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you enter'd it. I have waited in the passage here to tell you.

Plau. Ha! have they found me out?

Pro. Yes, by my faiths there are two as ugly looking fellows waiting for you at the front entry as ever made a poor debtor's heart quake. There is surely some back door in this house.

(to Rob.) My good friend, I want to know where we can find a back way out of this house.

Rob. And I want to know when I am to have the crown I intrusted to you.

Pro. To me, Sir?

Rob. Yes, to you, Sir; and you know it very well, you do.

Pro. O! you are my friend Robert, that I was enquiring after.

Rob. Yes, Sir; and I will have my money directly; for I know you are a cheat; I know it by your very face.

Pro. Ha, ha, ha! So you prefer having a crown to-day to receiving ten guineas to-morrow.

Rob. Receiving ten fiddle-strings to-morrow! pay me my crown directly.

Pro. Very well, with all my heart; but you must sign me a paper, in the first place, giving up all right to the ten guineas you are entitled to. (Robert hesitates.) Nay, nay, I'm not such an ass as you take me for: there is pen, ink, and paper; (pointing to the table.) Sign me a right to the ten guineas directly.