Isa.  I never knew your grandmother was a Scotch woman:  Is she not a Tartar too?  Pray whistle for her, and let’s see her dance; come—­whist, grannee!

Const.  Fie, fie, servant; what, no invention in you? all this while a-studying for a name of your manor? come, come, where lies it? tell me.

Lov.  No, faith, I am wiser than so; I’ll discover my seat to no man; so I shall have some damned lawyer keep a prying into my title, to defeat me of it.

Const.  How then shall I be satisfied, there is such a thing in nature?

Lov.  Tell me what jewel you would wear, and you shall have it:  Enquire into my money, there’s the trial.

Const.  Since you are so flush, sir, you shall give me a locket of diamonds, of three hundred pounds.

Isa.  That was too severe; you know he has but two hundred and fifty pounds to bestow. [To her.

Lov_.  Well, you shall have it, madam:  But I cannot higgle; I know you’ll say it did not cost above two hundred pieces.

Isa.  I’ll be hanged if he does not present you with a parcel of melted flints set in gold, or Norfolk pebbles.

Lov.  Little gentlewoman, you are so keen—­Madam, this night I have appointed business, to-morrow I’ll wait upon you with it. [Exit LOVEBY.

Isa.  By that time he has bought his locket, and paid his landlady, all his money will be gone.  But do you mean to prosecute your plot to see him this evening?

Const.  Yes, and that very privately; if my father know it, I am undone.

Enter SETSTONE.

Isa.  I heard him say, this night he had appointed business.

Set.  Why, that was it, madam; according to your order, I put on a disguise, and found him in the Temple-walks:  Having drawn him aside, I told him, if he expected happiness, he must meet me in a blind alley, I nam’d to him, on the back side of Mr Trice’s house, just at the close of evening; there he should be satisfied from whom he had his supplies of money.

Const.  And how did he receive the summons?

Set.  Like a bold Hector of Troy; without the least doubt or scruple:  But, the jest on’t was, he would needs believe that I was the devil.

Const.  Sure he was afraid to come then?

Set.  Quite contrary; he told me I need not be so shy, to acknowledge myself to him; he knew I was the devil; but he had learnt so much civility, as not to press his friend to a farther discovery than he was pleased.  I should see I had to do with a gentleman; and any courtesy I should confer on him, he would not be unthankful; for he hated ingratitude of all things.

Const.  ’Twas well carried not to disabuse him:  I laugh to think what sport I shall have anon, when I convince him of his lies, and let him know I was the devil, to whom he was beholden for his money:  Go, Setstone; and in the same disguise be ready for him. [Exit SETSTONE.