1st Cl. ’Faith, witches themselves are so common now-a-days, that the counterfeit will not be regarded. They say we have three or four in Edmonton besides Mother Sawyer.
2nd Cl. I would she would dance her part with us.
3rd Cl. So would not I; for if she comes, the devil and all comes along with her.
Cud. Well, I’ll have a witch; I have loved a witch ever since I played at cherry-pit.[431] Leave me, and get my horse dressed; give him oats: but water him not till I come. Whither do we foot it first?
2nd Cl. To Sir Arthur Clarington’s first; then whither thou wilt.
Cud. Well, I am content; but we must up to Carter’s, the rich yeoman; I must be seen on hobby-horse there.
1st Cl. O, I smell him now!—I’ll lay my ears Banks is in love, and that’s the reason he would walk melancholy by himself.
Cud. Ha! who was that said I was in love?
1st Cl. Not I.
2nd Cl. Nor I.