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Show 60 The Conftant Couple. Here Singing and Dancing. After -which a Servant whifpers Wildair. Wild. Madam, fhall I beg you to entertain the Company in the next Room for a Moment ? (To Darling. Dar. With all m y Heart Come, Gentlemen. (Exeunt omnes but Wildair. Wild. A Lady to enquire for me ! W h o can this be? Enter Lurewell. O ! Madam, this Favour is beyond my Expectation, to come uninvited to dance at m y Wedding What d'ye gaze at, M a d a m ? Lure. A Monfter if thou art marry'd thou'rt the moft perjur'd Wretch that e'er avouch'd Deceit. Wild. Hey day! W h y , Madam, I'm fure I never fwore to marry you, I made indeed a flight Promife, upon Condition of your granting me a fmall Favour, but you would not confent, you know. Lure. H o w he upbraids m e with m y Shame-can you deny your binding V o w s when this appears a Witnefs 'gainft your Fallhood. (Shews a Ring.) Methinks the Motto of this Sacred Pledge fhou'd flafh Confufion in your guilty Face read, read here the binding words of Love and Honour, words not unknown to your perfidious Eyes. tho' utter Strangers to your treacherous Heart. Wild. The Woman's ftark flaring mad, that's certain. Lure. W a s it malicioufly defign'd to let m e find m y Mifen/ when paft Redrefs; to let m e know you, only to know you falfe had not curfed Chance fhow'd me the furprizing Motto, I had been happy The firft Knowledge I had of you was fatal to me, and this fecond worfe. Wild. What the Devil's all this ! Madam, I'm not at leifure for Rallery at prefent, I have weighty Affairs upon m y hands; the bufinefs of Pleafure, Madam, any other time (Going. Lure. Stay, I conjure you ftay. Wild. Faith I can't, m y Bride expects m e ; but hark'e, when the Honey-Moon is over, about a Month or two hence, I may do you a fmall Favour. (Exit. Lure. Grant m e fome wild Expreffions, Heav'ns, or 1 fhall burft Woman's Weaknefs, Man's Fallhood, m y own Shame, and Love's Difdain, at once fwell up m y Breaft- Words, Words, or I fhall burft. (Going. Enter |