SCENE XVII.

[_To them_] MINCING.

MINC. Mem, I come to acquaint your laship that dinner is impatient.

SIR WIL. Impatient? Why, then, belike it won’t stay till I pull off my

boots. Sweetheart, can you help me to a pair of slippers? My man’s with

his horses, I warrant.

LADY. Fie, fie, nephew, you would not pull off your boots here? Go down

into the hall:—dinner shall stay for you. My nephew’s a little unbred:

you’ll pardon him, madam. Gentlemen, will you walk? Marwood?

MRS. MAR. I’ll follow you, madam,—before Sir Wilfull is ready.

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