Miss _Betty._ If you do, I'll follow a good example.
Lady _Head._ Eight's the main----don't spare me, gentlemen, I fear you
not----have at you all----seven to eight----seven.
_Capt._ Eight, Lady, eight----Five pounds if you please.
Lady _Ara._ Three, kinswoman.
_Col._ Two, Madam.
Miss _Betty._ And one for Miss, Mama----and now let's see what I can
do. [_Aside._] If I should win enough this morning to buy me another
new gown--O bless me! there they go----seven----come, captain, set me
boldly, I want to be at a handful.
_Capt._ There's two for you, miss.
Miss _Betty._ I'll at 'em, tho' I die for't.
Sir _Fran._ Ah, my poor child, take care.
[_Runs to stop the throw._
Miss _Betty._ There.
_Capt._ Out--twenty pound], young lady.
Sir _Fran._ False dice, Sir.
_Capt._ False dice, Sir? I scorn your words----twenty pounds, Madam.
Miss _Betty._ Undone, undone!
Sir _Fran._ She shan't pay you a farthing, Sir; I won't have miss
cheated.
_Capt._ Cheated, Sir?
Lady _Head._ What do you mean, Sir _Francis_, to disturb the company,
and abuse the gentleman thus?
Sir _Fran._ I mean to be in a passion.
Lady _Head._ And why will you be in a passion, Sir _Francis_?
Sir _Fran._ Because I came here to breakfast with my Lady there, before
I went down to the house, expecting to find my family set round a civil
table with her, upon some plumb-cake, hot rolls, and a cup of strong
beer; instead of which, I find these good women staying their stomachs
with a box and dice, and that man there, with a strange perriwig,
making a good hearty meal upon my wife and daughter.----
_Cætera desunt._
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