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.