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Show The Recruiting Officer. 6% Sil. Sir, I don't care a farthing for you nor your Bench neither. Ser. Look'e, Gentlemen, that's enough, he's a very impudent Fellow, and fit for a Soldier. Scale. A notorious Rogue, I fay, and very fit for a Soldier. Conft. A Whore mafter, I fay, and therefore fit to go. Ball. W h a t think you, Captain? Plume. I think he's a very pretty Fellow, and therefore fit to ferve. Sil. M e for a Soldier! fend your o w n lazy, lubberly Sons at home, Fellows that hazzard their Necks every Day in the purfuit of a Fox, yet dare not peep abroad to look an Enem y in the Face. Conft. May it pleafe your Worfhips, I have a W o m a n at the Door to fwear a Rape againft this Rogue. Sil. Is it your Wife or Daughter, Booby ? I ravifh'd 'em both yefterday. Ball. Pray, Captain, read the Articles of W a r , well fee him lifted immediately. [Plume reads Articles of War again(t Mutiny and Defertion."] Sil, Hold, Sir Once more, Gentlemen, have a care what you do, for you (hall feverely fmart for any Violence you offer to m e ; and you, Mr. Ballance, 1 fpeak to you particularly, you fhall heartily repent it. Plume. Look'e, young Spark, fay but one word more, and 111 build a Horfe for you as high as the Ceiling , and make you ride the moft tirefome Journey that ever you made in your Life. Sil. You have made a fine Speech, good Captain Huffcap, but you had beter be quiet, I fhall find a way to cool your Courage. Plume. Pray, Gentlemen, don't mind him, he's diffracted. Sil. 'Tis falfe I a m defcended of as good a Family as any in your County; m y Father is as good a M a n as any Upon your Bench ; and I a m Heir to Twelve hundred Pound a Year.3 Ball. He's certainly m a d * Pray, Captain, read the Articles of W a r. Sil. Hold once more Pray, Mr. Ballance, to you I fpeak,' fuppofe I were your Child, wou'd you ufe m e at this rate ? Ball. N o , 'faith, were you mine, I wou'd fend you to Bedlam firft, and into the Army afterwards. Sil. But confider m y Father, Sir, he's as good, as generous, as brave, as only Child; jpuefrth aap Ms athne laosf se voefEr m feeer vm'ad yh isbr Ceoaukn thirsy H;e aIr'tBm.a lhil9. |