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THE
REHEARSAL.
ACTUS I. SCÆNA I.
Johnson and Smith.
Johns.Honest Frank! I'm glad to see thee with all my heart: how long hast thou been in Town?
Smi. Faith, not above an hour: and, if I had not met you here, I had gone to look you out; for I long to talk with you freely, of all the strange new things we have heard in the Country.
Johns. And, by my troth, I have long'd as much to laugh with you, at all the impertinent, dull, fantastical things, we are tir'd out with here.
Smi. Dull and fantastical! that's an excellent composition. Pray, what are our men of business doing?
Johns. I ne'er enquire after 'em. Thou know'st my humour lyes another way. I love to please my self as much, and to trouble others as little as I can: and therefore do naturally avoid the company of those solemn Fops; who, being incapable of Reason, and insensible of Wit and Pleasure, are always looking grave, and troubling one another, in hopes to be thought men of Business.
Smi.
