Lord.  I see, Sir, you have found your Wits again. 
—­Well, I see there’s no opposing Destiny;
And I have still such tenderness for thee, [To Dia. 
That hadst thou pleaded his Cause to me before,
I shou’d have been less cruel to him. 
—­Where is that Lady which you so admire,
Whose Beauty does eclipse that of Diana?

[Bellmour goes out, and brings in Celinda.

Dia.  This, Sir, is she who merits more than I.

Lord.  She’s fair indeed; here, Frank,
I give thee thy Celinda, whose Beauty
Excuses all thy Faults of Disobedience.

Bel.  Thus low, I thank you for this Goodness, Sir. [Kneels.

Lord.  There only wants the Ceremony of the Law to undo what’s between you and Diana, if she remain a Virgin.

Bel.  For me, by Heav’n she is; And for the rest, I do not doubt her Virtue.

Dia.  You may believe him, Sir; and this alone’s the Man, in whom I will, or never will be happy.

Lord.  Mr. Friendlove!  I give Consent to’t, he has a noble Character; and what he wants in Fortune, has in Virtue—­take her, young Man.

Friend.  ’Tis such an Honour, Sir, that my Gratitude, without the mighty Passion I have for her, would make me ever thankful.

Lord.  This Term, we shall make the former Marriage void; till then love on, and fear no Frowns from Fortune—­but Nephew—­now I hope your Brother shall have his Portion.

Bel.  My dearest Charles, forgive me all that’s past, And share the Fortune Heaven has given thy Brother.

Char.  The Joy I have, Sir, to be undeceived, Is much the greatest Blessing Heav’n can send me.

    Enter Sir Timothy, follow’d by Phillis, Sham,
    Sharp, and Betty Flauntit.

Sir Tim.  I am pursu’d by two impertinent Women; prithee, Friendlove, tell ’em I am gone out at the Backdoor, and send ’em away.

Lord.  What’s the News here?

Sir Tim.  How, Celinda here, and Bellmour too!  Nay, now wou’d I compound for my Life, at any rate, by Fortune.

Phil.  Sir, this Villain here has abus’d me, and with a false Marriage has rob’d me of my Honour.

Bel.  How!

Sir Tim.  My Lord, I say this young Jilt would have rob’d me of my self; and courting her, and enjoying her only for a Miss, would persuade me I am married to her.

Flaunt.  Sir, I say, I am doubly wrong’d; first by this false Knight, who has belong’d to me this three Years, which gives me a right to him, as good as if I were married to him; who has now unlawfully left my Bed, for that of this Gilflurt, who, on the other side, takes away my Knight, and consequently eats the Bread out of my Mouth.

Bel.  What means all this?  Speak some of ye that know.