_Man._ [_Aside._] So, I have it now.--[_Aloud._] Why, if you needs will know it, he has a quarrel, and his adversary bids him bring two friends with him: now, I am one, and we are thinking who we shall have for a third. [_Several cross the stage._ _Nov._ A pox, there goes a fellow owes me a hundred pounds, and goes out of town to-morrow: I'll speak with him, and come to you presently. [_Exit._ _Man._ No, but you won't. _Free._ You are dexterously rid of him. _Re-enter_ Major OLDFOX. _Man._ To what purpose, since here comes another as impertinent? I know by his grin he is bound hither. _Old._ Your servant, worthy, noble captain. Well, I have left the widow, because she carried me from your company: for, faith, captain, I must needs tell thee thou art the only officer in England, who was not an Edgehill officer, that I care for. _Man._ I'm sorry for't. _Old._ Why, wouldst thou have me love them? _Man._ Anybody rather than me. _Old._ What! you are modest, I see; therefore, too, I love thee. _Man._ No, I am not modest; but love to brag myself, and can't patiently hear you fight over the last civil war. Therefore, go look out the fellow I saw just now here, that walks with his sword and stockings out at heels, and let him tell you the history of that scar on his cheek, to give you occasion to show yours got in the field at Bloomsbury, not that of Edgehill. Go to him, poor fellow; he is fasting, and has not yet the happiness this morning to stink of brandy and tobacco: go, give him some to hear you; I am busy. _Old._ Well, egad, I love thee now, boy, for thy surliness. Thou art no tame captain, I see, that will suffer-- _Man._ An old fox. _Old._ All that shan't make me angry: I consider that thou art peevish, and fretting at some ill success at law. Prithee, tell me what ill luck you have met with here. _Man._ You. _Old._ Do I look like the picture of ill luck? gadsnouns, I love thee more and more. And shall I tell thee what made me love thee first? _Man._ Do; that I may be rid of that damned quality and thee. _Old._ 'Twas thy wearing that broad sword there. _Man._ Here, Freeman, let's change: I'll never wear it more. _Old._ How! you won't, sure. Prithee, don't look like one of our holiday captains now-a-days, with a bodkin by your side, your martinet rogues. _Man._ [_Aside._] O, then, there's hopes.--[_Aloud._] What, d'ye find fault with martinet? Let me tell you, sir, 'tis the best exercise in the world; the most ready, most easy, most graceful exercise that ever was used, and the most-- _Old._ Nay, nay, sir, no more; sir, your servant: if you praise martinet once, I have done with you, sir.--Martinet! martinet!--[_Exit._ _Free._ Nay, you have made him leave you as willingly as ever he did an enemy; for he was truly for the king and parliament: for the parliament in their list; and for the king in cheating 'em of their pay, and never hurting the king's party in the field.