_Mo._ How is it? What are you doing Dromo?
_Dr._ I'm sitting still.
_Mo._ I see that; but how do Matters go with you?
_Dr._ As they use to do with unfortunate Persons.
_Mo._ God forbid that that should be your Case. But what are you doing?
_Dr._ I am idling, as you see; doing just nothing at all.
_Mo._ It is better to be idle than doing of nothing; it may be I
interrupt you, being employ'd in some Matters of Consequence?
_Dr._ No, really, entirely at Leisure; I just began to be tir'd of being
alone, and was wishing for a merry Companion.
_Mo._ It may be I hinder, interrupt, disturb you, being about some
Business?
_Dr._ No, you divert me, being tired with being idle.
_Mo._ Pray pardon me if I have interrupted you unseasonably.
_Dr._ Nay, you came very seasonably; you are come in the Nick of Time; I
was just now wishing for you; I am extreme glad of your Company.
_Mo._ It may be you are about some serious Business, that I would by no
means interrupt or hinder?
_Dr._ Nay, rather it is according to the old Proverb, _Talk of the Devil
and he'll appear_; for we were just now speaking of you.
_Mo._ In short, I believe you were, for my Ear tingled mightily as I
came along.
_Dr._ Which Ear was it?
_Mo._ My left, from which I guess there was no Good said of me.
_Dr._ Nay, I'll assure you there was nothing but Good said.
_Mo._ Then the old Proverb is not true. But what good News have you?
_Dr._ They say you are become a Huntsman.
_Mo._ Nay, more than that, I have gotten the Game now in my Nets that I
have been hunting after.
_Dr._ What Game is it?
_Mo._ A pretty Girl, that I am to marry in a Day or two; and I intreat
you to honour me with your good Company at my Wedding.
_Dr._ Pray, who is your Bride?
_Mo. Alice_, the Daughter of _Chremes_.
_Dr._ You are a rare Fellow to chuse a Beauty for one! Can you fancy
that Black-a-top, Snub-nos'd, Sparrow-mouth'd, Paunch-belly'd Creature.
_Mo._ Prithee hold thy Tongue, I marry her to please myself, and not
you. Pray, is it not enough that I like her? The less she pleases you,
the more she'll please me.
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