I will keep thee myself: Thou shalt do my little business; and I'll
find thee an able young fellow to do thine.

_Enter Mrs_ PAD.

Daughter Pad, you are welcome: What, you have performed the last
Christian office to your keeper; I saw you follow him up the heavy
hill to Tyburn. Have you had never a business since his death?

_Mrs Pad._ No indeed, father; never since execution-day. The night
before, we lay together most lovingly in Newgate; and the next morning
he lift up his eyes, and prepared his soul with a prayer, while one
might tell twenty; and then mounted the cart as merrily, as if he had
been going for a purse.

_Aldo._ You are a sorrowful widow, daughter Pad; but I'll take care of
you.--Geoffery, see her rigged out immediately for a new voyage: Look
in figure 9, in the upper drawer, and give her out the flowered
justacorps, with the petticoat belonging to it.

_Mrs Pad._ Could you not help to prefer me, father?

_Aldo._ Let me see--let me see:--Before George, I have it, and it
comes as pat too! Go me to the very judge that sate upon him; it is an
amorous, impotent old magistrate, and keeps admirably. I saw him leer
upon you from the bench: He will tell you what is sweeter than
strawberries and cream, before you part.

_Enter Mrs_ TERMAGANT.