LAURETTA. How this booby stares after him! [_Sits down and sings_.] LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. Lauretta! LAURETTA. Not so free, fellow! [_Sings_.] LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. Lauretta! look on me. LAURETTA. Not so free, fellow! LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. No recollection! LAURETTA. Honest Humphrey, be quiet. LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. Have you forgot your faithful soldier? LAURETTA. Ah! Oh preserve me! LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. ’Tis, my soul! your truest slave, passing on your father in this disguise. LAURETTA. Well now, I declare this is charming—you are so disguised, my dear lieutenant, and you look so delightfully ugly. I am sure no one will find you out, ha! ha! ha!—You know I am under your protection; papa charged you to keep close to me. LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. True, my angel, and thus let me fulfil—— LAURETTA. O pray now, dear Humphrey—— LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. Nay, ’tis but what old Mittimus commanded. [_Offers to kiss her_.] _Re-enter_ JUSTICE CREDULOUS. JUSTICE CREDULOUS. Laury, my—hey! what the devil’s here? LAURETTA. Well now, one kiss, and be quiet. JUSTICE CREDULOUS. Your very humble servant, honest Humphrey! Don’t let me— pray don’t let me interrupt you! LAURETTA. Lud, papa! Now that’s so good-natured—indeed there’s no harm. You did not mean any rudeness, did you, Humphrey? LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. No, indeed, miss; his worship knows it is not in me. JUSTICE CREDULOUS. I know that you are a lying, canting, hypocritical scoundrel; and if you don’t take yourself out of my sight—— LAURETTA. Indeed, papa, now I’ll tell you how it was. I was sometime taken with a sudden giddiness, and Humphrey seeing me beginning to totter, ran to my assistance, quite frightened, poor fellow, and took me in his arms. JUSTICE CREDULOUS. Oh! was that all—nothing but a little giddiness, hey! LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. That’s all, indeed, your worship; for seeing miss change colour, I ran up instantly. JUSTICE CREDULOUS. Oh, ’twas very kind in you! LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. And luckily recovered her. JUSTICE CREDULOUS. And who made you a doctor, you impudent rascal, hey? Get out of my sight, I say, this instant, or by all the statutes— LAURETTA. Oh now, papa, you frighten me, and I am giddy again!—Oh, help! LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. O dear lady, she’ll fall! [_Takes her into his arms_.] JUSTICE CREDULOUS. Zounds! what before my face—why then, thou miracle of impudence!—[_Lays hold of him and discovers him_.]—Mercy on me, who have we here?—Murder! Robbery! Fire! Rape! Gunpowder! Soldiers! John! Susan! Bridget! LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. Good sir, don’t be alarmed; I mean you no harm. JUSTICE CREDULOUS. Thieves! Robbers! Soldiers! LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. You know my love for your daughter— JUSTICE CREDULOUS. Fire! Cut-throats! LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR. And that alone— JUSTICE CREDULOUS. Treason! Gunpowder! _Enter a_ SERVANT _with a blunderbuss_. Now, scoundrel! let her go this instant. LAURETTA. O papa, you’ll kill me!