I must have Women. There is nothing unbends the Mind like them. Money is
not so strong a Cordial for the Time. Drawer.--[Enter Drawer.] Is the
Porter gone for all the Ladies according to my Directions?
DRAWER. I expect him back every Minute. But you know, Sir, you sent him
as far as Hockley in the Hole for three of the Ladies, for one in Vinegar-
Yard and for the rest of them somewhere about Lewker's Lane. Sure
some of them are below, for I hear the Bar-Bell. As they come I will show
them up. Coming, Coming.
Scene 4.
MACHEATH, MRS. COAXER, DOLLY TRULL, MRS. VIXEN, BETTY DOXY, JENNY DIVER,
MRS. SLAMMEKIN, SUKY TAWDRY, and MOLLY BRAZEN.
MACHEATH. Dear Mrs. Coaxer, you are welcome. You look charmingly to-day.
I hope you don't want the Repairs of Quality, and lay on Paint.----Dolly
Trull! kiss me, you Slut; are you as amorous as ever, Hussy? You are always
so taken up with stealing Hearts, that you don't allow yourself Time to
steal anything else.----Ah Dolly, thou wilt ever be a Coquette!----Mrs.
Vixen, I'm yours, I always lov'd a Woman of Wit and Spirit; they make
charming Mistresses, but plaguey Wives.----Betty Doxy! Come hither, Hussy.
Do you drink as hard as ever? You had better stick to good wholesom Beer;
for in troth, Betty, Strong-Waters will in time ruin your Constitution.
You should leave those to your Betters.--What! and my pretty Jenny Diver
too! As prim and demure as ever! There is not any Prude, though ever so
high-bred, hath a more sanctify'd Look, with a more mischievous Heart.
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