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A COMEDY.

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DAVID.

As well as a dry mouth and an empty head will allow a poor silly fellow like me to be.

SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.

Ay, David, wise men always speak modestly of themselves, tho' they don't insist upon every body believing them. Here is something for thy dry mouth; you must drink a bumper to the ladies' healths.

DAVID.

Such ladies as these deserve bumpers a-piece to their healths.

SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD.

So they do; and here's the first for you.

(Filling him a glass.)

DAVID (drinking).

My humble respects to your Ladyship.

(To Lady Goodbody.)

LADY GOODBODY.

I'm proud of the respect of so wise a man, Mr. David.

DAVID.

O Lord, madam, why should I be held in any account? What tho' a body may have a better understanding of things, and a better way of setting