Enter Compasse new clothed, Pettifog, and two or three Men Neighbors.
Comp. Gentlemen and Neighbours, as you have been Witnesses to our Divorce, so shall ye now be Evidences to our next Meeting, which I look for every Minute.
1st Neigh. I came for that Intent, Neighbour.
Comp. I thank you: well, I do not think but you’ll all see me come off with as smooth a Forehead, and make my Wife as honest a Woman as a Man wou’d desire sometimes, I mean of her Rank; and a teeming Woman, as you know she has been: Nay, I do not think but the Child too will be found to be as lawful a Child as any Couple of unmarried People can beget.
2d Neigh. We long to see it Neighbour Compasse, that so some of us may do the like upon the same occasion.
Comp. You’re in the right, old Stitch of the World: But soft, see where she comes with a whole Bundle of as good sound Maidens as her self.
Enter Peg new cloth’d, with three or four Women Neighbours.
Stand aside a little, and mind me I pray.
Omnes. Agreed, agreed.
Comp. Good Morrow fair Maid.