Pas: Certainly such a Iudicious Patron as Sr. Roger Ringwood, must inspire both an Author and an Actor.
Enter Miss Diana Single-Life.
Hyd: This is Miss Diana Single-Life, a maiden Lady of Youth, Beauty, Chastity, & Erudition: who has read more Romances, Novels, Poems & Plays, than there are Acts of Parliament in ye English Language.
Diana: Yes, Mr. Pasquin I may venture to say, with the Strictest Propriety, that I have read as much as any Lady that has Existed in the Circle of Literature.— not the great Daicer excepted: but I hope Mr. Pasquin you have nothing in your Exhibition that is Shocking to Chastity, no double Entendres in your Examinations; If you have I shall certainly explode them. You must know I was once perswaded to go to hear a Tryal for a Rape— I vow I blush at the bare mention of the Word— what wou’d you have of it— in short I went;— but I thought I shou’d have Swoon’d away upon the Spot, the Tryal was so full of double Entendres, and what the filthy Lawyers call— Rems in Re— —
Omn: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Pas: Madam, you may assure your self that the Virgin Particles of Your Modesty shall never be Agitated by the Amorous Transparancy of Pasquin’s Obscenity. (Mimicking her)
Hyd: Look, look, if the impudent Rogue is not taking the Old Maid Off to her face, & she does not See it.
Omn: Ha, ha, ha.
Dia. Sir, I am your humble—
Pas. Your devoted—