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Show The Beaux Stratagem. 15 rther: --You'll pay for all one Day, I warrant ye. < But, come, my Lady's Tea is ready, and 'tis almoft Church-time. [Exeunt. SCENE, The Inn. 9 Enter Aimwell drefs'd, and Archer. Aim. And was fhe the Daughter of the Houfe ? Arch. The Landlord is fo blind as to think fo j but I dar& fwear fhe has better Blood in her Veins. Aim. Why doft think fo? Arch. Becaufe the Baggage has a pert Je ne fcai quoi, reads Plays, keeps a Monkey, and is troubled with Vapours. Aim. By which Difcovenes, I guefs that you know more of her. Arch. Not yet, 'faith ; the Lady gives her felf Airs, forfooth, nothing under a Gentleman. Aim. Let me take her in hand. Arch. Say one Word more o'that, and I'll declare my felf, fpoil your Sport there, and every where elfe ; look ye, Aim- •well, every Man in his own Sphere. Aim. Right; and therefore you muft pimp for your Mafter. Arch. In the ufual Forms, good Sir, after I have ferv'd my felf. But to our Bufinefs You are fo well drefs'd, Tom, and make fo handfome a Figure, that I fancy you may do Execution in a Country Church; the exterior part ftrikes firft, and you're in the right to make that Imprefllion favourable. Aim. There's fomething in that which may turn to Advantage: The Appearance of a Stranger in a Country Church, draws as many Gazers as a Blazing Star; no fooner he comes into the Cathedral, but a Train of Whifpers runs buzzing round the Congregation in a moment: Who is he ? Whence comes he ? Do you know him ? Then I, Sir, tips me the Verger with half a Crown; he pockets the Simony, and Inducts me into the beft Pue in the Church, I pull out my Snuff-box, turn my felf round, bow to theBifhop, ot the Dean, if he be the commanding Officer; fingle out a Beauty, rivet both my Eyes to hers, fet my Nofe a bleeding by the Strength of Imagination, and fhew the whole Church my. concern, by my endeavouring to hide it; after the Sermon, the whole Town gives me to her for a Lover, and by per-fuading the Lady that I am a dying for her, the Tables are turn'd, and fhe in good4 earneft falls in Love with mAer?c h. |
