Lucif. Numerous crew! answer me; What has brought you into this kingdom; and what were you in the world?
[A ghost of a beau speaks to another of the same feather.
1 Beau’s Gh. D—— me, Jack, didst ever hear so silly and impertinent a question? As if marriage was not the only cause of damnation.
[Aside.
2 Beau’s Gh. R——t me, Ned, as thou say’st, I never heard a country justice ask more mal à propos; but the devil’s an ass, and so let him pass.
The first of the first band answers the Devil.
I am an Englishman, who, after I had been a notorious cuckold, was perswaded by my wife to fight the man that made me so, and was fairly kill’d for satisfaction, as all this band that follows me were; and we are damn’d for fools as well as cuckolds.
Omnes. ’Tis true, honour and wedlock have been our ruin.
Lucif. Away with them into fools paradise, below the keeping-cullies, as the more unpardonable monsters.
[They are carry’d off, and as the next come in,
the Beaux speak.