Debt. It is to make up a sum of two thousand pounds, which I am about to lay up in houses I have bought; but if it incommode you, I can have it elsewhere—
Cred. O, by no means—
Debt. You need but tell me, if it will be any trouble—
Cred. Lord, Sir, that you will think so—
Debt. I know some will be glad of the occasion to serve me; but these are favours only to be asked of special friends. I thought you, being my most esteemed friend, would take it ill, if you should come to hear of it, that I did not ask you first—
Cred. It is a great honour.
C. L.
[322] A noted Highwayman in those days.