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The Old Bachelor: a Comedy by William Congreve
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to yourself. The devil watches all opportunities; and in this
favourable disposition of your mind, heaven knows how far you may
be tempted: I am tender of your reputation.

ARAM. I am obliged to you. But who's malicious now, Belinda?

BELIN. Not I; witness my heart, I stay out of pure affection.

ARAM. In my conscience I believe you.


SCENE VII.


[To them] VAINLOVE, BELLMOUR, FOOTMAN.

BELL. So, fortune be praised! To find you both within, ladies, is
-

ARAM. No miracle, I hope.

BELL. Not o' your side, madam, I confess. But my tyrant there and
I, are two buckets that can never come together.

BELIN. Nor are ever like. Yet we often meet and clash.

BELL. How never like! marry, Hymen forbid. But this it is to run
so extravagantly in debt; I have laid out such a world of love in
your service, that you think you can never be able to pay me all.
So shun me for the same reason that you would a dun.
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