(_Enter_ ROGER)
_Roger._ Odds my heart! He'll be downstairs presently; a has taken
another frolick, as he calls it, but if he sticks to it, it will be the
best frolick I ever knew un to take.
_Sir Robert._ What's the matter Roger?
_Roger._ It will do your Heart good to see un--but here a comes.
(_Enter_ JACK _in an English Dress_)
_Jack._ There Gentlemen, behold me once more an honest Englishman.
_Quicksett._ Why now, indeed, he looks like something.
_Sir Robert._ Can this be in earnest Lad?
_Jack._ In downright Earnest, I assure you, Sir. I consider'd my French
Manners as an Incumbrance after the many disasters of this day, and so I
resolv'd at one bold fling, to discharge my whole Retinue of follies,
and since my heart is in fact engag'd to this Lady, I hope Mr.
Quicksett, you will now give her hand to an undisguised Briton.
_Quicksett._ The Name and Look of a Briton warms my Blood, and if I
thought you in earnest--
_Jack._ Sir, you may depend I shall have sense enough never to despise
my own country again.
_Quicksett._ Here, here, take her hand, she's yours from this Moment.
_Roger._ Ay, I knew there was true blood at the Bottom.
_Sir Robert._ This is so unexpected a change I am transported with
joy--Mr. Wildfire--Mr. Foxchase, come up and be partners of my
Happiness.
_Jack._ They'll be glad to see me an honest fellow again.
(_Enter_ WILDFIRE _and_ FOXCHASE)
My dear Boy Wildfire give us your hand.
_Wildfire._ Can I believe my Eyes?
_Jack._ Nay, never stare, man. Foxchase, I am glad to see thee. Here's
to your old friend Jack Broughton. I'll on with my Buckskins, and take a
hunt with you to-morrow morning.
_Wildfire._ That's right my boy--away with the ridiculous outside of a
Frenchman; take honest Nature for your guide, and be only what she
intends you.
_Jack._ Ay, we'll all reform; you shall for the future Endeavor be
polite Englishmen--and I will only imitate the sensible Frenchman.
_Wildfire._ Come, come, I own it to be wrong, and acknowledge I have
been in the opposite Extream to you, an absurd Imitation of a Modern
Blood.
_Jack._ You shall go down with me to Broughton Hall where you shall be
the terror of all the Foxes for twenty Miles round, and in time we'll
get a Girl to reform you too.
_Foxchase._ I don't care if I try the Experiment.
_Quicksett._ And now Sir Robert since your Son is so hopeful a young Man
I'll sign the marriage Settlement as soon as you please.
_Sir Robert._ The lawyers will be here immediately.
_Jack._ And in the mean time here come two Persons to whom I must speak
a few words, towards compleating this day's Business.
(_Enter_ ABBÉ _and_ FLORID _very drunk_)
_Abbé._ (_Sings_) Quand je suis a Table, tout me rejouit--ah! Pardie!
You are ver fine Party dere altogether.
_Florid._ Had not you better come and indulge the Social Affections over
the remainder of the Bottle?
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