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SCENE III] LOVE FOR LOVE 259
Scan. And did not?
Mrs. Fore. Did not! with what face can you ask the
question?
Scan. [Aside.] This I have heard of before, but never
believed. I have been told she had that admirable quality of
forgetting to a man's face in the morning that she had lain
with him all night, and denying that she had done favours
with more impudence than she could grant 'em.—Madam, I'm
your humble servant, and honour you.—[Aloud.] You look
pretty well, Mr. Foresight.—How did you rest last night?
Fore. Truly, Mr. Scandal, I was so taken up with
broken dreams and distracted visions, that I remember
little.
Scan. Twas a very forgetting night.—But would you not
talk with Valentine, perhaps you may understand him? I'm
apt to believe there is something mysterious in his discourses,
and sometimes rather think him inspired than mad.
Fore. You speak with singular good judgment, Mr.
Scandal, truly.—I am inclining to your Turkish opinion in
this matter, and do reverence a man whom the vukar think
mad. Let us go to him. [Exeunt FORESIGHT and SCANDAL.
Mrs. Frail. Sister, do you stay with them; I'll find out my
lover, and give him his discharge, and come to you.—D' my
conscience here he comes. [Exit Mrs. FORESIGHT.
Enter BEN.
Ben. All mad, I think.—Flesh, I believe all the calentures
of the sea are come ashore, for my part!
Mrs. Frail. Mr. Benjamin in choler!
Ben. No, I'm pleased well enough now I have found
you.—Mess, I have had such a hurricane upon your account
yonder!
Mrs. Frail. My account! pray what's the matter?
Ben. Why, father came and found me squabbling with
yon chitty-faccd thing as he would have me marry,—so he
asked what was the matter.—He asked in a surly sort of a
way.—It seems brother Val is gone mad, and so that put'n
into a passion: but what did I know that, what's that to me?
—So he asked in a surly sort of manner,—and gad I answered
'en as surlily; what tho'f he be my father? I an't
bound prentice to 'en:—so faith I told'n in plain terms, if I
were minded to marry I'd marry to please myself, not him:
and for the young woman that he provided for me, I