+Phil.+ If any can bring news of the six aforesaid Virgin ladies, or of the three Flanders nurses And colts, to one Master Philidor, a very Conscientious young man--

+Phil.+ They shall be extremely paid for their pains. Again, if any can bring tidings of this Master Pinguister to Mistress Mirida, She will be very bountiful in her Reward: the poor soul weeps most bitterly For him.

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+Ping.+ Does she so, poor wretch? [_Cries aloud._] Prythee, good Crier, go tell her I am not dead, though I have been buried a great while in the Vault. Mercy of my bum-gut, my purge again?

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+Omnes.+ You nasty rogue, turn your breech out of the Gate then.

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[_Goes to do so, +Philidor+ kicks him down, he roars out._

+Mir.+ Philidor, I have broke a vein With laughing, to hear thy rogueries. I'll call To Pinguister. Master Pinguister? My Love, my dear, sure, I hear thy voice?

+Ping.+ O, prythee raise me from the dead.

+Phil.+ Well, ladies and gentlewomen, how d'ye Like your crier now?

+Omnes.+ The devil take thee, was it you?

+2d Lady.+ Well, won't you let us out? pray howsoever, Take away this fat gentleman from us; For he has such a coming looseness, and 'Tis so dark here, that he has Shit upon every one of us.

+Phil.+ Yes, if you ladies would set your hands To this paper, to quit me as to all promises, I will; and also, my reverend nurses, You must set your hands to this discharge, To quit me from all arrears of nursing: Else farewell t'ye--

+Omnes.+ Well, well, stay; we will. [_Set their hands._

+Phil.+ So, now you may go take the air Again; there's the key to let yourselves out.

+Phil.+ Come, Mirida, let's run away, for if They catch us, murder is the best we can Hope for. [_Exit, with +Mirida+._

+1st Nurse.+ They went this way; let's run after Them, some one way and some t'other. [_Exeunt +Women+._

+Ping.+ So you may, but if I run away, then Hang me; I am glad of my resurrection Howsoever. On my conscience, no green Carcase ever stunk as I did; to my best Remembrance I went to stool some Threescore times in the vault, _ergo_ I was beaten threescore times; the Unmerciful nurses, with their huge Palm'd hands, every time I went to't, Play'd at hot-cockles[76] all the while upon My buttocks. Well, I hope I shall ne'er be Buried again whilst I live, and so with That prayer I'll go to bed.