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 "No, fair Dian; but I can act Endymion."'

"I don"t know what you mean—go away."

"Aubrey Vere, welcome to shire. Have you seen Prima Donna?"

"No, is he here? How did you like his last song in the Age?"

"His last song! Pooh! he only supplies the scandal."

"Groves," said Sir Hanway Etherington, "have you seen the newspaper this morning? Baron Crupper has tried fifteen men for horse stealing at York, and acquitted every one."

"Well then. Sir Hanway, I think his Lordship's remarkable wrong; for when a man gets a horse to suit him, if he loses it, 'tis n't so easy to suit himself again. That's the ground I stand upon."

"Well, there's a good deal in what you say, Groves. By the bye, have you let that nice house which your father used to live in?"

"No, Sir Hanway, no! I keep it, in case any