Wit. Oh! Luckless, I am overjoyed to meet you; here, take this paper, and you will be discouraged from writing, I warrant you. Luck. What is it?—Oh! one of my play-bills. Wit. One of thy play-bills! Luck. Even so—I have taken the advice you gave me this morning. Wit. Explain. Luck. Why, I had some time since given this performance of mine to be rehearsed, and the actors were all perfect in their parts; but we happened to differ about some particulars, and I had a design to have given it over; 'till having my play refused by Marplay, I sent for the managers of the other house in a passion, joined issue with them, and this very evening it is to be acted. Wit. Well, I wish you success. Luck. Where are you going? Wit. Anywhere but to hear you damned, which I must, was I to go to your puppet-show. Luck. Indulge me in this trial; and I assure thee, if it be successless, it shall be the last. Wit. On that condition I will; but should the torrent run against you, I shall be a fashionable friend and hiss with the rest. Luck. No, a man who could do so unfashionable and so generous a thing as Mr Witmore did this morning—— Wit. Then I hope you will return it, by never mentioning it to me more. I will now to the pit. Luck. And I behind the scenes. |