Lady Smart. O Miss; ’tis nothing what we say among ourselves.
Miss. Ay, Madam; but they say, Hedges have Eyes, and Walls have Ears.
Lady Answ. Well, Miss, I can’t help it; you know, I am old Tell-Truth; I love to call a Spade a Spade.
Lady Smart [mistakes the Tea-tongs for the Spoon.] What! I think my Wits are a Wool-gathering To-day.
Miss. Why, Madam, there was but a Right and a Wrong.
Lady Smart. Miss, I hear, that You and Lady Coupler are as great as Cup and Can.
Lady Answ. Ay, Miss; as great as the Devil and the Earl of Kent.
Lady Smart. Nay, I am told, you meet together with as much Love, as there is between the old Cow and the Hay-stack.
Miss. I own, I love her very well; but there’s Difference betwixt staring and stark mad.