_Tim._ Let him alone, let him alone, Brother; how should he learn
Manners? he never was in _Virginia_ before.
_Dull._ He’s some Covent-Garden Bully.
_Tim._ Or some broken Citizen turned Factor.
_Haz._ Sir, you lye, and you are a Rascal.
[Flings the Brandy in his Face.
_Tim._ Adz zoors, he has spil’d all the Brandy.
[_Tim._ runs behind the Door, _Dull_, and _Booz._ strike _Hazard_.
_Haz._ I understand no Cudgel-play, but wear a Sword to right myself.
[Draws, they run off.
_Flirt._ Good Heavens! what, quarelling in my House?
_Haz._ Do the Persons of Quality in this Country treat Strangers thus?
_Flirt._ Alas, Sir, ‘tis a familiar way they have, Sir.
_Haz._ I’m glad I know it.--Pray, Madam, can you inform one how I may be
furnish’d with a Horse and a Guide to Madam _Surelove’s_?
_Flirt._ A most accomplish’d Lady, and my very good Friend, you shall be
immediately--
[Exeunt.
SCENE II. The Council-Table.
Enter _Wellman_, _Downright_, _Dunce_, _Whimsey_, _Whiff_, and
others.
_Well._ Come, Mr. _Dunce_, though you are no Counsellor, yet your
Counsel may be good in time of Necessity, as now.
_Dun._ If I may give worthy Advice, I do not look upon our Danger to be
so great from the _Indians_, as from young _Bacon_, whom the People have
nick-nam’d _Fright-all_.
_Whim._ Ay, ay, that same _Bacon_, I would he were well hang’d: I am
afraid that under pretence of killing all the _Indians_ he means to
murder us, lie with our Wives, and hang up our little Children, and make
himself Lord and King.
_Whiff._ Brother _Whimsey_, not so hot; with leave of the honourable
Board, my Wife is of opinion, that _Bacon_ came seasonably to our Aid,
and what he has done was for our Defence, the _Indians_ came down upon
us, and ravish’d us all, Men, Women, and Children.
_Well._ If these Grievances were not redrest, we had our Reasons for it;
it was not that we were insensible, Captain _Whiff_, of what we suffer’d
from the Insolence of the _Indians_; but all knew what we must expect
from _Bacon_, if that by lawful Authority he had arrived to so great a
Command as General; nor would we be hufft out of our Commissions.
_Down._ ‘Tis most certain that _Bacon_ did not demand a Commission out
of a design of serving us, but to satisfy his Ambition and his Love; it
being no secret that he passionately admires the _Indian_ Queen, and
under the pretext of a War, intends to kill the King her Husband,
establish himself in her Heart, and on all occasions make himself a more
formidable Enemy than the Indians are.
_Whim._ Nay, nay, I ever foresaw he would prove a Villain.
_Whiff._ Nay, and he be thereabout, my _Nancy_ shall have no more to do
with him.
_Well._ But, Gentlemen, the People daily flock to him, so that his Army
is too considerable for us to oppose by any thing but Policy.
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