Sir LUCIUS Pho! be easy.—Well, now if I hit you in the body, my bullet has a double chance—for if it misses a vital part of your right side, 'twill be very hard if it don't succeed on the left!
ACRES
A vital part!
Sir LUCIUS But, there—fix yourself so—[Placing him]—let him see the broad-side of your full front—there—now a ball or two may pass clean through your body, and never do any harm at all.
ACRES
Clean through me!—a ball or two clean through me!
Sir LUCIUS
Ay—may they—and it is much the genteelest attitude into the bargain.
ACRES Look'ee! Sir Lucius—I'd just as lieve be shot in an awkward posture as a genteel one; so, by my valour! I will stand edgeways.
Sir LUCIUS [Looking at his watch.] Sure they don't mean to disappoint us—Hah!—no, faith—I think I see them coming.
ACRES
Hey!—what!—coming!——
Sir LUCIUS
Ay.—Who are those yonder getting over the stile?
ACRES
There are two of them indeed!—well—let them come—hey, Sir
Lucius!—we—we—we—we—won't run.