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SCENE I. Lady Goodbody, Miss Martin, and Hannah, Sir John Hazelwood, Worshipton, and Amaryllis, ''discovered sitting by a table, with wine and glasses, &c. before them''.

But indeed, my dear Sir John, you ought to marry.

Indeed, my dear Lady Goodbody, I can't see that I am in duty bound so to do.

Ah, but you are tho'! It would have made your good worthy grandmother so happy to have seen children of yours growing up to preserve the honours of the family.

It is too late now to think of pleasing my grandmother after she has been twenty years in her grave: your ladyship must offer some other argument to convince me.