----But I promis'd the Wench Marriage----What signifies a Promise
to a Woman? Does not Man in Marriage itself promise a hundred things that he
never means to perform? Do all we can, Women will believe us; for they look
upon a Promise as an Excuse for following their own Inclinations.----But
here comes Lucy, and I cannot get from her.----Wou'd I were deaf!
Scene 9.
MACHEATH, LUCY.
LUCY. You base Man you,----how can you look me in the Face after what hath
passed between us?----See here, perfidious Wretch, how I am forc'd to bear
about the Load of Infamy you have laid upon me----O Macheath! thou hast
robb'd me of my Quiet----to see thee tortur'd would give me Pleasure.
Air XXVII.--A lovely Lass to a Friar came, &c.
Thus when a good Huswife sees a Rat
In her Trap in the Morning taken,
With Pleasure her Heart goes pit-a-pat,
In Revenge for her loss of Bacon.
Then she throws him
To the Dog or Cat
To be worried, crush'd and shaken.
MACHEATH. Have you no Bowels, no Tenderness, my dear Lucy, to see a
Husband in these Circumstances?
LUCY. A Husband!
MACHEATH. In ev'ry Respect but the Form, and that, my Dear, may be said
over us at any time.----Friends should not insist upon Ceremonies. From a
Man of Honour, his Word is as good as his Bond.
LUCY. 'Tis the Pleasure of all you fine Men to insult the Women you have
ruin'd.
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