This is the Main of the Contrivance. The Counterturn in Lord _Foplingtons_ appearing afterwards, and the Support of the main _Plot_, by _Bulls_, and _Nurses_ attesting the Marriage, contain's little of Moment. And here we may observe that Lord _Foplington_ has an unlucky Disagreement in his _Character_; This Misfortune sits hard upon the credibility of the Design. Tis true he was Formal and Fantastick, Smitten with Dress, and Equipage, and it may be vapour'd by his Perfumes But his Behaviour is far from that of an Ideot.[405] This being granted, 'tis very unlikely this Lord with his five Thousand pounds _per annum_, should leave the choise of his Mistress to _Coupler_, and take her Person and Fortune upon _Content_. To court thus blindfold, and by _Proxy_, does not agree with the Method of an Estate, nor the Niceness of a _Beau_. However the _Poet_ makes him engage Hand over Head, without so much as the sight of her Picture.[406] His going down to Sir _Tun-belly_ was as extraordinary as his Courtship. He had never seen this Gentleman. He must know him to be beyond Measure suspicious, and that there was no Admittance without _Couplers_ Letter. This _Letter_ which was, the Key to the Castle, he forgot to take with him, and tells you _'twas stolen by his Brother Tam_. And for his part he neither had the Discretion to get another, nor yet to produce that written by him to Sir _Tun-belly_.[407] Had common Sense been consulted upon this Occasion, the _Plot_ had been at an End, and the _Play_ had sunk in the Fourth _Act_. The Remainder subsists purely upon the strength of Folly, and of Folly altogether improbable, and out of _Character_. The _Salvo_ of Sir _John Friendly's_ appearing at last, and vouching for Lord _Foplington_, won't mend the matter. For as the _Story_ informs us, Lord _Foplington_ never depended on this Reserve.[408] He knew nothing of this Gentleman being in the Country, nor where he Lived. The truth is, Sir _John_ was left in _Town_, and the Lord had neither concerted his journey with him, nor engaged his Assistance.[409]