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SCENE I] LOVE FOR LOVE 253
Scan. [Aside.} Hey, brave woman, i'faith!—[Aloud.}
Won't you see him then, if he desire it?
Ang. What signify a madman's desires? besides, 'twould
make me uneasy. If I don't see him, perhaps my concern
for him may lessen, If I forget him, 'tis no more than he
has done by himself; and now the surprise is over, methinks
I am not half so sorry as I was.
Scan. So, faith, pood nature works apace; you were confessing
just now an obligation to his love.
Ang. But I have considered that passions are unreasonable
and involuntary; if he loves, he can't help it; and if
I don't love, I can't help it; no more than he can help his
being a man, or I mv being a woman; or no more than I
can help my want of inclination to stay longer here.—Come,
Jenny. [Exeunt ANGELICA and JENNY.
Scan. Humph!—An admirable composition, faith, this
same womankind!
Re-enter JEREMY.
Jer. What, is she gone, sir?
Scan. Gone? why she was never here; nor anywhere
else; nor I don't know her if T see her; nor you neither.
Jer. Good lack! what's the matter now? are any more of
us to be mad? Why, sir, my master longs to see her; and
is almost mad in good earnest with the joyful news of her
being here.
Scan. We are all under a mistake. Ask no questions, for
I can't resolve you; but I'll inform your master. In the
mean time, if our project succeed no better with his father
than it does with his mistress, he may descend from his
exaltation of madness into the road of common sense, and
be content only to be made a fool with other reasonable
people.—I hear Sir Sampson. You know your cue; I'll to vour
master. [Exit.
Enter Sir SAMPSON and BUCKRAM.
Sir Samp. D'ye see, Mr. Buckram, here's the paper
signed with his own hand.
Buc[. Good, sir. And the conveyance is ready drawn in
this box, if he be ready to sign and seal.
Sir Samp. Ready, body o' me, he must be ready! his shamsickness
shan't excuse him.—O, here's his scoundrel.—Sirrah,
where's your master?