they must get from dried herbs, becaafe the devil of any green that will grow there. Marp. Sir, your information is wrong. 1 Sligo. Come, my dear doctor, hold your palaver, and don't be after puffing on us, becaafe why, you know in your confcience that in your part of the world you get no cabbage but thiftles; and those you are obliged to raise upon hot-beds. Macp. Thiftles! zounds, Sir, d'ye mean to affront me? Sligo. That, doctor, is as you plaases to taake it. Macp. God's life, Sir, I would ha' you to ken, that there is narra a mon wi his heed upon his fhoulders that dare Fing. Peace, peace, gentlemen! let us have no civil difcord. Doctor Sligo is a lover of pleasantry; but, I am fure, had no defign to affront you: A joke, nothing else. Macp. A joke! ah; I like a joke weel enough; but I did na understond the doctor's gibing and geering: Perhaps my wut may not be aw together as fharp as the doctor's, but I have a fword, Sir —— Sligo. A fword, Sir! Fing. A fword! ay, ay; there is no doubt but you have both very good ones; but referve them for Oh! here comes our ambaffador. Enter Diachylon. Well, Dr. Diachylon, what news from the College? will they allow us free ingrefs and egrefs? Diac. I could not get them to swallow a fingle demand. All. No? Sligo. Then let us drive there, and drench them. Diac. I was heard with difdain, and refufed with an air of defiance. Sligo. There, gentlemen! I foretold you what would happen at first. first.: All. He did, he did. Sligo. Then we have nothing for it, but to force our paffage at once. All. By all means; let us march! Broad. Friend Fingerfee, would our brethren but incline their ears to me for a minuteFing. Gentlemen, Dr. Broadbrim defires to be heard.ba All. Hear him, hear him! Sligo. Paw, honey, what fignifies hearing? I long to be doing, my jewel! Fing. But hear Dr. Melchifedech Broadbrim, however. All. Ay, ay; hear Dr. Broadbrim! Broad. Fellow-labourers in the fame vineyard! ye know well how much I ftand inclined to our caufe; forafmuch as not one of my brethren can be more zealous than I. All. True, true. Broad. But ye wot alfo, that I hold it not meet or wholsome to use a carnal weapon, even for the defence of myself; much more unfeemly then must I deem it to draw the fword for the offending of others. yea Sligo. Paw! brother doctors, don't let him bother us, with his yea and nay nonfenfe! Broad. Friend Sligo, do not be cholerick; and know, that I am as free to draw my purse in this cause, as thou art thy fword: And thou wilt find, at the length, notwithstanding thy fwaggering, that the firft will do us beft fervice. Sligo, Well, but→→ All. Hear him, hear him! Broad. It is my notion, then, brethren, that we do forthwith fend for a finful man in the flesh, called an attorney. Sligo. An attorney.! Broad. Ay, an attorney; and that we do direct him to take out a parchment inftrument, with a feal fixed thereto. Sligo. Paw, pox! what good can that do? Broad. Don't be too hafty, friend Sligo.. And therewith, I fay, let him poffefs the outward tabernacle of the vain man, who delighteth to call himself Prefident, and carry him before the men cloathed in lambskin, who at: Westminster are now fitting in judgment. Sligo. Paw! a law-fuit! that won't end with: our lives. Let us march!. All. Ay, ay. Sligo. Come, Dr. Habakkuk, will you march. in the front or the rear? Hab. Pardon me, doctor! I cannot attend you. Sligo. What, d'ye draw back, when it comes to the push? Hab. Not at all; I would gladly join in putting these Philiftines to flight! for I abhor: them worse than hogs' puddings, in which the unclean beast and the blood are all jumbled together. Sligo. Pretty food, for all that. Hab. But this is Saturday; and I dare not draw my fword on the Sabbath. Sligo. Then ftay with your brother Melchifedech; for, though of different religions, you are both of a kidney. Come, doctors; out with your fwords! Huzza! and now for the Lane! Huzza! [Exeunt. Manent Broadbrim and Habakkuk. Broad Friend Habakkuk, thou seeft how headstrong and wilful thefe men are: but let us ufe difcretion, however. Wilt thou. ftep, to the Inn that taketh its name from the city of Lincoln? enquire there for a man, with a red rag at his back, a small black cap on his pate, and a bufhel of hair on his breaft? I think they call him a ferjeant. Hab. They do. Broad, Then, without let or delay, bring him hither, I pray thee.. Hab. I will about it this inftant. Bread. His admonition, perhaps, may prevail. Ufe difpatch, I beseech thee, friend Habakkuko Hab. As much as if I was pofting to the Treafury, to obtain a large fubfcription in a new loan, or a lottery. Broad. Nay, then, friend, I have no reafon to fear thee. THE COLLEGE. [Exeunt Devil (as Hellebore, the Prefident) Camphire, Calomel Sec. The Licentiates, Sir, will foon be at hand. Cal. We will do our duty, however; and, like the patricians of old, receive with filence thefe Vifigoths in the fenate. Hel Hel I am not, Dr. Calomel, of fo pacific a turn? Let us keep the evil out of doors, if we can; if not, vim vi, repel force by force.Barricado the gates! Sec. It is done. Hel. Are the buckets and fire-engine fetched from St. Dunstan's? Sec. They have been here, Sir, this half-hour. Hel. Let twelve apothecaries be placed at the pump, and their apprentices fupply "em with water!· SICKA Sec. Yes, Sir.215 Hal, But let the engine be play'd by old Jollup, from James-street! Not one of the trade has a better hand at directing a pipe. Sec. Mighty well, Sir. Hel. In the time of fiege, every citizen ought in duty to ferve.-Having thus, brothers, provided a proper defence, let us coolly proceed to our bufinefs. Is there any body here, to demand a licence to-day? 處 Sec. A practitioner, Mr. Prefident, out of the country. Het. Are the customary fees all discharged? Sec. All, Sir. Hel. Then let our cenfors, Dr. Chriftopher Camphire, and Dr. Cornelius Calomel, introduce the petitioner for examination. [Exeunt Camphire and Calomel. After this duty is difpatch'd, we will then read the College and Students a lecture. Enter Camphire and Calomel, with Laft. Laß. First, let me lay down my fhoes. [They advance, with three bows, to the table. |