The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III eBook

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The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 615 pages of information about The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III.

Sir Cau.  Why, have you seen it since, Brother?

Sir Feeb.  In Imagination, Sir.

Bel.  How, Sir, a Devil?

Sir Feeb.  Ay, or a Ghost.

Bel.  Where, good Sir?

Bea.  Ay, where?  I’d travel a hundred Mile to see a Ghost—­

Bel.  Sure, Sir, ’twas Fancy.

Sir Feeb.  If ’twere a Fancy, ’twas a strong one; and Ghosts and Fancy are all one if they can deceive.  I tell you—­if ever I thought in my Life—­I thought I saw a Ghost—­Ay, and a damnable impudent Ghost too; he said he was a—­a Fellow here—­they call Bellmour.

Bel.  How, Sir!

Bea.  Well, I wou’d give the world to see the Devil, provided he were a civil affable Devil, such an one as Wasteall’s Acquaintance is—­

Sir Cau.  He can show him too soon, it may be.  I’m sure as civil as he is, he helps him to steal my Gold, I doubt—­and to be sure—­Gentlemen, you say he’s a Gamester—­I desire when he comes anon, that you wou’d propose to sport a Dye, or so—­and we’ll fall to play for a Teaster, or the like—­and if he sets any money, I shall go near to know my own Gold, by some remarkable Pieces amongst it; and if he have it, I’ll hang him, and then all his six hundred a Year will be my own, which I have in Mortgage.

Bea.  Let the Captain and I alone to top upon him—­mean time, Sir, I have brought my Musick, to entertain my Mistress with a Song.

Sir Feeb.  Take your own methods, Sir—­they are at leisure—­while we go drink their Healths within.  Adod, I long for night, we are not half in kelter, this damn’d Ghost will not out of my Head yet.

[Exeunt all but Bellmour.

Bel.  Hah—­a Ghost! what can he mean?  A Ghost, and Bellmour’s
—­Sure my good Angel, or my Genius,
In pity of my Love, and of Leticia—­
But see Leticia comes, but still attended—­

Enter Leticia, Lady Fulbank, Diana.

—­Remember—­oh, remember to be true?
                   [Aside to her, passing by goes out.

L. Ful.  I was sick to know with what Christian Patience you bore the
Martyrdom of this Night.

Let.  As those condemn’d bear the last Hour of Life.  A short Reprieve I had—­and by a kind Mistake, Diana only was my Bedfellow—­ [Weeps.

Dia.  And I wish for your Repose you ne’er had seen my Father.
          
                                                     [Weeps.

Let.  And so do I, I fear he has undone me—­

Dia.  And me, in breaking of his word with Bredwel—­

L. Ful.—­So—­as Trincolo says, wou’d you were both hang’d for me, for putting me in mind of my Husband.  For I have e’en no better luck than either of you—­Let our two Fates warn your approaching one:  I love young Bredwel and must plead for him.

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