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Cutter of Coleman-street.
[Exit Boy.Cut.Oh so much the better; go you little piece of a Rogue and get every thing ready against I come back.
Sister, that Babe you saw me speaking to is predestinated to Spiritual Mightiness, and is to be restorer of the Mystical Tribe of Gad———
Sister, that Babe you saw me speaking to is predestinated to Spiritual Mightiness, and is to be restorer of the Mystical Tribe of Gad———
Tab.Oh the Wonderous——— but, Brother Abednego, will you not pronounce this Evening tide before the Congregation of the Spotless in Coleman-street?
Cut.The will of the latter Vision is to be fulfilled first, as a Preparatory Vision; let us not make the Messenger of Mystery, who is sent by a Vision so far as from Mary White-chapel for our sakes, to stay too long from his lawful Vocation of Basket-making. Come, Sister Tabitha.
[Exeunt.Tab.Hei, ho! but I will not resist.
Scene 6.
Enter Jolly, Puny, Worm.
Joll.Mr. Puny, since you threaten me, I tell you plainly I think my Niece has undone her self by marrying thee, for though thou hast a fair Estate at present, I'm hainously mistaken if thou beest not cheated of it all within these three years by such Rabbit-suckers as these, that keep thee company, and like lying sons o' the Devil as they are, cry thee up for a Wit, when there's nothing so unlike, no not any of thy own Similitudes, thy odious Comparisons.
Pun.The Colonel's raging mad, like a Baker in the Subburbs, when his Oven's over-heated.
Wor.Good, very good i'faith.
Joll.I, that was one of 'em; as for her Portion, I thought to ha' given her a thousand pounds, but———
Pun.O magnanimous Colonel! what a Portion for a Toothpick-maker's daughter!
Wor.Good, shoot him thick with similies like Hail-shot.
Joll.But now thou shalt not have a groat with her.
Pun.What not a poor old Harry-Groat that looks as thin as a Poet's Cloak? But however, my noble Mountain hearted Uncle, I ha' made her Maiden-head a Crack'd Groat already, and if I ha' nothing more from her, she shall ha' nothing more from me; no, she
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