_Luck_. Let it be soon, I beseech you; for thou hast brought a
calm into this house that was scarce ever in it before.




SCENE XI.--LUCKLESS, MRS MONEYWOOD, JACK.


_Money_. Well, Mr Luckless, you are a comical man, to give one
such a character to a stranger.

_Luck_. The company is gone, madam; and now, like true man and
wife, we may fall to abusing one another as fast as we please.

_Money_. Abuse me as you please, so you pay me, sir.

_Luck_. 'Sdeath! madam, I will pay you.

_Money_. Nay, sir, I do not ask it before it is due. I don't
question your payment at all: if you was to stay in my house this
quarter of a year, as I hope you will, I should not ask you for a
farthing.

_Luck_. Toll, loll, loll.--But I shall have her begin with her
passion immediately; and I had rather be the object of her rage for a
year than of her love for half an hour.

_Money_. But why did you choose to surprise me with my money? Why
did you not tell me you would pay me?