AMANDA.
Oh dear! ’tis a relation I have not seen these five years; pray her to walk in.—[Exit SERVANT.] Here’s another beauty for you; she was, when I saw her last, reckoned extremely handsome.
LOVELESS.
Don’t be jealous now; for I shall gaze upon her too.
Enter BERINTHIA. Ha! by heavens, the very woman! [Aside.]
BERINTHIA.
[Salutes AMANDA.] Dear Amanda, I did not expect to meet you in Scarborough.
AMANDA.
Sweet cousin, I’m overjoyed to see you.—Mr. Loveless, here’s a relation and a friend of mine, I desire you’ll be better acquainted with.
LOVELESS.
[Salutes BERINTHIA.] If my wife never desires a harder thing, madam, her request will be easily granted.
Re-enter SERVANT.
SERVANT.
Sir, my Lord Foppington presents his humble service to you, and desires to know how you do. He’s at the next door; and, if it be not inconvenient to you, he’ll come and wait upon you.
LOVELESS.
Give my compliments to his lordship, and I shall be glad to see him.—[Exit SERVANT.] If you are not acquainted with his lordship, madam, you will be entertained with his character.
AMANDA.
Now it moves my pity more than my mirth to see a man whom nature has made no fool be so very industrious to pass for an ass.