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Ush. No bodie else will take us.
Smi. Not for Polititians, I dare answer for it.
Phys. Let's then no more our selves in vain bemoan:
We are not safe until we them unthrone.
Ush. 'Tis right:
And, since occasion now seems debonair,
I'l seize on this, and you shall take that chair.
the two great chairs upon the Stage.
Bayes. There's now an odd surprise; the whole State's turn'd quite topsi-turvy, without any puther or stir in the whole world, I gad.
Johns. A very silent change of a Government, truly, as ever I heard of.
Bayes. It is so. And yet you shall see me bring 'em in again, by and by, in as odd a way every jot.
Enter Shirley.
Shir. Hey ho, hey ho: what a change is here! Hey day, hey day! I know not what to do, nor what to say. [Exit.
Smi. But, pray, Sir, how came they to depose the Kings so easily?
Bayes. Why, Sir, you must know, they long had a design to do it before; but never could put it in practice till now: and, to tell you true, that's one reason why I made 'em whisper so at first.
Smi. O, very well: now I'm fully satisfi'd.
Bayes. And then, to shew you, Sir, it was not done so very easily neither; in this next Scene you shall see some fighting.
Smi. O, ho: so then you make the struggle to be after the business is done?
Bayes. Aye.
Smi. O, I conceive you: that is very natural.
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