Bob. Very true, You shou’d have had a Plot Pasquin.
Pas. Bless me Gentlemen! I am amaz’d at this Criticism. I expected great Approbation for the Newness and Dexterity of my Plot.
Hyd. Ay! pray what is the Plot?
Pas. I thought, by this time that it was known to ev’ry Person in the Audience. The Plot Sir, is, the filling of this House— don’t you see how thick it is.
Hyd. Ha, ha, ha, ha, very well, and now it is unravelled; extremely Clear! a very good Plott I protest.
Omn. O very Clear, very clear.
Dia. But Mr. Pasquin, You have no love, nor Marriage in Your Farce; that is a fault, a very great fault.
Pas. Madam, I have vast Quantity of Love in It, as much as wou’d make half a dozen modern Romances; But I was advised, by some Dramatick Friends, not to let it appear too soon. For Love, in a Farce, they said, was generally very dull, and what the English Audience always Complain’d of. But now we are come to unravel the Plot— It must be known, that Lady Lucy, Mr. Hydra, Sir Eternal, Miss Brilliant, and all the Characters, have a most Passionate Tendre for each other, and have Privately agreed that this shall be the Happy Night. And, as to a Wedding, I have taken particular Care of that, for among the disorderly Persons that were Seized, by mistake, they have taken up a Gentleman that lives near May Fair, who waits in the Green Room to Sign the Passport of each loving Pair to The land of Hymen. And this, I think, is as much Love, Plot and Marriage, as is necessary in any Farce.
Hyd. Upon Honour, I am of your Opinion Mr. Pasquin. And I like your Catastrophes extremely. Mr. Common Sense, what is your Opinion?
Com. For my part Sir, I am pleased with the whole Piece, and think the Critics, in particular, must approve of it highly; As it is written up to the Strictest Nicety of Dramatic Rules. Against the next Night, Mr. Pasquin, you must omit, or alter some exceptionable Expressions, And, if you were to prune a few Redundances, the whole Piece wou’d be the better for it.