Tim. Hey day, if her feet walke as fast as thy tongue, sh[e’s] far enough ere this time. What a stir you make! Were you, as shee is, with your sweet heart, you would [be] pursud, would you? You would be hangd as soone. Al[as], good gentlewoman, heaven speed her!
Ma. You will not goe then?
Tim. No, indeed, will I not.
Her mother may be angry if she please.
The time has bin she would as willingly
Bin at the sport her selfe as now her daughter.
The ge[ntleman] shees gon with is a man,
And see theres no harme d[one], I warrant you.
Lov. Ha, ha, gramercy, Timothy, thou hittst it right. Maudlin, goe to; should Tim here offer as much to you, ha, I beleave you would not lock your selfe up in my ladyes closett; goe to, and goe to.
[Exeunt.
Ma. Udsme, my lady!
Enter Lady.
Lady. Lost, past redemption! I pursue
a fier
Which like the giddy Meteors that seduce
With their false light benighted travellers
Allures me to distruction. To curse fate
Were to allow I feard it, and admit
Participation in me of that spiritt
I most detest, a womans.
Lov. Please your good Ladyship.
Lady. Yes, that you depart.—
[Exit Alexander.
What can he see in her more worthy love
Then is in me? shees but a picture drawne
By my dimensions, and men sooner fancy
The Substance then the Shaddow. Oh, but shee
Is the true image not of what I am
But what I was, when like the spring I wore
My virgin roses on my cheeks.
Lov. Madam, you seeme—
Lady. Angry at your impertinency; learne manners, leave me.
Lov. She has coniurd downe my spirit:
these are immodest devills that make modest ladyes
become strickers[118]. Ile out oth storme, take
shelter in the cellar. Goe to and goe to; tis
better venter quarriling mongst those hogesheads.
[Exit
Alexander.
Enter Maudlin [and Timothy.]
Ma. Madam, your daughter—
Lady. Where is she? Who? Clariana?
Ma. The faire Belisea.
Enter Clariana.
Cla. Did you call me, madam.
Lady. Noe: were you soe neere? begon
againe,—
Yet stay.—Maudlin, avoid the Roome,
and if you see
Mr. Thurston, entreat him hither. Timothy,
Find out my son and charge him to delay
The execution of my late comaund
Till I next speake with him. [Exeunt Mag. and
Tim.
Clariana, you did what I comanded?
Cla. Yes, on my Soule.
Lady. But thou art ignorant Why with such violence I inioyn[e]d thee To leave thy Thurstons love?