Oh! Villain, Villain! Monstrous Villain! Oh! poor Placentia! But I will prevent His Policy, and break his wicked Measures. [Exit Armando. SCENE II. Pizalto's Lodgings. Enter Pizalto solus. SCENE II Piz. Why, what makes this young Jade stay so long? Adod, this is to pay before hand——Ha——methinks I hear a Laughing and Giggling in my Wife's Apartment; I must know whence their Mirth proceeds. Ho! here's Lucy coming——Harkee you, pray, why did you make me wait so long? Nay, I'm resolved you shan't escape me now——[Goes to the Door, and pulls in Ludovico in Lucy's Cloaths, whose Commode falls off in the Struggle, and discovers his bald Head.] Oh! Benedicite! What have we here? A Man disguis'd in my Wife's Chamber! and I unarm'd! Oh! Curst Minute!——Speak, thou wicked Prophet, thou Son of Iniquity, what camest thou here for? Ha——Thou Priest of Baal, to offer Sacrifices on the Altar of my Wife? Oh! my Head! my Horns weigh it down to the Ground already——Within there, bring me my Sword and Pistols. —— —— —— —— —— —— —— Lud. A Pox on all Petticoats——What a Devil shall I say now? Oh! for a Sword! that would be of more Use to me now than my Tongue. —— Enter Lady Pizalto. Piz. Oh! thou wicked fallacious Woman! L. Piz. What ails my dear Chucky? Why dost thou call for Arms, Deary? Piz. To cut down that vile Creeper which over-runs thy Garden of Virtue—— ——
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