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monkey has gin us the slip, I think-I suppose goon to see his relations; for here looks to be a power of um in this tawn- -but heavy Ralph has skawered

after him.

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.

Moody. Alas a day, sir, I believe our auld 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 then

[MOODY goes out, and returns. Moody. Od's flesh! here's Master Monly come to

wait upo' your worship!

Sir Fran. Wheere is he?

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.
Manly. I heard you were come, Sir Francis-and
Sir Fran. Od's heart! this was so kindly done of
you, naw!

Manly. 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?

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

Sir Fran. Look you, cousin'; tho'f 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.

Manly. I think it ought to be, cousin; for I believe you will find it the most expensive one-your election did not cost you a trifle, I suppose.

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

Manly. Nay, if you have that secret

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

Manly. 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 Westminster -that's one thing.

Manly. Very well! but what good is that to do you? Sir Fran. Why not me, as much as it does other folks?

Manly. Other people, I doubt, have the advantage of different qualifications.

Sir Fran. Why, ay! 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! ay, and at vestry too—and, mayhap, they may find here-that I have brought my tongue up to town with me! D'ye take me naw?

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

Sir Fran. How d'ye mean?

Manly. That Sir John Worthland has lodged a petition against you.

Sir Fran. Petition! why, ay! 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!

Manly. 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.

Manly. 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 its my fault, if I don't make as good a figure as any that ever were at the head on't.

Manly. 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——

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

Sir Fran. Ay, tho'f 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!

Manly. 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

Manly. [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-

Manly. Not unlikely.

Sir Fran. Therefore, I have some thoughts of getting her to be maid of honour.

Manly. [Aside] Oh, he has taken my breath away! but I must hear him out.-Pray, Sir Francis, do you think her education has yet qualified her for a court. Sir Fran. Why, the girl is a little too mettlesome, it's true; but she has tongue enough: she woan't be dash't! Then she shall learn to dance forthwith, and that will soon teach her how to stond still, you know.

Manly. Very well; but when she is thus accomplished, you must still wait for a vacancy.

Sir Fran. Why, I hope one has a good chance for that every day, cousin; for, if I take it right, that's a post, that folks are not more willing to get into than they are to get out of-It's like an orange-tree, upon that accawnt-it will bear blossoms, and fruit that's ready to drop, at the same time.

Manly. Well, sir, you best know how to make good your pretensions! But, pray, where is my lady, and my young cousin? I should be glad to see them too.

Sir Fran. She is but just taking a dish of tea with the Count and my landlady-I'll call her dawn.

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Manly. No, no; if she's engaged I shall call again. Sir Fran. Odsheart! but you mun see her naw, cousin what! the best friend I have in the world!— Here, sweetheart! [To a SERVANT without.] pr'ythee, desire the lady and the gentleman to come down a bit; tell her, here's cousin Manly come to wait upon her.

Manly. Pray, sir, who may the gentleman be?

Sir Fran. You mun know him, to be sure; why, its Count Basset.

Manly. Oh, is it he !-Your family will be infinitely happy in his acquaintance.

Sir Fran. Troth, I think so too: he's the civilest man that ever I knew in my life-Why, here he would go

out of his own lodgings, at an hour's warning, purely to Wasn't that kind, naw?

oblige my family.

Manly. Extremely civil-the family is in admirable hands already!

[Aside. Sir Fran. Then my lady likes him hugely-all the time of York races, she would never be without him.

Manly. That was happy, indeed! and a prudent man, you know, should always take care that his wife may have innocent company.

Sir Fran. Why, ay! that's it! and I think there could not be such another!

Manly. Why, truly, for her purpose, I think not.

Sir Fran. Only naw and tan; he-he stonds a leetle too much upon ceremony; that's his fault.

Manly. Oh, never fear! he'll mend that every day -Mercy on us! what a head he has !

Sir Fran. So, here they come.·

[Aside.

Enter LADY WRONGHEAD and COUNT BASSET.

Lady W. Cousin Manly, this is infinitely obliging; I am extremely glad to see you.

Manly. Your most obedient servant, madam; I am glad to see your ladyship look so well after your journey.

Lady W. Why, really, coming to London is apt to put a little more life in one's looks.

Manly. Yet the way of living, here, is very apt to deaden the complexion--and, give me leave to tell you, as a friend, madam, you are come to the worst place in the world, for a good woman to grow better in.

Lady W. Lord, cousin! how should people ever make any figure in life, that are always moped up in the country?

Count B. Your ladyship certainly takes the thing in in a quite right light, madam. Mr. Manly, your humble servant- -a hem.

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