[Exeunt.]
ACTUS 4.
SCENE I. An apartment in the Widow’s house.
[Enter Moll, and Sir John Penny-dub.]
PENNY. But I hope you will not serve a Knight so, Gentlewoman, will you? to cashier him, and cast him off at your pleasure? what, do you thiunk I was dubbed for nothing? no, by my faith, Ladies daughter.
MOLL. Pray, Sir John Pennydub, let it be deferred awhile. I have as big a heart to marry as you can have; but as the Fortune- teller told me—
PENNY.
Pax a’th Fortune-teller! would Derecke had been his fortune
seven year ago, to cross my love thus! did he know what case
I was in? why, this is able to make a man drown himself in’s
Father’s fish-pond.
MOLL. And then he told me more-over, Sir John, that the breach of it kept my Father in Purgatory.
PENNY. In Purgatory? why let him purge out his heart there, what have we to do with that? there’s Philistions enow there to cast his water: is that any matter to us? how can he hinder our love? why, let him be hangd now he’s dead!—Well, have I rid my post day and night, to bring you merry news of my father’s death, and now—
MOLL.
Thy Father’s death? is the old Faarmer dead?