Parting with him! Why, this is the whole Scheme and
Intention of all Marriage-Articles. The comfortable Estate of Widow-
hood, is the only Hope that keeps up a Wife's Spirits. Where is the
Woman who would scruple to be a Wife, if she had it in her Power to
be a Widow, whenever she pleas'd? If you have any Views of this
sort, Polly, I shall think the Match not so very unreasonable.
POLLY. How I dread to hear your Advice! Yet I must beg you to
explain yourself.
PEACHUM. Secure what he hath got, have him peach'd the next
Sessions, and then at once you are made a rich Widow.
POLLY. What, murder the Man I love! The Blood runs cold at my Heart
with the very thought of it.
PEACHUM. Fie, Polly! What hath Murder to do in the Affair? Since
the thing sooner or later must happen, I dare say, the Captain
himself would like that we should get the Reward for his Death sooner
than a Stranger. Why, Polly, the Captain knows, that as 'tis his
Employment to rob, so 'tis ours to take Robbers; every Man in his
Business.
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