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Show &3° &> ANTONY LOVE: Or* I SCENE changes to Sir Antony'/ Lodging. Enter Sir Antony, and llford. Sir Ant. W h y to tell you the Truth, llford, there is 5 W o m a n in the Cafe; I expect her every Minute. llf. I fancy'd fome fach thing. Sir Ant. She is a thing to be fancyM; and you would think fo, if you faw her. llf. D o I k n o w her, Sir Antony ? Sir Ant. You have feen her, ///. What, nothing more of her? Sir Ant. None of your peevifh Queftions. I//. 'Tis not Volante I Sir Ant. If it were, you don't come to quarrel for her? llf. Not I faith, Knight: I come in abfolure good Nature to vifit you. Sir Ant. W h y indeed, I could not expect the Favour at your Hands, as Matters ftand between us. llf. Nothing fhall ftand between us: Nothing did, but a W o m a n ; and I come to ftrike up a Fricndfhip, ofTcn-five and defenfive with you, by making a very fair Offer to difpofe of her. Sir Ant. If you mean Volante, fhe will difpofe of her felf. ' llf. I k n o w fhe would difpofe of her felf to you: But you won't marry her, Sir Antony: N o w I am one of thofe fcolifh Fellows, w h o don't apprehend a Danger, 'till-they are in't. I never think of being a Cuckold: 1 love Volante, and would marry he, Come, come, there are W o m e n enow for the ill-naturd purpofe 0 your Love; quit her to me, do a generous thing to a ^ o m a n that loves you; and to a Man, who would c» •%&WSSB Word, I would do a great dd for you; but 1 muft do fomething tor ten if. D o m e a Favour, and dot* undo Ixt Fame. Jir The RAMBLING LADY. X3» Sir Ant. But there's the Pleafure on't- Z TV, „,in the W o m a n that loves you. f /, NotYo much out of ill Nature to her, as.good Str Ant. NotTo mucn out ^ AnJ w e Nature to m y felf. R ePu t a''°"f,L Ruin Df the Womens. Men generally ratfeour^ut of the Rum ott ;//. But Volante ,,; . «<>™n£$X Reafon. * W S W o S f t w T S S e r - . to make a Bufinefs on'• He could not do herfo much Right, «".fight.ngfor ter!'aitawould do m e Reafon, in making it the talk of the T o w n . . . , llf That would fet it about indeed. & ^ K I ^ u l d fay, I had lain with her; or endeavour to fet it a-foot, 'twould fall of it felt. Z/f. As an impotent Piece of Vanity, or Folly, in a 70^J!BBut no body dares make a doubt of a Report, when a Relation has taken an . honourable Care, by a Duel, to fix the Scsndal in the Family. llf. Why, truly I think the Men of Honour are out in that Bufinefs: Scandal does not fall into the Hands ot a Surgeon, like the Wounds of tic. Body tor a Cure :^ O-p; ning and Probing makes the Malady but more inveterate, and the leaft Air taints it to a Mortification. Sir Ant. It heals beft ot it felf, without a Plaifter. llf. And Time muft finifh the Woik. I have bbferved fome W o m e n live themfelves into a fecond Refutation--- Sir Ant. And other W o m e n , w h o by a natural Negligence, never fetting up for any, from the Freedom of th;ir Behaviour, have pafs'd uncenfur'd in thofe publick Places, and Pleafures, which would have undone Ladies o; a fprucer Convcrfation, but to have appcar'd in. llf. So that 'tis not what they do, but not doing all of a Piece, that ruins their Character, and undoes the W o men m Sir Ant. And condemns the M e n too; For 'tis not any Man's Opinion, but his fhifting it to the Occafion, that makes him a Rafcal; as let his Opinion be wbat it will, if he continues the fame, and acts upon a Principle, he |