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.
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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.

Bel.  Oh, I can towse, and ruffle, like any Leviathan, when I begin—­ Come, prove my Vigor. [Towses her.

Flaunt.  Oh, Lord, Sir!  You tumble all my Garniture.

Bel.  There’s Gold to buy thee more—­

Flaunt.  Oh, sweet Sir—­wou’d my Knight were hang’d, so I were well rid of him now—­Well, Sir, I swear you are the most agreeable Person—­

Bel.  Am I?—­let us be more familiar then—­I’ll kiss thy Hand, thy Breast, thy Lips—­and—­

Flaunt.  All—­you please, Sir—­

Bel.  A tractable Sinner! [Offers to kiss her
Faugh—­how she smells—­had I approach’d so near divine Celinda, what
A natural Fragrancy had sent it self through all my ravisht Senses!
          
                                                    [Aside.

Flaunt.  The Man’s extasy’d, sure, I shall take him.  Come, Sir, you’re sad.

Bel.  As Angels fall’n from the Divine Abode,
And now am lighted on a very Hell! 
—­But this is not the way to thrive in Wickedness;
I must rush on to Ruin—­Come, fair Mistress,
Will you not shew me some of your Arts of Love? 
For I am very apt to learn of Beauty—­Gods—­
What is’t I negotiate for?—­a Woman! 
Making a Bargain to possess a Woman! 
Oh, never, never!

Flaunt.  The Man is in love, that’s certain—­as I was saying, Sir—­

Bel.  Be gone, Repentance!  Thou needless Goodness, Which if I follow, canst lead me to no Joys.  Come, tell me the Price of all your Pleasures.

Sir Tim.  Look you, Mistress, I am but a Country Knight.  Yet I shou’d be glad of your farther Acquaintance.  —­Pray, who may that Lady be—­

Driv.  Who, Mrs. Flauntit, Sir?

Sir Tim.  Ay, she:  she’s tearing fine, by Fortune.

Driv.  I’ll assure you, Sir, she’s kept, and is a great Rarity, but to a Friend, or so—­

Sir Tim.  Hum—­kept—­pray, by whom?

Driv.  Why, a silly Knight, Sir, that—­

Sir Tim.  Ay, ay, silly indeed—­a Pox upon her—­a silly Knight, you say—­

Driv.  Ay, Sir, one she makes a very Ass of.

Sir Tim.  Ay, so methinks—­but she’s kind, and will do reason for all him.

Driv.  To a Friend, a Man of Quality—­or so.

Sir Tim.  Ay, she blinds the Knight.

Driv.  Alas, Sir, easily—­he, poor Cully, thinks her a very Saint—­but when he’s out of the way, she comes to me to pleasure a Friend.

Sir Tim.  But what if the Fool miss her?

Driv.  She cries Whore first, brings him upon his Knees for her Fault; and a piece of Plate, or a new Petticoat, makes his Peace again.

Sir Tim.  Why—­look you, Mistress, I am that Fop, that very silly Knight, and the rest that you speak of.

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