Physician. You hit my function right.
Usher. And you mine.
Physician. Then let’s embrace.
Usher. Come.
Physician. Come.
Johnson. Pray, sir, who are those so very civil persons?
Bayes. Why, sir, the Gentleman-Usher and Physician of the two Kings of Brentford.
Johnson. But, pray, then, how comes it to pass that they know one another no better?
Bayes. Phoo! that’s for the better carrying on of the plot.[10]
Another method, talking back to people off stage, as one enters, in such a way as to bring out necessary facts, erence both used and ridiculed centuries ago. This is his use of the device: