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Suw. I thsnk you, Sir ; but I never do deal with thefe Sort
of People. Regularity, Oeconomy, quotha ! No, no, poor as
I look, Sir, thin as I may feem to you, I have a fmall Pittance,
about a Plumb and a Half, induffrioully colleQed by taking
Land to Nurfe, and calling \\p other People's Accounts.
I Ge?it. Oh ! are you that v^Orthy Perfon.^ I have heard your
Charader ; and how might you contrive to pick up this little
Pittance ^
S^evj. Why, Sir, when any Gentleman is uneafy in his Af:
fahs, I take his Eftateinto my PofTeffion; I allow him a Pen-
iion out of it ; I rack his Tenants, cheat his Creditors, (leal his
Timber, flarve his Servants, and keep him conftantly in Debt to
me with his own Money, which I lend him at about 20 per
Cent, Di^ount : This keeps him humble ; this makes him pli-
ant and filent. And thus, Sir, as I faid, I find my own Ac«
count in cafting up other People's. The Liking you took to
me, Gentlemen, you fee, has open'd my Heart, thrown me in-
to a frank Humour, and I have difcover'd the Arts of my Pre-
feffion to you.
I Gem. You are a compleat Arithmetician.
■ Stew. Not much of that, Sir; all I do is by Addition and
Subftradion.
I Gent. Heark, the Fiddles ! — Let us attend this out-of-the-
way Gonfort.
AIR XVII. In our Country, ^c.
Dairy-M. / milk your Coivs;
Houfe-M. ------ - I cleah your Houfe;
Landry-M. 7mr Linnen I wajh, and I whiten \
Hushandm.IPiow^ andl Mow;
Hind, I Reap^ andlSoiu;
(jard. If your Garden you take Delight in^
I Prune^ and I Plant. ]
Chor. .------- If-'hat Servant you want
For your Fields or Houfe^ or Dairy ;
If you chufe here^ you need not fear.
That yotill ever-f pu^U ever mifcarrp Groom*