LOVE. Strange!
1 NEI. Good faith, I think I saw a coach.
2 NEI. And I too,
I'd have been sworn.
LOVE. Do you but think it now?
And but one coach?
4 NEI. We cannot tell, sir: Jeremy
Is a very honest fellow.
FACE. Did you see me at all?
1 NEI. No; that we are sure on.
2 NEI. I'll be sworn o' that.
LOVE. Fine rogues to have your testimonies built on!
[RE-ENTER THIRD NEIGHBOUR, WITH HIS TOOLS.]
3 NEI. Is Jeremy come!
1 NEI. O yes; you may leave your tools;
We were deceived, he says.
2 NEI. He has had the keys;
And the door has been shut these three weeks.
3 NEI. Like enough.
LOVE. Peace, and get hence, you changelings.
[ENTER SURLY AND MAMMON.]
FACE [ASIDE]. Surly come!
And Mammon made acquainted! they'll tell all.
How shall I beat them off? what shall I do?
Nothing's more wretched than a guilty conscience.
SUR. No, sir, he was a great physician. This,
It was no bawdy-house, but a mere chancel!
You knew the lord and his sister.
MAM. Nay, good Surly. --
SUR. The happy word, BE RICH --
MAM. Play not the tyrant. --
SUR. "Should be to-day pronounced to all your friends."
And where be your andirons now? and your brass pots,
That should have been golden flagons, and great wedges?
MAM. Let me but breathe. What, they have shut their doors,
Methinks!
SUR. Ay, now 'tis holiday with them.
MAM. Rogues,
[HE AND SURLY KNOCK.]
Cozeners, impostors, bawds!
FACE. What mean you, sir?
MAM. To enter if we can.
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