FIRST GENTLEMAN
And wenching.
GRAY The cursed yeas and forsooths, which we have heard uttered, when a man could not rap out an innocent oath, but strait the air was thought to be infected.
LOVEL 'Twas a pleasant trick of the saint, which that trim puritan Swear-not-at-all Smooth-speech used, when his spouse chid him with an oath for committing with his servant-maid, to cause his house to be fumigated with burnt brandy, and ends of scripture, to disperse the devil's breath, as he termed it.
ALL
Ha! ha! ha!
GRAY But 'twas pleasanter, when the other saint Resist-the-devil- and-he-will-flee-from-thee Pure-man was overtaken in the act, to plead an illusio visûs, and maintain his sanctity upon a supposed power in the adversary to counterfeit the shapes of things.
ALL
Ha! ha! ha!
JOHN Another round, and then let every man devise what trick he can in his fancy, for the better manifesting our loyalty this day.
GRAY
Shall we hang a puritan?
JOHN
No, that has been done already in Coleman-Street.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
Or fire a conventicle?