OMNES.

Aye, a fong, a fong!

TONY.

Then I'll fing you, gentlemen, a fong I made upon this ale-houfe, the Three Pigeons.

SONG.

Let school-masters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonfenfe, and learning;

Good liquor, I toutly maintain,

Gives genus a better difcerning.

Let them brag of their heathenish gods,

Their Lethes, their Styxes, and Stygians; Their qui's, and their quæ's, and their quod's, They're all but a parcel of pigeons.

Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.

When methodist preachers come down,
A preaching that drinking is finful,
I'll wager the rafcals a crown,

They always preach beft with a skinful,
But when you come down with your pence,
For a flice of their fcurvy religion,

I'll leave it to all men of fenfe,

But you my good friend are the pigeon,

Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.

Then come put the jorum about,

And let us be merry and clever,

Our hearts and our liquors are ftout,
Here's the three jolly pigeons for ever.

Let fome cry up woodcock or hare,

Your buftards, your ducks, and your widgeons; But of all the birds in the air,

Here's a health to the three jolly pigeons.

Bravo, bravo!

Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.

OMNES.

FIRST FELLOW.

The 'fquire has got fpunk in him,

SECOND FELLOW.

I loves to hear him fing, bekeays he never gives us nothing that's low.

THIRD FELLOW.

O damn any thing that's low, I cannot bear it.

FOURTH FELLOW.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing at any time. If fo be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

THIRD FELLOW.

I like the maxum of it, master Muggins. What, though I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that. May this be my poison if my bear ever dances but to the very genteeleft of tunes. "Water Parted," or "the minuet in Ari"adne."

SECOND FELLOW.

What a pity it is the 'fquire is not come to his It would be well for all the publicans within ten miles round of him.

own.

TONY.

TONY.

Ecod and fo it would, mafter Slang. I'd then fhew what it was to keep choice of company.

SECOND FELLOW.

O he takes after his own father for that. To be fure old 'fquire Lumpkin was the finest gentleman I ever fet my eyes on. For winding the ftraight horn, or beating a thicket for a hare, or a wench, he never had his fellow. It was a faying in the place, that he kept the best horses, dogs, and girls in the whole county.

ΤΟΝΥ.

Ecod, and when I'm of age, I'll be no bastard, I promife you. I have been thinking of Bett Bouncer and the miller's grey mare to begin with. But, come, my boys, drink about and be merry, for you pay no reckoning. Well, Stingo, what's the

matter?

Enter LANDLORD.

LANDLORD.

There be two gentlemen in a poft-chaife at the door. They have loft their way upo' the foreft; and they are talking fomething about Mr. Hardcaftle.

TONY.

As fure as can be, one of them must be the gentleman that's coming down to court my fifter. Do they feem to be Londoners?

LANDLORD.

I believe they may. They look woundily like Frenchmen.

TONY.

Then defire them to ftep this way, and I'll set them right in a twinkling. (Exit Landlord.) Gentlemen, as they may'nt be good enough company for you, ftep down for a moment, and I'll be with you in the fqueezing of a lemon.

TONY, folus.

[Exeunt mob.

Father-in-law has been calling me whelp, and hound, this half year. Now, if I pleased, I could be fo revenged upon the old grumbletonian. But then I'm afraid-afraid of what! I fhall foon be worth fifteen hundred a year, and let him frighten me out of that if he can.

Enter LANDLORD, conducting MARLOW and

HASTINGS.

MARLOW.

What a tedious uncomfortable day have we had of it! We were told it was but forty miles across the country, and we have come above threefcore.

HASTINGS.

And all, Marlow, from that unaccountable referve of yours, that would not let us inquire more frequently on the way.

MAR

MARLOW.

I own, Hastings, I am unwilling to lay myself under an obligation to every one I meet; and often ftand the chance of an unmannerly answer.

HASTINGS.

At prefent, however, we are not likely to receive any answer.

TONY.

No offence, gentlemen. But I'm told you have been inquiring for one Mr. Hardcastle in those parts. Do you know what part of the country you are in ?

HASTINGS.

Not in the leaft, Sir, but should thank you for information.

TONY.

Nor the way you came?

HASTINGS.

No, Sir? but if you can inform us-
TONY.

Why, gentlemen, if you know neither the road you are going, nor where you are, nor the road you came, the first thing I have to inform you is, thatyou have loft your way.

MARLOW.

We wanted no ghost to tell us that.

TONY.

Pray, gentlemen, may I be fo bold as to ask the place from whence you came?