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ver any Cargo, Sir? I'll be your Customer. _Booz._ Ay, and cheat him too, I'll warrant him. [Aside. _Haz._ I was not bred to Merchandizing, Sir, nor do intend to follow the drudgery of Trading. _Dull._ Men of Fortune seldom travel hither, Sir, to see Fashions. _Tim._ Why, Brother, it may be the Gentleman has a mind to be a Planter; will you hire your self to make a Crop of Tobacco this Year? _Haz._ I was not born to work, Sir. _Tim._ Not work, Sir! Zoors, your Betters have workt, Sir. I have workt my self, Sir, both set and stript Tobacco, for all I am of the honourable Council. Not work, quoth a!--I suppose, Sir, you wear your Fortune upon your Back, Sir? _Haz._ Is it your Custom here, Sir, to affront Strangers? I shall expect Satisfaction. [Rises. _Tim._ Why, does any body here owe you any thing? _Dull._ No, unless he means to be paid for drinking with us,--ha, ha, ha. _Haz._ No, Sir, I have money to pay for what I drink: here's my Club, my Guinea, [Flings down a Guinea. I scorn to be oblig'd to such Scoundrels. _Booz._ Hum--call Men of Honour Scoundrels. [Rise in huff. _Tim._ Let him alone, let him alone, Brother; how should he learn Manners? he never was in _Virginia_ before. _Dull._ He's some Covent-Garden Bully. _Tim._ Or some broken Citizen turned Factor. _Haz._ Sir, you lye, and you are a Rascal. [Flings the Brandy in his Face. _Tim._ Adz zoors, he has spil'd all the Brandy. [_Tim._ runs behind the Door, _Dull_, and _Booz._ strike _Hazard_. _Haz._ I understand no Cudgel-play, but wear a Sword to right myself. [Draws, they run off. _Flirt._ Good Heavens! what, quarelling in my House? _Haz._ Do the Persons of Quality in this Country treat Strangers thus? _Flirt._ Alas, Sir, 'tis a familiar way they have, Sir. _Haz._ I'm glad I know it.--Pray, Madam, can you inform one how I may be furnish'd with a Horse and a Guide to Madam _Surelove's_? _Flirt._ A most accomplish'd Lady, and my very good Friend, you shall be immediately-- [Exeunt. SCENE II. The Council-Table. Enter _Wellman_, _Downright_, _Dunce_, _Whimsey_, _Whiff_, and others. _Well._ Come, Mr. _Dunce_, though you are no Counsellor, yet your Counsel may be good in time of Necessity, as now. _Dun._ If I may give worthy Advice, I do not look upon our Danger to be so great from the _Indians_, as from young _Bacon_, whom the People have nick-nam'd _Fright-all_
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