_Ghost._ I was a man of quality, of the same country; but my fortune being, in my youth, run out, in _France_ for breeding, and in _England_ by keeping, I thought in my riper years to retrieve all by marrying a _city heiress_; but she had by nature, so much of the mother in her, that by intriguing and equipage she soon brought me into a worse condition than before: so that, as my last refuge, I was forc’d to turn _Plotter_, and being discover’d, was lopp’d shorter by the head, as all this honourable tribe that follows me were. _Lucif._ Away with ’em. [_They are carry’d off, and, as the next are bringing to the bar, the beaux discourse again._ _1 Beau. Gh._ D--me, _Ned_, this was a worse fool than the other. _2 Beau. Gh._ R--t me, _Jack_, _vous avez raison_: for I always lov’d to keep myself out of the _jeopardy of action_: _Jack_, I’d talk treason, or so; sort myself with the disaffected, and blow up the coals of their _discontent_, or so: but for _engagements, covenants, conditions, and unlawful assemblies_, ’gad they must pardon me. [_Aside._ _1 Beau. Gh._ Z--ns, _Ned_, thou and I were always one man; I could rail at the magistrates, pen a lampoon, or, at least, convey it to _Julian_, give penny pies to the mob to make a noise, ridicule the transactions of the government, and give squinting reflections on the king, that was my _ne plus ultra_; for all that I can see, we are in the best case still, _Ned_. But now our band advances, let us press forward, or our cause may fail. [_Aside._ _2 Beau. Gh._ Hell and damnation, all’s lost; for look yonder, that conceited coxcomb, my lord _Flippant_, presuming on his quality, has taken upon him to be our chief, and spokes-man. [_Aside._ _1 Beau. Gh._ S--nk me, _Ned_, so say I: I never knew a conceited man, but he was a fool; but let’s hear, we may put in an appeal, or a writ of error afterward, or award judgment, if our cause be ill handled. [_Aside._ O! what an admirable thing it is to be a man of parts! _Luc._ Speak, thou fluttering fool, for the rest of this thy peacock-gang.