[To them] SHARPER and VAINLOVE at some distance.
BELIN.Dear Araminta, I'm tired.
ARAM.'Tis but pulling off our masks, and obliging Vainlove to know us.I'll be rid of my fool by fair means.--Well, Sir Joseph, you shall see my face; but, be gone immediately.I see one that will be jealous, to find me in discourse with you.Be discreet.
No reply; but away.[Unmasks.]
SIR JO.The great fortune, that dined at my Lady Freelove's! Sir Joseph, thou art a made man.Agad, I'm in love up to the ears.
But I'll be discreet, and hushed.[Aside.]
BLUFF.Nay, by the world, I'll see your face.
BELIN.You shall.[Unmasks.]
SHARP.Ladies, your humble servant.We were afraid you would not have given us leave to know you.
ARAM.We thought to have been private.But we find fools have the same advantage over a face in a mask that a coward has while the sword is in the scabbard, so were forced to draw in our own defence.
BLUFF.My blood rises at that fellow: I can't stay where he is;and I must not draw in the park.[To SIR JOSEPH.]
SIR JO.I wish I durst stay to let her know my lodging.
