_Har_. And are not you a dam’d Son of a--something--to break Articles
with me?
_Scar_. No more Words, Sir, no more Words, I find it must come to
Actions, draw. [_Draws_.
_Har_. Draw!--so I can draw, Sir. [_Draws_.
[_They make a ridiculous cowardly Fight. Enter the Doctor,
which they seeing, come on with more Courage. He runs between,
and with his Cane beats the Swords down_.
_Doct_. Hold, hold, what mean you, Gentlemen?
_Scar_. Let me go, Sir, I am provok’d beyond measure, Sir.
_Doct_. You must excuse me, Seignior.
[_Parlies with Harlequin_.
_Scar_. I dare not discover the Fool for his Master’s sake, and it may
spoil our Intrigue anon; besides, he’ll then discover me, and I shall be
discarded for bantering the Doctor. [_Aside_.
--Man of Honour to be so basely affronted here.
[_The_ Doctor _comes to appease_ Scaramouch.
_Har_. Shou’d I discover this Rascal, he wou’d tell the old Gentleman I
was the same that attempted his House to day in Woman’s Clothes, and I
should be kick’d and beaten most insatiably.
_Scar_. What, Seignior, for a Man of Parts to be impos’d upon, and
whip’d through the Lungs here--like a Mountebank’s Zany for sham Cures
--Mr. Doctor, I must tell you ‘tis not civil.
_Doct_. I am extremely sorry for it, Sir,--and you shall see how I will
have this fellow handled for the Affront to a Person of your Gravity,
and in my House.--Here, _Pedro_.
_Enter_ Pedro.
--Take this Intruder, or bring some of your Fellows hither, and toss him
in a Blanket.
[_Exit_ Pedro.
[Har. _going to creep away_, Scar, _holds him_.
_Har_. Hark ye, bring me off, or I’ll discover all your Intrigue.
[Aside to _him_.
_Scar_. Let me alone.
_Doct_. I’ll warrant you some Rogue that has some Plot on my Niece and
Daughter.
_Scar_. No, no, Sir, he comes to impose the grossest Lye upon you, that
ever was heard of.
_Enter_ Pedro _with others, with a Blanket. They put_ Harlequin
_into it, and toss him_.
_Har_. Hold, hold, I’ll confess all, rather than indure it.
_Doct_. Hold, what will you confess, Sir.
[_He comes out, makes sick Faces_.
_Scar_.--That he’s the greatest Impostor in Nature. Wou’d you think it,
Sir? he pretends to be no less than an Ambassador from the Emperor of
the Moon, Sir.
_Doct_. Ha, Ambassador from the Emperor of the Moon!
[_Pulls off his Hat_.
_Scar_. Ay, Sir, thereupon I laugh’d, thereupon he grew angry--I laugh’d
at his Resentment, and thereupon we drew, and this was the high Quarrel,
Sir.
_Doct_. Hum--Ambassador from the Moon. [_Pauses_.
_Scar_. I have brought you off, manage him as well as you can.
_Har_. Brought me off, yes, out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.
Why, how the Devil shall I act an Ambassador? [_Aside_.
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