As your Goodness has been ever great towards me, so I humbly beseech you to continue it; and the greatest Proofs you can give me of it, is to use all your Interest to undo that tye between Bellmour and my self, which with such Joy you knit. I will say no more, but as you love my Life, and my dearer Honour, get a Divorce, or you will see both ruin’d in Your Diana.
[Gives Charles the Letter.
Lord. A Divorce! yes, if all my Interest or Estate can purchase it— some Joy yet that thou art well.
Char. Doubtless her Reasons must be great for this Request.
Lord. Yes, for she lov’d him passionately; when I first told her of my Designs to marry ‘em together, she could not hide her Joy; which was one Motive, I urg’d it to him with such Violence.
Char. Persons so near of Kin do seldom prosper in the Marriage-Bed.
Lord. However ‘tis, I now think fit to unmarry ‘em; And as for him, I’ll use him with what Rigor The utmost Limits of the Law allows me.
Char. Sir, I beseech you—
Lord. You beseech me! You, the Brother of the Villain! that has abus’d the best of all my Hopes!—No, I think—I shall grow (for his sake) to hate all that belong to him.
Char. Sir, how, have I offended?