_Pe._ What? are our little Friends well? How does your Wife do?
_Ch._ Very well, I left her with her Mother, and with Child.
_Pe._ I wish it may be well for you, and her too: To you, because you're
shortly to be a Father, and she a Mother. God be with you. I pray and
desire that it may be prosperous and happy to you both. I pray, I beg of
God that she, having a safe Delivery, may bear a Child worthy of you
both; and may make you a Father of a fine Child. I commend you that you
have shewed yourself to be a Man. I am glad you have prov'd yourself to
be a Man. You have shew'd yourself to be a Gallus, but not _Cybele_'s.
Now you may go, I believe you are a Man.
_Ch._ You joke upon me, as you are used to do. Well, go on, you may say
what you please to me.
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