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THE COUNTRY INN.

LANDLADY.

Fy, David! you are as spiteful now as if somebody were taking something out of your pocket: I'll assure you she has a more genteeler behaviour than most young women in the parish: I have given her some lessons myself.

DAVID.

Ay, by my faith! and her gentility smacks devilishly of the place that she got it from.

Re-enter Sally in great haste.

SALLY.

Lack-a-daisy! I went to the stable just now to tell Will about Dolly's great fortune; and he is gone, and Blackberry is gone, and the chaise and horses are gone.

LANDLADY.

There is witchcraft about this house!—I'll pawn my life some of the gentlefolks are missing too; let us go and see.(Exeunt.

SCENE II. Enter Lady Goodbody, Miss Martin, and Sir John Hazelwood.

SIR JOHN HAZELWOOD (speaking as he enters).

I am heartily sorry for it: my nephew alone is to blame, and he will be severely punished for his