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Show >4 The London Merchant: by] on the Wreck of wild Defire . Yet for a Momecf guilty Pleafure, mail I lofe m y Innocence, m y Peace Mind, and Hopes of folid Happinefs ? M*i ll. Chimeras all.C ome on with me and prove, Nojiy's like Woman kind, no Heaven like Love. Barn. I would not, yet muft on*-r , „ jReluffant thus, the Merchant quits his Eafe, And trufts to Rocks, and Sands,dhd ffcrmy Seas; In Hopesf,me unknown ioli Coafi t$ find Commits himfelf, tho" daubtful to the IVind, Longs much for Joys tecome^ yet meurmfriht hind. [Exit, End of the Firft Ac T. A C T II. S C E N EL A Room in ThorowgoodV Hottfe* Enter Barnwell. O W ftrange are all things round me? Like io Thief, w h o treads forbidden Ground, and fain »od lurk unfeen, fearmi I enter each Apartment of thiiwl known Houfe.' T o guilty Love, as if it were too lit:' already have I added Breach of Truft •• A H Can I know myfelf that wretched Thing, and honeft Friend, andinjur'd Mafter in the Face'-Tj Hypocrify may a while conceal m y Guilt, at length will be known, and publick Shame and Ruin mufteni In the mean T i m e , what muft be m y Liie ? ever to; 4 Language foreign to m y Heart; hourly to add to Number of m y Crimes, in order to conceal them. Sure fuch was die Condition of the grand Apellate, J firft he loft his Purity ; like m e difconfolate he wjjj and while yet in Heaven, bore all his future Hdia-him. The Hiflory of George Barnwell. f§ Enter Trueman. $#•. Barnwell! Oh how I rejoice to fee thee fafe I fa Willoar Mafler, and his gentle Daughter; who during your Abfence, often enquir'd after you. Barn. Wou'd hi were gone, his officious Love will pry into the Secrets of m y Soul ( Atid:. Tr. Unlefs you know the Pain the whoL Family has felt on your Acount, you can't concave how you are bmeel ov'd : But why thus cold and filent ? W h y thus avoid law me lift? or rather, what have you done? and why areyoa thus chang'd ? for I am ftill the fame. Barn. What have I done indeed ? f J fide %r. Not fpeak, not look upon me. Barn. By my Faco he will difcover all I would conceal j methinks already I begin to hate him. r Afifo Tr. I cannot bear this Tjfuage from a Friend, one whom till now I ever found fo loving, w h o m yet I love though thisUnkindnefs ftrikes at the Root of Fnendmm' and might deftroy it in any Breaft but mine Barn. lam not well, [ Turning to biml Sleep has been a Stranger to thefe Eyes fince you beheld them laft Tr Heavy they look indeed, and fwoln with Tenra . now they overflow ; ricrhtlv HH ~ c , ; Heart foWbode laft Night, l e a y o i w Z f t f e ^ thing fatal to our Pe^ce J abfer'c' f o m e» tereft ,„ ehetn, 2 ^^r C0ntn IT ^ n° In* a Moment's ! ain. ' Wjn.CWa lor Q ; g:Vc yoa Tr. You fpeak as if yon knew nf v • Jn • tat the Name. Before'i hwl'r?"??*??9 n0t!: J* parted laft, I have Qep n g£? ! ** *' Si ' five m my Chamber fat ^ " ta f an Ya», but pe[»- N.ght mWimes for your Saferv,,nf p e n t the ted»«s A o W , n t o f the Caufe, "y ur a"d R e t u r^ He Heart. ' ?oar Sorrow wounds me to Barn. 'Twill nr>f k. i Engagements ceafe * & h » . F'fcndlhip and a8 «d Cnce yon o n c e W v S f f e ! and ^caf.on v,rv * • both, that KfftSvpJg-* -7 b, £ & |