Act 4 — SCENE IV.
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As their husbands pass along, they take occasion of discourse one with another.
Knights. Let us pass by them with regardless scorn.
Sir Reu. Pox on these overacting prostitutes! They sate mine appetite.
[They interchange these expresses as they pass by their Ladies' room.
Sir Tris. Fancy so fed Begets a surfeit, ere it gets to bed. Sir Gre. Ere I Platonic turn or Confidant, Or an officious servant to a puss, Whose honour lies at stake, let me become A scorn to my relations. Sir Art. Or when I Engage my person, like a profess'd bolt, To vindicate a mistress, who for sale Would set her soul at hazard, may my grave Be in the kennel, and the scavenger The penman of my epitaph! Sir Jas. Or I Embrace a monkey for a mass of treasure. Sir Ama. May never down seize on this downless chin, When I become an usher to her sin. Sir Reu. So, let them chaw of this. Our scene is done, We'll leave the rest to their digestion: We must return those Adamites their clothes To make their visits in, or they're lost men; But it were strange, should they recruit again.
[Exeunt.