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Show The Beaux Stratagem. 55 Gib. He's fafe enough, I have fairly enter'd him, and he's more than half Seas over already But fuch a parcel of Scoundrels are got about him now, that I gad I was afham'd to be feen in their Company. Bon. 'Tis n o w Twelve, as the Saying is Gentlemen, you muft fet out at one. Gib. Hounflow, do you and Bagfhot fee our Arms fix'd, and I'll come to you prefently. ' Hounf. yWe win> fEx(mtt Gib. Well, my dear Bonny, you afTure me that Scrub is a Coward. Bon. A Chicken, as the Saying is You'll have no Creature to deal with but the Ladies. Gib. A n d I can afTure you, Friend, there's a great deal of Addrefs and good Manners in robbing a Lady; I a m the moft a Gentleman that way that ever travell'd the Road -But, m y dear Bonny, this Prize will be a Galleon, a Vigo Bufinels 1 warrant you we fhall bring off three or four thoufand Pound. Bon. In Plate, Jewels and Money, as the Saying is, you may. Gib. W h y then, Tyburn, I defie thee, I'll get up to T o w n, fell off m y Horfe and Arms, buy m y felf fome pretty E m ployment in the Houfhold, and be as fnug, and as honeft as any Courtier of'em all. Bon. A n d what think you then of m y Daughtet Cherry for a Wife? Gib. Look'e, m y dear Bonny- Cherry is the Goddefs Iadoret as the Song goes; but it is a Maxim that M a n and Wife fhou'd never have it in their Power to hang one another, for if they fhould, the Lord have Mercy on 'em both. (Exeunt^ The End of the Fourth A C T . / (i 2 A C T |