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The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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_Wood._ [_Aside._] Are you gloating already? then there's hopes,
i'faith.

_Trick._ You seem to know him, father.

_Aldo._ Know him! from his cradle--What's your name?

_Wood._ Woodall.

_Ald._ Woodall of Woodall; I knew his father; we were contemporaries,
and fellow-wenchers in our youth.

_Wood._ [_Aside._] My honest father stumbles into truth, in spite of
lying.

_Trick._ I was just coming down to the garden-house, before you came.
[TRICKSY _descends._

_Aldo._ I am sorry I cannot stay to present my son, Woodall, to you;
but I have set you together, that's enough for me. [_Exit._

_Wood._ [_Alone._] 'Twas my study to avoid my father, and I have run
full into his mouth: and yet I have a strong hank upon him too; for I
am privy to as many of his virtues, as he is of mine. After all, if I
had an ounce of discretion left, I should pursue this business no
farther: but two fine women in a house! well, it is resolved, come
what will on it, thou art answerable for all my sins, old Aldo--

_Enter_ TRICKSY, _with a box of essences._
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