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Show - The Souldiers Fortune =T %2 Blo, rather than want employment, he will go from 1WU0.k8et, i ne end of the Town to t'other to procure my Lord e 08ues1 woyld . civil to my Ladies little languithing Bitch Cour. A very worthy Member of the Common-Wealth ~ Bean. This noble Perfon one da but Fourbin can give you ular account of the matter; fweet Sir, if you pleafe tell u OW thoy g the ftor need ot friend of the firft encounte -muft know that's his Title Fourb. Sir, it fhall be done---walking one day upo the: Piszzs a- bout three o the Clock 'th' After-N oon, to get me a Stomacht dinner," I chancd to encounter a Perfon of goodly prefen z, and worth - appearance, . his Beard and Hair white, grave an comely, his countenance ruddy, plump, {fmoothand chearful; who percei ing me alf y and ) brin W fuch Famiey. | ihere the Wo e Intance that away your Land. equipt as [ am with a Meen and Air which might well in I was a Perfon of no inconfiderable quality, came ver refpefully up to me, and after the ufual ceremonics between Perfons of p rts an breeding had paft,very humbly enquired of me what is it a Cloc -I pre credit, and lewd- {ently underftood by the queftion, ‘that h nefs, told him, I did prefume it was at mof - Bean. Very Court-like, civil, quaint, an preferments;tere auty, fweetas R ble quettions pour paffer fe temps, and {o he was pleafed to offe - the courtefie-of a glafs of Wine - 1 told him I very feldom drank i he o pleas'd, I would do my felf the honour to prefent hi ‘of meat at an eating Houft hard by, where I had an intereft ~!;.‘I;F;" T 1an has ot Moot . .T-v __Cour. Very well: ‘I think this Squire of thine, Beaugard is as accomplifht a Perfon as any of the employment I ever faw T in thees if th ej wher ar o iy, fb frelhing foold, g - . Bean. Let the Rogue go on - Fourb, In fhort, we agree'd and went together, as foo as we entre ~.the Room: I am your moft %;mble Servant, Sir, fays he---- a the meaneft of your Vafials, Sir, faid I-=1I am very happy in lightin . Into. the acquaintance of o worthy 2 Gentleman -as you appea to be ~ Sir, faid he again-worthy, Sir Folly, then cameI upon h magain o tother fide (for you muft know by that timeI had gropt out hi Title the Bottom of my heart, which I thall be alway - ready to lay at your Fect _ Cour, Well, Fourbin, and what reply'd the Knight th ~ Fouwrb. Nothing, he had nothing to fay; his fenfc was tranfport d with tha [To Fourbin B bu"' - 108 fivear L xnadjntpatf K fo wasa man of parts and bufibyt nicely turn'd of three new, I think Fourb. The freedom of commerce increafing, after fom little inconAider 08 tell me wher inftance, know ids today betwixt you and Sir Jolly Fumple, yo '& 5 L . - admiration of my parts; fo we fat down, and after fome paufe, he defir to know by what title he was to diftinguifh the perfon that had f - ~ highly honoured him-- . Bean, That is as much as to fay, Sir, whofe Rafcal you were - Fouwrb. Sir, you may make as bold with your poor Slave as you pleaj 2 -I told him th fc that knew me well were pleafed to call me th Chevalier Fosirbin, that I wasa Cadel of the Ancient F amily of the Four o binois; and thatI had had the honour of ferving the great Monarch ,o Frapee in his Wars-in Flanders, whereI contracted great, Familiarity, " g iU k P S s h. L al s |