n! Why so they are all in town, sir.
_Enter_ CLINCHER _senior_.
_Clinch. sen._ Brother, you're welcome to London.
_Clinch. jun._ I thought, brother, you owed so much to the memory of my
father, as to wear mourning for his death.
_Clinch. sen._ Why, so I do, fool; I wear this, because I have the
estate; and you wear that, because you have not the estate. You have
cause to mourn, indeed, brother. Well, brother, I'm glad to see you;
fare you well. [_Going._
_Clinch. jun._ Stay, stay, brother.----Where are you going?
_Clinch. sen._ How natural 'tis for a country booby to ask impertinent
questions!--Harkye, sir; is not my father dead?
_Clinch. jun._ Ay, ay, to my sorrow.
_Clinch. sen._ No matter for that, he's dead; and am not I a young,
powdered, extravagant English heir?
_Clinch. jun._ Very right, sir.
_Clinch. sen._ Why then, sir, you may be sure that I am going to the
Jubilee, sir.
_Clinch. jun._ Jubilee! What's that?
_Clinch. sen._ Jubilee! Why, the Jubilee is----'Faith I don't know what
it is.
_Dicky._ Why, the Jubilee is the same thing as our Lord Mayor's day in
the city; there will be pageants, and squibs, and raree-shows, and all
that, sir.
_Clinch. jun._ And must you go so soon, brother?
_Clinch. sen._ Yes, sir; for I must stay a month at Amsterdam, to study
poetry.
_Clinch. jun._ Then I suppose, brother, you travel through Muscovy, to
learn fashions; don't you, brother?
_Clinch. sen._ Brother! Pr'ythee, Robin, don't call me brother; sir will
do every jot as well.
_Clinch. jun._ Oh, Jupiter Ammon! why so?
_Clinch. sen._ Because people will imagine you have a spite at me.--But
have you seen your cousin Angelica yet, and her mother, the Lady
Darling?
_Clinch. jun._ No; my dancing-master has not been with me yet. How shall
I salute them, brother?
_Clinch. sen._ Pshaw! that's easy; 'tis only two scrapes, a kiss, and
your humble servant. I'll tell you more when I come from the Jubilee.
Come along. [_Exeunt._
[Illustration: SIR HARRY WILDAIR.--HERE IS A NEST OF THE PRETTIEST
GOLDFINCHES, THAT EVER CHIRPED IN A CAGE. ACT. II. SCENE. II.]
SCENE II.
LADY DARLING'S _House_.
_Enter_ SIR H. WILDAIR _with a Letter_.
_Sir H._ Like light and heat, incorporate we lay;
We bless'd the night, and curs'd the coming day.
Well, if this paper kite flies sure, I'm secu
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