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Scene 12.

Enter Widow, Tabitha, Cutter in a Puritanical habit.

Joll.Niece, go in a little, I'l come t' you presently and examine this matter further; Mr. Puny, lead in your wife for shame.

Luc.Villain, come not near me,
[Exit.I'l sooner touch a Scorpion or a Viper.

Pun.She's as humerous as a Bel-rope; she need not be so cholerique, I'm sure I behav'd my self like Propria quæ maribus.

Aur.Come in with me, Mr. Puny, I'l teach you how you shall handle her.
Exeunt Aur. Pun. 

Joll.Mr. Truman, pray take your son home, and see how you can work upon him there; speak fairly to him.

Trum. s.Speak fairly to my son? I'l see him buried first.

Joll.I mean perswade him———

Trum s..Oh! that's another matter; I will perswade him, Colonel, but if ever I speak fair to him till he mends his manners——— Come along with me, Jack-sawce, come home.

[Exeunt Trum. sen. Trum jun.Trum. j.I Sir, any whither.

Wid.What's the matter, brother Colonel, are there any broils here?

Joll.Why, Sister, my Niece has married without my consent, and so it pleases, it e'en pleases Heaven to bestow her Estate upon me.

Wid.Why, brother, there's a Blessing now already; If you had been a wicked Cavalier still she'd ha' done her duty, I warrant you, and defrauded you of the whole Estate; my brother Cutter here is grown the Heavenliest man o'the sudden, 'tis his work.

Cut.Sister Barebottle, I must not be called Cutter any more, that is a name of Cavalero darkness, the Devil was a Cutter from the beginning, my name is now Abednego, I had a Vision which whisper'd to me through a Key-hole, Go call thy self Abednego.

Tab.The wonderful Vocation of some Vessels!

Cut.It is a name that signifies Fiery Furnaces, and Tribulation, and Martyrdom, I know I am to suffer for the Truth.

Tab.Not as to death, Brother, if it be his will.

Cut.As to death, Sister, but I shall gloriously return.

Joll.What, Brother, after death? that were miraculous.

Cut.