Volume Iv Part 70 (1/2)

_Dull._ No, unless he means to be paid for drinking with us,--ha, ha, ha.

_Haz._ No, Sir, I have money to pay for what I drink: here's my Club, my Guinea, [Flings down a Guinea.

I scorn to be oblig'd to such Scoundrels.

_Booz._ Hum--call Men of Honour Scoundrels. [Rise in huff.

_Tim._ Let him alone, let him alone, Brother; how should he learn Manners? he never was in _Virginia_ before.

_Dull._ He's some Covent-Garden Bully.

_Tim._ Or some broken Citizen turned Factor.

_Haz._ Sir, you lye, and you are a Rascal.

[Flings the Brandy in his Face.

_Tim._ Adz zoors, he has spil'd all the Brandy.

[_Tim._ runs behind the Door, _Dull_, and _Booz._ strike _Hazard_.

_Haz._ I understand no Cudgel-play, but wear a Sword to right myself.

[Draws, they run off.

_Flirt._ Good Heavens! what, quarelling in my House?

_Haz._ Do the Persons of Quality in this Country treat Strangers thus?

_Flirt._ Alas, Sir, 'tis a familiar way they have, Sir.

_Haz._ I'm glad I know it.--Pray, Madam, can you inform one how I may be furnish'd with a Horse and a Guide to Madam _Surelove's_?

_Flirt._ A most accomplish'd Lady, and my very good Friend, you shall be immediately--

[Exeunt.

SCENE II. The Council-Table.

Enter _Wellman_, _Downright_, _Dunce_, _Whimsey_, _Whiff_, and others.

_Well._ Come, Mr. _Dunce_, though you are no Counsellor, yet your Counsel may be good in time of Necessity, as now.

_Dun._ If I may give worthy Advice, I do not look upon our Danger to be so great from the _Indians_, as from young _Bacon_, whom the People have nick-nam'd _Fright-all_.

_Whim._ Ay, ay, that same _Bacon_, I would he were well hang'd: I am afraid that under pretence of killing all the _Indians_ he means to murder us, lie with our Wives, and hang up our little Children, and make himself Lord and King.

_Whiff._ Brother _Whimsey_, not so hot; with leave of the honourable Board, my Wife is of opinion, that _Bacon_ came seasonably to our Aid, and what he has done was for our Defence, the _Indians_ came down upon us, and ravish'd us all, Men, Women, and Children.

_Well._ If these Grievances were not redrest, we had our Reasons for it; it was not that we were insensible, Captain _Whiff_, of what we suffer'd from the Insolence of the _Indians_; but all knew what we must expect from _Bacon_, if that by lawful Authority he had arrived to so great a Command as General; nor would we be hufft out of our Commissions.

_Down._ 'Tis most certain that _Bacon_ did not demand a Commission out of a design of serving us, but to satisfy his Ambition and his Love; it being no secret that he pa.s.sionately admires the _Indian_ Queen, and under the pretext of a War, intends to kill the King her Husband, establish himself in her Heart, and on all occasions make himself a more formidable Enemy than the Indians are.