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By your leave Lady. Madam though I came now from court, I come not to flatter you: upon whom can I justly cast this blot, but upon your own forehead, that know not ink from milk such is the blind be sotting in the state of and unheaded woman thats a widow. For it is the property of all you that are widows (a hand full ex cepted) to hate those that honestly and carefully love you, to the maintenance of credit state and posterity, and strongly to dote on those, that only love you to undo you who regard you least are best regarded, who hate you most are best beloved, And if there be but one man amongst ten thousand millions of men that is accursed disastrous and evilly planeted whom Fortune beats most, whom God hates most, and all Socie ties esteem least, that man is suere to be a husband — Such is the peevish Moon that rules you bloods. And Impudent fellow best woes you, a flattering lip best wins you, or in a mirth who talks roughliest is most sweetest, nor can you distinguish truth, from forgeries, mists from Simplisity, witness those two deceit full monsters that you have entertained for bridegrooms. For what they have besotted you easy blood withal, wear nought but forgeries, the fortune telling for husbands, the conjuring for the chain, Sir Godfrey herd the falsehood of all: nothing but mere knavery deceit and eoozenage. And that you may perceive I feign not with you, behold their fellow actor in those forgeries who full of Spleen and envy at their so sudden advancements revealed all there plot in anger. Widow will you now believe that false, which to soon you believed true. Resolve him of that Soldier, Nay Knight dwell in patience, And now widow being so near the Church, twer great pity, nay uncharity to send you home again without a husband, draw nearer you of true worship, state and credit, that should not stand so far of from a widow, and suffer forged shapes to come between you, Not that in these, I blemish the trne Title of a Captain, or blot the fair margin of a Scholar; For I honour worthy and deserning parts in the one, and cherish fruitful Virtues in the other. Come Lady, and you Virgin bestow your eyes and your purest affections, upon me of esti mansion both in Court and Citry, that hath long wooed you, and both with there hearts and wealth sincearly love you. Come her silence doos consent too't. Pah pah why with your own face they desire no other. Now Lady? What honest Spirit but will applaud your choice, And gladly furnish you with hand and voice, A happy change which makes een heaven rejoice, Come enter into your loys, you shall not want, For father's now, I doubt it not believe me, But that you shall have hands enough to give.
Plot summary
Plot — The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The Puritan Widow)
Lady Plus has just been widowed, but her son Edmond. does not grieve appropriately at the funeral. She mourns a good, liberal husband, who strove to make his family rich by fair means and foul; she swears not to remarry, and her elder daughter Frances renounces marriage too. Not so her younger daughter, Moll, who entertains a suitor. The other two Plus women are also being pestered by unwanted suitors, one of whom has bribed Lady Plus’s brother-in-law, Sir Godfrey, to recommend him. Captain Idle is taken to prison for highway robbery; there he is visited by his puritan kinsman Nicholas, one of. the Plus household’s servants, and also by Skirmish and Pieboard, two tricksters who plan to get him out. To that end, they persuade Nicholas to steal Sir Godfrey’s chain. Pieboard visits Lady Plus posing as a fortune teller, and tells her that her husband is in purgatory, from which he can be released only if both she and her daughters reverse their marital intentions (which he has overheard): she and Frances must marry, and Moll must not. As a puritan, Lady Plus doubts the theology of this, so he establishes his authenticity by predicting that, before the day is out, there will be bloodshed outside her door and Sir Godfrey will suffer a loss, with worse to follow for the women of the household. The first two events are prearranged: Nicholas steals Sir Godfrey’s chain, and Skirmish and Corporal Oath feign a street-fight which results in a wound for Oath and arrest for Skirmish. Pieboard gives Oath a medicine which is actually a sleeping potion, so that he appears to have been killed. Nicholas tells Sir Godfrey that Idle is a conjurer who can get his chain back for him; so Sir Godfrey arranges for Idle to be released and the charges dropped. On his way to brief Idle, Pieboard is arrested for failing to pay his rent, but he escapes by pretending that he must deliver a masque device to a gentleman, who will pay him enough to settle the debt. On arrival at the gentleman’s house (chosen at random), he escapes through the back door while the officers wait for him in the front room. The next day, Idle undertakes his fake conjuring at Lady Plus’s house, and claims that the devil has delivered the lost chain in the garden (where in reality it has been hidden all the time). He also pretends to render Edmond invisible, which gets the young man into trouble when he takes the opportunity to buffet his uncle. Two processions pass the house, taking Oath to his funeral and…