_Barb._ We will bear all down before us but we will find her. Down with all their sham heavens, their counterfeit seas; down with their false unsafe lands; down with their windmills and their dragons; burn their barns; and when we have got the lady, fire the house.--Come, follow the gentleman. _All._ Ay, ay. _Pin._ Huzza, huzza! _All._ Huzza, huzza! [_Dog barks._ _1st Rabble._ Don't mind their great dog; he barks a sham. He is no true dog. Unkennel the dog within. Harkee, neighbour, keep up your dogs--keep your dogs. Halloo, halloo! _2nd Rabble._ Keep your dogs, gentlemen butchers; keep the dogs to charge their house. I'll warrant we'll spoil their battling, and rioting and fighting, and decoying all our daughters and nieces to see sights, and never mind their business. Ho! the lady, the lady--we'll have the lady. _Barb._ We'll make this young lady as famous as Helen of Troy was. We'll burn all before us for her sake. Come, let us hunt, let's see what's about this house in all its parts--halloo, hunt. _Pin._ Let the constable march first; there's our safety, that's our security.--Take notice, I declare before all this company, it is in defence of this honest---- * * * * * _THE GENTLEMAN._ (A FRAGMENT.) The date of this fragment, which Nichols named _The Gentleman_, is uncertain; it was first printed in 1809, together with _The School for Scandal_. The autograph MS. is in the British Museum (Add. MS. 5145c). Steele had written of high life below stairs in the _Spectator_ (No. 88), where he says that menservants "are but in a lower degree what their masters themselves are; and usually affect an imitation of their manners: And you have in liveries, beaux, fops, and coxcombs, in as high perfection as among people that keep equipages. It is a common humour among the retinue of people of quality when they are in their revels, that is when they are out of their master's sight, to assume in a humorous way the names and titles of those whose liveries they wear." He then describes their behaviour at an ordinary at Westminster, where he "heard the maid come down and tell the landlady at the bar that my Lord Bishop swore he would throw her out at window if she did not bring up more mild beer, and that my Lord Dick would have a double mug of purl." When news arrived that the House of Lords was rising, "down came all the company together, and away!" Servants were wont to congregate at the entrance to Hyde Park, while the gentry were at the Ring. "There are men of wit in all conditions of life; and mixing with those people at their diversions, I have heard coquets and prudes as well rallied, and insolence and pride exposed (allowing for their want of education), with as much humour and good sense as in the politest companies." (See page 281.) _THE GENTLEMAN._ _Enter_ TOM DIMPLE _and_ SIR HARRY SEVERN.