Meer. To be Duke of those lands you shall recover: take Your title thence, sir, DUKE OF THE DROWN'D LANDS, Or, DROWN'D LAND. Fitz. Ha! that last has a good sound: I like it well. The duke of Drown'd-land? It goes like Groen-land, sir, if you mark it. Meer. Ay; And drawing thus your honour from the work, And stay it the longer in your name. Fitz. 'Tis true. DROWN'D LANDS will live in drown'd-land! Meer. Yes, when you 5 Have no foot left; as that must be, sir, one day. 5 Yes, when you Have no foot left, as that must be, sir, one day, &c.] The venturing upon so sad a truth in the midst of a project of deceit, is artful in the highest degree, and tends to throw an air of sincerity over the whole. The speech itself is adapted with the most imposing gravity from Horace : Nam propria telluris herum natura, neque illum What follows is admirably turned by Pope: "Shades that to Bacon might retreat afford, And Helmsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, And those rich manors there of goodman Taylor's, Nature hath these vicissitudes. She makes No man a state of perpetuity, sir. Fitz. You are in the right. Let's in then, and conclude. Re-enter PUG. In my sight again! I'll talk with you anon. [Exeunt FITZ. MEER. and Engine. Pug. Sure he will geld me if I stay, or worse, Pluck out my tongue, one of the two. This fool, There is no trusting of him; and to quit him, Were a contempt against my chief past pardon. It was a shrewd disheartening this, at first! Who would have thought a woman so well harness'd, Or rather well caparison'd, indeed, 6 That wears such petticoats, and lace to her smocks, Nor her own dear reflection in her glass; Yet that may be: I have known many of them They may, for want of better company, : And garters which are lost if she can shew them.] So the old copies read but the sense seems to require the addition of not, which might be dropt at the press. "Garters of fourscore pound a pair," are mentioned by Satan in the first scene, and we may be pretty confident that some mode of displaying them was in use. Pug could see the lace of his lady's smock, and it is probable that the embroidered extremities of her garters were permitted to hang, as he says, quite as low as that. Or that they think the better, spend an hour, No woman drest with so much care and study, [Exit. SCENE II. MANLY'S Chambers in Lincoln's Inn, opposite FITZDOTTREL'S House. Enter WITTIPOL and MANLY. Wittipol. HIS was a fortune happy above thought, Would be my greatest trouble! this must be Man. It is. I now remember, I have often seen there Wit. Where was your soul, friend? Awake unto those objects. Wit. You pretend so. Let me not live, if I am not in love More with her wit, for this direction now, Than with her form, though I have praised that prettily, Since I saw her and you to-day. Read those : [Gives him the copy of a song. They'll go unto the air you love so well. Try them unto the note, may be the music Will call her sooner; light, she's here! sing quickly. MRS. FITZDOTTREL appears at a window of her house fronting that of MANLY'S Chambers." Mrs. Fitz. Either he understood him not; or else, The fellow was not faithful in delivery Of what I bade. And, I am justly pay'd, That might have made my profit of his service, But by mistaking, have drawn on his envy, And done the worse defeat upon myself. 8 [MANLY sings. How! music? then he may be there: and is sure. Enter PUG behind. Pug. O! is it so ? is there the interview! Have I drawn to you, at last, my cunning lady? The Devil is an ass! fool'd off, and beaten ! Nay, made an instrument, and could not scent it! Well, since you have shewn the malice of a woman, No less than her true wit and learning, mistress, I'll try, if little Pug have the malignity To recompense it, and so save his danger. 'Tis not the pain, but the discredit of it, The Devil should not keep a body entire. Wit. Away, fall back, she comes. [Aside and exit. The master of my chamber: I have business. [Exit. Wit. Mistress ! 7 This scene, the margin of the old copy tells us, is "acted at two windows as out of two contiguous buildings." Whoever has noticed the narrow streets or rather lanes of our ancestors, and observed how story projected beyond story, till the windows of the upper rooms almost touched on different sides, will easily conceive the feasibility of every thing which takes place between Wittipol and his mistress, though they make their appearance in different houses. 8 But by mistaking, have drawn on his envy,] i. e. ill-will, displeasure. As this sense of the word is altogether obsolete, it seems just necessary to notice it. Mrs. Fitz. [advances to the window.] You make me paint, sir." Wit. They are fair colours, Lady, and natural! I did receive Some commands from you, lately, gentle lady, But must make suit still, to be near your grace. It falls out, lady, to be a dear friend's lodging; Wit. He, lady, but he's gone, Approach the window. Neither need you doubt him, Of easiness it hath, to your design; You may with justice say, I am a woman ; And a strange woman. But when you shall please Though none like reason. Wit. No, my tuneful mistress? Then surely love hath none, nor beauty any; 9 You make me paint,] i. e. blush. This word is prettily applied by Emily in the Two Noble Kinsmen. "Of all flowers Methinks the rose is best: It is the very emblem of a maid; For when the west wind courts her gentily, |