Man. Very well! but what good is that to do you?
Sir Fran. Why not me, as much as it does other folks?
Man. Other people, I doubt, have the advantage of different qualifications.
Sir Fran. Why ay! there's it naw! you'll say that I have lived all my days i'the country——what then——I'm o'the Quorum——I have been at Sessions, and I have made Speeches there! ay, and at Vestry too——and may hap they may find here,——that I have brought my tongue up to town with me! D'ye take me, naw?
Man. If I take your case right, Cousin; I am afraid the first occasion you will have for your eloquence here, will be, to shew that you have any right to make use of it at all.
Sir Fran. How d'ye mean?
Man. That Sir John Worthland has lodg'd a Petition against you.
Sir Fran. Petition! why ay! there let it lie——we'll find a way to deal with that, I warrant you!—--why, you forget, Cousin, Sir John's o'the wrong side, Mon.
Man. I doubt Sir Francis, that will do you but little service; for in cases very notorious (which I take yours to be) there is such a thing as a short day, and dispatching them immediately.
Sir Fran. With all my heart! the sooner I send him home again the better.