The Old Batchelour has a Throw at the Dissenting Ministers. The Pimp Setter provides their Habit for Bellmour to Debauch Lætitia. The Dialogue runs thus.
Bell. And hast thou Provided Necessaries?
Setter. All, all Sir, the large Sanctified Hat, and the little precise Band, with a Swingeing long Spiritual Cloak, to cover Carnal Knavery,—not forgetting the black Patch which Tribulation Spintext wears as I'm inform'd upon one Eye, as a penal Mourning for the——Offences of his Youth &c.Old Batch. p. 19, 20.[208]
Barnaby calls another of that Character Mr. Prig, and Fondlewife carrys on the Humour lewdly in Play-house Cant; And to hook the Church of England into the Abuse, he tacks a Chaplain to the End of the Description.p. 27.[209]
Lucy gives an other Proof of the Poets good Will, but all little Scurilities are not worth repeating.p. 41.[210]
In the Double Dealer the discourse between Maskwell and Saygrace is very notable. Maskwell had a design to cheat Mellifont of his Mistress, and engages the Chaplain in the Intrigue: There must be a Levite in the cafe; For without one of them have a finger in't, no Plot publick, or private, can expect to prosper.p. 71.[211]
To go on in the order of the Play.
Maskwell calls out at Saygraces door, Mr. Saygrace Mr. Saygrace.
The other answers, Sweet sir I will but pen the last line of an Acrostick, and be with you in the twingling of an Ejaculation, in the pronouncing of an Amen. &c.
Mask. Nay good Mr. Saygrace do not prolong the time, &c.