[To them] BELLMOUR, SHARPER.
BELL.Thou 'rt a lucky rogue; there's your benefactor; you ought to return him thanks now you have received the favour.
SHARP.Sir Joseph! Your note was accepted, and the money paid at sight.I'm come to return my thanks -SIR JO.They won't be accepted so readily as the bill, sir.
BELL.I doubt the knight repents, Tom.He looks like the knight of the sorrowful face.
SHARP.This is a double generosity: do me a kindness and refuse my thanks.But I hope you are not offended that I offered them.
SIR JO.May be I am, sir, may be I am not, sir, may be I am both, sir; what then? I hope I may be offended without any offence to you, sir.
SHARP.Hey day! Captain, what's the matter? You can tell.
BLUFF.Mr.Sharper, the matter is plain: Sir Joseph has found out your trick, and does not care to be put upon, being a man of honour.
SHARP.Trick, sir?
SIR JO.Ay, trick, sir, and won't be put upon, sir, being a man of honour, sir, and so, sir -SHARP.Harkee, Sir Joseph, a word with ye.In consideration of some favours lately received, I would not have you draw yourself into a PREMUNIRE, by trusting to that sign of a man there--that pot-gun charged with wind.
SIR JO.O Lord, O Lord, Captain, come justify yourself--I'll give him the lie if you'll stand to it.
SHARP.Nay, then, I'll be beforehand with you, take that, oaf.
[Cuffs him.]
SIR JO.Captain, will you see this? Won't you pink his soul?
BLUFF.Husht, 'tis not so convenient now--I shall find a time.
SHARP.What do you mutter about a time, rascal? You were the incendiary.There's to put you in mind of your time.--Amemorandum.[Kicks him.]
BLUFF.Oh, this is your time, sir; you had best make use on't.
SHARP.I--Gad and so I will: there's again for you.[Kicks him.]
BLUFF.You are obliging, sir, but this is too public a place to thank you in.But in your ear, you are to be seen again?
SHARP.Ay, thou inimitable coward, and to be felt--as for example.
[Kicks him.]
BELL.Ha, ha, ha, prithee come away; 'tis scandalous to kick this puppy unless a man were cold and had no other way to get himself aheat.
