[Fossile offers it round.]

1st Wom. I never take physick.

Foss. That's one. Stand there. My niece professes herself a Platonick. You are rather a Cartesian.

Clink. Ah dear uncle! how do the Platonicks and Cartesians differ.

Foss. The Platonicks are for idea's, the Cartesians for matter and motion.

Town. Mr. Fossile, you are too severe.

2d Wom. I am not a-dry. [curtsies.

Foss. There's two. Stand there.

Prue. My mistress can answer for me. She has taken it.

Foss. She has. But however stand there, among the Cartesians.