(_Enter_ SIR ROBERT)
_Sir Robert._ Well, Mr. Quicksett, I told you he was reform'd.
_Quicksett._ No, no it will never do--he is reform'd indeed! To be plain
with you Sir Robert, he's little better than a Monkey, I think. I have
heard how he had the Mob at his heels today, and I don't wonder at it.
There's no harm done, Sir Robert, I'll take the Girl into the Country
with me.
_Sir Robert._ Nay but dear Mr. Quicksett, let me speak to you.
_Quicksett._ In short his Journey to France has made him a mere
Ragout--and so I'll go and order Harriet to pack up all her things.
_Sir Robert._ (_To Jack_) I told you what your foppery wou'd do--Ecod I
am so provok'd I cou'd find it in my Heart to marry the Girl myself.
_Quicksett._ I'll tell you what, Sir Robert--you're still hale and
hearty, and to show how willing I am to match with you, say but the
word and you shall have her yourself before that weasen-fac'd thing--but
where's Harriet? (_Exit_)
_Sir Robert._ Nay, nay, but Mr. Quicksett. (_Follows him_)
_Jack._ Hey! Who's without there? Here comes that clodpated fellow--
(_Enter_ ROGER)
Roger, let all my People be ready for me to dress.
_Roger._ Why the things are detained at the Coostum Hoose, and so
there's no cloaths, unless you'll put on Something out of the old Trunk,
you left above Stairs before you went abroad.
_Jack._ What, put on an English dress!
_Roger._ It would give my heart joy to see it, Master.
_Jack._ Was ever an unfortunate Gentleman in such distress? Such a day
of Embarras, I never knew--pelted by the Mob, and my Father now
threatening to have the Girl himself. Old Cojer is still a tough piece
of Oak, and if he shou'd get a chopping Boy Egad, it may spoil the Beau.
Let me see--why as my French Manners are all mere Affectation and as it
will be much harder for me to keep it up I don't know whether I had not
better own the Truth.
_Roger._ You had, indeed Master, and be a brave Englishman as you was
before.
_Jack._ Egad, I have a mind to surprize 'em with another Frolick--let me
take a moment's thought. Roger do you follow me upstairs. (_Exit_)
(_Reenter_ SIR ROBERT _and_ QUICKSETT)
_Sir Robert._ The young Man, Mr. Quicksett has no harm in him in the
main--
_Quicksett._ Well but you know I am a downright Englishman, and I can
never think of marrying my Daughter to a ridiculous ape of _those
perfidious Frenchman who have always been_ the Disturbers of
Europe--_and now have put the Nation to such an Expense_.
(_Enter_ HARRIET)
_Harriet._ Did you send for me, Sir?
_Quicksett._ Yes child; you must pack up all your things, and to get
ready to go with me into the country to-morrow Morning.
_Harriet._ I shall be ready to obey you, Sir.
_Sir Robert._ Well, but Mr. Quicksett believe me, when he is got off
this folly, the young Man may still make a figure.
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