Wit and humor > [I]nterlocutor

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July.
Hurry up stairs then ere he arrives.
But ’gainst the doors drive not your long nose !
On the steps break not your shoeless toes !
(IVbilsi July speaks, the Knight hurries up stairs
with his shoes in his band, and disappears.)
SCENE FIFTH.
. Enter Mr Grue, the Procurator Fiscal.
Mr Grub.
Ha! ha! ha!—So Nosy’s left his boy.
Barefooted, without or shoes or socks ;
With dead shins, i’ th’ dark to get hard knocks!—.
The rare Interlocutor, July,
And box-day I’ll remember duly !
A worthy Judge of Session truly !—
As I protest he thinks himself one
That a gown is already his own !
Who in wonder’s name gave him a box:
Unless he gets one, with keys and locks !
By dint of selfish civility,
And interested servility.
July.
Tut man! you forget the one he left
Under the stair, you’re of wits bereft I
As for the gown to give him some weight,
He needs it, and a wig for his pate.
If you observe, though screeches an owl,
It yet seems wiser than other fowl.
Mr Gru*.
From the passage, treasuring np each word,
Your Mistress and I the whole o’erheard.