'Squ. Rich. Nay the moare the merrier, I say; but sister is always so cross-grain'd

Jenny. Lord! this boy is enough to deaf people— and one has really been stuff'd up in a coach so long, Pray, madam could not I get a

that

little powder for my hair?

Myr. If you please to come along with me, madam. [Exeunt Myr. and Jenny.

'Squ. Rich. What, has sister taken her away naw! mess, I'll go and have a little game with 'em.

[Exit after them.

Lady Wrong. Well, Count, I hope you won't so far change your lodgings, but you will come, and be at home here sometimes ?

Sir Fran. Ay! ay! pr'ythee come and take a bit of mutton with us, naw and tan, when thouh'st naught to do.

Count Bas. Well, Sir Francis, you shall find I'll make but very little ceremony.

Sir Fran. Why, ay now, that's hearty!

Moth. Will your ladyship please to refresh yourself with a dish of tea, after your fatigue? I think I have pretty good.

Lady Wrong. If you please, Mrs. Motherly; but I believe we had best have it above stairs.

Moth. Very well, madam: it shall be ready immediately. [Exit Mrs. Motherly.

Lady Wrong. Won't you walk up, sir?

Sir Fran. Moody!

Count Bas. Shan't we stay for Sir Francis, madam?

Lady Wrong. Lard! don't mind him: he will come if he likes it.

Sir Fran. Ay! ay! ne'er heed me

-I have things

to look after. [Exeunt Lady Wrong. and Count Bas.

Enter JOHN MOODY.

J. Moody. Did your worship want muh ?

Sir Fran. Aye, is the coach cleared, and all our things in?

J. Moody. Aw but a few band-boxes, and the nook that's left o' the goose poy

th' monkey has gin us the slip, I think—I suppose

he's goon to see his relations; a power of um in this tawn

skawered after him.

-But, a plague on him,

for here looks to be

but heavy Ralph is

Sir Fran. Why, let him go to the devil! no matter, and the hawnds had had him a month agoe.

but I wish the coach and horses were got safe to the inn! This is a sharp tawn, we mun look about us here, John; therefore I would have you go along with Roger, and see that nobody runs away with them before they get to the stable.

J. Moody. Alas a-day, sir, I believe our awld cattle won't yeasly be run away with to-night-but howsomdever, we'st ta' the best care we can of um, poor sawls.

Sir Fran. Well, well! make haste

[Moody goes out, and returns. J. Moody. Ods flesh! here's Master Monly come

to wait upo' your Worship!

Sir Fran. Wheere is he?

J. Moody. Just coming in at threshould.

Sir Fran. Then goa about your business.

Enter MANLY.

[Exit Moody.

Cousin Manly! Sir, I am your very humble servant. Man. I heard you were come, Sir Francis-andSir Fran. Odsheart! this was kindly done of you

naw.

Man. I wish you may think it so, cousin! for I confess, I should have been better pleased to have seen you in any other place.

Sir Fran. How soa, sir?

Man. Nay, 'tis for your own sake; I'm not concerned.

Sir Fran. Look you, cousin; thof' I know you wish me well; yet I don't question I shall give you such weighty reasons for what I have done, that you will say, sir, this is the wisest journey that ever I made in my life.

Man. I think it ought to be, cousin; for I believe you will find it the most expensive one— tion did not cost you a trifle, I suppose.

your elec

Sir Fran. Why ay! it's true! That-that did lick a little; but if a man's wise, (and I han't fawn'd yet that I'm a fool) there are ways, cousin, to lick one's self whole again.

Man. Nay, if you have that secret

Sir Fran. Don't you be fearful, cousin-you'll find that I know something.

F

Man. If it be any thing for your good, I should be glad to know it too.

Sir Fran. In short, then, I have a friend in a corner, that has let me a little into what's what, at West. minster—that's one thing.

Man. Very well! but what good is that to do you? Sir Fran. Why not me, as much as it does other folks? Man. Other people, I doubt, have the advantage of different qualifications.

Sir Fran. Why, aye! there's it naw! you'll say that I have lived all my days i' the country—what then -I'm o' the quorum- -I have been at sessions, and I have made speeches there! aye, and at vestry too and mayhap they may find here,I have brought my tongue up to town with me! D'ye take me naw?

-that

Man. If I take your case right, cousin, I am afraid the first occasion you will have for your eloquence here, will be, to shew that you have any right to make use of it at all.

Sir Fran. How d'ye mean!

I Man. That Sir John Worthland has lodged a petition against you.

Sir Fran. Petition I why, aye! there let it lie—we'll find a way to deal with that, I warrant you!-Why, you forget, cousin, Sir John's o' the wrung side, mon!

Man. I doubt, Sir Francis, that will do you but little service; for in cases very notorious, which I take yours to be, there is such a thing as a short day, and dispatching them immediately.

Sir Fran. With all my heart! the sooner I send him home again, the better.

Man. And this is the scheme you have laid down, to repair your fortune?

Sir Fran. In one word, cousin, I think it my duty! The Wrongheads have been a considerable family ever since England was England: and since the world knows I have talents wherewithal, they sha'n't say it's my fault, if I don't make as good a figure as any that ever were at the head on't.

Man. Nay, this project, as you have laid it, will come up to any thing your ancestors have done these five hundred years.

Sir Fran. And let me alone to work it: mayhap I hav'n't told you all, neither—————

Man. You astonish me! what? and is it full as practicable as what you have told me ?

Sir Fran. Ay, thof' I say it—every whit, cousin. You'll find that I have more irons i' the fire than one; I doan't come of a fool's errand!

Man. Very well.

Sir Fran. In a word, my wife has got a friend at court, as well as myself, and her dowghter Jenny is naw pretty well grown up

Man. [Aside.]

And what, in the devil's name,

would he do with the dowdy?

Sir Fran. Naw, if I doan't lay in for a husband for her, mayhap, i' this tawn, she may be looking out for herself

Man. Not unlikely