Mrs. Jewkes, coming in with the first dish, she said, Do you expect any
body else, Mrs. Jewkes, that you lay the cloth for three? said she, I
hoped your ladyship and madam would have been so well reconciled, that
she would have sat down too.--What means the clownish woman? said my
lady, in great disdain: Could you think the creature should sit down with
me? She does, madam, and please your ladyship, with my master.--I doubt
it not, good woman, said she, and lies with him too, does she not?
Answer me, fat-face!--How these ladies are privileged.
If she does, madam, said she, there may be a reason for it, perhaps! and
went out.--So! said she, has the wench got thee over too? Come, my
little dear, pull off thy gloves, I say; and off she pulled my left glove
herself, and spied my ring. O my dear God! said she, if the wench has
not got a ring!--Well, this is a pretty piece of foolery, indeed! Dost
know, my friend, that thou art miserably tricked? And so, poor innocent,
thou hast made a fine exchange, hast thou not? Thy honesty for this
bauble? And, I'll warrant, my little dear has topped her part, and
paraded it like any real wife; and so mimics still the condition!--Why,
said she, and turned me round, thou art as mincing as any bride! No
wonder thou art thus tricked out, and talkest of thy pre-engagements!
Pr'ythee, child, walk before me to that glass; survey thyself, and cone
back to me, that I may see how finely thou can'st act the theatrical part
given thee!
I was then resolved to try to be silent, although most sadly vexed.
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