Scene I.

Love for Love

by William Congreve

Valentine's lodging.

SCANDAL and JEREMY.

SCANDAL
Well, is your master ready? does he look madly and
talk madly?

JEREMY
Yes, sir; you need make no great doubt of that. He
that was so near turning poet yesterday morning can't be much to seek
in playing the madman to-day.

SCANDAL
Would he have Angelica acquainted with the reason of
his design?

JEREMY
No, sir, not yet. He has a mind to try whether his
playing the madman won't make her play the fool, and fall in love
with him; or at least own that she has loved him all this while and
concealed it.

SCANDAL
I saw her take coach just now with her maid, and
think I heard her bid the coachman drive hither.

JEREMY
Like enough, sir, for I told her maid this morning,
my master was run stark mad only for love of her mistress.--I hear a
coach stop; if it should be she, sir, I believe he would not see her,
till he hears how she takes it.

SCANDAL
Well, I'll try her: --'tis she--here she comes.