The Christian _Almeida_ when _Sebastian_ was in danger, Raves and Foames like one Possess'd,
_But is there Heaven, for I begin to doubt?[157] Now take your swing ye impious Sin unpunish'd, Eternal Providence seems over watch'd, And with a slumbring Nod assents to Murther._
In the next _page_, she bellows again much after the same manner. The _Double Dealer_ to say the least of him, follows his Master in this Road, _Passibus æquis_. Sr. _Paul Plyant_ one would think had done his part: But the ridiculing _Providence_ won't satisfie all People: And therefore the next attempt is somewhat bolder.
_Sr._ Paul. _Hold your self contented my Lady_ Plyant,----_I find Passion coming upon me by Inspiration_.[158] In _Love Triumphant_, _Carlos_ is by the Constitution of the _Play_ a Christian;[159] and therefore must be construed in the sense of his Religion. This Man blunders out this horrible expression. _Nature has given me my Portion in Sense with a P---- to her. &c._ The _Reader_ may see the Hellish Syllable at Length if he pleases. This Curse is borrow'd for _Young Fashion_ in the _Relapse_.[160] The _Double Dealer_ is not yet exhausted. _Cynthia the Top Lady grows Thoughtful._ Upon the question she relates her Contemplation. Cynth. _I am thinking (says she) that tho' Marriage makes Man and Wife one Flesh, it leaves them two Fools._[161] This Jest is made upon a Text in _Genesis_,[162] and afterwards applyed by our Saviour to the case of Divorse. _Love for Love_ will give us a farther account of this Authors Proficiency in the _Scriptures_. Our Blessed Saviour affirms himself _to be the Way, the Truth, and the Light, that he came to bear witness to the Truth, and that his Word is Truth_. These expressions were remembred to good purpose. For _Valentine_ in his pretended Madness tells _Buckram_ the Lawyer; _I am Truth,----I am Truth----Who's that, that's out of his way, I am Truth, and can set him right._[163] Now a _Poet_ that had not been smitten with the pleasure of Blasphemy, would never have furnish'd Frensy with Inspiration; nor put our Saviours Words in the Mouth of a Madman. _Lady Brute_, after some struggle between Conscience and Lewdness, declares in Favour of the later. She says the _part of a downright Wife is to Cuckold her Husband_.[164] And tho' this is _against the strict Statute Law of Religion, yet if there was a Court of Chancery in Heaven, she should be sure to cast him_.[165]