Jeremy I've suddenly taken it into my head to get married, too. With this flirt.
Peacock What, Colonel? You wish to marry the maid after having refused the mistress?
Jeremy I will ennoble her. There, Trippet. From wench, I make you a lady of quality.
Trippet
It won't be the first such metamorphosis.
CURTAIN
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: A few lines of dialogue have been added to the play explaining what a tontine is. Tontines were named for an Italian Banker named Tonti who discovered the scheme. Strange as it may seem this play got Le Sage in a great deal of trouble because the government was employing the Tontine as a means of raising revenue and this play was regarded as a subversive attack on the revenue system of the monarchy.