'Tis Rip Van Winkle! [All gather round and shake hands with him.
Rip.
Oh! everybody knows me now!
Herman.
Rip Van Winkle alive! then I am dead to fortune and to fame; the fiends have marred my brightest prospects, and nought is left but poverty and despair. [Exit.
Gustaffe.
[Without.] Room there! who will keep a child from a long lost father's arms?
Enter Gustaffe, with Lorrenna, Alice and Knickerbocker.
Lorrenna.
My father! [Embraces Rip.