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Show the Sequel of the Trip to the Jubilee. 17 thefe fix brawny Fellows for a Breakfaft, their Mafter, perhaps, m a y do you the favour to run you through the Body for a Dinner. Fire. Sirrah, will you fight me ? I received juft now fix Month's Pay, and by this Light, I'll give you the half on't for one fair Blow at your Scull. Ban. D o w n with your Money, Sir. Stand. N o , no, Brother; if you are fo free of your Pay, get into the next R o o m ; there you'll find fome Company at Cards, I fuppofe : you may find opportunity for your Revenge ; m y Houfe protects him now. Fire. Well, Sir, the time will come. (Exit Ban. Well faid. Brazen-head. Stand. I hope, Sir, you'll excufe the Freedom of this Gentleman ; his Education has been among the boifterous Elements the W i n d and Waves. ~ Ban. Jir, I value neither Him, nor his W i n d and Waves neither ; I'm privilege! to be very impertinent, being an Oxonian, and oblig'd to fight no M a n , being a Beau. Stand. Sir, I admire the Freedom of your Condition. But pray, Sir, have you {QQII your Brother fince he came laft over ? Ban. I ha'n't feen m y Brother thefe feven Years, and fcarce-ly heard from him but by report of others. About a Mouth ago he was pleas'd to honour m e with a Letter from Paris, importing his Defign of being in London very foon, with a defire of meeting m e here. Upon this, 1 chang'd m y Cap and G o w n for a long W i g and Sword, and came up to London to attend him, went to his Houfe, but that was all in Sables for the Death of his Wife; there I was told, that he defign'd to change his Habitation, becaufe he wou'd avoid all remembrances that might difturb his Quiet. You are the firft Per-fon that has told m e of his Arrival, and I expect that you may likewife inform m e whereto wait on him. Stand. And I fuppofe,^ Sir, this was the bus'nefs that occafion d m e the Honour of this Vifit. Ban. Partly this, and partly an Affair of greater confe-quence. You muft know, Sir, that tho' I have read Ten thoufand Lies in the Univerfity, yet I have learn'd to fpeak the truth m y felf; and to deal plainly with you, the Honour of this Vifit, as you were pleas'd to term it, was defign'd to the Lady Lurewell. Stand. M y Wife, Sir! Ban. M y Lady Lurewell, I fay, Sir. Stand. But I lay m y Wife, Sir. - What! Ban. |