ACT THE FIRST.
SCENE I.—Don Diego's House, in the evening.
Enter Hippolita and Prue.
Hip. To confine a woman just in her rambling age! take away her liberty at the very time she should use it! O barbarous aunt! O unnatural father! to shut up a poor girl at fourteen, and hinder her budding! All things are ripened by the sun:—to shut up a poor girl at fourteen!—
Prue. 'Tis true, miss, two poor young creatures as we are!
Hip. Not suffered to see a play in a twelve-month!—
Prue. Nor go to Punchinello,[52] nor Paradise!—
Hip. Nor to take a ramble to the Park nor Mulberry-garden![53]—
Prue. Nor to Totnam-court, nor Islington![54]—