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Show 72 ^ P R E I A P S E ; or, Enter Worthy. Blefsme! he's here, pray Heaven he did notfe mBfr. If he did, it won't hurt your Reputatio, yom Thoughts are as fife in his Heart, as in „ OV!mr. I venture in at an nnfeafonable time of K* Ladies' I hope if I a m troublefome, you 11 ufethefi, freedom in turning m e out again , * « « . I believe it. can't be late for Mr. z « * is not come home yet, and he ufually keeps gM Wor. Madam, I'm afraid he'll tranfgrefs a littlei niahf for he told m e about half an Hour ago, he it; oolng'to fup with fome Company, he doubted mi y^RpTiim out till three or four a clock in the Mornioj and defir'd I wou'd let m y Servant acquaint you with that you might not expert him : but m y Fellow's Blunder-head-, fo left he fhou'd make fome miftafc I thought it m y Duty to deliver the Meffage m y felf. Aman. I'm very forry he fhou'd give you that troubt Sir: But Ber. But fince he has, will you give m e leave, it dam, to keep him to play at O m b r e with us ? Aman. Coufin, you k n o w you command my Houli Wor. to Ber.] And, Madam, you know you COE mand me, tho I'm a very wretched Gamefter. Ber. O you play well enough to lofe your Monc and that's all the Ladies require; fo without anymc Ceremony, let us go into the next R o o m and call t;' the Cards. Aman. With all m y heart. [Exit Wor. leading Am Ber. fola.] Well how this Bufinefs will end, ft • ven knows -, but fhe feems to m e to be in as ™ way. as a Boy is to be a Rogue, when he*I Clerk to an Atttomey. {Exit Benn* Virtue in Danger. SCENE, Berinthia s Chamber. 75 Enter Lovelace cautioufly in the dark. Lov. So, thus far all's well. I'm got into her Bedchamber, and I think no body has perceiv'd m e ileal into the Houfe; m y Wife don't expert m e home till four a-clock ; fo if Berinthia comes to Bed by Eleven I fhall have a Chace of five Hours. Let m e fee, where fhall I hide m y felf? Under her Bed? N o : w e fhall have her Maid fearching there for fomething or other - her Clofet's a better place, and I have a Mafter-Key Will open it: I'll e'en in there, and attack her juft when ihe comes to her Prayers, that's the moft like to prove her Critical Minute, for then the Devil will be there to aHift me. {_He opens the Clofet, goes in, and fhuts tht •Door after him. Enter Berinthia with a Candle in her Hand. w/*T; ^d!' fure l a m the b e f t'n a^'d W o m a n in the World, I that love Cards fo well (there is but one thing upon the Earth I love better) have pretended Let-ters to write, to give m y Friends a Tate, a Tate z however I m innocent, for Picquet is the G a m e I fet 'em to : at her o w n peril be it, if fhe ventures to play with h.matany other. But n o w what fhall I do with m y ielf ? I don t know how in the World to pafs m y time - vvoud Lovelace were here to badiner a little- wen' he s a charming Fellow, I don't wonder his Wife's fa tilll All n : Wi,at/] fh°U,d,fit down and thfnk ^him tdl I fall afleep, and dream of the Lord knows what > ^c Plotting Sifters. ~[she opens theClofel 'Ihe SCEN Enter |