_Wait._ Intelligence from us, sir! they should never come here, if we could help it. I am sure we wish 'em choked when we see them come in; for they bring such good stomachs from St James's Park, or rambling about in the streets, that we poor waiters have not a bit left; 'tis well if we can keep our money in our pockets for 'em. I am sure I have paid seventeen and sixpence in half-crowns for coach-hire at several times for a little damned tearing lady, and when I asked her for it again one morning in her chamber, she bid me pay myself, for she had no money; but I wanted the courage of a gentleman; besides, the lord that kept her was a good customer to our house and my friend, and I made a conscience of wronging him. _Ger._ A man of honour! _Mons. Vert_ and _bleu!_ pleasant, pleasant, _ma foi!_ _Ger._ Go, go, sirrah, shut the door, I hear 'em coming up. _Wait._ Indeed I dare not; they'll kick me down stairs, if I should. _Ger._ Go, you rascal, I say. [_The_ Waiter _shuts the door, 'tis thrust open again._ _Enter_ FLOUNCE _and_ FLIRT _in vizards, striking the_ Waiter, _and come up to the table._ _Ger._ [_Aside._] Flounce and Flirt, upon my life!--[_Aloud._] Ladies, I am sorry you have no volunteers in your service; this is mere pressing, and argues a great necessity you have for men. _Flou._ You need not be afraid, sir; we will use no violence to you; you are not fit for our service: we know you. _Flirt._ The hot service you have been in formerly makes you unfit for ours now; besides, you begin to be something too old for us; we are for the brisk huzzas of seventeen or eighteen. _Ger._ Nay, faith, I am not too old yet; but an old acquaintance will make any man old:--besides, to tell you the truth, you are come a little too early for me, for I am not drunk yet. But there are your brisk young men, who are always drunk, and, perhaps, have the happiness not to know you. _Flou._ The happiness not to know us! _Flirt._ The happiness not to know us! _Ger._ Be not angry, ladies; 'tis rather happiness to have pleasure to come than to have it past, and therefore these gentlemen are happy in not knowing you. _Mar._ I'd have you to know, I do know the ladies too, and I will not lose the honour of the ladies' acquaintance for anything. _Flou._ Not for the pleasure of beginning an acquaintance with us, as Mr. Gerrard says: but it is the general vanity of you town fops to lay claim to all good acquaintance and persons of honour; you cannot let a woman pass in the Mall at midnight, but, damn you, you know her straight, you know her;--but you would be damned before you would say so much for one in a mercer's shop. _Ger._ He has spoken it in a French-house, where he has very good credit, and I dare swear you may make him eat his words.