_Bram._ Thank you, Sir _Harry_, but tho' things don't go as I'd have them,
of all Countries, I like _England_ the best, for 'tis the only Kingdom in
the World that suffers Faction; where one may write Libels, affront the
Ministry, deride the Laws, and set the whole Nation together by the Ears--
but whilst I am idle, mighty Matters are at a stand; in short, my Business
here is to make my Addresses to Lady _Rodomont_, who having lately seen
_Italy_ and _France_, like a true Woman, is return'd with a most horrid
Contempt of her own Country, and may like my Principles better than the
flutt'ring Airs of you Town-Sparks--afterwards, Gentlemen, I shall be
proud of both your Companies to dine in the _Press-Yard_, in _Newgate_,
with sev'ral very ingenious Persons, that coin better than they do i'the
_Tower_. [_Exit._
_Col_. So, Lady _Rodomont_'s the Cry--How Divine a Creature is a Woman
that has Six thousand a Year; the Town's quite mad after her.
Sir _Har_. And such an Estate's enough to make her mad; Women are too
sanguine for such mighty Fortune; Ten thousand Pounds touches a Lady's
Brain, but when they prove great Heiresses, they're--
_Col_. Oh! stark Staring, Raving! and we ought to have the Custody of em.
Sir _Har_. Let's move towards the Court, _Collonel_, where we shall meet
her sailing down the _Mall_, and the Fops after her, with all the Pride of
a First-Rate Man of War, that's convoying a few petty Merchant-Ships to
the _West-Indies_.
_Enter_ Shrimp _with a Letter_.
Sir _Har_. [reads.] _By the next return of the Waggon you will receive
Master_ Totty, _who was nineteen Years last Grass, with a Box of
_Shrewsbury-Cakes, _and a Simnel: His Grand-Mother desires you will put
him Clerk to some honest Attorney, if it be possible to find one, and the
Child be fit for it, or to what else the Child shall be fit for; but if
you find him fit for nothing, that you'll return him with great Care to
his Grand-Mother again. He is free from ev'ry Vice, having always lain
with his Grand-Mother, gone no where but to visit old Ladies with his
Grand-Mother, and has never been out of his Grand-Mother's sight, since he
was six Weeks old_--What a Pox do the Women send me their Fool to educate,
they may as well send me their Heads to dress; but I shall leave him to my
Servant; a Town Valet's Tutor and Companion good enough for a Country
'Squire--_Shrimp_, go to the _Saracen's-Head-Inn_, enquire for Master
_Totty_, a Man-Child, of nineteen Years of Age, and carry him to my
Lodgings. [_Exeunt_.
_Enter Lady_ Toss-up, _and Mrs_. Flimsy.
La. _Toss_. Lord, _Flimsy_! was there ever an Assurance like my Lady
_Rodomont_'s, to engross all the Fellows to her self.
_Flim_. For that matter, Madam, I cou'd dispence with 'em all, and as many
more; but a Lady that declares against Marriage, to suffer such a Train of
_Beaus_, shews her self superlatively Vain-glorious.
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