Errants in this Country ! N o w has the Devil very opportunely lent m e a Throat to cut; pray Heaven his Pockets be well lin'd. - [£*;» 'em, they go Have at thee-St&orge for England.-- [They fight,after fomeptjfts M y Friend Lovewell f [ Roeb. flans back, andpaufes. Love. M y dear Roebuck I [Fling down their Swords,and embrAct. Shall I believe m y Eyes? t . . Roeb. You may believe your Ears; tis I, be gad. Love. W h y , thy being in London is fuch a myftery, that I muft have the evidence of more Senies than one to confirm me of its truth. - But pray unfold the Riddle. Roeb. W h y , 'faith 'tis a Riddle. You wonder at it before the Explanation, then wonder more at your felf for not gucf-fing it. - What is the univerfal Caufe of the continued Evils of Mankind ? Love. The univerfal Caufe of our continu d Evil, is the Devil fure. Roeb. No, 'tis the Flefh, Ned. - That very W o m a n that drove us all out of Paradife, hasfent m e a packing out of Inland. Love. H o w fo ? Roeb. Only tailing the forbidden Fruit, that was all. Love. Is fimple Fornication become lb great a Crime there4 as to be punifhable by no lefs than Banifhment ? Roeb. I gad, mine was double Fornication, Ned. - The jade was ib pregnant to bear Twins, the Fruit grew in clu-fters; and rny unconfcionable Father, becaule I was a Rogue in debauching her, wou'd make m e a Fool by wedding hers But I w o u d not marry a Whore, and he wou'd not own a difobedient Son, and lb - Love. But was (he a Gentlewoman ? Roeb. Pfhaw! No, lhe had no Fortune. She wore indeed a Silk Manteau and High-Head ; but thefe are grown as littli iigns of Gentility now-a-days, a= that is ofChaftity. Love. But what neceiTity fbrcd you to leave the Kingdom! Roeb. Ill tell you. - To fhun th'infulting Authority of incens'd Father, the dull and often-repeated Advice of imper tinent Relations,the continual Clamours of a furious W o m a n and the which, Gfhoroildl LBoarwdl idnelgi voefr a mne i.l l natur'd Baftard. - FroLomy a |