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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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_Limb._ Mr Woodall, we leave you here--you remember?
[_Exeunt_ LIMB. _and_ ALDO.

_Wood._ Let me alone.--Ladies, your servant; I have a little private
business with a friend of mine.

_Mrs Brain._ Meaning me.--Well, sir, your servant.

_Trick._ Your servant, till we meet again. [_Exeunt severally._


SCENE II.--_Mr_ WOODALL'S _Chamber._

_Mrs_ BRAINSICK _alone._

_Mrs Brain._ My note has taken, as I wished: he will be here
immediately. If I could but resolve to lose no time, out of modesty;
but it is his part to be violent, for both our credits. Never so
little force and ruffling, and a poor weak woman is excused.
[_Noise._] Hark, I hear him coming.--Ah me! the steps beat double: He
comes not alone. If it should be my husband with him! where shall I
hide myself? I see no other place, but under his bed: I must lie as
silently as my fear will suffer me. Heaven send me safe again to my
own chamber! [_Creeps under the Bed._

_Enter_ WOODALL _and_ TRICKSY.

_Wood._ Well, fortune at the last is favourable, and now you are my
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