SCENE FROM VANBRUGH 43 



He's stamping about the streets in his dirty 

 boots, asking every man he meets if they can 

 tell where he may have a good lodging for a 

 Parliament man, till he can hire such a house 

 as becomes him. He tells them his lady and 

 all the family are coming too, and that they 

 are so nobly attended they care not a fig for 



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anybody. Sir, they have added two cart-horses 

 to the four old bays, because my Lady w^ill 

 have it said she came to town in her coach- 

 and-six; and, ha, ha! heavy George, the 

 ploughman, rides postilion." 



" Very well, James," responds his master, 

 " the journey begins as it should do. Dost 

 know whether they bring all the children with 

 them r" 



*' Only Squire Humphrey and Miss Bett}', 

 Sir ; the other six are put to board, at half-a 

 crown a week a head, with Joan Grouse, at 

 Smokedunghill Farm." 



" Dost know when they'll be here " 



" Sir, they'd have been here last night, but 

 that the old wheezy horse tired, and the two 

 fore wheels came crash down at once in Wasf- 

 gonrut Lane. Sir, they were cruelly loaden, 

 as I understand. My Lady herself, he says, 

 laid on four mail-trunks, besides the great deal 



