Bayes.—Ay, sir, for fear the usurpers might discover them, that went out but just now.
War itself follows, and the commanders of the two armies, the general and the lieutenant-general, appear upon the stage in another parody upon the opening scenes of Dryden’s “Siege of Rhodes:”—
Enter, at several doors, the General and Lieutenant-general, armed cap-à-pie, with each a lute in his hand, and his sword drawn, and hung with a scarlet riband at the wrist.
Lieut.-Gen.—Villain, thou liest.
Gen.—Arm, arm, Gonsalvo, arm. What! ho!
The lie no flesh can brook, I trow.
Lieut.-Gen.—Advance from Acton with the musqueteers.
Gen.—Draw down the Chelsea cuirassiers.
Lieut.-Gen.— The band you boast of, Chelsea cuirassiers,
Shall in my Putney pikes now meet their peers.