_Doct_. Seignior, she’s much honour’d in the Overture, and my Abilities
shall not be wanting to fix the Concord.--But have you been a Traveller,
Sir?
_Scar_. Without Circumlocutions, Sir, I have seen all the Regions
beneath the Sun and Moon.
_Doct_. Moon, Sir! You never travell’d thither, Sir?
_Scar_. Not in _Propria Persona, Seignior_, but by Speculation, I have,
and made most considerable Remarks on that incomparable _Terra Firma_,
of which I have the compleatest Map in Christendom--and which _Gonzales_
himself omitted in his _Cosmographia_ of the _Lunar Mundus_.
_Doct_. A Map of the _Lunar Mundus_, Sir! may I crave the Honour of
seeing it?
_Scar_. You shall, Sir, together with a Map of _Terra Incognita_; a
great Rarity, indeed, Sir.
_Enter_ Bellemante.
_Doct_. Jewels, Sir, worth a King’s Ransom!
_Bell_. Ha,--What Figure of a Thing have we here, bantering my credulous
Uncle?--This must be some Scout sent from our _Forlorn Hope_, to
discover the Enemy, and bring in fresh Intelligence.--Hum, that Wink
tipt me some Tidings, and she deserves not a good Look, who understands
not the Language of the Eyes.--Sir, Dinner’s on the Table.
_Doct_. Let it wait, I am employ’d--
[_She creeps to the other side of_ Scaramouch, _who makes
Signs with his Hand to her_.
_Bell_. Ha, ‘tis so:--This Fellow has some Novel for us, some Letter or
Instructions, but how to get it--
[_As_ Scar. _talks to the_ Doctor, _he takes the Letters by degrees
out of his Pocket, and unseen, given ‘em_ Bellemante _behind him_.
_Doct_. But this Map, Seignior; I protest you have fill’d me with
Curiosity. Has it signify’d all things so exactly, say you?
_Scar_. Omitted nothing, Seignior, no City, Town, Village, or Villa;
no Castle, River, Bridge, Lake, Spring, or Mineral.
_Doct_. Are any, Sir, of those admirable Mineral Waters there, so
frequent in our World?
_Scar_. In abundance, Sir: the Famous _Garamanteen_, a young _Italian_,
Sir, lately come from thence, gives an account of an excellent
_Scaturigo_, that has lately made an Ebulation there, in great
Reputation with the Lunary Ladies.
_Doct_. Indeed, Sir! be pleas’d, Seignior, to ‘solve me some Queries
that may enode some appearances of the Virtue of the Water you speak of.
_Scar_. Pox upon him, what Questions he asks--but I must on. [_Aside_.]
Why, Sir, you must know,--the Tincture of this Water upon Stagnation
ceruleates, and the Crocus upon the Stones flaveces; this he observes
--to be, Sir, the Indication of a generous Water.
_Doct_. Hum-- [_Gravely nodding_.
_Scar_. Now, Sir, be pleas’d to observe the three Regions: if they be
bright, without doubt _Mars_ is powerful; if the middle Region or Camera
be palled, _Filia Solis_ is breeding.
_Doct_. Hum.
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