_Brom._ Now you are snuffling up on a cold scent, for some pitiful excuse. I know you; twenty to one, but you will plead a drunkenness; you are used to be pot-valiant.
_Sos._ I was pumping, and I thank her, she has invented for me.--Yes, Bromia, I must confess I was exalted; and, possibly, I might scour upon thee, or perhaps be a little more familiar with thy person, by the way of kindness, than if I had been sober: but, pr'ythee, inform me what I did, that I may consider what satisfaction I am to make thee.
_Brom._ Are you there at your dog-tricks! You would be forgetting, would you? like a drunken bully that affronts over night, and, when he is called to account the next morning, remembers nothing of the quarrel; and asks pardon, to avoid fighting.
_Sos._ By Bacchus, I was overtaken; but I should be loth that I committed any folly with thee.
_Brom._ I am sure, I kept myself awake all night, that I did, in expectation of your coming. [_Crying._
_Sos._ But what amends did I make thee, when I came?
_Brom._ You know well enough, to my sorrow, but that you play the hypocrite.
_Sos._ I warrant, I was monstrous kind to thee.
_Brom._ Yes, monstrous kind indeed: You never said a truer word; for, when I came to kiss you, you pulled away your mouth, and turned your cheek to me.
_Brom._ How, good! Here's fine impudence! He justifies!
_Sos._ Yes, I do justify, that I turned my cheek, like a prudent person, that my breath might not offend thee; for, now I remember, I had eaten garlick.
_Brom._ Ay, you remember, and forget, just as it makes for you, or against you; but, to mend the matter, you never spoke one civil word to me; but stood like a stock, without sense or motion.
_Brom._ After which, I lovingly invited you to take your place in your nuptial bed, as the laws of matrimony oblige you; and you inhumanly refused me.
_Sos._ Ay, there's the main point of the business! Art thou morally certain, that I refused thee? Look me now in the face, and say I did not commit matrimony with thee!
_Brom._ I wonder how thou canst look me in the face, after that refusal!
_Sos._ Say it once again, that I did not feloniously come to bed to thee!
_Brom._ No, thou cold traitor, thou know'st thou didst not.