Sir _Cred._ Ah, how often has she carry’d me upon these Shoes to Mother
_Jumbles_; thou remember’st her handsome Daughter, and what pure Ale she
brew’d; between one and t’other my Rent came short home there; but let
that pass too, and hang sorrow, as thou sayst, I have something else to
think on.
[Takes his things out, lays them upon the Table.
And, _Curry_, as soon as I am drest, go you away to St. _Clement’s
Church-yard_, to _Jackson_ the Cobler there.
_Cur._ What, your Dog-tutor, Sir?
Sir _Cred._ Yes, and see how my Whelp proves, I put to him last
Parliament.
_Cur._ Yes, Sir.
Enter _Leander_, and starts back seeing Sir _Cred._
Sir _Cred._ And ask him what Gamesters come to the Ponds now adays, and
what good Dogs.
_Cur._ Yes, Sir.
_Lean._ This is the Beast _Lodwick_ spoke of; how could I laugh were he
design’d for any but _Lucretia!_
[Aside.
Sir _Cred._ And dost hear, ask him if he have not sold his own Dog
_Diver_ with the white Ear; if I can purchase him, and my own Dog prove
right, I’ll be Duke of Ducking-Pond, ads zoz.
[Sir _Cred._ dresses himself.
Well, I think I shall be fine anon, he.
_Cur._ But zo, zo, Sir, as the saying is, this Suit’s a little out of
fashion, ‘twas made that very year I came to your Worship, which is five
Winters, and as many Summers.
Sir _Cred._ What then Mun, I never wear it, but when I go to be drunk,
and give my Voice for a Knight o’th’ Shire, and here at _London_ in Term
time, and that but eight times in Eight Visits to Eight several Ladies
to whom I was recommended.
_Cur._ I wonder that amongst eight you got not one, Sir.
Sir _Cred._ Eight! Zoz, I had Eight score, Mun; but the Devil was in
’.m, they were all so forward, that before I cou’d seal and deliver,
whip, quoth _Jethro_, they were either all married to some body else,
or run quite away; so that I am resolv’d if this same _Lucretia_ proves
not right, I’ll e’en forswear this Town and all their false Wares,
amongst which, zoz, I believe they vent as many false Wives as any
_Metropolitan_ in Christendom, I’ll say that for’t, and a Fiddle for’t,
i’faith:--come give me my Watch out,--so, my Diamond Rings too: so,
I think I shall appear pretty well all together, _Curry_, hah?
_Lean._ Like some thing monstrously ridiculous, I’ll be sworn.
[Aside.
_Cur._ Here’s your Purse of broad Gold, Sir, that your Grandmother gave
you to go a wooing withal, I mean to shew, Sir.
Sir _Cred._ Ay, for she charg’d me never to part with it;--so, now for
the Ladies.
[Shakes his Ribbons.
Enter _Lodwick_.
_Lod._ _Leander_, what mak’st thou here, like a Holy-day Fool gazing at
a Monster?
_Lean._ Yes; And one I hope I have no great reason to fear.
_Lod._ I am of thy opinion; away, my Mother’s coming; take this
opportunity with my Sister, she’s i’th’ Garden, and let me alone with
this Fool, for an Entertainment that shall shew him all at once: away--
[Exit _Lean._
[_Lod._ goes in to Sir _Cred._
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