ACT THE FOURTH.
SCENE I.—Pinchwife's House in the morning.
Enter Alithea dressed in new clothes, and Lucy.
Lucy. Well—madam, now have I dressed you, and set you out with so many ornaments, and spent upon you ounces of essence and pulvillio;[76] and all this for no other purpose but as people adorn and perfume a corpse for a stinking second-hand grave: such, or as bad, I think Master Sparkish's bed.
Alith. Hold your peace.
Lucy. Nay, madam, I will ask you the reason why you would banish poor Master Harcourt for ever from your sight; how could you be so hard-hearted?
Alith. 'Twas because I was not hard-hearted.
Lucy. No, no; 'twas stark love and kindness, I warrant.
Alith. It was so; I would see him no more because I love him.
Lucy. Hey day, a very pretty reason!