_Omn._ Hoora! Hoora! Exeunt omnes.
_The End of the Third ACT._
ACT the Fourth.
_A Tavern._
[2 Tables, three Chairs to each.]
_Enter_ Compa.s.se, Peg, _and_ Pettifog.
_A Drawer Meets them._
_Drawer._ Welcome Gentlemen. Please to walk into a Room?
_Compa.s.se:_ Aye Boy. Come Mr. _Pettifog_, please you sit.
_Pettifog:_ With all my Heart; Come Mistress.
_Draw._ What Wine will you be pleased to drink, Gentlemen?
_Pett._ Ask the good Woman: speak Mistress.
_Com._ Canary for her; I know what relishes her Palat best. A Quart of brisk Canary, Boy.
_Draw._ Ye shall have the best in _England_.--Coming, Coming, Sir.
[_Exit._.
_Com._ What call you this same Tavern, Mr. Attorney?
_Pett._ The King's Head, Sir.
_Com._ The King's Head: Marry, it has a good Neighbour of _Guild-hall_.
It takes many a fair Pound upon that 'n Account, I warrant you.
_Draw._ (within) A Quart of Canary in the King's-head, score.
_Enter Drawer, fills a Gla.s.s, and gives it_ Compa.s.se.
_Draw._ Sir, Here's a Gla.s.s of the richest Canary that ever came over, the very Quintessence of the Grape I a.s.sure you.
_Com._ Say'st thou so? Why then there's a Tester for thee, and so leave us--. Come, Mr. _Pettifog_, [_Exit Drawer_] and 't please you my Service to you.
[_Drinks._
_Pett._ I thank you kindly, Sir.--Mrs. my Service to you, your Husband's good Health.
[_Drinks._
_Peg._ With all my Heart indeed, Here my dear black ey'd Rogue, thy n'own good Health.
[_Drinks._
_Com._ Thank you _Peg_, thank you, so now let's mind our Business.
_Enter Mr._ Ventere, _his Wife, and_ Dodge, _to another Table in the same Room._
Mr. _Ven._ Show a Room, Drawer.
_Draw._ Here Sir.
Mr. _Ven._ Ne're a private Room?
_Draw._ No Sir, the House is full.
_Com._ Ods fish, whom have we here, my Wife's Merchant, with his Lawyer?
_Pett._ Ye know we promised to give him a Meeting here.
_Comp._ 'Tis true we did so,--but come to the Business in hand.
[_Pettifog_ and _Compa.s.se_ talk privately.
Mr. _Ven._ Well, bring us a Bottle of your best Red.
_Draw._ You shall have it, Sir.
[_Exit_ Drawer.
Mr. _Ven._ And what do you think of my Cause, Mr. _Dodge_?
_Dodge._ O we shall carry it most certainly: You have Money to go through with the Business; and ne're fear but we'll trounce them swingingly.
Mr. _Ven._ I warrant you think it very strange, Mr. _Dodge_, that I am at this Charge and Expence to bring a farther Charge upon me.
_Dodge._ Not I, I a.s.sure you, Sir, for I know you are a wise Man, and know very well what you do; besides you have Money, Money enough, Sir.
Mr. _Ven._ Why the short and the long of the Business is this; I made a Purchase lately, and in that I did estate the Child (about which I'm sued) Joint-Purchaser with me in all the Land I bought.
Mrs. _Ven._ Right Husband; and you know 'twas I that advised you to make the Purchase, and therefore I'll never give my Consent to have the Child brought up by such a stinking Tar-barrel as now sues for him; he'd only bring him up to be a Swabber; no, no, he was born a Merchant and a Gentleman, and he shall live and die so.
_Dodge._ You are a worthy Gentlewoman upon my word; there are but few of such a n.o.ble Temper: But what makes the Fool of the Husband then so troublesome; does he not know when he's well?