Hyd: Nay, nay, softly, softly Gentlemen, & I’ll Introduce You all if you will have Patience! One at a time, You must come on but one at a time.
Omn: Ay, ay, one at a time, keep back, keep back; pray keep back; We shall have the Audience hiss us.
Enter Bob Smart.
Hyd: The first Character I have the Honour to introduce to your Highness is the facetious Bob Smart, a professed Wit and Critic; no Man knows the Intrigues of the Court, the Theatres, or the City better, No Man has a finer Taste in the Belle’ Letters, for he is deemed one of the best Gentlemen Harlequins in Europe, and is an Emminent Orator at the Robin Hood Society.
Bob: Yes, Seignior, I am little Bob Smart at your Service; did you ever hear of me Abroad?
Pas: Often, often Sir.
Bob: I thought so; have you got ever a Harlequin in this Farce of yours, Mr. Drawcansir?
Pas: No Sir.
Bob: Then you’ll be damn’d Sir. by your Bills I thought there was a Pantomime in it. I wish you had consulted me, I have wrote two— And a Parcell of us intend next Winter to have one of the Theatres, and to treat the Public with the finest Pantomime that ever was seen, in Immitation of the Gentlemen Who Play’d Othello.
Omn: Ha, ha, ha, Bravo, Bravo (at the side of the Scenes)