OR, THE

KIND KEEPER.


ACT I.

SCENE I.--_An open Garden-House; a table in it, and chairs._

_Enter_ WOODALL _and_ GERVASE.

_Wood._ Bid the footman receive the trunks and portmantua; and see
them placed in the lodgings you have taken for me, while I walk a turn
here in the garden.

_Gerv._ It is already ordered, sir. But they are like to stay in the
outer-room, till the mistress of the house return from morning
exercise.

_Wood._ What, she's gone to the parish church, it seems, to her
devotions!

_Gerv._ No, sir; the servants have informed me, that she rises every
morning, and goes to a private meeting-house; where they pray for the
government, and practise against the authority of it.

_Wood._ And hast thou trepanned me into a tabernacle of the godly? Is
this pious boarding-house a place for me, thou wicked varlet?

_Gerv._ According to human appearance, I must confess, it is neither