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Show 24 The Twin-Rivals. Sub. What! to open a Man's Mouth, and put in a bit of Paper! this is all. T. W. But the Body is cold, and his Teeth can't be got afunder. Sub. But what occafion has your Father for Teeth now ? I tell you what, I knew a Gentleman, three Days buried, taken out of his Grave, and his dead Hand fet to his Laft Will, (unlefs fome body made him fign another afterwards,) and I know the Eftate to be held by that Tenure to this day; and a firm Tenure it is; for a dead Hand holds fafteft ; and let me tell you, dead Teeth will fallen as hard. Y. W. Well, well, ufe your pleafure, you underftand the L a w beft. [Exit Subtleman and Steward. Y. W. W h a t a mighty confufion is brought into Families by fudden Deaths ? Men fhould do well to fettle their Affairs in time. Had m y Father done this before he was taken 111, what a trouble had he fav'd us ? But he was taken fuddenly, poor M a n ! Re-enter Subtleman. Sub. Your Father ftill bears you the old Grudge, I find; it was with much ftrugling he confented; I never knew a Man fo loth to fpeak in m y Life. Y. W. .He was always a M a n of few words. Sub. N o w 1 m a y fafely bear witnefs m y felf, as the Scrivener there prefent. 1 love to do things with a clear Confcience. . [Sdfcribes. Y. W. But the L a w requires three WitnefTes. Sub. O ! I fhall pick up a couple more, that perhaps may take m y word for't; But is x. Mr. Clear account in your Intereft ? Y. W. I hope fo. Sub. Then he fhall be one; a Witnefs in the Family goes a great way ; befides, thefe Foreign Evidences are rifen confoundedly fince the Wars. I hope, if mine efcape the Privateers, to make a Hundred Pound an Ear of every Head of 'um. - - But the Steward is an honeft M a n , and fhall fave you the Charge?. [£. it. Y.W. Solus.] The Pride of Birth, the Heats of Appetite, and Fears of W a n t , are ftrong Temptations to Injuflice, • But why Injuftice ? 'The World has broke all Civilities with me, and left m e in the eldeft State of Nature, Wild, where Force, or Cunning firft created Right. I cannot lay I ever knew a Father : Tis true, i was btgo' te,u his Life-time died. • , •bu tM yI wHaoru rPso fitnhduemeodu,s Ib onruni,n barned, lbivu td nne'oerr I : |