[Knavesby kneels.

Mis. Kna. You’ll play the pander no more, will you?

Kna. O, that’s an inch into my throat!

Mis. Kna. And let out your wife for hire?[1004]

Kna. O, sweet wife, go no deeper!

Mis. Kna. Dare any be bail for your better behaviour?

L. Beau. Yes, yes, I dare; he will mend one day.

Mis. Kna. And be worse the next.

Kna. Hang me the third then; dear, merciful wife,
I will do any thing for a quiet life. [Rises.

L. Beau. All then is reconciled?

Sweet. Only my brush is lost, my dear new brush.

Frank. sen. I will help you to satisfaction for that too, sir.

Sweet. O spermaceti! I feel it heal already.

Frank. sen. Gentlemen, I have fully satisfied my dead son’s debts?

Creditors. All pleased, all paid, sir.

Frank. sen. Then once more here I bring him back to life,
From my servant to my son: nay, wonder not,
I have not dealt by fallacy with any;
My son was dead; whoe’er outlives his virtues
Is a dead man; for when you hear of spirits
That walk in real bodies, to th' amaze
And cold astonishment of such as meet ’em,
And all would shun, those are men of vices,
Who nothing have but what is visible,
And so, by consequence, they have no souls;
But if the soul return, he lives again,
Created newly; such my son appears,
By my blessing rooted, growing by his tears.

Creditors. You have beguiled us honestly, sir.

Frank. jun. And you shall have your brush again.

Sweet. My basins shall all ring for joy.

L. Beau. Why, this deserves a triumph,[1005] and my cost
Shall begin a feast to it, to which I do
Invite you all; such happy reconcilements
Must not be past without a health of joy:
Discorded friends aton’d,[1006] men and their wives,
This hope proclaims your after quiet lives.
[Exeunt omnes.

EPILOGUE.

I am sent t' inquire your censure,[1007] and to know
How you stand affected? whether we do owe
Our service to your favours, or must strike
Our sails, though full of hope, to your dislike?
Howe’er, be pleas’d to think we purpos’d well;
And from my fellows thus much I must tell,
Instruct us but in what we went astray,
And, to redeem it, we’ll take any way.