University of Virginia Library

ACT. IV.

SCEN. I.

Colonel Blunt brought in by Bayliffs.
1 B.
I, I we thought how well you'd get Bail.

C. Bl.
Why you unconscionable Rascals, are you
Angry that I am unlucky, or do you want some Fees?
I'le perish in a dungeon before I'le consume with throwing
Sops to such Curs.

1. Ba.
Chuse, chuse, come along with him.

C. Bl.
I'le not go your pace neither Rascals; I'le go softly,
If it be but to hinder you from taking up some other
Honest Gentleman.

1 B.
Very well, surly Sir, we will carry you where you
Shall not be troubled what pace to walk; you'l finde a
Large Bell, blood is dear; not yours is it? a farthing a pint
Were very dear for the best urine you have.

Enter Arbella, Ruth, Abel, C. Careless, and Obadiah.
1. B.
How now, are these any of your Friends?

C. Bl.
Never if you see women, that's a rule.

Arb.
Nay, you need have no scruple, 'tis a near Kinsman
Of mine, you do not think I hope that I wou'd let you suffer—
You—that must be nearer then a Kinsman to me.

Ab.
But my Mother doth not know it.

Arb.
If that be all, leave it to me and Ruth, we'l save
You harmless: besides I cannot marry, if my Kinsman be in
Prison; he must convey my Estate as you appoint; for 'tis
All in him, we must please him.

Abel.
The consideration of that doth convince me.
Obadiah, 'tis necessary for us to set at liberty this Gentleman,
Being a Trustee for Mrs. Arbella's Estate; tell 'um therefore
That you and I will Bail this Gentleman—and—
D'hear, tell them who I am.

Obad.
I shall. Gentlemen, this is the honorable
Mr. Abel Day, the first born of the Honorable Mr. Day,
Chair-man of the Committee of Sequestrations, and I
My self by name of Obadiah, and Clerk to the said
Honorable Committee.

1 B.
Well Sir, we know Mr. Day, and Mr. Abel.

Abel.
Yes, that's I, and I will bail this Gentleman; I believe
You dare not accept against the Bail: nay, you shall have
Obadiahs too, one that the State trusts.

1 B.
With all our hearts Sir—
But there are Charges to be paid.

Arb.
Here Obadiah, take this Purse and discharge them,
And give the Bayliffs twenty shillings to drink.

C. Bl.
This is miraculous.

1 B.
A brave Lady: i'faith Mrs. we'l drink your health.

Abel.
She's to be my Wife, as sure as you are here;
What say you to that now?

1 B.
That's impossible; here's something more in this:
Honorable Mr. Abel, the Sheriffs Deputy is hard by in
Another room, if you please to go thither,
And give your Bail Sir.

Abel.
Well, shew us the way, and let him know who I am.

C. Car.
Hark ye, pretty Mrs. Ruth, if you were not
[Exeunt Abel, Obadiah, and Bayliffs.
A Committee-mans Daughter, and so consequently
Against Monarchy, two Princes shou'd
Have you and that Gentlewoman.

Ruth.
No, no, you'l serve my turn; I am not ambitious.

C. Car.
Do but swear then that thou art not the Issue of
Mr. Day, and though I know 'tis a lye, I'le be content
To be cousen'd, and believe.

Ruth.
Fie, fie, you can't abide taking of Oaths; look,
Look how your friend and mine take aim at one another:
Is he smitten?

C. Car.
Cupid has not such another wounded Subject,
Nay, and is vex't he is in love too;
Troth 'tis partly my own case.

Ruth.
Peace, she begins as need requires.

Arb.
You are free Sir.

C. Bl.
Not so free as you think.

Arb.
What hinders it?

C. Bl.
Nothing, but I'le tell you.

Arb.
Why Sir?

C. Bl.
You'l laugh at me.

Arb.
Have you perceived me apt to commit such a rudeness,
Pray let me know it?

C. Bl.
Upon two conditions you shall know it.

Arb.
Well, make your own Laws.

C. Bl.
First I thank you, y'have freed me nobly; pray
Believe it, you have this acknowledgement from an
Honest heart, one that would crack a string for you,
That's one thing.

Arb.
Well, the other.

C. Bl.
The other is onely, that I may stand so ready,
That I may be gone just as I have told it you; together
With your promise, not to call me back: and upon these
Terms I give you leave to laugh when I am gone. Careless,
Come stand ready, that at the sign given
We may vanish together.

Ruth.
If you please Sir, when you are ready to start,
I'le cry one, two, three, and away.

C. Bl.
Be pleased to forbear, good smart Gentlewoman,
You have leave to jeer when I am gone, and am just going;
By your spleens leave a little patience.

Arb.
Prethee peace.

Ruth.
I shall contain Sir.

C. Bl.
That's much for a woman to do.

Arb.
Now Sir, perform your promise.

C. Bl.
Careless, have you done with your woman?

C. Car.
Madam—

C. Bl.
Nay, I have thank't her already; prethee no more
Of that dull way of gratitude; stand ready man, yet nearer
The door: so now my misfortune that I promised to
Discover, is, that I love you above my sense or reason:
So farewel, and laugh; come Careless.

C. Car.
Ladies, our lives are yours; be but so kinde as to
Believe it, till you have something to command.

[Exeunt.
Ruth.
Was there ever such humor?

Arb.
As I live his confession shews nobly.

Ruth.
It shews madly I am sure, an ill bred fellow, not
Indure a woman to laugh at him!

Arb.
He's honest I dare swear.

Ruth.
That's more then I dare swear for my Colonel.

Arb.
Out upon him.

Ruth.
Nay, 'tis but for want of a good example;
I'le make him so.

Arb.
But d'hear Ruth, we were horribly to blame, that we
Did not enquire where they lodg'd, under pretence of sending
To them about their own business.

Ruth.
Why, thy whimsical Colonel discharg'd himself off
Like a Gun: there was no time between the flashing in
The pan, and the going off, to ask a question: but hark ye,
I have an invention upon the old account of the
Five hundred pound, which shall make Abel send
His pursuivant Obadiah to look 'um.

Arb.
Excellent! the trout Abel will bite immediately at
That bait: the message shall be as from his Master
Day, Senior, to come and speak with him; they'l think
Presently 'tis about their Composition, and come certainly.
In the mean time we'l prepare them with Counter expectations.

Enter Abel and Obadiah.
Ruth.
You have it, peace, see where Abel and the gentle
Squire of low degree; Obadiah approaches, having newly
Entred themselves into bonds.

Arb.
Which I'le be sure to tell his Mother, if he be
Ever more troublesome.

Ruth.
And that he's turn'd an arrant Cavalier,
By bailing one of the Brood.

Abel.
I have according to your desires given freedom to
Your Kinsman and Trustee; I suppose he doth perceive
That you may have power in right of me.

Arb.
Good Mr. Abel, I am sincerely beholding to you,
And your Authority.

Ruth.
O fie upon't brother, I did forget to acquaint
You with a business before the Gentlemen went.
O me, what a sieve like memory have I,
'Twas am important affair too.

Abel.
If you discover it to me, I shall render you
My opinion upon the whole.

Ruth.
The two Gentlemen have repented of their obstinacy,
And wou'd now present five hundred pound to your good
Honorable Mother, to stand their friend, that they may be
Permitted to take the Covenant, and we, negligent we,
Have let them go, before we knew where to send to them.

Abel.
That was the want of being us'd to important affairs;
It is ill to neglect the accepting of their conversion,
Together with their money.

Ruth.
Well, there is but one way; do you send Obadiah
In your Fathers name, to desire them both to come to his house
About some business that will be for their good, but no more;
For then they'l take it ill; for they enjoyn'd us secresie;
And when they come, let us alone: Obadiah may enquire
Them out at some Tavern.

Obad.
The Bayliffs did say they were gone
To the Devil-Tavern to pay a reckoning.

Abel.
Hasten thither good good Obadiah, as if you had met
My Honorable Father, and desire them to come unto
His house, about am important affair that is for their good.

Obad.
I shall use expedition.

[Exit.
Abel.
And we will hasten home, lest the Gentlemen shou'd
Be before us, and not know how to address their offers;
And then we will hasten our being united in the
Bonds of Matrimony.

Arb.
Soft and fare goes far.

[Exeunt.
Enter the two Colonels, and Teg as at the Tavern.
C. Car.
Cid ever man get away to craftily from the thing
He lik't; terrible business, afraid to tell a woman what she
Desir'd to hear; I pray heartily that the boyes do not come
To the knowledge of thy famous retreat; we shall be followed
By those small birds, as you have seen an Owl pursued.

C. Bl.
I shall break some of their wings then.

C. Car.
To leave a handsome woman, a woman that came
To be bound body for body for thee; one that does that
Which no woman will hardly do again.

C. Bl.
What's that?

C. Car.
Love thee, and thy Blunt Humor; a meer chance
Man, a thing besides all the venerate Stars.

C. Bl.
You practice your wit to no purpose; I am not
To be perswaded to lie still, like a Jack-a-lent to be cast at;
I had rather be a Wisp hung up for a Woman to scold at,
Then a fix'd Lover for 'um to point at:
Your squib began to hiss.

Enter Obadiah.
C. Car.
Peace man, here's Jupiters Mercury is his
Message to us trow?

Obad.
Gentlemen, you are opportunely over-taken
And found out.

C. Bl.
How's this?

Obad.
I come unto you in the name of the Honorable
Mr. Day, who desires to speak with you both about some
Important affair, which is conducing for your good.

C. Bl.
What train is this?

C. Car.
Peace, let us not be rash Teg.

Teg.
Well then,

C. Car.
Were it not possible that you cou'd entertain this
Fellow in the next room till he were pretty drunk?

Teg.
I warrant you that now, I will make him and my self
Too drunk for thy sweet sake.

C. Car.
Be sure Teg—some business Sir, that will take us
Up a very little time to finish, make us desire your patience
Till we dispatch it: In the mean time Sir do us the
Favour as to call for a glass of Sack: in the next room
Teg shall wait upon you, and drink your Masters health.

Obad.
It needeth not, nor do I use to drink healths.

C. Car.
None but your Masters Sir, and that by
Way of remembrance.

Ob.
We that have the affairs of State under our our
Tuition cannot long delay; my presence may be required
For the carrying on the work.

C. Car.
Nay Sir, it shall not exceed above a quarter
Of an hour; perhaps we'l wait upon you to Mr. Day presently:
Pray Sir drink but one glass or two; we wou'd wait upon you
Our selves, but that wou'd hinder us from going with you.

Obad.
Upon that consideration I shall attend a little.

C. Car.
Go wait upon him, now Teg or never.

Teg.
I will make him so drunk as can be upon my soul.

C. Bl.
What a devil shou'd this message mean?

[Exeunt.
C. Car.
'Tis too plain; this cream of Committee rascals! who
Better intelligence then a State Secretary, has heard
Of his Son Abels being hamper'd, in the cause of the
Wicked, and in revenge wou'd intice us to perdition.

C. Bl.
If Teg cou'd be so portunate as to make him drunk,
We might know all.

C. Car.
If the close hearted Rogue will not be open mouth'd,
We'l leave him pawn'd for all our scores, and stuff his pockets
With blanck Commissions.

C. Bl.
Only fill up one with his Masters name.

C. Car.
And another with his wifes name for Adjutant General,
Together with a Bill of Ammunition hid under Dayes house,
And make it be digg'd down, with scandal of Delinquency.
A Rascal to think to invite us into New-gate!

C. Bl.
Well, we must resolve what to do.

C. Car.
I have a fancy come into my head that may produce
An admirable Scene.

C. Bl.
Come, let's hear.

C. Car.
'Tis open supposition, that Teg makes him drunk,
And by the way 'tis a good Omen that we have no sober
Apparition in that wavering posture of frailty; we'l send him
Home in a Sedan, and cause him to be deliver'd in that
Good natur'd condition, to the ill natur'd Rascal
His Master.

C. Bl.
It will be excellent: how I pray for Teg
To be victorious!

Enter Musician.
Mus.
Gentlemen, will you have any Musick?

C. Bl.
Prethee no, we are out of tune.

C. Car.
Pish, we never will be out of humor. Do'st hear,
Canst sing us a Malignant Sonnet?

Mus.
I can sing many Songs. You seem honest Gentlemen.

C. Car.
Cavaliers thou mean'st.
Sing without any apprehension.

SONG.

C. Car.
This Song has rais'd my Spirits: Here, sing alwayes
For the King; I wou'd have every man in his way do something
For him; I wou'd have Fidlers sing for him, Parsons pray
For him, Men fight for him, Women scold for him, and
Children cry for him, and according to this rule,
[Enter Teg and Obadiah drunk
Teg is drinking for him: but see,
See and rejoyce where Teg with Laurel comes.

C. Bl.
And the vanquish't Obadiah with nothing fix'd
About him but his eyes.

C. Car.
Stay, sing another Song in the behalf of
Compounders if thou canst, that the vapors of the Wine
May have full power to ascend up to the firmament of
His truly reformed Coxcomb.

SONG.

[Obadiah repeating with him.
C. Car.
This is sport beyond modest hopes. How I will
Adore Sack that can force this fellow to Religion. The rogue
Is full of Worship.

Teg.
Well now, upon my soul Mr. Obed
Commit sings as well as the man now:
Come then will you sing as Irish Song after me?

Obad.
I will sing Irish for the King now.

Teg.
I will sing for the King as well as you. Hark you now.

Obad.
That is too hard stuff; I cannot do these and these
Material matters.

[He sings an Irish Song, and Obadiah tries.
Teg.
Here now, we will take some snuff for the King—so
There lay it upon your hand; put one of your noses to it now,
So snuff now. Upon my soul Mr. Obed Commit will make
A brave Irish man.

Obad.
I wi'l snuff for the King no more. Good Mr. Teg,
Give me some more Sack, and sing English for my money.

Teg.
I will tell you that Irish is as good and better too.
Come now we will dance: Can you play an Irish Tune?
Can you play this now.

Mus.
No Sir, but I can play you an excellent Irish Jig.

[They dance.
C. Car.
This is beyond thought: So this motion
Like a tumbled barrel has set the liquor a working again.
Now for a Chair.

[Enter Drawer.
C. Bl.
Drawer, who waits there?

Drawer.
What d'you want Gentlemen?

C. Bl.
Call a Chair presently, and bring their Chair into
This room; here's a friend of ours overtaken.

Drawer.
I go Sir.

[Exit.
C. Car.
Teg thou hast done miracles, thou art a good Omen,
And has vanquish'd the cause in this overthrow of this
Counterfeit Rascal its true Epitome: And now Teg
According to the words of condemnation we'l send him
To the place from whence he came.

Teg.
Upon my soul he's dead now, shall I howl as we do
In Ireland.

C. Car.
How's that Teg.

Teg.
Yo, yo.

[Howls.
C. Car.
No more good Teg, lest you give an Alarm to the
Enemy. Welcome honest fellow; by your looks you seem so.

[Enter Sedan.
1 C.
How Colonel, have you forgot your poor Souldier Ned.

C. Car.
Why, this is a miraculous pursuit of good fortune
Honest Ned; what turn'd Chair-man?

1.
Any thing for Bread and Beer, noble Colonel shall I
Have the Honor to carry you.

C. Car.
No Ned, is thy fellow honest?

1.
Or I'de be hang'd before I carry a Chair an inch with him.

C. Car.
'Tis well—look you Ned, that fellow is Mr. Day
The Committee-man's Clerk, whom with wonderful industry
We have made drunk: Just as he is, pack him up in thy Chair,
And immediately transport him to his Master Dayes house;
And in the very Hall turn him out. There's half a Crown
For thy pains.

1.
If I fail say Ned's a Coward: Come shall we put your short
Wing'd worship into your mew. Come along.

[They put him in and Ex.
C. Car.
Farewel Ned: Teg come, you must carry some
Money to one or two confident friends of mine;
We'l pay our reckoning at the Bar, then go home and laugh;
And if you will plot some way to see our inchanting Females
Once more; they make me so long—

[Exeunt.
Enter Mr. Day, and Mrs. Day.
Mrs. Day.
Dispatch quickly I say, and say I said it; many
Things fall between the lip and the cup.

Mr. Day.
Nay duck, let thee alone for counsel. Ah,
If thou hadst been a man.

Mrs. Day.
Why then you wou'd have wanted a woman,
And a helper too.

Mr. Day.
I profess so I shou'd, and a notable one too, though
I say't before thy face, and that's no ill one.

Mrs. Day.
Come, come, you are wandring from the matter;
Dispatch the Marriage I say, whilst she is thus taken with
Our Abel. Women are uncertain.

Mr. Day.
How if she shou'd be coy.

Mrs. Day.
You are at your ifs again; if she be foolish,
Tell her plainly what she must trust to, no Abel, no Land;
Plain dealing's a Jewel: Have you the Writings drawn
As I advised you, which she must sign?

Mr. Day.
I, I warrant you duck; Here, here they be.
Oh she has a brave Estate.

Mrs. Day.
What news you have.

Mr. Day.
Look you Wife.

[Day pulls out Writings, and layes out his Keyes.
Mrs. Day.
Pish, teach your Granam to spin; let me see.

Enter Servant.
Serv.
May it please your Honor, your good neighbour
Zechariah is departing this troublesome life: he has made
Your Honor his Executor, but cannot depart
Till he has seen your Honors.

Mr. Day.
Alas, alas, a good man will leave us, Come good
Duck, let us hasten: Where is Obadiah to usher you?

Mrs. Day.
Why Obadiah, a Varlet to be out of the way at
Such a time; truly he moveth my wrath. Come Husband along,
I'le take Abel in his place.

[Enter Ruth and Arbella.
Ruth.
What's the meaning of this Alarm? there's some Carion
Discover'd; the Crows are all gone upon a sudden.

Arb.
The she-Day call'd most fiercely for Obadiah;
Look here, Ruth, what have they left behind?

Ruth.
As I live it is the Days bunch of Keys, which he always
Keeps so closely:—well—if thou hast any metal,
Now's the time.

Arb.
To do what?

Ruth.
To fly out of Egypt.

[Enter Abel.
Arb.
Peace, we are betrai'd else; as sure as can be wench
He's come back for the Keyes.

Ruth.
We'l forswear 'um in confident words, and no less
Confident countenances.

Abel.
An important affair hath call'd my Honorable Father
And Mother forth, and in the absence of Obadiah I am enforced
To attend their Honors; and therefore I conceiv'd it right
And meet to acquaint you with it; lest in my absence you
Might have apprehended, that some mischance had befallen
My person: therefore I desire you to receive consolation;
And so I bid you heartily farewel.

[Exit.
Arb.
Given from his mouth this tenth of April, he
Put me in a cruel fright.

Ruth.
As I live I am all over in such a dew as hangs about a
Still when 'tis first set a going; but this is better and better:
There was never such an opportunity to break prison.
I know the very places holes in his Closet where the
Composition of your Estate lies, and where the Deeds of my
Own Estate lies. I have cast my eye upon them often
When I have gone up to him in errands, and to call
Him to dinner. If I miss hang me.

Arb.
But whither shall we go?

Ruth.
To a friend of mine, and of my Fathers that lives
Near the Temple, and will harbor us; fear not, and so set
Up for our selves, and get our Colonels.

Arb.
Nay, the mischief that I have done, and the condition
We are in, makes me as ready as thou art: come let's about it.

Ruth.
Stay, do you stand Centinel here, that's the
Closset-Window; I'le call for thee if I need thee; and
Be sure to give notice of any news of the enemy.

[Exit.
Arb.
I warrant thee, may but this departing Brother have
So much string of life left him as may tie this expecting Day
To his bed-side, till we have commited this honest robery—
Hark!—what's that—this apprehension can make a noise
When there is none.

Ruth.
I have 'um, I have 'um; nay the whole covey,
And his seal at arms bearing a Dogs leg.

[Above.
Arb.
Come make haste then.

Ruth.
As I live here's a Letter counterfeited to the King,
To the Rascal his rebellious Subject Day; with a remembrance
To his discreet wife; nay, what do'st thou think these are?
I'le but cast my eye upon these papers that were scismatically,
And lay in separation: what do'st think they are?

Arb.
I can't tell; nay prethee come away.

Ruth.
Out upon the precize Baboon:
They are Letters from two wenches, one from an encrease of sallary
To maintain his unlawful Issue; another from a Wench
That had more conscience then he, and refus'd
To take the Physick that he prescrib'd to take away
A natural Timpany.

Arb.
Nay, prethee dispatch.

Ruth.
Here be abundance more; come run up, and help
Me carry 'um. We'l take the whole Index of his rogeries?
We shall be furnish'd with such armes offensive and defensive
That we shall never need.
Sue to him for a League. Come, make haste.

Arb.
I come.

Enter with the Sedan.
1.
Come open his portable Tomb: 'Slife here's nothing in it;
Ferret him, or he'l never bolt. It looks as if we had brought
A basket Hare, to be set down and hunted.

2.
He's dead.

1.
Dead, drunk thou mean'st; turn up the Chair, and turn
Him out as they do Badgers caught in a Sack: Shake
Man; So, now he fallies.

[Obadiah tumbles out of the Chair, and sings as at the Tavern—of the Song, and Enter Arbella and Ruth from robbing the Closet.
Arb.
What's this? we are undone.

Obad.
Mr. Teg, will you dance Mr. Teg.

Ruth.
Put a good face on't, or give me the van. O, 'tis
Obadiah fallen.

Arb.
Nay, and cannot rise neither: d'hear honest friends,
Was this zealous Gentleman your fraight.

1.
Yes Mrs. two honest Gentlemen took care of him, seeing
Him thus devoutly over-taken.

Arb.
It was our Colonels that thought Day sent him to trapan
Them as sure as can be.

Ruth.
No doubt on't; how unmerciful they are Arbella,
Every minute to do something or other to encrease
Our whimsie—Are you paid.

1.
Yes Mrs.—'Slife we shall be paid double.

Ruth.
Stay, where did you leave the two
Careful minded Gentlemen.

1.
Why do you ask Mistress?

Ruth.
For no hurt. Can'st carry us near the place?

1.
Yes Mistress, sure there's no danger in women.

Arb.
What do'st mean?

Ruth.
The same that thou do'st to see 'um if I can;
Is't near Temple-Bar?

[Obadiah sings.
1.
Hard by Mistress.

Ruth.
Come in, there's my friend lives hard by; fear not,
We can never fly so conceal'd—May that Nightingale continue
His note, till the Owle Day returns to hear him: Come
Honest fellow, stay over against the place where you
Left the Gentlemen; we have some business with them;
We'l pay you, and they'l thank you: so good night Mr. Day.

1.
I warrant you Mrs. Come along Tom.

Obad.
Some small Beer good Mr. Teg.

[Exeunt.
Enter as return'd, Mr. Day, Mrs. Day, and Abel.
Mr. Day.
He made a good end, and departed as unto sleep.

Mrs. Day.
I'le assure you his Wife took on grievously;
I do not believe she'l marry this half year.

Mr. Day.
He died full of exhortation. Ha duck,
Shou'dst be sorry to lose me?

Mrs. Day.
Lose you; I warrant you you'l live as long as
A better thing—Ah Lord, what's that?

[Obadiah sings
Mr. Day.
How now! what's this? how!—Obadiah—
And in a drunken distemper assuredly!

Mrs. Day.
O fie upon't, who wou'd have believ'd that he
Shou'd have liv'd to have seen Obadiah overcome with the
Creature? Where have you been sirrah?

Obad.
D—d—drinking, the Ki—Ki—Kings Health.

Mr. Day.
O terrible, some disgrace put upon us and shame
Brought within our Walls; I'le go lock up my
Neighbours will, and come down and shew him
A reproof.—How—how—I cannot feel my Keyes—nor—
[He feels in his pocket and leaps up to.
Hear 'um gingle: Didst thou see my Keyes duck?

Mrs. Day.
Duck me no ducks; I see your Keyes, see a fools
Head of your own: Had I kept them, I warrant they had been
Forth-coming: You are so slappish, you throw 'um up and
Down at your tail: why don't you go look if you have
Not left them in the door?

Mr. Day.
I go, I go duck.

[Exit.
Mrs. Day.
Here Abel, take up this fallen creature, who has
Left his uprightness; carry him to a bed, and when he is
Return'd to himself, I will exhort him.

Abel.
He is exceedingly over-whelmed.

Obad.
Stand away I say, and give me some Sack, that
[He goes to lift him.
I may drink a health to the King, and let Committees
Be damn'd with their gain.
[Obadiah sings.
Where's Mr. Teg?

Enter Teg.
Mr. Day.
Undone, undone, rob'd, rob'd, the door's left
Open, and all my Writings, Papers stollen, undone, undone.
Ruth, Ruth!

Mrs. Day.
Why Ruth I say, Thieves, Thieves!

[Enter Servant.
Serv.
What's the matter forsooth? here has been no Thieves,
I have not been a minute out of the house.

Mrs. Day.
Where's Ruth and Mrs. Arbella?

Serv.
I have not seen them a pretty while.

Mr. Day.
'Tis they have rob'd me, and taken away
The Writings of both their Estates. Undone, undone!

Mrs. Day.
This came with staying for you Coxcomb,
We had come back sooner else: yes slow drone, we must
Be undone for your dulness.

Obad.
Be not in wrath.

Mrs. Day.
I'le wrath you, ye rascal you, teaching you
Drunken Rascal, and you sober Dulman.

Obad.
Your feet are swift and violent; their motioa
Will make them fume.

Mrs. Day.
D'lye too ye drunken Rascal?

Mr. Day.
Nay patience good Duck, and let's lay out
For these women; they are the Thieves.

Mrs. Day.
'Twas you that left your Keyes upon the Table
To tempt them: ye need cry good Duck be patient. Bring in
The drunken Rascal, ye Booby, when he is sober he may
Discover something. Come take him up; I'le have 'um hunted.

[Exeunt.
Abel.
I rejoyce yet in the midst of my sufferings, that my Mrs.
Saw not my rebukes. Come Obadiah I pray raise your self
Upon your feet, and walk.

Obad.
Have you taken the Covenant? that's the question,

Abel.
Yea.

Obad.
And will you drink a Health to the King?
That's t'other question.

Abel.
Make not thy self a scorn.

Obad.
Scorn in thy face; void young Satan.

Abel.
I pray you walk in, I shall be assisting.

Obad.
Stand off, and you shall perceive by my stedfast going
That I am not drunk. Look ye now—so, softly, softly; gently
Good Obadiah, gently and stedily, for fear it should be said
That thou art in drink: so, gently and uprightly Obadiah.

Abel.
You do not move.

[He moves his Legs, but stands still.
Obad.
Then do I stand still, as fast as you go.

Enter Mrs. Day.
Mrs. Day.
What, stay all day? there's for you Sir;
You are a sweet youth to leave in trust; along you
Drunken Rascals, I'le set you both forward.

Obad.
The Philistines are upon us, and Day is broke loose
From darkness, with keeping has made her fierce.

[She beats 'um off.
Mrs. Day.
Out you drunken rascal, I'le make
You move, you beast.

[Exeunt.