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Show H 330 The WIVES EXCUSE: Or, ^ O! don't leave m e in this PafTion, I a m uttetJ min'd if you go; upon m y Knees I beg it of you. Sight. Coufin, I forgive you: what's paft fhall be a $J cret for both our fakes; but I'm refolv'd never moreti come into your Power; fo farewell, and find a betij Friend than 1 have been. [Goacni Wit. She's\oft,and m y Defi?n upon her, which is yen greater Misfortune to me. [Wellv. and Wild, enter to iji O ! Sir, 1 a m oblig'd to you and you are oblig'dti your felf for your Succefs with Mrs. Sightly, fo like Boy, to difcover the Secret, before 'twas in your pov to cxnofe! away, I'll have no more to fay to you. Wild. So, Sir, you have made tine Work on't withtl W o m e n . I thought I had fatisfy'd you in the Mall th Morning. Well. Sir, I muft be better fatisfy'd than I was int. Morning, 1 find there's no relying upon your Word, fina after your Promife, never to follow her more, you con' excufe your felf to m e in the Mali to meet her at Chocolate-Houfe. Wild. N a y then w e have both our Grievances, andthii muft anfwer 'em. [Going to fight, Court, enters topm\ Court. Fie, fie, Friends, and fighting! that muft not I Gentlemen. Mrs. Witwoud has told m e the matter; an unlefs you had a fourth Man to entertain me, you hi ev'n as good put up again: W e are all in Fault, and 1 deferve to be fwing'd for't, that's certain: Wilding mi Fool for telling m e ot his Defign, and I was a Fool fo talking on't to Wellvile \ and Wellvile no wifer thancitha for making fuch a Buftle about it: Therefore pray Getf tlemen let's agree in this Opinion, that by our own pri ting and prying into other Peoples Affairs, w e often W coyer and ruin one anothers Defigns; ^ For Women are by nature well incltn d: Ow Mies frighten 'em from being kmd. [m AC Cuckolds make Themfelves. 33* ACT V. SCENE I. •1N S C E N E Witwoud\r Lodgings. Enter Wilding following Witwud. -r \ Y I don't wonder you thrive no better with the W o m e n , when you can part with fuch an over Mrs. Fiendall: Y o u fay you have w o n a [her which (lie would not be k n o w n to lofe ; 0 Mother Man would take the Privilege of a win-yGamefter, upon fuch an Occafion, to prefs her to a Life at Laft, of coming out of your Debt. S i fhall improve, I find, upon the Advantage of I'hints: But Mrs. Sightly, Madam L Mr? Shhth indeed: W a s that a W o m a n to throw JoS'thif Vanity ot being talk'd of for her i In the 11 were bragging to other People, of being in her Jour, you might have been every-where you defir d. Wild Nay, not unlikely. T l have made all the Excufe I could for you; fome that in m y Confcience I thought very unreafonable felf; and could pafs upon no Body but a W o m a n, it was'eafily difpos'd to forgive you m. if A* would buc hcar what * y W Nay, (he's pretty well prepaid, but you muft not L of fpeaking to her bare-fac'd, that fhe can't con-tto for her o w n fake : Y o u have made the matter fo feilick, lhe has Eyes upon her to be fure n o w : But it towns very luckily, Friendall has a Mafquerade to Night UtHoufe: There, if you pleafe, I can give you an Opportunity of clearing your felf to her. \wU. \ ask no more of you. It. Never think of defending your felf, for what s (ft you were certainly i'th'wrong ; and (he thinks you [ You know well enough what to fay to a W o m a n, K has a mind to believe you. Mi How (hall I k n o w her at the Maficmeradc ? Wit* |