_Trusty._ Mr. _Poundage_----a hem! Mr. } _Poundage_, a word with you quickly. } } _Pound._ [_Within._] I'll come to you presently. } } _Trusty._ Presently won't do, man, you must } come this minute. } _Without._ } _Pound._ I am but just paying a little money, } here. } } _Trusty._ Cods my life! paying money? is } the man distracted? come here I tell you, } to my lady, this moment, quick! } [_~Trusty~ returns._ Lady _Town._ Will the monster come or no?---- _Trusty._ Yes, I hear him now, Madam, he is hobbling up, as fast as he can. Lady _Town._ Don't let him come in--for he will keep such a babbling about his accounts,----my brain is not able to bear him. [_~Poundage~ comes to the door with a money-bag in his hand._ _Trusty._ O! it's well you are come, Sir! where's the fifty-pound? _Pound._ Why here it is; if you had not been in such haste, I should have paid it by this time----the man's now writing a receipt, below, for it. _Trusty._ No matter! my lady says, you must not pay him with that money, there is not enough, it seems; there's a pistole and a guinea that's not good, in it----besides there is a mistake in the account too----[_Twitching the bag from him._] But she is not at leisure to examine it now; so you must bid Mr. What-d'ye-call-um call another time. Lady _Town._ What is all that noise there? _Pound._ Why and it please your Ladyship---- Lady _Town._ Pr'ythee! don't plague me now, but do as you were order'd. _Pound._ Nay, what your Ladyship pleases, Madam---- [_Exit ~Poundage~._ _Trusty._ There they are, Madam----[_Pours the money out of the bag._] The pretty things----were so near falling into a nasty tradesman's hands, I protest it made me tremble for them----I fancy your ladyship had as good give me that bad guinea, for luck's sake--thank you, Madam. [_Takes a guinea._ Lady _Town._ Why, I did not bid you take it. _Trusty._ No, but your ladyship look'd as if you were just going to bid me, and so I was willing to save you the trouble of speaking, Madam. Lady _Town._ Well! thou hast deserv'd it, and so for once----but hark! don't I hear the man making a noise yonder? though I think now we may compound for a little of his ill humour---- _Trusty._ I'll listen. Lady _Town._ Pr'ythee do. [_~Trusty~ goes to the door._