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Col. Several things worth your attention:-I have a muff made of the feathers of those geese that sav’d

the Roman capitol.

Per. Is't possible?

Sack. Yes, if you are such a gander as to believe him. [Aside.

Col. I have an Indian leaf, which, open, will cover an acre of land, yet folds up in so little a compass, you may put it into your snuff-box.

Sack. Humph! That's a thunderer.

Per. Amazing!

[Aside.

Col. Ah! mine is but a little one; I have seen some of them that would cover one of the Caribbee Islands. Per. Well, if I don't travel before I die, I sha'n't rest in my grave-Pray, what do the Indians with them?

Col. Sir, they use them in their wars for tents, the old women for riding-hoods, the young for fans and umbrellas.

Sack. He has a fruitful invention.

[Aside. Per. I admire our East India Company imports none of them; they would certainly find their account in them.

Col. Right, if they could find the leaves. [1side.]
-Look ye, sir, do you see this little phial?
Per. Pray you, what is it?

Col. This is call'd Poluflosboio.

Per. Poluflosboio!It has a rumbling sound. Col. Right, sir; it proceeds from a rumbling nature.- -This water was part of those waves which

bore Cleopatra's vessel when she sail'd to meet An

tony.

Per. Well, of all that ever travelled, none had a

taste like you.

Col. But here's the wonder of the world..

-This, sir, is called Zona, or Moros Musphonon; the virtues of this are inestimable.

Per. Moros Musphonon! What in the name of wisdom can that be?-To me it seems a plain belt. Col. This girdle has carried me all the world over. Per. You have carried it, you mean.

Col. I mean as I say, sir.-Whenever I am girded with this, I am invisible; and by turning this little screw, can be in the court of the Great Mogul, the Grand Signior, and King George, in as little time as your cook can poach an egg.

Per. You must pardon me, sir, I cann't believe it. Cel. If my landlord pleases, he shall try the experiment immediately.

Sack. I thank you kindly, sir, but I have no inclination to ride post to the devil.

Col. No, no, you sha'n't stir a foot, I'll only make you invisible.

Sack. But if you could not make me visible again. Per. Come, try it upon me, sir, I am not afraid of the devil, nor all his tricks.- -'Sbud, I'll stand 'em all.

Col. There, sir, put it on.-———— -Come, landlord, you and I must face the East. [They turn about.] Is it on, sir?

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Per. 'Tis on.

[They turn about again.

Sack. Heaven protect me! Where is he?

Per. Why here, just where I was.

poor

Sack. Where, where, in the name of virtue? Ah, Mr. Periwinkle!-Egad, look to't, you had best, sir; and let him be seen again, or I shall have you burnt for a wizard.

Col. Have patience, good landlord.

Per. But really don't you see me now?

Sack. No more than I see my grandmother, that

died forty years ago.

Per. Are you sure you don't lye

Methinks I stand just where I did, and see you as plain as I did before.

Sack. Ah! I wish I could see you once again.
Col. Take off the girdle, sir.

heart.

[He takes it off. Sack. Ah, sir, I am glad to see you with all my [Embraces him. Per. This is very odd; certainly there must be some trick in't.-Pray, sir, will you do me the favour to put it on yourself.

Col. With all my heart.

Per. But first I'll secure the door.

Col. You know how to turn the screw, Mr. Sackbut?

Sack. Yes, yes.

must turn full East.

-Come, Mr. Periwinkle, we

[They turn, the Colonel sinks down the Trap-door.

Col. 'Tis done, now turn.

[They turn.

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Sack. He is the devil, I think.

Per. Oh, Mr. Sackbut, why do you name the devil, when perhaps he may be at your elbow?

Sack. At my elbow, marry, Heaven forbid.
Col. Are you satisfied ?

[From under the Stage.

Per. Yes, sir, yes-How hollow his voice sounds! Sack. Yours seem'd just the same-Faith, I wish this girdle were mine, I'd sell wine no more. Hark ye, Mr. Periwinkle, [Takes him aside till the Colonel rises again.] if he would sell this girdle, you might travel with great expedition.

Col. But it is not to be parted with for money.

Per. I am sorry for't, sir, because I think it the greatest curiosity I ever heard of.

Col. By the advice of a learned physiognomist in Grand Cairo, who consulted the lines in my face, I returned to England, where he told me I should find a rarity in the keeping of four men, which I was born to possess for the benefit of mankind; and the first of the four that gave me his consent, I should present him with this girdle-'Till I have found this jewel, I shall not part with the girdle.

Per. What can that rarity be? Didn't he name it to you?

Col. Yes, sir: he called it a chaste, beautiful, unaffected woman.

Per. Pish Women are no rarities- -I never had any great taste that way. I married, indeed, to please

Aa III. my father, and I got a girl to please my wife; but she and the child (thank Heaven) died together—————— Women are the very gewgaws of the creation; playthings for boys, who, when they write man, they ought to throw aside.

Sack. A fine lecture to be read to a circle of ladies!

[Aside.

Per. What woman is there, drest in all the pride and foppery of the times, can boast of such a foretop as the cockatoo ?

Col. I must humour him-[Aside.]—Such a skin as the lizard?

Per. Such a shining breast as the humming bird? Col. Such a shape as the antelope?

Per. Or, in all the artful mixture of their various dresses, have they half the beauty of one box of butterflies?

Col. No, that must be allow'd-For my part, if it were not for the benefit of mankind, I'd have nothing to do with them, for they are as indifferent to me as a sparrow or a flesh-fly.

Per. Pray, sir, what benefit is the world to reap from this lady?

Col. Why, sir, she is to bear me a son, who shall revive the art of embalming, and the old Roman manner of burying their dead; and, for the benefit of posterity, he is to discover the longitude, so long sought for in vain.

Per. Od! these are valuable things, Mr. Sackbut! Sack. He hits it off admirably, and t' other swal、

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