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Show io Sir Harry Wildair $ being the Story.-Thofe curfed barbarous Devils, the French, wou'd not let us bury her. Par. Not bury her! Dick. No, fhe was a Heretick W o m a n , and they wou'd not let her Corps be put in their Holy Ground. Oh! D a m n their Holy Ground for me. Par. N o w had not I better be an honeft Pagan, as I am, than fuch a Chriftian as one of thefe ?• But how did you difpofe the Body ? Dick. W h y there was one charitable Gentlewoman that us'd to vifit m y Lady in her Sicknefs: She contriv'd the matter fo, that fhe had her bury'd in her o w n private Chapel. This Lady and m y felf carry'd her out upon our own Shoulders through a Back-door at the Hour of Midnight, and laid her in a Grave that I dug for her with m y own hands; and if we had been catch'd by the Priefts, w e had gone to the Gallows without the Benefit of Clery. Par. O h ! the Devil take 'em. -But what did they mean by a Heretick W o m a n ? Dick. I don't know ; fome fort of a Cannibal, I believe. I know there are fome Cannibal W o m e n here in England, that come to the Play-houfes in Mafques; but let them have a care how they go to France. (For they are all Hereticks, I believe) But I'm fure m y good Lady was none of thefe. Par. But how did Sir Harry bear the News ? Dick. W h y , you muft know, that m y Lady after (he was bury'd fent m e . Par. H o w I after fhe was bury'd ! Dick. Pfhaw! W h y Lord, Miftrefs, you know what I mean : I went to Sir Harry all the w a y to Rome; and where d'ye think I found him? Par. Where ? Dick. W h y , in the middle of a Monaftery amongft a hundred and fifty Nun?, playing at Hot-cockles. He was fur-priz'd to fee honeft Dicky, you may be fure. But when I told him the fad Story, he roar'd out a whole Vclley of Englifh Oaths upon the Spot, and fwore that he would fet fire on the Pope's Palace for the Injury done to his Wife. He then flew away to his Chamber, lock'd himfelf up for three days; we thought to have found him dead ; but inftead of that, he cali'd for his beft Linnen, fine Wig, gilt Coach ; and laughing very heartily fwore again he wou'd be reveng'd and bid them purpo fder.i ve to the Nunnery; and he was reveng'd to fome PuK |