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Show • 3*8 T^WIVES EXCUSE: Or, or, as much as I thought you m y Friend, nay, though "nguifiYd for vou, the encouragement you are plca&'j For, Han to make, from other People's bafe Opinion of me, (hai| teach me to defpife you. [The Scene opens, the Company m from play, and comes formrk Tea*,. Nay, nay, I have done with you: If this Q your fair Play, there's no danger of your Soul; why, y0tt make no Confcience of cheating any Body out of ' own Gang. Wit. Confcience at Cards, Coufin! you are a betterM Cuckolds make Themfelves. 3*9 You wou'd not have h i m lofe by his Converfion, b0Re/ T We other wife Men, he's for faving Soul and . f;fl,eZr, I warrant him. [Theygo im pUy, and comes jormHW^ g ^ „, J ^ J S C E N E Changes to the Garden. yjltwoud following Sightly. *>,Aa Never think of denying, or excufing it to me, I ?! ified there's more in k than you ought to defend; 1 efo many Circumftances to convince m e of your iereLv to me, I muft believe it. : t Tfee Coufin, you will believe any thing againft: fti hope to be fav'd, upon the Faith of a Chri- !e: ,nd L y I never rife off m y Knees into your good '-I *aain, if I don't abhor the Villany you lay to m y C fomething I muft confefs to you, but I begyou 'twas unadvis'd indeed, but innocent, i Lady than to expe& it. Mr. Fri. Confcience, Madam, is for ferious Affairs, n Body minds it at play. Teaz. Nay I'm ev'n right enough ferv'd, I deferv'd i, that's the truth on't: I muft be playing with Company!! much younger than m y felf j but 1 fhall be wifer for m future, and play the Fool in m y own form, wherelnij Cheat in m y turn. Mrs. Fri. If you fpeak of your Lofings, Madam, I be lieve m y Fortune has been harder than yours; in tenS running with Mr. Wilding, I never turn'd one, nor h Comet in m y Hand. Wit. Nay, if you win her Mony, you may win evi thing of her, if you know how to manage your Game. I [Goes to Mrs. SigklJ Wild. And Faith I'll play it as well as I can. Wit. Coufin, I have w o n an Eftate for you. Sight. Y o u have undone m e . [Exit, Wit. follomi Wild. I'll watch m y time, and follow 'em. Mr. Fri. Lovemore, pr'ythee keep the Company together 1 have an Appointment upon m y Hands, and muft lean you: W e muft ferve one another fometimes, you know] [Goei if Enter Servant. Serv. M a d a m , the Jew, newly turndProteftant, tin m y Mafter was Godfather to, has brought the Effence and Sweet-waters he order'd him, to raffle for. Mrs. Eri. Shall w e try, whether w e like any of'em. [Gm Well W e fhall find him a J e w ftiB in his Dealings, Imh fharge; fo £^^1^^^^^ ^Coxcomb, and % A l Vanity, or M M * Revenge, cou'd S r y to the Ruin of m e with you, the only Rela- )n I love and value in the World. I k 0' I had forgot the Pains you took to fecure , to Morrow Night at Cards, at your Lodgings with IwUm: Coufin, let m e tell you, a B a w d is the worft: tof an Intrigue, and the leaft to be faid for't in excuie i the Infamy. But you had fomething more than a ,vr to provide for m e , or you wou'd nor have expos d to a Man that wou'd expofe m e to all the T o w n. it becaufe I have been your beft and laft: Friend, (tor n will hardly find fuch another in your Family) that jUs you reward m e for the Folly ? O r is it becaufe I a m witnefs of your Shame, that you wou'd be a Contri-i of mine? I know, (and I look upon it as a Judgment lontheformerFollies of yourLife,)that you arenotorioufly indon'd to the beaftly Love of a Fellow, that n o B o dy le can look upon; and, m a y be, you are mifchievoufly iis'd to make m e as defpicable as your felf; there muft the Devil in the bottom on't, and Til fly f r om h im ipu. H Wit. |