_Arch._ Don't mistake me, Aimwell, for 'tis still my maxim, that there's no scandal like rags, nor any crimes so shameful as poverty. Men must not be poor; idleness is the root of all evil; the world's wide enough, let them bustle; fortune has taken the weak under her protection, but men of sense are left to their industry. _Aim._ Upon which topic we proceed, and, I think, luckily hitherto: would not any man swear now, that I am a man of quality, and you my servant, when, if our intrinsic value were known---- _Arch._ Come, come, we are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. _Aim._ As to our hearts, I grant ye, they are as willing tits as any within twenty degrees; but I can have no great opinion of our heads, from the service they have done us hitherto, unless it be that they brought us from London hither to Litchfield, made me a lord, and you my servant. _Arch._ That's more than you could expect already, but what money have we left? _Aim._ But two hundred pounds. _Arch._ And our horses, clothes, rings, &c. Why we have very good fortunes now for moderate people; and let me tell you, that this two hundred pounds, with the experience that we are now masters of, is a better estate than the ten thousand we have spent----Our friends indeed began to suspect that our pockets were low, but we came off with flying colours, showed no signs of want either in word or deed. _Aim._ Ay, and our going to Brussels was a good pretence enough for our sudden disappearing; and, I warrant you, our friends imagine, that we are gone a volunteering. _Arch._ Why 'faith if this project fails, it must e'en come to that. I am for venturing one of the hundreds, if you will, upon this knight errantry; but in the case it should fail, we'll reserve the other to carry us to some counterscarp, where we may die as we lived, in a blaze. _Aim._ With all my heart, and we have lived justly, Archer; we can't say that we have spent our fortunes, but that we have enjoyed them. _Arch._ Right; so much pleasure for so much money; we have had our pennyworths; and had I millions, I would go to the same market again. O London, London! well, we have had our share, and let us be thankful: past pleasures, for aught I know, are best; such we are sure of; those to come may disappoint us, but you command for the day, and so I submit:--At Nottingham, you know, I am to be master. _Aim._ And at Lincoln, I again. _Arch._ Then, at Norwich, I mount, which, I think, shall be our last stage; for, if we fail there, we'll embark for Holland, bid adieu to Venus, and welcome Mars. _Aim._ A match-- _Enter_ BONIFACE. Mum. _Bon._ What will your worship please to have for supper? _Aim._ What have you got? _Bon._ Sir, we have a delicate piece of beef in the pot, and a pig at the fire.