Danes_, and dirty _Dutchmen_, that were
entering Hung-Beef, 'till I'm only fit to tread _Billingsgate-Key_,
and address those shrill Ladies, whose _Italian_ Voices ev'ry Day charm
the Streets with the deaf'ning Harmony of _Place_, _Flounders_, and
_New-Castle-Salmon_--I was afraid, Madam, having not seen your Ladiship
these four Hours, you had quite forgot me.

La. _Rod._ That's impossible, Mr. _Nicknack_, I never see the pretty
_Monkey_ you brought me, but I have the strongest Idea of you imaginable;
but have you imported no greater Curiosities, a _Monkey_ of one sort or
other is what most People have in their Houses. I'd have a Ship range the
World on purpose to find me out some agreeable strange Creature, that was
never heard of before, nor is ever to be met with again.

_Nick._ A Creature, Madam, which some People think unparallell'd, it may
be in my, Pow'r to help your Ladiship to, but 'tis a sort of Creature
that's always sighing for a Mate, if your Ladiship likes it as well as
some other Ladies have done; if I know the Creature, 'twou'd laugh and
toy, and kiss and fawn upon your Ladiship beyond all Womankind.

La. _Rod._ Pray, Mr. _Nicknack_, what Species is it of?

_Nick._ Of Humane Species, Madam, your Ladiship shall examine it, but the
Ladies turn it into what shape they please, an _Ape_, an _Ass_, a
_Lizard_, a _Squirrel_, a _Spaniel_; most People say 'tis a _Man_, but the
Merchant that brought it from the _Cyprian Groves_, calls it a _Desponding
Lover_.

La. _Rod._ A _Desponding Lover_, Mr. _Nicknack_, is indeed a very strange
Creature, but 'tis no Rarity, I'm pester'd with 'em at all Seasons, they
are continually intruding like one's poor Relations, more pragmatically
impertinent than one's Chaplain, and, were it possible, as impudent as
one's Footmen.

_Nick._ But a sincere and constant Lover your Ladiship must allow a
Rarity.

La. _Rod._ [_Aside._] I must humour this Fellow's Vanity; he'll make an
admirable Tool to plague the _Collonel_--I understand you, Mr. _Nicknack_,
you have so pretty a way of discovering your self, 'twou'd charm any
Lady, and truly I see no difference between a Gentleman educated at
_Merchant-Taylor's-School_, and one at _Fobert_'s; only at our end o'the
Town, there's a certain Forwardness in young Fellows, that a Boy of
Fourteen shall pretend to practise before he understands the _Rule of
Three_. But what you tell me is a thing of that weight, it requires mature
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