(Exeunt Lady Goodbody, Miss Martin, and Hannah, Landlady conducting them.
EnterWill.
WILL.
Yes, Doll, give her a tallow candle, and a stinking one too.
DOLLY.
The lady seems a very good lady, Mr. Sauce-box; and as to stinking candles I would have you to know we have no such things in the house.
WILL.
That is plaguy unlucky then, for this is the first time since I came to the house that you have been without them.—Confound the old stingy hypocrite! I wish they smelt like carrion for her sake.
DOLLY.
What makes you so bitter against the poor lady? I'm sure she is as civil a spoken lady as——
WILL.
Yes, mighty civil, truly. I hate your smooth-spoken people: it is licking the butter off other people's bread that keeps their tongues so well oil'd. I drove like the devil to get here before the
