_Pet_. _Attende, attende une peu_--trust de right hand and de right leg
forward together.--
_Tick_. I marry, Sir, that’s a good one indeed: What shall become of my
Head then, Sir? what Guard have I left for that, good Mr. _Monsieur_,
hah?
_Pet_. Ah, Morbleu, is not dis for every ting?
_Tick_. No, marry, is not it, Sir; St. _George’s_ Guard is best for the
Head whilst you live--as thus, Sir.
_Pet_. Dat, Sir, ha, ha--dat be de Guard for de Back-Sword.
_Tick_. Back-sword, Sir, yes, Back-sword, what shou’d it be else?
_Pet_. And dis be de Single-Rapier.
_Tick_. Single-Rapier with a Vengeance, there’s a weapon for a Gentleman
indeed; is all this stir about Single-Rapier?
_Pet_. Single-Rapier! What wou’d you have for de Gentlemen, de Cudgel for
de Gentlemen?
_Tick_. No, Sir, but I wou’d have it for de Rascally _Frenchman_,
who comes to abuse Persons of Quality with paltry Single-Rapier.--
Single-Rapier! Come, Sir, come--put your self in your Cart and your
Horse as you call it, and I’ll shew you the difference.
[_Undresses himself till he appears in a ridiculous Posture_.
_Pet_. Ah, _Monsieur_, me sall run you two three times through de Body,
and den you break a me head, what care I for dat?--Pox on his ignorance.
[_Aside_.
_Tick_. Oh, ho, Sir, do your worst, Sir, do your worst, Sir.
[_They put themselves into several Guards, and_ Tick. _beats_
Pet. _about the Stage.--Enter_ Gall. Fill. _and_ Jul.
_Pet_. Ah, _Monsieur, Monsieur_, will you kill a me?
_Tick_. Ah, _Monsieur_, where be your Carts now, and your Horse, Mr.
_Monsieur_, hah?--and your Single-Rapier, Mr. _Monsieur_, hah?--
_Gal_. Why, how now, Mr. _Tickletext_, what mortal Wars are these? _Ajax_
and _Ulysses_ contending for _Achilles_ his Armour?
_Pet_. If I be not reveng’d on him, hang me. [_Aside_
Sir _Sig_. Ay, why, who the Devil wou’d have taken my Governor for so
tall a man of hands? but _Corpo de me_, Mr. _Galliard_, I have not seen
his Fellow.
_Tick_. Ah, Sir, time was, I wou’d have play’d ye a Match at Cudgels with
e’er a Sophister in the College, but verily I have forgotten it; but
here’s an Impudent _Frenchman_ that wou’d have past Single-Rapier
upon us.
_Gal_. How, nay a my word, then he deserv’d to be chastis’d for’t--but
now all’s at Peace again; pray know my Kinsman, Sir _Harry Fillamour_.
Sir _Sig_. _Yo baco les manos_, Signior _Illustrissimo Cavaliero_,--and
yours, Signiors, who are _Multo bien Venito_.
_Tick_. Oh Lord, Sir, you take me, Sir, in such a posture, Sir, as I
protest I have not been in this many years.
[_Dressing himself whilst he talks_.
_Fil_. Exercise is good for health, Sir.
_Gal_. Sir _Signal_, you are grown a perfect _Italian_: Well, Mr.
_Tickletext_, you will carry him home a most accomplish’t Gentleman I
see.
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