_Dar._ All routed Horse and Foot; I plac’d an Ambush, and while they
were pursuing you, my Men fell on behind, and won the day.
_Bac._ Thou almost makest me wish to live again, if I cou’d live now
fair _Semernia’s_ dead.--But oh--the baneful Drug is just and kind, and
hastens me away--Now while you are Victors, make a Peace--with the
_English_ Council, and never let Ambition,--Love,--or Interest, make you
forget, as I have done, your Duty and Allegiance--Farewel--a long
Farewel--
[Dies embracing their Necks.
_Dar._ So fell the _Roman Cassius_, by mistake--
Enter Soldiers with _Dunce_, _Tim._ and _Dullman_.
_Sold._ An’t please your Honour, we took these Men running away.
_Dar._ Let ‘em loose--the Wars are at an end, see where the General
lies--that great-soul’d Man, no private Body e’er contain’d a nobler;
and he that cou’d have conquered all _America_, finds only here his
scanty length of Earth. Go, bear the Body to his own Pavilion--
[Soldiers go out with the Body.
though we are Conquerors we submit to treat, and yield upon Condition:
You, Mr. _Dunce_, shall bear our Articles to the Council.
_Dun._ With Joy I will obey you.
_Tim._ Good General, let us be put in the Agreement.
_Dar._ You shall be obliged--
[Ex. _Dar._ _Dun._ _Dull._ and _Tim._ as _Fear._ goes out a
Soldier meets him.
_Sold._ What does your Honour intend to do with _Whimsey_ and _Whiff_,
who are condemn’d by a Council of War?
Enter _Daring_, _Dullman_, _Tim._ _Fearless_, and Officers.
_Dar._ You come too late, Gentlemen, to be put into the Articles; nor am
I satisfy’d you’re worthy of it.
_Dull._ Why, did not you, Sir, see us lie dead in the Field?
_Dar._ Yes, but I see no Wound about you.
_Tim._ We were stun’d with being knock’d down; Gads zoors, a Man may be
kill’d with the but-end of a Musquet, as soon as with the point of a
Sword.
Enter _Dunce_.
_Dun._ The Council, Sir, wishes you Health and Happiness, and sends you
these sign’d by their Hands--
[Gives Papers.
_Dar._ reads.
That you shall have a general Pardon for your self and Friends;
that you shall have all new Commissions, and _Daring_ to command as
General; that you shall have free leave to inter your dead General
in _James_ Town. And to ratify this, we will meet you at Madam
_Surelove’s_ House, which stands between the Armies, attended only
by our Officers.
The Council’s noble, and I’ll wait upon them.
[Exeunt.
SCENE V. A Grove near Madam _Surelove’s_.
Enter _Surelove_ weeping, _Well._ _Chrisante_, Mrs. _Flirt_,
_Ranter_ as before, _Down._ _Haz._ _Friend._ _Booz._ _Brag_.
_Well._ How long, Madam, have you heard the News of Col. _Surelove’s_
Death?
_Sure._ By a Vessel last Night arriv’d.
_Well._ You shou’d not grieve when Men so old pay their debt to Nature;
you are too fair not to have been reserved for some young Lover’s Arms.
_Haz._ I dare not speak,--but give me leave to hope.
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