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SCENE II] THE DOUBLE-DEALER 165
\Aside.] I'll seem to conceal my passion, and that will look
like respect.
Lady Froth. Bless me! why did you call out upon me so
loud?
Brisl^. O Lord, I, madam? I beseech your ladyship—
when?
Lady Froth. Just now as I came in: bless me! why, dnn't
you know it?
Bris%. Not I, let me perish' But did T? Strange* I confess
your ladyship was in my thoughts; and I was in a sort
of dream that did in a manner present a very pleasing object
to my imagination, but—but did I indeed?—To see how
Inve and murder will nut! But did I really name my Lady
Froth?
Lady Froth. Three times aloud, as I love letters!—But Hid
you talk of love? O Parnassus! who would have thought
Mr. Brisk could have been in love, ha! ha! ha! O Heavens,
I thought you could have had no mistress but the nine
Muses.
Brisk. No more I have, egad, for I adore 'em all in your
ladyship.—Let me perish, I don't know whether to be
splrnrlir nr airv upnn't: tbe deuce take me if I can tell
whether I'm glad or sorry that your ladyship has made the
disroverv.
Ladv Froth. D be merry by all means.—Prince Volscius
in love' ha' ha' ha!
Brisk. O barbarous, to turn me into ridicule! Yet, ha! ha!
ha!—the deuce take me, I can't help laughing myself, ha!
ha! ha!—vet by Heavens! I have a violent passion for your
ladyship seriously.
Ladv Froth. Seriously? ha! ha! ha!
Brisk. Scrinuslv, ha! ha! ha! Gad, I have, for all I laugh.
Ladv Froth. Ha! ha' ha!—What d'ye think I laugh at?
ha! ha! ha!
Bris%. Me. egad, ha! ha!
Ladv Froth. No, the dnjre take me if I don't laugh at
myself: for ban * me' if I have not a violent passion for Mr.
Brisk, ha! ha! ha!
Brisk. Seriously?
Ladv Froth. Seriously, ha! ha! ha!
Brisk. That's well enough; let me perish, ha! ha! ha! D
miraculous! what a happy discovery; ah, my dear charming
Lady Froth'