"SIR CHARLES. Is the man distracted?
"MORE. Let me speak to her now, or I shall burst.[A]
"SIR CHARLES. Upon condition you'll speak no more of her to me, my lord, do as you please.
"MORE. Pr'ythee pardon me—I know not what to do.
"SIR CHARLES. Come along, I'll set you to work, I warrant you. Nay, nay, none of your parting ogles—will you go?
"MORE. Yes, and I hope for ever.
[Exit SIR CHARLES pulling away LORD MORELOVE."
[Footnote A: Here is the way in which several of our refined farcical writers would have given it:
MORELOVE. Let me speak to her now, or I shall burst.
SIR CHARLES. Upon condition that you'll not burst here, in the parlour, do as you please.]