such a gentleman as you.

O, any thing will do!--The worse the better.

Exit Landlord.--Re-enter with two great-coats.

Ay, Landlord, this will be best; for I can button the cape over the lower
part of my face. Don't I look devilishly down and concerned, Landlord?

I never saw a gentleman with a better-natured look.--'Tis pity you should
have such trials, Sir.

I must be very unhappy, no doubt of it, Landlord.--And yet I am a little
pleased, you must needs think, that I have found her out before any great
inconvenience has arisen to her. However, if I cannot break her of these
freaks, she'll break my heart; for I do love her with all her failings.

The good woman, who was within hearing of all this, pitied me much.

Pray, your Honour, said she, if I may be so bold, was madam ever a mamma?

No--[and I sighed.]--We have been but a little while married; and as I
may say to you, it is her own fault that she is not in that way. [Not a
word of a lie in this, Jack.] But to tell you truth, Madam, she may be
compared to the dog in the manger--

I understand you, Sir, [simpering,] she is but young, Sir. I have heard
of one or two such skittish young ladies, in my time, Sir.--But when
madam is in that way, I dare say, as she loves you, (and it would be
strange if she did not!) all this will be over, and she may make the best
of wives.

That's all my hope.

She is a fine lady as I ever beheld.--I hope, Sir, you won't be too
severe. She'll get over all these freaks, if once she be a mamma, I
warrant.

I can't be severe to her--she knows that. The moment I see her, all
resentment is over with me, if she gives me but one kind look.

All this time I was adjusting the horseman's coat, and Will. was putting
in the ties of my wig,* and buttoning the cape over my chin.

* The fashionable wigs at that time.

I asked the gentlewoman for a little powder. She brought me a powder-
box, and I slightly shook the puff over my hat, and flapt one side of it,
though the lace looked a little too gay for my covering; and, slouching
it over my eyes, Shall I be known, think you, Madam?

Your Honour is so expert, Sir!--I wish, if I may be so bold, your lady
has not some cause to be jealous. But it will be impossible, if you keep
your laced clothes covered, that any body should know you in that dress
to be the same gentleman--except they find you out by your clocked
stockings.

Well observed--Can't you, Landlord, lend or