[ACT II. SCENE I.]
SCENE, Mrs. Motherly's House.
Enter Count Basset and Mrs. Motherly.
Count Bas. I tell you there is not such a family in England, for you! do you think I would have gone out of your lodgings for any body, that was not sure to make you easy for the winter?
Moth. Nay, I see nothing against it, Sir, but the gentleman's being a parliament man: and when people may, as it were, think one impertinent, or be out of humour, you know, when a body comes to ask for one's own——
Count Bas. Psha! Pr'ythee never trouble thy head—His pay is as good as the bank!—--Why, he has above two thousand a year!
Moth. Alas-a-day! that's nothing: Your people of ten thousand a year, have ten thousand things to do with it.
Count Bas. Nay, if you are afraid of being out of your money; what do you think of going a little with me, Mrs. Motherly?
Moth. As how?