+Plot.+ Rich Seathrift's son, that's gone to sea This morning with my uncle. +Bright.+ Is this he Whose sister thou shouldst marry? The wench that brings Ten thousand pound? +Plot.+ My uncle would fain have me [marry her]; But I have cast her off. +Bright.+ Why? +Plot.+ Faith, she's handsome, And had a good wit; but her schoolmistress Has made her a rank Puritan. +New.+ Let's take him Along with us, and Captain Quartfield shall show him. +Plot.+ 'Twill be an excellent comedy; and afterwards I have a project on him. +Tim.+ Gentlemen, Shall we dine at an ordinary? You Shall enter me among the wits. +Plot.+ Sir, I Will but shift clothes, then we'll associate you, But first you shall with us, and see a lady Rich as your father's chests and odd holes,[193] and Fresh as Pygmalion's mistress, newly waken'd Out of her alabaster. +Tim.+ Lead on: I long to see a lady, and to salute her. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [180] In the year 1755, a gentleman of great eminence in his profession made a few alterations in this play, and presented it to the governors of the Lock Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner, who obtained a representation of it at Drury Lane for the benefit of that charity. It was at the same time printed in 8º, under the title of "The Schemers; or, The City-Match." Mr Bromfield, the surgeon, as Mr Davies, who acted in it, told me.--_Reed._ [181] The merchant-tailor here alluded to was John Stowe, author of the "Chronicles of England," who was of that company, and a tailor by profession. [182] See Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman."--_Pegge._ [183] All the editions read _their_. [184] See extract from Stubbes, quoted in note to "The Miseries of Enforced Marriage" [ix., 538.] [185] [An allusion to the Lord Mayor's Show, into which were generally introduced symbolical representations of the civic virtues.] [186] At St Paul's Cross, where [the Lord Mayor heard his inauguration sermon.] [187] This was a wine which was brought from Baccarach, in Germany, as appears from Heywood's "Philo-cothonista," 1635, p. 48. It is there mentioned along with Rhenish. Ray, in his "Travels," vol. i. p. 64, says: "Next we came to Baccarach, a walled town on the right hand, having many towers, subject to the Prince Elector Palatine, _famous for the goodness of its wine_, as is also Rhincow, a town not far from Mentz."--_Reed._ [188] See note to "The Ordinary" [xii., 227.] [189] [A sort of playful parody on the exordium to Ovid's "Metamorphoses."] [190] The citizens of Charles I.'s time, and earlier, were as famous for the brightness of their shoes as some particular professions at present. In "Every Man in his Humour," act ii. sc. 1, Kitely says-- "Whilst they, sir, to relieve him in the fable, Make their loose comments upon every word, Gesture, or look, I use; mock me all over, From my flat cap _unto my shining shoes_."