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Show 32 The Inconflant: Or, J)ur. Settled it upon the Church, Sir. Old AI. The Church! Nay, then the Devil won't get him out of their Clutches. Ten thoufand Livres a Year upon the Church ! 'Tis downright Sacrilege. Come, Gentlemen, all bands to work; for half that Sum, one of thefe Monafteries fhall protect you, a Traytor fubject from the Law, a Rebellious Wife from her Husband, and a Difobe-dient Son from his o w n Father. , (Exiu Dug. But will you perfuade me, tpat he's gone to a Mo-naftery! Dur. Is your Sifter gone to the Fillies Repentiesi I tell yoq, Sir ftie's not fit for the Society of repenting Maids. Dug. Wflffo, Sir? Dur. Becaufe flic's neither one, nor t'other; fhe's too old to be a Maid, and too young to repent. (Exit Dug. after him. SCENE, the in fide of a Atonaftery; Oriana in a Nuns Habit; Bifarre. Ori. I hope, Bifarre, there is no harm in jefting with this Religious Habit. Bif. To me, the greateft Jeft in the Habit, is taking it in earneft : I don't underftand this imprifoning People with the Keys of Paradife, nor the Merit of that Virtue which comes by conftraint. Befides, w e may o w n to one ano^ ther, that w e are in the worft Company when among our felves ; for our private Thoughts run us into thofe Defires, which our Pride refifts from the Attacks of the World ; and, you m a y remember, the firft W o m a n then met the Devil, when fhe retir'd from her Man. Ori. But I'm recbncil'd, methinks, to the Mortification of a Nunnery ; becaufe I fanfie the Habit becomes me. Bif. A well-contrive Mortification, truly, that makes a W o m a n look ten times handfomex than fhe did before ! • Ah, m y dear, were there any Religion in becoming Drefs, our Sex s Devotion were rightly plac'd: for our Toylets w o u d do the Work of.the Altar; w e fhou'd all be Ca-ponizd. > °I j - B u t d o n t y ° u t m n k tnere is a Sreat deal of Merit, w dedicating a Beautiful Face and Perfon to the Service of Kehginn ? ' Bif Not half fo much, as devoting 'cm to a pretty Fel-iowy ]f our Feminality had no Bufinefs in this World, why v/as it lent fujher ? Let us dedicate our beautiful .Minds tt> |
