Scarborough and the Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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_Ser. [Within.]_ Who is there?
_Lory._ Open the door and see: is that your country breeding? _Ser._ Ay, but two words to that bargain.--Tummus, is the blunderbuss primed? _Fash._ Ouns! give 'em good words, Lory,--or we shall be shot here a fortune catching. _Lory._ Egad, sir, I think you're in the right on't.--Ho! Mr. What-d'ye-call-'um, will you please to let us in? or are we to be left to grow like willows by your moat side? SERVANT _appears at the window with a blunderbuss._ _Ser._ Well naw, what's ya're business? _Fash._ Nothing, sir, but to wait upon Sir Tunbelly, with your leave. _Ser._ To weat upon Sir Tunbelly! why, you'll find that's just as Sir Tunbelly pleases. _Fash._ But will you do me the favour, sir, to know whether Sir Tunbelly pleases or not? _Ser._ Why, look you, d'ye see, with good words much may be done. Ralph, go thy ways, and ask Sir Tunbelly if he pleases to be waited upon--and dost hear, call to nurse, that she may lock up Miss Hoyden before the gates open. _Fash._ D'ye hear, that, Lory? _Enter SIR TUNBELLY CLUMSY, with SERVANTS, armed with guns, clubs, pitchforks, &c_. _Lory_. Oh! [_Runs behind his master_.] O Lord! O Lord! Lord! we are both dead men! _Fash_. Fool! thy fear will, ruin us. [_Aside to LORY_.] _Lory_. My fear, sir? 'sdeath, Sir, I fear nothing.-- |
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