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Show 4 2 The Hiftory oj George Barnwell. Be warn'dye Youths, who fie my fad Defpair, Avoid lewd Ptfunen, falfe asthty ore fair-, By Reafon guided, honeft Joys purfue, The Fair to Honour, and to Virtue true, Jiff to her [elf will ne'er be f life to you. By my Example learn to (ban my Fate, , t 'How wretched is the M a n who's wife too late} ) E're Innocence, and fame, and Life be loft.- Here purchafe Wifdom, che.ply at your Goft [ Exeunt Barnwell, Officer and Attendants. Mill. Where'i Lucy ? why is ihe abfent at fuch a Blunt. Wou'd I had been fo too. Lucy will foon be here an4 I hope to thyConfufion, thou Devil! Mill. Infolent! This to m e ? Blunt. The' worft that w e know ol the Devil is, that he firft feducesto fin, and then betrays to Punimmeit. f Exit Blunt. Mill They difapprove of m y Conduct, then, and mean to take'this Opportunity, to fet up for themfelves. My Ruin is refolved ; I fee m y Danger, but fcorn both it and them - - I was not born to fall by fuch weak Inftru-ments. . L d Enter Thorowgood. Thor. Where is the Scandal of her own Sex, and Carle of ours. _, r LI Mill. What means this Infolence ? W n y do youieeK. Thor. Millwood. Mill. Weil, you have found her then - *• am Millwood. , Thor. Then you are the moft impious Wretch that ei* the Sun beheld. « . Mill. From your Appearance, I ftioald have expe^ Wifdom and Moderation, but your Manners bely y»or Afpect what is your Bufinefs here ? I kHO*yw not. n f. Thor. Hereafter you may know m e better ; L a m w well's Mafter. qhe London Merchant: Or, 45 Mill. Then you are a Mafter to a Villain j which, I think is not much to your Credit. Thor. Had he been as much above thy Arts, as m y Credit is fupenor to thy Malice, I need not have biuln'd to own him. Mill: M y Arts' I don't underfhmd you, Sir' If he has done amifs, what's that to m e f Was he m y Servant or yours ? You fhould have taught hira better. Thcr. Whyfnould I wonder to find fuch uncommon Impudence in one arriv'd tofuch a Height ol Wickednefs ? When Innocence is baniftied Modefty foon follow:. K n ow Sorcerefs, I am not ignorant of any of the Arts, by-which you firft deceived the unwary Youth : I know how* Step, by Step, you've led him on, (reluctant and unwilling) from Crime to Crime, to this horrid Act, which you contriv'd, and by your curled Wiles, even' forced him to commit. Mill. H a ! Lucy has got the Advantage, andaccufed me firft: unkis I can turn the Accufation, ana hx it upon her and Blunt, I am loft. r jjjj. ' bee?~? 5 kTV°Ur CrU£l Pefign f00ner' * ^ is all that now remains. Poor Satisfaction! for he inno cent as he is, compar'd too you muft fuffei too. Bu't Hea ven who knows her Fame, and gracioufly d u W u i mt M^r 2 l i C y ^ ^ ^ m p ^ o n , will make a D i S S S C*a>u«fteo,o fhamimta,rt,TiZ: ermIaULnh^ o ii yroeuart Ampepueta,r awnicteh,o uatnd thi ire- y return'd fiTlYIPr ' I now P^rci/e y o u L v ;he n r T I;<Sk your Pard°>' think me e i i m i J i ; t fo tar lmPos'd on as to doing. d> or ot^r, acteftaryto his Un- ^^&&^&&**** and muft endure t\n l' 01 ali he now endure, ^u.c ana lVliict-ies together. Mi 7. |