Scene VI.




[To them] OFFICER.

OFFICER
By your leave, gentlemen: Mr Trapland, if we must do our office, tell us. We have half a dozen gentlemen to arrest in Pall Mall and Covent Garden; and if we don't make haste the chairmen will be abroad, and block up the chocolate-houses, and then our labour's lost.

TRAPLAND
Udso that's true: Mr Valentine, I love mirth, but business must be done. Are you ready to -

JEREMY
Sir, your father's steward says he comes to make proposals concerning your debts.

VALENTINE
Bid him come in: Mr Trapland, send away your officer; you shall have an answer presently.

TRAPLAND
Mr Snap, stay within call.



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