_Friend._ By _Daring’s_ Generosity, who sends ye word he’ll visit you
this Morning.
_Well._ We are prepared to meet him.
Enter _Down._ _Hazard_, _Ladies_, _Whim._ _Whiff_, _Dullman_,
_Tim._ looking big. _Well._ embraces _Down._
_Well._ My worthy Friend, how am I joyed to see you?
_Down._ We owe our Liberties to these brave Youths, who can do Wonders
when they fight for Ladies.
_Tim._ With our assistance, Ladies.
_Whim._ For my part I’ll not take it as I have done; Gad, I find, when I
am damnable angry, I can beat both Friend and Foe.
_Whiff._ When I fight for my _Nancy_ here--adsfish, I’m a Dragon.
Mrs. _Whiff._ Lord, you need not have been so hasty.
_Friend._ Do not upbraid me with your Eyes, _Chrisante_; but let these
Wounds assure you I endeavour’d to serve you, though _Hazard_ had the
Honour on’t.
_Well._ But, Ladies, we’ll not expose you in the Camp,--a Party of our
Men shall see you safely conducted to Madam _Surelove’s_; ‘tis but a
little Mile from our Camp.
_Friend._ Let me have that honour, Sir.
_Chris._ No, I conjure you let your Wounds be dress’d; obey me if you
love me, and _Hazard_ shall conduct us home.
_Well._ He had the Toil, ‘tis fit he have the Recompence.
_Whiff._ He the Toil, Sir! what, did we stand for Cyphers?
_Whim._ The very appearance I made in the front of the Battel, aw’d the
Enemy.
_Tim._ Ay, ay, let the Enemy say how I maul’d ‘em--but Gads zoors,
I scorn to brag.
_Well._ Since you’ve regain’d your Honour so gloriously, I restore you
to your Commands you lost by your seeming Cowardice.
_Dull._ Valour is not always in humour, Sir.
_Well._ Come, Gentlemen, since they’ve resolv’d to engage us, let’s set
our Men in order to receive ‘em.
[Exeunt all but the four Justices.
_Tim._ Our Commissions again--you must be bragging, and see what comes
on’t; I was modest ye see, and said nothing of my Prowess.
_Whiff._ What a Devil does the Colonel think we are made of Iron,
continually to be beat on the Anvil?
_Whim._ Look, Gentlemen, here’s two Evils--if we go we are dead Men; if
we stay we are hang’d--and that will disorder my
Cravat-string:--therefore the least Evil is to go--and set a good Face
on the Matter, as I do--
[Goes out singing. All exeunt.
SCENE III. A thick Wood.
Enter _Queen_ dress’d like an _Indian_ Man, with a Bow in her
Hand, and Quiver at her Back; _Anaria_ her Confident disguis’d so
too; and about a dozen _Indians_ led by _Cavaro_.
_Queen._ I tremble yet, dost think we’re safe, _Cavaro_?
_Cav._ Madam, these Woods are intricate and vast, and ‘twill be
difficult to find us out--or if they do, this Habit will secure you from
the fear of being taken.
_Queen._ Dost think if _Bacon_ find us, he will not know me? Alas, my
Fears and Blushes will betray me.
_Ana._ ‘Tis certain, Madam, if we stay we perish; for all the Wood’s
surrounded by the Conqueror.
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