[_Catching him by the collar._] Home, sir, home! you lazy scamp. [_Beating him._ RIP. But, mine lublicka frow— DAME. Home! [_Beating him._ RIP. [Nine! nine!—](44) DAME. Home! [_Beats him._ RIP. [Mine goot im himmel.](45) [_Music._—DAME _beats him off._ *Footnotes* 1 So spelled in the Kerr version. 2 Assigned to CLAUSEN in the Kerr version. Preceding this bracket, CLAUSEN. Well, she is a tartar, there’s no denying that. VEDDER. Not but if she were my wife instead of Rip’s. I warrant I’d soon tame her. CLAUSEN. Not you! But where the deuce ... 3 Not in the Kerr version. 4 “but” in K. 5 “but as” in K. 6 “not a” in K. 7 “Goot-hell” in K. 8 “brosber” in K. In this speech, there is a variation in dialect as “v” for “w” in such words as “was,” and “v” for “o” in such a word as “one.” 9 Not in K. 10 "vork" in K. 11 “froo my fingers as vas comeatable,” in K. 12 “Nein, nein” in K. 13 “frau” in K. 14 “baber” in K. 15 “freund, den” in K. 16 Here is given in Kerr, the following: VEDDER. I wish she was my wife, I’d manage her. RIP. And I wish she vas your vife too, or anybody’s vife, so long as she vasn’t mine vife. 17 RORY’S speech, in K., begins with “Come.” 18 “stewed vhen” in K. 19 “der” in K. 20 “gonguered” in K. 21 In K., variation only in dialect form. 22 “goot-hell” in K. 23 “brosber” in K. 24 “vont” in K. The present edition does not attempt to indicate such slight variations and differences. 25 “der tyfil” in K. 26 “stewed” in K. 27 In this song, “v” takes the place of “w” in K. 28 “Der tyfil” in K. 29 In K. there follows: VEDDER. Oh. I wish I was your husband, Dame Winkle. [_Exit._ DAME. You, my husband, you! [_To the others._] Out of my sight, reprobates. 30 “goot-hell” in K. 31 “stewed” in K. 32 “buts” in K. 33 “bulls” in K. 34 “der” in K. 35 “stewed but” in K. 36 “creebs” in K. 37 “bond” in K. 38 “think” in K. 39 “gooses” in K. 40 “von” in K. 41 “den” in K. 42 “back” in K. 43 “do” follows “how” in K. 44 “Nein, nein” in K. 45 In K., Rip’s speech is “Ter tyfill but I have cotch him dis time!” SCENE II. _A Plain Chamber._ _Enter_ DERRIC VAN SLAUS.(46) DERRIC. Should the present application fail, I am a ruined man; all my speculations will be frustrated, and my duplicity exposed; yes, the dissipation of my son must inevitably prove his ruin as well as mine. To supply his wants, the public money has been employed; and, if unable to replace it, heaven knows what may be the consequence. But my son is now placed with an able advocate in New York, and should he pursue the right path, there may be still hopes of his reformation. HERMAN.