Jack—Fieri Facias from Fetter Lane, about the bill to be filed by Kit Crape against Will Vizard this term.
Serjeant—Praying for an equal partition of plunder?
Jack—Yes, sir.
Serjeant—Strange world we live in, that even highwaymen can't be true to each other! [Half aside to himself.] But we shall make Vizard refund; we'll show him what long hands the law has.
Jack—Facias says that in all the books he can't hit a precedent.
Serjeant—Then I'll make one myself; Aut inveniam, aut faciam, has been always my motto. The charge must be made for partnership profit, by bartering lead and gunpowder against money, watches, and rings, on Epping Forest, Hounslow Heath, and other parts of the kingdom.
Jack—He says if the court should get scent of the scheme, the parties would all stand committed.
Serjeant—Cowardly rascal! but however, the caution mayn't prove amiss. [Aside.] I'll not put my own name to the bill.
Jack—The declaration, too, is delivered in the cause of Roger Rapp'em against Sir Solomon Simple.
Serjeant—What, the affair of the note?