to bed first, and to Church when we can, but come, I am contented.

Enter 2 Gentlemen.

Exeunt.

1 Gent. What should this mean? Doll has a Hat on: she did not use to wear one.

Enter Doll.

Doll. Oh Gentlemen; though I desire your company, yet now I could heartily wish your absence.

1 Gent. Why, what's the matter, Doll?
Doll. I am married.

2 Gent. To whom.

Doll. Do you not know him? Young Simpleton the Smith.

1 Gent. That Fool, that Coxcomb: I'le break his Hammer with his own jolt-head. Doll. Stand close, I hear him coming.

Enter Young Simpleton.

Y. Simpl. Sweet-heart, now we are mar

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ried, things ought to be well carried, and the first thing we should take care for, is how to get Victuals. What's that.

They wistle. Doll. Nothing but the Rats and Mice. Y. Simpl. As sure as I live, i'le lay a trap for those Rats; but what's the matter now.

They hem. Doll. Nothing but the Neighbours dogs. Y. Simpl. Tis a thousand pitties but such Curs were hang'd up presently.

Exit Simpl.

Doll. Oh Gentlemen, I would you were out of the House, for I am afraid he will return again ere I can hansomely shut the door.

Y. Simpl. within. Why Doll, Doll! Doll. Come ye behind me presently; I pray dispatch.

Enter Young Simpleton.

Y. Simpl. Doll, I have considered, that to set up my Trade is the way to get Victuals;

and I want nothing of my tools, but only a pair of Bellows.

Doll. Fear not, Husband, I have a little money that you know not o'; and if I can but hear of a good bargain, I will not fail to buy a pair of Bellows.

Y. Simpl. Oh thou pretty loving kind Pigsnie! but what makes thee wear thy Coats of that fashion.

She spreads her Coats. Doll. Do not you know, Husband, it is the fashion of new married Wives.

Y. Simpl. Is it so; it is an excellent fashion in the Summer-time: but I'le go out, and return presently. Exit Y. Simpl. Doll. What will you do? 'tis ten to one he spies you, and then my reputation runs a hazard.

1 Gent. Appoint what way you will, we are contented.

Doll. I see him coming back, and truth to say, the course I shall advise will seem a strange one, yet it must be: you know he

did appoint that I should buy for him a pair of Bellows; now, if you two can bett it lustily, and blow it strongly, this visit may be kept off from his knowledge.

1 Gent. Nay, any thing, good Doll, we cannot now be chusers.

Doll. So, lie down, I'le fetch a Chafingdish of Charcoal hither, and practice you a while before he come. Exit Doll. 1 Gent. I have plaid many a mad prank in my Life, yet ne're till now acted a pair of Bellows.

Enter Doll.

Doll. So, so, blow lustily and fear not.

She practises them.

Enter Young Simpleton.

Y. Simpl. Wife, I have considered with my self, that if we lay out all the money in a pair of Bellows, we should have little or nothing left to buy Victuals.

Doll. Oh, Husband, you are deceived; for

I have bought you a pair of Bellows, the whole Town shews not a neater.

Y. Simpl. Is this a pair of Bellows? let me see, this is an a-lo-moda pair of Bellows. But look you, Doll, when the Bellows-mender comes by, let him stop this hole here; for the wind comes out abominably. I'le call my Father Simpleton to see this pair of Bellows. Father, father, come hither.

Enter Old Simpleton.

Y. Simpl. Did you ever see such a pair of Bellows as my Wife has bought?

O. Simpl. A pair of Bellows, Son! Methinks this would serve better for an Anvil: Let's try how it will bear our stroaks.

Y. Simpl. Well, a match.