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Show The Recruiting Officer. 3 and there is a Tub of humming Ale at m y Quarters .'Tis the Queen's Money, and the Queen's Drink She's a generous Queen, and loves her Subjects 1 hope, Gentlemen, you won't refufe the Queen's Health ? All AM. No, no. no. Kite. Huzza then, huzza for the Queen, and the Honour of Shrofyfhire. All Mob. Huzza! Kite. Beat Drum. (Exit Drum beating a Granadecrs March. Enter Plume in a Riding Habit. Plume. By the Granadeer March, that fhou'd be m y Drum, and by that Shout, it fhou'd beat with Succeft Let me fee Four a Clock (Loohng on his Watch.) At Ten Ye-fterday Morning I left London A Hundred and Twenty Miles in Thirty Hours is pretty finart Riding, but nothing to the Fatigue of Recruiting.. Enter Kite. Kite. Welcome to Slyrewsbury, noble Captain: From the Banks of the Danube to the Severn fide, noble Captain you're welcome. Plume. A very elegant Reception indeed, Mr. Kite: I find you are fairly enter'd into your Recruiting Strain Pray what Succefs ? Kite. I have been here but a Week, and I have recruited Five. Plume. Five! Pray, what are they ? Kite. 1 have lifted the ftrong M a n of Kent, the King of the Gipp.es, a Scotch Pedlar, a Scoundrel Attorney, and a Welfh Parfon. Phme. A n Attorney! Wert thou mad? Lift a Lawyer! Difcharge him, difcharge him this minute. Kite. W h y , Sir ? Plume. Becaufe I will have no Body in m y Company that can write; a Fellow that can write, can draw Petitions - 1 fay this minute difcharge him. Kite. And what ftiall I do with the Parfon? Plume. Can he write? Kite. H u m ! He plays rarely upon the Fiddle. Plume. Keep him by all means But how ftands the Country affected? Were the People pleas'd with the News of my coming to T o w n ? Kite. Sir, the M o b are fo pleas'd with your Honour, and the ju'ticts and better fort of People are io delighted with me, A a 3 that |