Un. Come hither, Dorothy.
Cap. But where's Mr. Engine?
Ri. He rid before.
Cap. If the rascall have any wit left he will ride quite away with himselfe; tis his best course to fly oversea.
Tho. If he were sure to flie, he were sure to escape.
Cap. At the worst, drowning is a most [sic] honourable death then hanging.
Do. My mother died, I have it by tradition,
As soone as I was borne; my father (but
No knight) is now i'th Indies, a poore Merchant,
That broke for 20,000 pounds.
Ri. The shipps may come home. Hee!
Do. You were best use me well, now we are married.
I will be sworne you forc'd me to the Church
And thrice compeld me there to say I Dorothy.
The Parsons oath and mine, for ought I know,
May make it halfe a rape.
Ri. There is no remedy;
We can prove no conspiracie. And, because
I have been gulld my selfe, gett her with child,
—My Doe is barren,—at birth of her first baby
Ile give her a hundred peeces.