Ri.  No great danger, his blade bone dislocated; the man has put everything in his right place.

Un.  Dee heare, Sir Richard? wee are married.

Ri.  Tis well done, send you joy; tis to my mind.

Un.  Come hither, Dorothy.

Cap.  But where’s Mr. Engine?

Ri.  He rid before.

Cap.  If the rascall have any wit left he will ride quite away with himselfe; tis his best course to fly oversea.

Tho.  If he were sure to flie, he were sure to escape.

Cap.  At the worst, drowning is a most [sic] honourable death then hanging.

Do.  My mother died, I have it by tradition, As soone as I was borne; my father (but No knight) is now i’th Indies, a poore Merchant, That broke for 20,000 pounds.

Ri.  The shipps may come home.  Hee!

Do.  You were best use me well, now we are married. 
I will be sworne you forc’d me to the Church
And thrice compeld me there to say I Dorothy. 
The Parsons oath and mine, for ought I know,
May make it halfe a rape.

Ri.  There is no remedy;
We can prove no conspiracie.  And, because
I have been gulld my selfe, gett her with child,
—­My Doe is barren,—­at birth of her first baby
Ile give her a hundred peeces.

Un.  That’s somewhat yet, when charge comes on.  Thy hand! a wife can be but a wife:  it shall cost me 500 pounds but ile make thee a Ladie in earnest.

    Enter Sir Francis and Surgeon.

Ri.  How ist, Sir Francis?

Fra.  My Surgeon sayes no danger; when you please, I may venture, Sir, to London.

Ri.  No hast now.

Cou.  Not to-night, Sir; wee must have revells and you salute my Bride.

Un.  And mine.

Tho.  A knights Daughter and heire.

Fra.  May all joy thrive upon your Loves.  —­Then you are cosend of your Mistres, Mounseir?

Do.  But your nephew knowes I have met with my match.  Some bodie has been put to the sword.

Ri.  Come, we loose tyme.

Fra.  Preserve your marriage faith:  a full increase Of what you wish confirme your happinesse.

[Exeunt.

FINIS.

APPENDIX I.

The folio volume numbered Eg.  MS. 1,994 contains 349 leaves.  It was purchased by the British Museum, for the very modest sum of thirty-three pounds, at the sale of Lord Charlemont’s library on August 6, 1865.  Mr. Warner (of the Manuscript Department of the British Museum), to whom the public are indebted for an excellent catalogue of the Dulwich Collection, thinks that the volume originally belonged