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SCENE I. ''A vaulted passage in a prison. Enter Keeper, with several Turnkeys bearing pots of porter, &c. for the prisoners.''

Keep. (calling to somebody without.) Take another pot of porter to the dog-stealer in the north ward, and a Welsh rabbit to his comrade. (to another who enters with a covered dish.) Where have you been all this time?

1st Turn. Waiting on the rich debtor in the best chamber; he has fallen out with his stew'd carp, because the sauce of it be'nt cook'd to his liking.

Keep. I'm sorry for that: we must spare no pains upon him.

2d Turn. (holding out a small jug.) Come, come, this won't do. Transportation-Betty says, nothing but true neat Hollands for her; and this here gin you have sent her be'nt fit for a gentlewoman to drink.

Keep. Yes, yes; travell'd ladies are woundy nice. However, we must not quarrel with her neither: take it to the poor author in the debtor's ward; it will be good enough for him.