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Show 1 1 2 The RELAPSE; er, T. Bull afide.] Look you, Sir, tho I will not prefim,e ^CaCffibi!i;U y?™ £2»** thruft h ,ow. B c k n d C S n k s it (nouM not be worthyour vrtfc fonfque your Saul in the next Warld, for the fake of a beggarly Younger Brather, w h o is nat able to make your ^OTastmy Lord, 1 have no worldly Ends, J fpeak the Truth, Heaven knows. . Z.F. Nay, prithee, never engage Heaven ini the matter, for by all I can fee, 'tis like to prove a Bminefs for the Devil. , , r. F. Come, pray Sir, all above-board, no corrupt-ins of Evidences ; if you pleafe, this young Lady is my lawful Wife, and I'll juftify it in all the Courts of England: fo your Lordfhip (who always had apafiioa for Variety) may go feek a new Miftrefs if you think L. F. I am ftruck dumb with his Impudence, and cannot paffitively tell whether ever I fhall fpeak again, ^ Sir Tun. Then let me come and examine the Bufinefs a little, I'll jerk the Truth out of 'em prefently ; here, give m e m y Dog-whip. r. F. Look you, old Gentleman, 'tis in vain to make anoife; if you grow mutinous, I W e fome Friends within call, have Swords by their fides, above four foot long ; therefore be calm, hear the Evidence patiently, and& when the Jury have given their Verdift, pafs Sentence according to Law : here's honeft Coupler mail be Foreman, and ask as many queftions as he pleafes. Coup. All I have to ask is, whether Nurfe perfifts in her Evidence ? The Parfon, I dare fwcar, will never flinch from his. Nurje, to Sir Tun. kneeling.) I hope in Heaven your Worlhip will pardon me, I have ferv'd you long and faithfully, but in this thing I was over-reach'd 5 your Worfhip however was deceived as well as I, and it^1 Wedding-Dinner had been ready, you had put Madam to bed with him with your own Hands, Virtue in Danger^* t j * i^go/me ?BUth°W '^ y°Ud° to> "** quaint. Nurfe. Alas! if your; Worfhip had feen how the poor thing beggd, and pray'd, and clung, and twin'd abou^ had fuckled it and fwaddled itj and nurft ;t y^™ and dry, muft have had a Heart of Adamant to refute it. Sir Tun. Very well. Y. F. Foreman, I expeft your Verdift. Coup. Ladies, and Gentlemen, what's your Opinions ? * r All. A clear Cafe, a clear Cafe. Coup. Then m y young Folks, I wifh you Joy. Sir Tun. to Y. F.] C o m e hither, Stripling, if it be true then, that thou haft marry'd m y Daughter, prithee tell me who thou art ? r. F. Sir, the beft of m y Condition is, I a m your Son-in-Law; and the worft of it is, I a m Brother to that Noble Peer there. Sir Tun. Art thou Brother to that Noble Peer Why, then that Noble Peer, and Thee, and thy Wife, and the Nurfe, and the Prieft . may all go and be damn'd together. [Exit Sir Tun. L.F. afide. N o w , for m y part, I think the wifeft thing a Man can do with an aking Heart, is to put on a ferene Countenance, for a Philofophical Air is the moft becoming thing in the World to the Face of a Perfon of Quality ; I will therefore bear m y Difgrace like a Great Man, and let the People fee I a m above an Affront. To Y. F.] Dear Tam, fince Things are thus fallen aut, prithee give m e leave to wifh thee Jay, I do it de bon Coeur, ftrike m e dumb; you have marry'd a W o - man Beautiful in her Perfon, Charming in her Ayres, Frudent in her Canduft, Canftant in her Inclinations, and of a nice Marality, fplit m y Wind-pipe. *". F. Your Lardfhip may keep up your Spirits with P u r G««nace if you pleafe, I fhall fupport mine with mis Lady, and two thoufand Pound a Year. Taking |