PUFF. Yes, one crowned with alders, and the other with a villa!—you take the allusions?—But hey! what the plague!—you have got both your banks on one side.—Here, sir, come round.—Ever while you live, Thames, go between your banks.—[_Bell rings._] There; so! now for’t!—Stand aside, my dear friends!—Away, Thames! [_Exit_ THAMES _between his banks._] [_Flourish of drums, trumpets, cannon, &c., &c. Scene changes to the sea—the fleets engage—the music plays—Britons strike home.—Spanish fleet destroyed by fire-ships, &c.—English fleet advances—music plays, Rule Britannia.—The procession of all the English rivers, and their tributaries, with their emblems, &c., begins with Handel’s water music, ends with a chorus to the march in Judas’ Maccabaeus.—During this scene,_ PUFF _directs and applauds everything—then_ PUFF. Well, pretty well—but not quite perfect. So, ladies and gentlemen, if you please, we’ll rehearse this piece again tomorrow. [_Curtain drops._] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Trip to Scarborough and The Critic, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan