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Sir Marmaduke in private? my Lady wood Speak with you. But come alone, I shall be troubled With their inquiries, but I'll answer they. My Lady would speak with you sir. Not too loud, I was troubled with Sir. Marmaduke. Forget not the time, and to come alone. My business is to you sir, these Kept me off, my Lady Lucina Has a great mind to speak with you, Little do these imagine how she honours me. I met him opportunely after all the rest, And told him how much it would concern His livelihood to make haste. I shall forsooth. Exit. Sir. Marmaduke Travers. Sir. Ambrose Lamount. It is Sir, Madam. Mr. Bostock Madam. Noble Mr. Freshwater welcome from travel. Yes, yes, a little sick oth' stone, she voids some Every day, but she is now in physic, And may in time recover. Longer than a Church, There is no fear while the Merchant's have faith; A little of thy travels, for the time is precious, what Things have you seen or done since you left England ? It but a cowardly partly to run a Kingdom Through backward. My Cofin has the Same provision for you. Madam, the Gentlemen that were here this morning In single visits are come all together, And pray to speak with you. In the next room sir; My Lady Rosomond is sitting for her picture, I presume you will be welcome. Yes sir. We have little alteration since thou wentest, The same news are in fashion, Only gentlemen are feign to ramble, and stumble For their flesh since the breach oth' bank side. Yet the Viragoes would not lost their spirit, some on They have challenged the field, every day where Gentlemen have met they, o the dogge-dayes bit Shrewdly, it a villaInous dead vacation. Through and through, how is that man? As how Signiour? This way, Honest Gudgin, How, and the matters abroad, a touch of Thy travel, what news.
Plot summary
Plot — The Ball
Lord Rainbow is to hold a ball. Ladies practise their dancing, coached by Monsieur La Frisk, and engage in amours. Lucina has four suitors whom she teases with the prospect of marriage. She plans to see each of them in turn, but unknown to her, her servant Scutilla conceals one of them, Colonel Winfield, in her room, and he witnesses her scornful treatment of his rivals: Sir Marmaduke is mocked for his money-making schemes, Sir Ambrose for his baldness, and Bostock, who habitually boasts of his imagined kinship with noblemen, is told she will only marry a commoner—which induces him to suggest that he may be illegitimate, and therefore eligible after all. The Colonel takes a more masterful line with her at his meeting. He then suggests to the other insulted suitors that they go back and treat her with contempt. Bostock nominates himself the spokesman, and is duly rude to her, whereupon the Colonel steps in to defend her honour. She agrees to marry him, on condition that he proves himself to be a virgin; he infers another jeer on her part, and takes offence. She is in earnest, however. She tests the Colonel’s fidelity by telling him that he will be taking on her debts and children (both imaginary) and that he will have to live in the country; when he is undaunted, she accepts him. In another plot, before leaving on a journey to Venice, Freshwater sold his land and laid out money to be paid back fivefold on his safe return. When he gets back, the men who took his money seem reluctant to pay him. At the ball, he is asked to describe his travels, but does so with a suspicious lack of geographical knowledge. It turns out that he spent the summer in Gravesend awaiting a favourable wind. His debtors insist that he undertake the voyage before getting anything back. In the third plot, Lord Rainbow loves both Honoria and Rosamund, but cannot choose between them, so he asks them to decide between themselves which is worthier of him. They are annoyed to learn from the satirical Barker that this arrangement is common knowledge, and decide to get their own back by turning their affections to unlikely rivals. Barker is the first recipient of Honoria’s attention, and she encourages him to learn to dance. Sir Marmaduke and Sir Ambrose also pursue the ladies on the rebound from Lucina; they have some fun by repeatedly directing each knight to woo the other lady, back and forth. Honoria and Rosamund ask Rainbow to draw lots for them. He decides on a threesome and takes both…