than anything but
its fashion, with one hand idle in his pocket, and
with the other picking his useless teeth; and, though
the Mall was crowded with company, yet was poor
Jack as single and solitary as a lion in a desert.

_Aim_. And as much avoided for no crime upon earth
but the want of money. {166}

_Arch_. And that's enough. Men must not be poor;
idleness is the root of all evil; the world's wide
enough, let 'em bustle. Fortune has taken the weak
under her protection, but men of sense are left to
their industry. {171}

_Aim_. Upon which topic we proceed, and, I think, luckily
hitherto. Would not any man swear now, that I am
a man of quality, and you my servant, when if our
intrinsic value were known--

_Arch_. Come, come, we are the men of intrinsic value
who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose
worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions
in government: we have heads to get money
and hearts to spend it. {180}

_Aim_. As to pur hearts, I grant ye, they are as willing
tits as any within twenty degrees: but I can have
no great opinion of our heads from the service they
have done us hitherto, unless it be that they have
brought us from London hither to Lichfield, made
me a lord and you my servant.

_Arch_. That 's more than you could expect already. But
what money have we left?

_Aim_. But two hundred pound. {189}

_Arch_. And our horses, clothes, rings, etc.--Why, we
have very good fortunes now for moderate people;
and, let me tell you, that this two hundred pound,
with the experience that we are now masters of, is
a better estate than the ten we have spent--Our
friends, indeed, began to suspect that our pockets
were low, but we came off with flying colours,
showed no signs of want either in word or deed.

_Aim_. Ay, and our going to Brussels was a good pretence
enough for our sudden disappearing; and, I
warrant you, our friends imagine that we are gone
a-volunteering. {201}

_Arch_. Why, faith, if this prospect fails, it must
e'en come to that I am for venturing one of the
hundreds, if you will, upon this knight-errantry; but,
in case it should fail, we 'll reserve t' other to carry
us to some counterscarp, where we may die, as we
lived, in a blaze.

_Aim_. With all my heart; and we have lived justly,
Archer