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Show xt The M A I D V laft Trayer ; ploy your Cunning, I'll aflift your Arts j cheat all y( Friends but me. L. Trie. Cheat you ? Gam. Has Mr. Granger done any thing to make [ your Averfion? you won't allow him to be a Man of{ nour; have you a mind to put him to the Trial ? Wheni refufe a Man a Commendation that every Body gi him, you muft pardon me, if I think, 'tis for fame; vate Reafon of your o w n : Befides, I never knew a f man declare an unreafonable Averfion for a Man in pc lick, that had not a mind to have a better Opinion him in private. L. Trie, What, you are jealous of him ? Gam. Not jealous, Madam : But 'tis a weaknefs to too fecure : While I tally'd to the Company, I had i Eyes about m e ; and indeed by what you lookt, or did, laid to him, I cou'd not find out your Averfion. L, Trie. A very boyi(h Jealoufie indeed ! he loft toi and I was civil to him ; nay, civil to his Lofles, not him : I can do more to ferve the c o m m o n Caufe, fo a tain to our Intereft-- Enter Florence. Gam. I do believe you can do what you pleafe j and I watch your Pleafure [iji L. Trie. Is your Lord ftirring yet, Fbrence ? Tier. H e has been in his Drefling-Room this half Hoi Madam. L. Trie. Then 'tis as I wou'd have it; and a fair tin for m e to go to Bed I c o m e - [Exit Fk Gam. Shall w e meet this Afternoon ? L. Trie. Not this Afternoon, I have Bufinefsj hardlytl Week I fear : I hope I've fatisfy'd your Jealoufie. Yc don't know enough of m e - - [& Gam. I do k n o w enough, enough to fatisfie m e ; then no knowing more than (he has a mind to : And all the Knowledge our weak Search can find, But proves, there is op knowing Womankind. [U ACT Or, Any, rather than Fail. 13 ACT II. SCENE I. Wiftiwell at her toylett with Chrifttan. #?/?;. rjR'ytnee leave fidling, 'tis well enough. 1 Chrift. Madam, you wou'd have your things (it handfomely. Wifh. Decently, I wou'd; what you call handfomely, is a Nicenefs, wou'd as ill become me, as a Sultana does a fat Body, or a high C o m m o d e a lean Face j and only ferve to make m y Decays more remarkable. Chrift. Will you pleafe to ufe the Wafh-- Wifh. I ufe the Wafh ! a W o m a n turn'd of fifty was ne'er defign'd to be lookt upon ; I may Wa(h, and Patch, and pleafe m y felf; cheat m y Hopes with the daily ex-pence of Plaifter and Repairs * no Body will take the Tenement off m y Hands. Men ufe us, as w e ufe our Spectacles, to draw the Object nearer to the Senfe : Indeed w e are the fitted Means to guide and light their dark Defigns home to their Ends on younger W o m e n . No matter for the Character ; I live by them, and they (hall Love by me. While I a m Miftrefs of Maleperth Beauty, I a m not very fenfible of the lofs of m y o-vn : For her fake I will be courted .• I have fo many how-d'ye's, and Invitations in the Morning upon her account; fo many Vifits in the Afternoon j and fo many Bows in the Drawing- Room at Night. Chrift. For her fake you have fo many RafHings, and whoever throws moft, you win the Prize : For her fake, m y proud Lord Lofty, w h o fcarce bows to Heaven, cringes to you 5 and for her fake the whole T o w n calls you Bawd. [Afide. Wifh. Time has been, when by the Merits of m y o wn Face but Chrift. I had almoft forgot, Madam, Mrs. Lucy was here this Morning, and defires you to remember Mr. Oglewell of the Temple. Wifh. She may reft her felf contented ; he is not for her Turn : Mrs. Siam fent her Maid to his Chambers Ye-fterday |