Lady Answ. Come to me, Master; and I’ll give you a Sugar-Plumb. Why, Miss, you forgot that ever you was a Child yourself. [She gives the Child a Lump of Sugar.] I have heard ’em say, Boys will long.
Col. My Lord, I suppose you know, that Mr. Buzzard has married again?
Lady Smart. This is his Fourth Wife; then he has been shod round.
Col. Why, you must know, she had a Month’s Mind to Dick Frontless, and thought to run away with him; but her Parents forc’d her to take the old Fellow for a good Settlement.
Ld. Sparkish. So the Man got his Mare again.
Ld. Smart. I’m told he said a very good thing to Dick; said he, You think us old Fellows are Fools; but we old Fellows know young Fellows are Fools.
Col. I know nothing of that; but I know, he’s devilish old, and she’s very young.
Lady Answ. Why, they call that a Match of the World’s making.
Miss. What if he had been young, and she old?
Neverout. Why, Miss, that would have been a Match of the Devil’s making; but when both are young, that’s a Match of God’s making.