Aim. Blessing! nay, Frank, I ask but for a wife. [Exit.
Arch. Truly, the man is not very unreasonable in his demands. [Exit at the opposite door.
Enter Boniface and Cherry.
Bon. Well, daughter, as the saying is, have you brought Martin to confess? [59]
Cher. Pray, father, don't put me upon getting anything out of a man; I 'm but young, you know, father, and I don't understand wheedling.
Bon. Young! why, you jade, as the saying is, can any woman wheedle that is not young? your mother was useless at five-and-twenty. Not wheedle! would you make your mother a whore, and me a cuckold, as the saying is? I tell you, his silence confesses it, and his master spends his money so freely, and is so much a gentleman every manner of way, that he must be a highwayman. [70]
Enter Gibbet, in a cloak.
Gib. Landlord, landlord, is the coast clear?
Bon. O Mr. Gibbet, what 's the news?
Gib. No matter, ask no questions, all fair and honourable.—Here, my dear Cherry.—[Gives her a bag.] Two hundred sterling pounds, as good as any that ever hanged or saved a rogue; lay 'em by with the rest; and here-three wedding or mourning rings, 'tis much the same you know-here, two silver-hilted swords; I took those from fellows that never show any part of their swords but the hilts-here is a diamond necklace which the lady hid in the privatest place in the coach, but I found it out— this gold watch I took from a pawnbroker's wife; it was left in her hands by a person of quality: there's the arms upon the case.