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Show The Beaux Stratagem. 49 page, Noife and Flambeaux Hey, my Lady AimweWs Servants there Lights, Lights to the Stairs -My Lady AimweWs Coach put forward Stand by, make room for her Ladylhip '- Are not thefe things moving ? • What! Melancholy of a fudden ? Mrs. Sull. Happy, happy Sifter! Your Angel has been watchful for your Happinefs, whilft mine has flept regardlefs of his Charge. Long mailing Years of circling Joys for you, but not one Hour for m e ! (Weeps. Dor. Come, m y Dear, we'll talk of fomething elfe. Mrs. Sull. O Dorinda, I o w n m y felf a W o m a n , full of m y Sex, a gentle, generous Soul, eafie and yielding to foft Defires: a fpacious Heart, where Love and all his Train might lodge. And muft the fair Apartment of m y Breaft be made a Stable for a Brute to lie in ? Dor. Meaning your Husband, I fuppofe. Mrs. Sull. Husband! N o , Even Husband is too foft a N a m e for him. But, come, I expect m y Brother here to Night or to Morrow; he was abroad when m y Father marry'd m e ; perhaps he'll find a way to make m e eafie. Dor. Will you promife not to make your felf eafy in the , mean time with m y Lord's Friend ? Mrs. Sull. You miftake me, Sifter It happens with us," as among the Men, the greateft Talkers are the greateft Cowards ; and there's a Reafon for it; thofe Spirits evaporate in Prattle, which might do more Mifchief if they took another Courfe; Tho' to confefs the Truth, I do love that Fellow; • And if I met him dreft as he lhou'd be, and I undreft as I fhou'd be Look'e, Sifter, I have no fupernatural Gifts; 1 can't fwear 1 cou'd refift the Temptation, -tho' I can fafely promife to avoid it; and that's as much as the beft of us can do. (Exit Mrs. Sullen and Dorinda. Enter Aimwell and Archer laughing. Arch. A n d the awkard Kindnefs of the good Motherly old Gentlewoman- Aim. And the coming Eafmefs of the young one 'Sdeath, 'tis pity to deceive her. Arch. Nay, if you adhere to thofe Principles, ftop where you are. Aim. I can't ftop; for I love her to Diftraction, Arch. acrweAatiiymo .no, uW'yreSo dliueld alm,teu h wf,Eet vli geflo,n y inaonoung ysfla otravhttehi enWhrghe. ir tt oae 'dHesal,iir v'Tesro mbu'rses a,fd rotorhm b Wfeiayluolnn'Utdsne ^irDti ineafgd-n d |
