where he fav'd yours !---Come, come---Men are of fome ule in the creation, and widows can't marry too often---for if matrimony be a happy state, you ought to prove, to us fpinflers, that you can't have enough of it! [Exeunt.

SCENE---An Apartment in Mrs. SEYMOUR'S Houfe.

Enter Lady DANVERS.

Lady. Oh, Sir Charles !---when I left this houfe for Scotland, what pleafures did I not anticipate ---And now to return and find the doors fhut against me however the fervants have kindly admitted me, and here I will remain till my mother comes home; then if Mr. Ap-Hazard has'nt entirely fupplanted me---but he has !--know her heart is fo full of love for him, there is'nt room left for her unhappy Juliana!

Enter AP-HAZARD, haftily.

Ap-Hazard (faftening the stage door) So---I've outrun him again---I've beat this great naval character a fecond time---he was the laft man I wifh'd to fee---of course the firft I met---full butt, face to face---and if he is'nt drown'd or prefs'd, I must leave London directly---never had man fuch infernal luck---(draws a chair and fits in it)--- Yes; yes: you're in the old way, mafter Ap-Hazard.

Lady. Ap-Hazard !---this is the very gentle

man.

Ap-Hazard. I can't pay him, and I dar'nt fight a duel !---(Sees Lady Danvers)---by St. David, a Divinity !--

Divinity!---Oh! here's trumps at last! (rifes)--Madam! (bowing.)

Lady. Sir! (curtseing)---He feems good temper'd, and if I apply to him, perhaps he may befriend me.---Sir, I am the unfortunate daughter of Mrs. Seymour, and as you are now fo high in her favour

Ap-Hazard. Lady Danvers !---more hot-water by heavens ---My dear girl, I woud'nt have Mrs. Seymour fuppofe us tête-a-tête together---No ----not to be friends with the freshwater Captain--not to have Chaucer's head whole again---not--

Lady. Nay, Sir, I only afk to live and die under my mother's roof; and if I were in your fituation---and once I was so happy, Sir---I would not refufe to affift you---come, come---I know you have a humane heart, and I fee---I fee you will make intereft for me! (Laying bold of him.)

Ap-Hazard. Fortune's at work again !---She's a fyren !---I'm now on a trap-door, and in ten feconds I fhall fhoot down amidst ten thousand furies---pity a poor traveller and let me go--confider, if I get you into favour with Mrs. Sey-. mour, I fhall kick myfelf out of it---fo I won't-I won't interfere for you.

Lady. (Still laying hold of him) You must---you fhall---I am parted from my husband, and if my mother does'nt receive me, who will?---think how critical, how delicate, how terrible is my fituation ---Oh! you fhall not leave me---look, on my knees I entreat you !---(kneeling to him.)

Ap-Hazard. Damme there's no ftanding kneeling. (Kneels by ker) O you angel!--if at this moment I don't love you far, far beyond your mother

Enter Mrs. SEYMOUR.

Ap-Hazard. Holloe !---What's to pay? Mrs. Seymour. Lady Danvers! Ap-Hazard !--first inform me, madam, what brought you here? Lady. Afk your feelings, madam.

Mrs. Seymour. And now, fir, what brought you here?

Ap-Hazard. Afk Fortune, madam.---Indeed its not my fault, for fhe knelt to me, and then when I look'd in her face, and faw it was fo handfome--that is, fo like her mother's---you comprehend

Mrs. Seymour. I do, fir---she has art enough to corrupt the most artless.---Lady Danvers, an asylum is found for you---my friend Mifs Union's carriage is waiting to conduct you to her houfe, where you will meet with that protection you chofe to forfake in mine.

Lady. To Mifs Union!---truft me with my enemy !---place me in the fame houfe with Mr. Orville !---Oh, my mother!

Ap-Hazard. I'm out of one fcrape at laft !---so while the mother's lecturing the daughter, I'll read what accidents have befallen other unlucky dogs!

(Takes a news-paper out of his pocket --goes to the back part of the stage-takes a chair, and fits with his back turn'd to the audience.)

Mrs. Seymour. I am determined---the fervant will fhew you to the carriage---who waits there? (Enter Tom Seymour.)---What do you want, fir?

Tom. I'll tell you when I've breath---that Welch fmuggler has fo winded me with chafing him---I won his money fairly, and if he don't pay and apologize, I'll burn, fink, and deftroy him

when

whenever I come up with him---Juliana!---my fifter!--

Lady. Brother, intercede for me---I only afk for shelter under my mother's roof, and the refuses me!

Tom. I know the reafon---fhe is going to be married.

Mrs. Seymour. No matter, fir---I will be obey'd. Tom. Then look ye, Juliana; you shall turn failor and live with me---we'll fteer through life together, and you shall share my honours and my profits! (Mrs. Seymour fmiles.)---Ay; my profits, madam!---I'd have you know, next week I am going a Voyage of Difcoveries---all along the coaft, from Whitehall to Windfor.

Mrs. Seymour. Perhaps I don't mean to marry at all, fir---if I do, I hope I fhall make a better choice than your fifter has done---not unite myfelf to a ruin'd gambler, like Sir Charles Danvers! no, the man I fhall felect, will boaft a pure uncontaminated mind, a faithful and an innocent heart, and one who never faw a gaming-table in his life.

Tom. Mefs! I'd be glad to fee fuch a fellow! but I fuppofe its like a fafter failor than the Sprightly Kitty--a thing not to be found.

Ap-Hazard. (Still in the chair, with his back towards audience)---Trumps!---Trumps!

Tom. What's this the uncontaminated gentle

man!

Mrs. Seymour. It is, fir.

Ap-Hazard (not regarding them)---Oh! Game! Game!

Tom. Why, wind and tide feem both in his favour!---hollow! father-in-law !

(Tom

(Tom fmacks bim on the back---Ap-Hazard jumps up, and they meet face to face.) Ap-Hazard. What's to pay?

Tom. What, is it you?- is this the innocent faithful creature, that never faw a gaming-table?---ha! ha! He is really the moft unlucky lubba living--do you know, mother, laft night at hazard, he took twelve back hands running, and threw crabs to every one of them! and toffing up for guineas, he called tails, and it came heads twenty times. following---damme, never call tails, papa--

never!

Mrs. Seymour. This is very extraordinary---Mr. Ap-Hazard, I had the higheft opinion of your honour; and when I gave you my picture

Tom. Gave him your picture!

Ap-Hazard. To be sure she did---look at it my undone fon-in-law (putting his hand in his waistcoat pocket) no; its not there---hang me, if ever I put my hand in the right pocket in my life---its

here.

Tom. No, its here! (taking the miniature out of his pocket and holding it up) look at it, my undone father-in-law---I won it of him last night at La Fleece'em's, and never thought of looking at it before; but now I fee the family likeness---there, take it, mother, and let it remind you, that parents ought'nt to turn their children adrift, for chufing a bad pilot, till they're fure they could have found a better for them, themfelves.

Mrs. Seymour. I fee, and am afham'd of my credulity---Mr. Ap-Hazard, I defire we may never meet again---come Juliana---I'll go with you myfelf to Mifs Union's, where if you conduct yourself with propriety for a few weeks, I will recal you to

my