afternoon services to our mistresses. I find I am damnably in
love, I'm so uneasy for not having seen Belinda yesterday.

VAIN. But I saw my Araminta, yet am as impatient.


SCENE II.


BELLMOUR alone.

BELL. Why, what a cormorant in love am I! Who, not contented with
the slavery of honourable love in one place, and the pleasure of
enjoying some half a score mistresses of my own acquiring, must yet
take Vainlove's business upon my hands, because it lay too heavy
upon his; so am not only forced to lie with other men's wives for
'em, but must also undertake the harder task of obliging their
mistresses. I must take up, or I shall never hold out. Flesh and
blood cannot bear it always.


SCENE III.


[To him] SHARPER.

SHARP. I'm sorry to see this, Ned. Once a man comes to his
soliloquies, I give him for gone.

BELL. Sharper, I'm glad to see thee.