Cousin _Monly._ Sir, I am your very humble servant. _Man._ I heard you were come, Sir _Francis_--and-- Sir _Fran._ Ods-heart! this was so kindly done of you naw. _Man._ I wish you may think it so, Cousin! for I confess, I should have been better-pleas'd to have seen you in any other place. Sir _Fran._ How soa, Sir? _Man._ Nay, 'tis for your own sake: I'm not concern'd. Sir _Fran._ Look you, Cousin! thof' I know you wish me well; yet I don't question I shall give you such weighty reasons for what I have done, that you will say, Sir, this is the wisest Journey that ever I made in my life. _Man._ I think it ought to be, Cousin; for I believe, you will find it the most expensive one--your Election did not cost you a trifle, I suppose. Sir _Fran._ Why ay! it's true! That--that did lick a little; but if a man's wise, (and I han't fawn'd yet that I'm a fool) there are ways, Cousin, to lick one's self whole again. _Man._ Nay if you have that secret---- Sir _Fran._ Don't you be fearful, Cousin----you'll find that I know something. _Man._ If it be any thing for your good, I should be glad to know it too. Sir _Fran._ In short then, I have a friend in a corner, that has let me a little into what's what, at _Westminster_----that's one thing. _Man._ Very well! but what good is that to do you? Sir _Fran._ Why not me, as much as it does other folks? _Man._ Other people, I doubt, have the advantage of different qualifications. Sir _Fran._ Why ay! there's it naw! you'll say that I have lived all my days i'the country----what then----I'm o'the _Quorum_----I have been at Sessions, and I have made Speeches there! ay, and at Vestry too----and may hap they may find here,----that I have brought my tongue up to town with me! D'ye take me, naw? _Man._ If I take your case right, Cousin; I am afraid the first occasion you will have for your eloquence here, will be, to shew that you have any right to make use of it at all. Sir _Fran._ How d'ye mean? _Man._ That Sir _John Worthland_ has lodg'd a Petition against you. Sir _Fran._ Petition! why ay! there let it lie----we'll find a way to deal with that, I warrant you!----why, you forget, Cousin, Sir _John_'s o'the wrong side, Mon. _Man._ I doubt Sir _Francis_, that will do you but little service; for in cases very notorious (which I take yours to be) there is such a thing as a short day, and dispatching them immediately. Sir _Fran._ With all my heart! the sooner I send him home again the better. _Man._ And this is the scheme you have laid down, to repair your fortune? Sir _Fran._ In one word, Cousin, I think it my duty! the _Wrongheads_ have been a considerable Family, ever since _England_ was _England_; and since the World knows I have talents where withal, they shan't say it's my fault, if I don't make as good a figure as any that ever were at the head on't. _Man._ Nay! this project, as you have laid it, will come up to any thing your Ancestors have done these five hundred years.