Jolly. Ay, by my faith, continue, Master Sad, [to] give it out you love; and call it a new love, a love never seen before; we'll all come to it as your friends.
Sad. Gentlemen, still I love: and if she to whom I thus sacrifice will not reward it, yet the worst malice can say is, I was unfortunate; and misfortune, not falsehood, made me so.
Jolly. In what chapter shall we find this written, and what verse? you should preach with a method, Master Sad.
Wid. Gentlemen, if ever he spoke so much dangerous sense before (either of love or reason), hang me.
Sad. Madam, my love is no news, where you are: know, your scorn has made it public; and though it could gain no return from you, yet others have esteemed me for the faith and constancy I have paid here.
Plea. Did not I foretell you of his love? I foresaw this danger. Shall I never live to see wit and love dwell together?
Capt. I am but a poor soldier, and yet never reached to the honour of being a lover; yet from my own observations, Master Sad, take a truth: 'tis a folly to believe any woman loves a man for being constant to another; they dissemble their hearts only, and hate a man in love worse than a wencher.
Jolly. And they have reason; for if they have the grace to be kind, he that loves the sex may be theirs.
Care. When your constant lover, if a woman have a mind to him, and be blessed with so much grace to discover it, he, out of the noble mistake of honour hates her for it, and tells it perchance, and preaches reason to her passion, and cries: Miserable beauty, to be so unfortunate as to inhabit in so much frailty!