turns out to meet him with guns and
pitchforks, but changes to the utmost servility on hearing that he is a
lord. It is now Tom's object to have the marriage ceremony performed
before he is discovered.

_Fashion._ Your father, I suppose you know, has resolved to make me
happy in being your husband, and I hope I may depend upon your
consent to perform what he desires.

_Miss Hoyden._ Sir, I never disobey my father in anything but
eating of green gooseberries.

_Fash._ So good a daughter must needs be an admirable wife; I am
therefore impatient till you are mine, and hope you will so far
consider the violence of my love as not to defer my happiness so
long as your father designs it.

_Miss H._ Pray, my lord, how long is that?

_Fash._ Madam, a thousand years--a whole week.

_Miss H._ A week! why I shall be an old woman by that time.

_Fash._ And I an old man.

_Miss H._ Why I thought it was to-morrow morning as soon as I was
up, I am sure nurse told me so.

_Fash._ And it shall be to-morrow morning still, if you'll consent.

_Miss H._ If I'll consent! Why I thought I was to obey you as my
husband.

_Fash._ That's when we're married, till then I am to obey you.

_Miss H._ Why then if we are to take it by turns it's the same
thing. I'll obey you now, and when we are married you shall obey
me.

_Fash._ With all my heart; but I doubt we must get nurse on our
side, or we shall hardly prevail with the chaplain.

_Miss H._ O Lord, I can tell you a way how to persuade her to
anything.

_Fash._ How's that?

_Miss H._ Why tell her she's a wholesome comely woman, and give her
half-a-crown.

_Fash._ Nay, if that will do, she shall have half a score of them.

_Miss H._ O gemini! for half that she'd marry you herself. I'll run
and call her.

_Fash._ So matters go swimmingly. This is a rare girl i' faith. I
shall have a fine time on't with her in London, I'm much mistaken
if she don't prove a March hare all the year round. What a
scampering chase will she on't, when she finds the whole kennel of
beaux at her tail! hey to the park, and the play, and the church
and the devil; she'll show them sport, I'll warrant 'em. But no
matter, she brings me an estate that will afford me a separate
maintenance.

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