Mr. Ven. And truly, I am of your Opinion Mr. Spruce; for setting aside her present Melancholly and Discontent, I think she is beyond Comparison with any other.
Spr. Od’s nigs, I know the Cause of her Disorder.
Ven. What I pray?
Spr. Why, I’ll tell ye; In all Conditions of Estates, Professions, and Degrees, in Arts or Sciences, yee know there’s a kind of Envious Emulation.
Mr. Ven. Right.
Spr. So in this of Arabella’s Marrying; for Clara being Lady of much the same Birth and Quality, Grieves I—suppose to see her Rival get the start of her.
Mr. Ven. Troth like enough.
Fri. Y’are Pleasant Gentlemen—Or else because she having had so many Courtiers——
Spr. And you among the rest Jack.
Fri. She now perhaps does cast a more favourable Eye upon some one that does not like her.