ARAMINTA, BELINDA, VAINLOVE, and BELLMOUR.

BELL.Why, you won't hear me with patience.

ARAM.What's the matter, cousin?

BELL.Nothing, madam, only -

BELIN.Prithee hold thy tongue.Lard, he has so pestered me with flames and stuff, I think I sha'n't endure the sight of a fire this twelvemonth.

BELL.Yet all can't melt that cruel frozen heart.

BELIN.O Gad, I hate your hideous fancy--you said that once before--if you must talk impertinently, for Heaven's sake let it be with variety; don't come always, like the devil, wrapt in flames.

I'll not hear a sentence more, that begins with an 'I burn'--or an 'I beseech you, madam.'

BELL.But tell me how you would be adored.I am very tractable.

BELIN.Then know, I would be adored in silence.

BELL.Humph, I thought so, that you might have all the talk to yourself.You had better let me speak; for if my thoughts fly to any pitch, I shall make villainous signs.

BELIN.What will you get by that; to make such signs as I won't understand?

BELL.Ay, but if I'm tongue-tied, I must have all my actions free to--quicken your apprehension--and I-gad let me tell you, my most prevailing argument is expressed in dumb show.