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Show The Conftant Couple. fy Enter Wildair, Angelica, both Clinchers.' Oh! Sir Harry, Fortune has acted Miracles, the Story's if range and tedious, but all amounts to this. That Woman's Mind is charming as her Perfon, and I a m made a Convert too to Beauty. Wild. I wanted only this to make m y Pleafure perfeft. Enter Smugler. Smug. So, Gentlemen and Ladies, is my Gracious Nephew Vizard among ye ? Wild. Sir, he dares npt fhow his Face among fuch honourable Company, for your Gracious Nephew is Smug. What, Sir? Have a care what you fay. Wild. A Villain, Sir. Smug. With all m y Heart I'll pardon you the beating m e for that very Word. And pray, Sir Harry, when you fee him next, tell him this News from me, that I have diiin-herited him, that I will leave him as poor as a dishanded Quarter-Matter. And this is the pofitive and ftif* Refolution of Threefcore and Ten ; an Age that flicks as of; tinately to its purpofe, as of the old Fafhion of its Cloak. Wild. You fee. Madam, (To Angel.) how induilrioufly Fortune has punifh'd his Offence to you. Angel. I can fcarcely, Sir, reckon it an Offence, confider-ing the happy Confequence of it. Smug. O ! Sir Harry, he's as Hypocritical Lure. As your felf, Mr. Alderman: H o w fares m y good old Nurfe, pray Sir ? Smug. O Madam, I fhall be even with you before I part with your Writings and Money, that I have in m y hands. Stand. A word with you, Mr. Alderman, do you know this Pocket-Book ? Smug. O Lord, it contains an Account of all m y fecret Practices in Trading (Afide.) how came you by it, Sir ? Stand. Sir Harry here drifted it out of your Pocket, at this Lady's Houfe Yefterday : It contains an Account of fome fe*- cret Practices in your Merchandizing; among the reft the Counterpart of an Agreement with a Correfpondent at Bour-deaux, about tranfporting French Wine in Spanifh Casks « Firft return this Lady all her Writings, then I lhall confider, whether I fhall lay your Proceedings before the Parliament L 2 ©r |
