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Show Love and a Bottle. 27 Lean. Sir, you had beft keep it for a fore Finger. (Returns Roeb. O' m y Confcience, the Boy's witty, but not very wife in returning Gold. Come, come, you fhall take it. (Forces it upon him, and kiffes him. Lean. That's the fitter cure for m y fore Finger. The Fame dear Lips ftill. O h that the Tongue within them were is true ! (Afide. Roeb. By Heavens, this Boy has the fofteft pair of Lips I ever tafted. I ne'er found before, that Ladies kifs'd their Pages; but n o w if this Rogue were not too young, I fhou'd fufpedt he were before-hand with me. I gad, I muft kifs him again. Come, you fhall take the Money. (Kiffes. Lean. O h how he bribes m e into Bribery ! But what muft I do with this Money, Sir ? ^Roeb. You muft get a little Miftrefs, and treat her with it. Lean. Sir, I have one Miftrefs already ; and they fay, no M a n 1 an ferve two Mailers, much lefs two Miftreffes. H ow many Miftreffes have you, pray ? Roeb. U m h ! I gad, the Boy has pos'd me. How many, Child ? - Why, let me fee. - There was Mrs. Mary, Mrs. Margaret, Mis. Lucy, Mrs. Sufah, Mis. Judy, and fo forth; to the number of Five and twenty, or thereabouts. Lean. O h ye Powers 1 and did you love 'em all ? Roeb. Yes, defperately. 1 wou'd have drank and fought for any one of 'em. 1 have fworn and ly'd to every one of em, and have lain with 'em all: That's for your Encouragement, Boy. Learn betimes, Youth; young Plants fhou'd be water'd. Your Smock-face was made for a Chamber-Utenfil. Lean. A n d did not one efcape ye ? Roeb. Yes, one did ; • the Devii take her. Lean. What, don't you love her then ? Roeb. N o , faith; but I bear her an amorous grudge ftill; fomething between Love and Spight. • I cou'd kill her with kindnefs. Lean. I don't believe it, Sir; you cou'd not be io hardhearted fure : Her honourable Paffion, I think, fhou d pleafe you beft. '. •' ,. Roeb. O Child 1 Boys of your Age are continually reading Romances, filling your Heads with that old bombaft of Love and Honour: But when you come to m y Years, you 11 undtcoeor mLtfeehta eatn npo.de yrAfboeenuctrtdt e f Yrmle uaatftrht?si ,n oIg f Ss biM.re a ?na h foIasolf deF a?tlr lehaocohedr oauns d_V _iPMleilr jaui.rn y, wefh,ke nnt iTIa^ l |