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Show The Beaux Stratagem. n A C T II. S C E N E, A Gallery in Lady BountifulV Houfe. Mrs. Sullen and Dorinda meeting. Dor. A/TOrrow, m y dear Sifter; are you for Church this *•**• Morning? Mrs. Sull. Any where to Pray ; for Heaven alone can help me: But, I think, Dorinda, there's no Form of Prayer in the Liturgy againft bad Husbands. Dor. But there's a Form of L a w in DoBors-Commons; and I fwear, Sifter Sullen, rather than fee you thus continually discontented, I would advife you to apply to that: For befides the part that I bear in your vexatious Broils, as being Sifter to the Husband, and Friend to the Wife, your Examples give m e fuch an Impreffion of Matrimony , that I fhall be apt to condemn m y Perfon to a long Vacation all its Life. But fuppofing, Madam, that you brought it to a Cafe of Separation, what can you urge againft your Husband ? M y Bro^ ther is, firft, the moft conftant M a n alive. Mrs. Sull. The moft conftant Husband, I grant ye. Dor. He never fleeps from you. Mrs. Sull. No, he always fleeps with me. Dor. He allows you a Maintainance fuitable to your Quality. Mrs. Sull. A Maintainance ! do you take me, Madam, for an Hofpital Child, that I muft fit down, and bleis m y Bene-fadtors for Meat, Drink,and Cloaths? As 1 take it,Madam, I brought your Brother Ten thoufand Pounds, out of which, I might expect fome pretty things, cali'd Pleafure:. Dor. You fhare in all the Pleafures that the Country affords. Mrs. Sul. Country Pleafures! Racks and Torments! doft' think, Child, that m y Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches, and clambring over Stiles; or that m y Parents wifely forefeeing m y future Happinefs in Country-pleafures, had early inftructed m c in rural Accomplifhments of drinking fat Ale, playing at Whisk, and fmoaking Tobacco with m v Huf-band; or of fpreading ofPlaifters, brewing of Diet drinks, and ftilling Rofemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman, m y Mother-in-Law. Por. I'm forry, Madam, that it is not more in our podwiveerr tt o |