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Show The Recruiting Officer; 31 abroad : No fooner a Captain comes to Town, but all the young Fellows flock about him, and we can't keep a M a n to our felves. Luc. One wou'd imagine, Madam, by your concern for Worthy's Abfence, that you fhou'd ufe him better when he's with you. Mel. W h o told you, pray, that I was concern'd for his A b fence ? I'm only vex'd that Lve had nothing faid to rhe thefe two Days : , One may like the Love, and defpife the Lover, I hope ,• as one m a y love the Treaibn, and hate the Traytor. O ! here comes another Captain, and a Rogue that has the confidence to make Love to m e ; but, indeed, 1 don't wonder at that, when he has the affurance to fanfie himfelf a fine Gentleman. Luc. If he fhou'd fpeak o'th' Affignation, I fhou'd be ruin'd. . . . (Afide, Enter Brazen. Braz. Truth to the Touch, 'faith! {Afide.) Madam, I a m your humble Servant, and all that, Madami - - A fine River this fame Severn Do you love Fifhing, M a d a m? Mel. 'Tis a pretty melancholly Amufement for Lovers. Braz. I'll go buy Hooks and Lines prefently ; for you muff know, Madam, that I have ferv'd in Flanders againft thq French, in Hungary againft the Turks, and in Tangier againft the Moors, and I was never fo much ifi Love before; and fplit me, Madam, in all the Campaigns I ever made, I have not feen fo fine a W o m a n as your Ladylhip. , Mel. And from all the Men I ever faw, I never had fo fine a Complement j but you Soldiers are the belt bred Men, that we muft allow. Braz. Some of Us, Mada'm But there are Brutes among us too, very fad Brutes; for m y own part, 1 have always had the good luck to prove agreeable I have had very confi-derable Offers, M a d a m I might have marry'd a German Princefs, worth Fifty thoufand Crowns a Year, but her Stove difgufted me. The Daughter of a TtirkifJ? Bafhaw fell in love with m e too, when I was Prifoner among the Infidels; fhe offer'd to rob her Father of his Treafure, and make het Efcape with m e ; but I don't know how, m y Time was. not come; Hanging and Marriage, you know, go by Deftiny; Fate has referv'd m e for a Shropfl?ire"L&&y with Twenty thoufand Pound Do you know any fuch Perfon, M a d a m ? Mel. Extravagant Coxcomb ! to be fure, a great many Ladies of that Fortune wou'd be proud' of the N a me of Mrs. Brazen^ C C Braz), |
