my own intentions, and care not what the wicked] I'm a breaking my heart--I think it a sin to keep | think of them; but force me not to take advantage of a shop. sir John's good opinion of me, in order to shield myself from the consequences of your malice.

heard afar off; and that sheep shall become a shep-
herd: nay, if it be only as it were a shepherd's dog,
to bark the stray lambs into the field.

Old Lady L. He wants method, doctor.
Dr.C. Yes, madam; but there is the matter, and
I despise not the ignorant.

store by me, because we have words now and then; but as I says, if such was the case, would ever she have cut me down that there time as I was melancholy, and she found me hanging behind the door; I don't believe there's a wife in the parish would have done so by her husband.

Dr. C. I believe 'tis near dinner-time; and sir John will require my attendance.

Maw. Oh! I am troublesome-nay, I only come to you, doctor, with a message from Mrs. Grunt. I wish your ladyship heartily and heartily farewell;

Maw. He's a saint--till I went after him, I was little better than the devil; my conscience was tanned with sin, like a piece of neat's leather, and had no more feeling than the sole of my shoe; always roving after fantastical delights: I used to go every Sunday evening, to the Three Hats at Islington! it's a public-doctor, a good day to you. house, mayhap, your ladyship may know it: 1 was a great lover of skittles too, but now I can't bear

them.

Old Lady L. What a blessed reformation! Maw. I believe, doctor, you never know'd as how I was instigated one of the stewards of the reforming society. I convicted a inan of five oaths, as last Thursday was a seu'night, at the Pewter-platter, in the Borough; and another of three, while he was playing trap-ball in St. George's-fields: I bought this waistcoat out of my share of the money.

Old Lady L. But how do you mind your business? Maw. We have lost almost all our customers; because I keeps extorting them whenever they come into the shop.

Old Lady L. And how do you live?

Old Lady L. Mr. Mawworm, call on me some time this afternoon; I want to have a little private discourse with you; and, pray, my service to your

Sir PERTINAX MACSYCOPHANT and his Son
EGERTON.

Maw. Better than ever we did while we were worldly-minded, my wife and I (for I am married to as likely a woman as you shall see in a thousand) Sir Per. Weel, sir! vary weel! vary weel! are could hardly make things do at all; but since this nat ye a fine spark ? are nat ye a fine spark, I say? good man has brought us into the road of the righte--ah! you are a- -so you wou'd not come up till ous, we have always plenty of every thing; and my the levee? wife goes as well dressed as a gentlewoman-we Eger. Sir, I beg your parden; but I was not very have had a child too. well besides, I did not think my presence there was necessary.

Old Lady L. Merciful!

Maw. And between you and me, doctor, I believe Susy's breeding again.

Sir Per. [Snapping him up] Sir, it was necessary; I tauld you it was necessary, and, sir, I must now tell you that the whole tenor of your conduct is most offensive.

Dr. C. Thus it is, madam; I am constantly told, though I can hardly believe it, a blessing follows wherever I come. Eger. I am sorry you think so, sir; I am sure I Maw. And yet, if you would hear how the neigh-do not intend to offend you. bours reviles my wife; saying as how she sets no Sir Per. I care not what you intend-Sir, I tell

you, you do offend. What is the meaning of this | those who do not wish well till Scotland: besides, conduct, sir? neglect the levee !-'sdeath, sir, you sir, the other day, in a conversation at dinner at vest what is your reason, I say, for thus neglecting cousin Campbel M'Kenzie's, before a while able the levee, and disobeying my commands?

full of your ain relations, did not you publich was a total extinguishment of aw party, and al national distinctions whatever, relative to the the kingdoms ?With great anger.] And, you b-xshead-was that a prudent wish before so many of your ain countrymen ?-or was it a filial language sa hold before me?

Eger. [With a stifled filial resentment.] Sir, I am not used to levees: nor do I know how to dispose of myself; or what to say, or do, in such a situation. Sir Per. [With a proud angry resentment.] Zounds! sir, do you nat see what others do? gentle and simple, temporal and spiritual, lords, members, judges, generals, and bishops; aw crowding, bustling, Eger. Sir, with your pardon, I cannot think and pushing foremost intill the middle of the circle, unfilial or imprudent. [With a most patriotic warmth and there waiting, watching, and striving to catch a I own I do wish-most ardently wish, for a totalerlook or a smile fra the great mon, which they meet tinction of all party; particularly that those of Exwi' an amicable reesibility of aspect-a modest ca-lish, Irish, and Scotch, might never more be brou dence of body, and a conciliating cooperation of the into contest or competition, unless, like loving ve whole mon; which expresses an officious promptitude thers, in generous emulation for one common cause. for his service, and indicates, that they luock upon themselves as the suppliant appendages of his power, and the enlisted Swiss of his poleetical fortune; this, sir, is what you ought to do, and this, sir, is what I never once omitted for these five and tharty years, let who would be minister.

Eger. [Aside.] Contemptible!

Sir Per. What is that you mutter, sir? Eger. Only a slight reflection, sir, not relative to you.

Sir Per. Sir, your absenting yourself fra the levee at this juncture is suspeecious; it is looked upon as a kind of disaffection, and aw your countrymen are highly offended at your conduct. For, sir, they do not look upon you as a friend or a well-wisher either to Scotland or Scotchmen.

Eger. [With a quick warmth.] Then, sir, they wrong me, I assure you; but pray, sir, in what particular can I be charged either with coldness or offence to my country?

Sir Per. Why, sir, ever since your mother's uncle, Sir Stanley Egerton, left you this three thousand pounds a year, and that you have, in compliance with his will, taken up the name of Egerton, they think you are grown proud-that you have enstranged yourself fra the Macsycophants-have associated with your mother's family—with the opposeetion, and with

Sir Per. How, sir! do you persist? What! wond
you banish aw party, and aw distinction betwea
English, Irish, and your ain countrymen!
Eger. With great dignity of spirit.] I would,
sir.

Sir Per. Then damn you, sir, you are nai true Scot
Ay, sir, you may look as angry as you will, but
I say, you are nai true Scot.

Eger. Your pardon, sir, I think he is the true Sex,
and the true citizen, who wishes equal justice to
merit and demerit of every subject of Great Ba
amongst whom I know but of two distinctions,
Sir Per. Weel, sir, and what are those-what
those?

Eger. The knave and the honest man.
Sir Per. Pshaw ! rideeculous.

Eger. And he, who makes any other-let bin i of the North, or of the South-of the East, or West-in place, or out of place, is an enemy ta whole, and to the virtues of humanity.

Sir Per. Ay, sir, this is your brother's imp doctrine, for the which I have banished him f fra my presence, my heart, and my fortuneS will have no son of mine, because truly he is educated in an English seminary, presume, unle mask of candour, to speak against his nativ or against my principles.

Eger. I never did-nor do I intend it.

ents to abuse the ministry, and settle the affairs of the nation, when they are aw intoxicated; and then, sir, the fellow has aw his wishes and aw his wants,

Enter TOMLINS.

Tom. Lady Rodolpha is come, sir.
Sir Per. And my lord?

Tom. Not yet, sir; he is about a mile behind, the

servants say.

Sis Per. Sir, I do not believe you-I do not believe you. But, sir, I know your connections and associates, and I know too, you have a saucy lurking pre-in this world and the next. judice against your ain country: you hate it; yes, your mother, her family, and your brother, sir, have aw the same, dark, disaffected rankling; and by that nd their politics together, they will be the ruin of you-themselves-and of aw who connect with them. -However, nai mair of that now; I will talk at large to you about that anon.In the mean while, sir, notwithstanding your contempt of my advice, and our disobedience till my commands, I will convince ou of my paternal attention till your welfare, by my management of this voluptuary-this Lord LumberCourt, whose daughter you are to marry. You ken, ir, that the fellow has been my patron above these Sve and thirty years. Eger. True, sir.

Sir Per. Vary weel. And now, sir, you see by is prodigality, he is become my dependent; and acordingly I have made my bargain with him: the evil a baubee he has in the world but what comes hrough these clutches; for his whole estate, which 1s three implecit boroughs upon it-mark-is now my custody at nurse; the which estate, on my ying off his debts, and allowing him a life rent of ve thousand pounds per annum is to be made over Ell me for my life, and, at my death is to descend till and your issue. The peerage of Lumbercourt, on ken, will follow of course.- -So, sir, you see, Dere are three impleecit boroughs, the whole patriony of Lumbercourt, and a peerage at one slap. by, it is a stroke-a hit-a hit-Zounds! sir, mon may live a century and not make sic an hit

gain.

Eger. It is a very advantageous bargain indeed, --but what will my lord's family say to it?

Sir Per. Why, mon, he cares not if his family were v at the devil, so his luxury is but gratified :-only t him have his race-horse to feed his vanity; his rridan to drink drams with him, serat his face, and are his periwig, when she is in her maudlin hyste—and three or four discontented patriotic depend

Sit Per. Let me know the instant he arrives.
Tom. I shall, sir.

[Exit.

Sir Per. Step you out, Charles, and receive Lady Rodolpha; and, I desire you will treat her with as much respect and gallantry as possible; for my lord has hinted that you have been very remiss as a lover. So go, go and receive her.

Eger. 1 shall, sir.

Sir Per. Vary weel, vary weel;-a guid lad: go, go and receive her as a lover should. [Exit Egerton.] Hah' I must keep a devilish tight hand upon this fellow, I see, or he will be touched with the patriotic phrenzy of the times, and run counter till aw my des signs. I find he has a strong inclination to have a judgment of his ain, independent of mine, in aw political matters; but as soon as I have finally settled the marriage writings with my lord, I will have a thorough expostulation with my gentleman, I am resolved-and fix him unalterably in his political conduct.-Ah! I am frightened out of my wits, lest his mother's family should seduce him to desert to their party, which would totally ruin my whole scheme, and break my heart,-A fine time of day for a blockhead to turn patriot-when the character is exploded, marked, proscribed? Why, the common people, the vary vulgar, have found out the jest, and laugh at a patriot now-a-days, just as they do at a conjurer, a magician, or any other impostor in society.

RIGHT HONOURABLE FOLLY AND BASE FLATTERY.
Sir PERTINAX and Lord LUMBERCOURT.
Lord Lum, Sir Pertinax, I kiss your hand.

Lord Lum. The truth is, Sir Pertinax, my fellow let me sleep too long for the levee. But I wish I had seen you before you left town; I wanted you dread-as fully.

Sir Per. I am heartily sorry that I was not in the way-but on what account did you want me? Lord Lum. Ha, ha, ha! a cursed awkward affair. And, ha, ha, ha! yet I can't help laughing at it neither, though it vexed me confoundedly.

Sir Per. Vext you, my lord! Zounds, I wish I had been with you but, for heaven's sake, my lord, what was it that could possibly vex your lordship?

Lord Lum. Why, that impudent, teasing, dunning rascal, Mahogany, my upholsterer.-You know the fellow ?

Sir Per. Perfectly, my lord.

Lord Lum. The impudent scoundrel has sued me up to some damned kind of a -something or other in the law which I think they call an execution.

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