Enter Spend-All in a fine suit of clothes, meeting Conversant.
Conversant. Jupiter bless us! how fine and brave you are in a rich suit of clothes: is this your wedding-day?
Spend. No, this day is not my wedding-day: but the suit is my wooing-suit, for I am going to woo an old lady, who is very rich.
Conv. Is she wise?
Spend. I hope not, for if she were, she would never grant my suit, but if she be a fool, as I hope she is, then youth and bravery will win her.
Conv. And the more sprightly, lively and fantastical you appear, the better the old lady will like you.
Spend. I believe you, but I doubt that the sight of the old lady will put me into so dull and melancholy a humour, as I shall not please her.
Conv. Imagine her a young beauty.
Spend. I cannot imagine her a young beauty, when I see her: for imagination works only upon absent objects.
In the next extract, taken from her play, “The Bridals,” we have an example of her attempts to be comic.