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essieurs, _'Tis this that cures the Lover's Pain, And _Celia_ of her cold Disdain._ _Feth._ A most devilish Fellow this! _Blunt._ Hold, shartlikins, _Fetherfool_, let's have a Dose or two of this Pouder for quick Dispatch with our Monsters. _Feth._ Why Pox, Man, Jugg my Giant would swallow a whole Cart-Load before 'twould operate. _Blunt._ No hurt in trying a Paper or two however. _Car._ A most admirable Receit, I shall have need on't. _Will._ I need say nothing of my divine Baths of Reformation, nor the wonders of the old Oracle of the Box, which resolves all Questions, my Bills sufficiently declare their Virtue. [Sits down. They buy. Enter _Petronella Elenora_ carried in a Chair, dress'd like a Girl of Fifteen. _Shift._ Room there, Gentlemen, room for a Patient. _Blunt._ Pray, Seignior, who may this be thus muzzl'd by old Gaffer Time? _Car._ One _Petronella Elenora_, Sir, a famous outworn Curtezan. _Blunt._ _Elenora_! she may be that of _Troy_ for her Antiquity, tho fitter for God _Priapus_ to ravish than _Paris_. _Shift._ _Hunt_, a word; dost thou see that same formal Politician yonder, on the Jennet, the nobler Animal of the two? _Hunt._ What of him? _Shift._ 'Tis the same drew on the Captain this Morning, and I must revenge the Affront. _Hunt._ Have a care of Revenges in _Spain_, upon Persons of his Quality. _Shift._ Nay, I'll only steal his Horse from under him. _Hunt._ Steal it! thou may'st take it by force perhaps; but how safely is a Question. _Shift._ I'll warrant thee-- shoulder you up one side of his great Saddle, I'll do the like on t'other; then heaving him gently up, _Harlequin_ shall lead the Horse from between his Worship's Legs: All this in the Crowd will not be perceiv'd, where all Eyes are imploy'd on the Mountebank. _Hunt._ I apprehend you now-- [Whilst they are lifting _Petronella_ on the Mountebank's Stage, they go into the Crowd, shoulder up _Carlo's_ Saddle. _Harlequin_ leads the Horse forward, whilst _Carlo_ is gazing, and turning up his Mustachios; they hold him up a little while, then let him drop: he rises and stares about for his Horse. _Car._ This is flat Conjuration. _Shift._ What's your Worship on foot? _Hunt._ I never saw his Worship on foot before. _Car._ Sirrah, none of your Jests, this must be by diabolical Art, and shall cost the Seignior dear-- Men of my Garb affronted-- my Jennet vanish
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