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Show 5* Love and a Bottle. you out immediately, left fome more of 'em meet yfiu.' (Condutls him to the Door, and returns} He certainly was here, and I have mifs'd him, F(. tunc delights with Innocence to play, A .d l^ves to hoodwink thofe already blind. •; Waiy Decei' can many by-ways tread, To fhun the Blocks in Vertue's open Road, Whilft heedleis Innocence ftill falls on Ruin, Yet, whilft by Love infpir'd, I will purfue What Men by Courage, w e by Love can do. Not even his Falfhood fhall m y Claim remove ; -> From mutual Fires none can true Pailion prove; S For like to like, is Gratitude, not Love. ^ The End of the fourth ACT. ACT V. SCENE, An Anti-chamber in Luanda's Houfe J The Flat Scene half open, difcovers a Bed-Chamber 5 Lucinda in her Night-Gown, and reading. hy a Table. Enter Roebuck gropeing his way. Roeb. (~)N what new happy Climate a m I thrown? /^ This Houfe is Love's Labyrinth; I have Humbled into it by chance. -•- Ha ! an Illufion ! Let m e look again. Eyes, if you play m e falfe, (Looking about.) I'll pluclc ye out. Tis fhe; 'tis Lucinda I alone, undrefs'd, in a Bedchamber, between Eleven and Twelve a Clock. Ablef-fed opportunity ! Now if her innate Principle of Ver-tue defend her, then is m y innate Principle of Manhood not. worth Two-pence. Hold, fhe comes forward. • ' (Lucinda approaches, readings Luc. Un/uft Prerogative of faithlefs M a n, Abufing Pow'r which partial Heaven has granted! In former Ages, Love and Honour flood As Props and Beauties to the Female Caufe ; But now lie proftitute to Scorn and Sport. ' Man, made our Monarch, is a Tyrant grown" And Woman-kind muft bear a fecond Fall.' Rntt |