Warn. 'Tis well, if you escape so; for commonly he strikes in with you, and becomes your friend.
Sir John. Deliver me from such a friend, that stays behind with my wife, when I gird on my sword to go abroad.
Warn. Ay, there's your man, sir; besides, he will be sure to watch your haunts, and tell her of them, that, if occasion be, she may have wherewithal to recriminate: at least she will seem to be jealous of you; and who would suspect a jealous wife?
Sir John. All manner of ways I am most miserable.
Warn. But, if she be not a maid when you marry her, she may make a good wife afterwards; 'tis but imagining you have taken such a man's widow.
Sir John. If that were all; but the man will come and claim her again.
Warn. Examples have been frequent of those that have been wanton, and yet afterwards take up.
Sir John. Ay, the same thing they took up before.
Warn. The truth is, an honest simple girl, that's ignorant of all things, maketh the best matrimony: There is such pleasure in instructing her; the best is, there's not one dunce in all the sex; such a one with a good fortune——
Sir John. Ay, but where is she, Warner?