_Sir Per_. O! numbers--numbers. Now, sir, this cracked creature used to pray, and sing, and sigh, and groan, and weep, and wail, and gnash her teeth constantly, morning and evening, at the Tabernacle in Moorfields: and as soon as I found she had the siller, aha! guid traith, I plumpt me down upon my knees, close by her--cheek by jowl--and prayed, and sighed, and sung, and groaned, and gnashed my teeth as vehemently as she could do for the life of her; ay, and turned up the whites of mine een, till the strings awmost crackt again:--I watcht her motions, handed her till her chair, waited on her home, got most religiously intimate with her in a week,--married her in a fortnight, buried her in a month;--touched the siller, and with a deep suit of mourning, a melancholy port, a sorrowful visage, and a joyful heart, I began the world again;--and this, sir, was the first bow, that is, the first effectual bow, I ever made till the vanity of human nature:--now, sir, do you understand this doctrine? _Eger_. Perfectly well, sir. _Sir Per_. Ay, but was it not right? was it not ingenious, and weel hit off? _Eger_. Certainly, sir: extremely well. _Sir Per_. My next bow, sir, was till your ain mother, whom I ran away with fra the boarding school; by the interest of whose family I got a guid smart place in the Treasury:--and, sir, my vary next step was intill Parliament; the which I entered with as ardent and as determined an ambition as ever agitated the heart of Cæsar himself. Sir, I bowed, and watched, and hearkened, and ran about, backwards and forwards; and attended, and dangled upon the then great man, till I got intill the vary bowels of his confidence,--and then, sir, I wriggled, and wrought, and wriggled, till I wriggled myself among the very thick of them: hah! I got my snack of the clothing, the foraging, the contracts, the lottery tickets--and aw the political bonusses;--till at length, sir, I became a much wealthier man than one half of the golden calves I had been so long a bowing to: [_He rises, and_ Eger. _rises too._]--and was nai that bowing to some purpose? _Eger_. It was indeed, sir. _Sir Per_. But are you convinced of the guid effects, and of the utility of bowing? _Eger_. Thoroughly, sir.