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L. Ful. Is my Lady at leisure for a Visit, Sir? Bel. Always to receive your Ladyship. Sir Cau. With me, Sir, wou'd you speak? Gay. With you, Sir, if your name be Fulbank. Sir Cau. Gay. I've something to deliver to your Ear. Sir Cau. So, I'll be hang'd if he do not tell me, I'm a Cuckold now: I see it in his Eyes. My Ear, Sir!
But what's all this to being here this Morning? Gay. Bel. Didst thou? pursue thy kind Design. Get me to see her; and sure no Woman, even possest with a new Passion, Grown confident even to Prostitution, But when she sees the Man to whom she's sworn so very very much, will find Remorse and Shame. Gay. Hah see the Bridegroom! And with him my destin'd Cuckold, old Sir Cautious Fulbank.
I am convinc'd last night I was with Julia. Oh Sot, insensible and dull! Enter softly Sir Cautious. Sir Cau. So, the Candle's out give me your hand. SCENE V. Changes to a Bed-chamber. Lady Fulbank suppos'd in Bed. Enter Sir Cautious and Gayman by dark. Sir Cau. L. Ful. Where shou'd I be in Bed; what, are you by dark? Sir Cau. Ay, the Candle went out by Chance.
Our Store's quite wasted, and our Credit's small, Not a Fool left to bless our selves withal. We show you one to day intirely new, And of all Jests, none relish like the true. Let that the value of our Play inhance, Then it may prove indeed the Lucky Chance. Sir Feeble Fainwou'd, an old Alderman to be married Mr. Leigh. to Leticia, Sir Cautious Fulbank, an old Banker married to Julia, Mr. Nokes.
Enter Gayman like a Ghost, with a Torch. Sir Cau. Oh Lord, oh Lord! Gay. Sir Feeb. Gay. Thou call'st in vain, fond Wretch for I am Bellmour, Whom first thou robb'st of Fame and Life, And then what dearer was, his Wife. Sir Cau. Oh Lord oh Lord! Enter L. Fulbank in an undress, and Pert undrest. L. Ful. Heavens, what noise is this? Sir Feeb. Stay, Madam, stay 'tis I, a poor trembling Mortal.
But I impatient to see this dear delight of my Soul, and hearing from none of you this six weeks, came from Brussels in this disguise for the Hague I have not seen, though hang'd there but come let's away, and compleat me a right St. Omer's Spark, that I may present my self as soon as they come from Church. SCENE II. Sir Cautious Fulbank's House. Enter Lady Fulbank, Pert and Bredwel.
L. Ful. How now, Cousin! Is this high piece of Gallantry from you? Bea. Ay, Madam, I have not travel'd for nothing L. Ful. I find my Cousin is resolv'd to conquer, he assails with all his Artillery of Charms; we'll leave him to his success, Madam. Leticia and L. Fulbank. Bea. Go, salute her look how he stands now; what a sneaking thing is a Fellow who has never travel'd and seen the World!
Gay. This is the first thing in Petticoats that ever dar'd me in vain. Were I but sure she were but human now for sundry Considerations she might down but I will on SCENE IV. A Chamber in the Apartments of L. Fulbank. Enter Old Woman followed by Gayman in the dark. Gay. Hah, Musick and Excellent! Gay. What the Devil can all this mean?
His estate has been mortgaged to an old banker, Sir Cautious Fulbank, whose wife Julia he loves, and to her he pretends to have gone to Northamptonshire to his uncle's death bed.
Bellmour has meanwhile revealed himself to Leticia, who is plunged in despair at the nuptials. Lady Fulbank, who is present, greets Gayman and asks him to give her an assignation in the garden, but he excuses himself in order to keep his prior appointment, and she leaves him in dissembled anger.
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