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Show The Conftant Couple. 27 venge, may love him foolifhly like a Wife, but never value him as a Friend. Viz,. Nay, the Devil take him that parts you, fay I. (Exit. Enter Porter running. Err. Did your Honour call a Porter ? Stand. Is your N a m e Tom Errand t Err. People call m e fo, an't like your Worfhip Stand. D'ye know Sir Harry Wildair* Err. Ay, very well Sir, he's one of m y Mafters; many a round Half-Crown have I had of his Worfhip, he's newly come home from France, Sir. Stand. G o to the next Coffee-Houfe, and wait for me. O W o m a n , W o m a n , how bleft is M a n , when favour'd by your Smiles, and how accurft when all thofe Smiles are found But wanton Baits to footh us to Deftruction. Thus our chief Joys with bafe Allays are cur ft, And our beft things, when once corrupted, worft. (Exit Enter Wildair and Clincher fenior following. Clin. fen. Sir, Sir, Sir, having fome Bufinefs of Importance to communicate to you, I would beg your Attention to a trifling Affair that I wou'd impart to you. Wild. W h a t is your trifling Bufinefs of Importance,1 pray fweet Sir ? Clin. fen. Pray Sir, are the Roads deep between this and Paris f Wild. W h y that Queftion, Sir? Clin. fen. Becaufe I defign to go to the Jubilee, Sir; I underftand that you are a Traveller, Sir; there is an Air of Travel in the Tie of your Cravat, Sir, there is indeed, Sir I fuppofe, Sir, you bought this Lace in Flanders. Wild. N o , Sir, this Lace was made in Norway. din.fen. Norway, Sir! Wild. Yes, Sir, of the Shavings of Deal-boards. Gin.fen. That's very ftrange now, Faith Lace made of the Shavings of Deal-boards! I Gad, Sir, you Travellers fee very ftrange things abroad, very incredible things abroad, indeed. Well, I'll have a Cravat of that very lame Lace before I come home. Wild. But, Sir, what Preparations have you made for your Journey ? Gin. fen. A Cafe of Pocket-piftols for the Bravo** and a fwimming Girdle. * Wild- |