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Show 42 The Inconflant: Or, Bif. Sir, fhe beckons to you, and waves us to go off; come, come, Jet's leave 'em. (Ex. omnes, but Mir. and Ori. Or. Oh, Sir! Mir. Speak, m y charming Angel, if your dear Senfe have regain'd their order; fpeak, Fair, and blefs m e with the News. Or. Firft, let m e blefs the Cunning of m y Sex, that happy counterfeited Frenzy that has reftor'd to m y poor labouring Breaft, tfiedeareft, beft-beloved of Men. Mir. Tune all ye Spheres; your Inftruments of Joy, and carry round your fpacious Orbs, the happy Sound oWriana's Health ; her Soul, whofe Harmony was next to yours, is now in Tune again; the counterfeiting Fair has play'd the Fool. She was fo mad to Guntcrfcit for me; • "y 1 was fo mad to pawn my Liberty ; C But now we both are well, and both are free. C Or. How, Sir ? Free ! Mir. As Air, m y dear Bedlamite ; what, marry a Luna-tick ! Look, my Dear,, you have counterfeited Madnefs Co very well this bout, that you'll be apt to play the Fool all your Life long. Here, Gentlemen. Or. Monflcr ! you won't difgrace me. Mir. O my Faith, but 1 will; here, come in, Gentlemen. • A Miracle! a Miracle ! the Woman's difpoflefs'd, the Devifs vanifh'd. Enter Old Mirabel and Dugard. Old M. Blefs us, was fhe poflefs'd ? Mir. With the worft of Demons, Sir, a Marriage-Devil, a horrid Devil. Mr. Dugard, don't be furpriz'd, I promis'd my .Endeavours to cure your Sifter. N o mad Doctor in Chriften-dom could have done it more effectually. Take her into your Charge; and have a care fhe don't relapfe; if fhe fhould, employ m e again , for I a m no more infallible than others of the Faculty; 1 do cure fometimes. Or. Your Remedy, moft barbarous M a n , will prove the „ greateft poifon to m y Health; for tho' m y former Frenzy was' but Counterfeit, I now fhall run into a real Madnefs. [ Exit Old Mir. after,. Dug. This was a turn beyond m y knowledge; I'm fo con-fus'd, 1 know not how to refent it. [Exit. . Aiir. What a dangerous Precipice have I Tcap'd? Was not I juft now upon the bl4i nk of Deftruction ? Enter |