SCENE II.

_A Street._

_Enter_ REARAGE _and_ SUSAN.

REAR. Here they come. SUS. O, where?

_Enter Officers[1146] with_ LETHE _and Country Wench in custody_; SALEWOOD, HELLGILL, _and_ MOTHER GRUEL.

LET. Heart of shame! Upon my wedding morning so disgrac’d! Have you so little conscience, officers, You will not take a bribe? COUN. W. Master Lethe, we may lie together lawfully hereafter, for we are coupled together before people enow, i’faith. [_Exeunt Officers with_ LETHE _and Country Wench, &c._ REAR. There goes the strumpet! SUS. Pardon my wilful blindness, and enjoy me; For now the difference appears too plain ’Twixt[1147] a base slave and a true gentleman. REAR. I do embrace thee in the best of love.— How soon affections fail, how soon they prove! [_Exeunt._