the exploits done by their forefathers, whilft they will not allow me the due praise for performing the very fame fort of actions in my own perfon. He has no ftatues, they cry, of his family. He can trace no venerable line of ancestors. What then? Is it matter of more praise to difgrace one's illuftrious ancestors, than to become illuftrious by one's own good behavior.

17. What if I can fhow no ftatues of my family? I can fhow the ftandards, the armor, and the trappings, which I have myself taken from the vanquished: I can fhow the fears of thofe wounds which I have received, by facing the enemies of my country. These are my ftatues. These are the honors I boast of. Not left me by inheritance, as theirs; but earned by toil, by abftinence, by valor; amidit clouds of duft, and feas of blood; scenes of action, where thofe effeminate Patricians, who endeavored by indirect means to depreciate me in your câteem, have never dared to fhow their faces.

DIALOGUES

Scene between Gen. SAVAGE and Mifs WALSINGHAM ; in which the courtship is carried on in fuch an ambiguous manner that the General mistakes her confent to marry his fon, Capt. SAVAGE, for confent to marry himself.

Mifs Wal. Gen. Savage. My dear Mils Walfingham, Sely

ENERAL Savage, your moft humble fervant.

it is rather cruel that you fhould be left at home by yourself, yet I am greatly rejoiced to find you at prefent without company.

and

Mifs Wal. I can't but think my felf in the beft company, when I have the honor of your converfation, General.

Gen. You flatter me, too much madam yet I am come to talk to you on a ferious affair; an affair of importance to me and yourself. Have you leifure to favor me with a fhort aus dience if I beat a parley?

Mifs Wal. Any thing of importance to you, Sir, is always fufficient to command my leifure.

'Tis as the Captain fufpected-[afide

Gen. You tremble my lovely girl, but don't be alarmed; for though my bufinefs is of an important natufe, I hope it will not be of a disagreeable onc

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Mifs Wal. And yet I am greatly agitated-afideGen. Soldiers, Mifs Walfingham, are faid to be generally favored by the kind protection of the ladres.

Mifs Wal. The ladies are not without gratitude, Sir, to thofe who devote their lives peculiarly to the fervice of their country.

Gen. Generoufly faid, Madam. Then give me leave with. out any mafked battery, to afk, if the heart of an honest foldier is a prize worth your acceptance?

Mifs Wal. Upon my word, Sir, there is no masked battery in this question.

Gen. I am as fond of a coup-de-main, Madam, in love as ín war, and hate the tedious method of fapping a town, when there is a poflibility of entering it fword in hand.

Mifs Wal. Why really, Sir, a woman may as well know her own mind when fhe is first fummoned by the trumpet of a lover, as when he undergoes all the tircfome formality of a fiege. You fee I have caught your own mode of converfing General.

Gen. And a very great compliment I confider it, Madam, But now that you have candidly confeffed an acquaintance with Your own mind, anfwer me with that frankness for which every body admires you fo much. Have you any objections to change the name of Walfingham?

Mifs Wal. Why then, frankly, General, I fay no.

Gen. Ten thoufand thanks to you for this kind declaration, Mifs Wal. 1 hope you wont think it a forward one.

Gen. I'd fooner fee my fon run away in the day of battleI'd fooner think Lord Ruffel was bribed by Lewis XIVth į and fooner vilify the memory of Algernon Sidney.

Mifs Wal. How rajut it was ever to fuppofe the General a tyrannical father! [fide.

Gen. You have told me condefcendingly, Mifs Walfingham, that you have no objections to change your name? I have but one queflion mere to ask.

Mifs Wal. Pray propofe it, Sir.

Gen. Would the name of Savage, be difagreeable to you? Ipeak frankly again, my dear girl.

Mifs Wall Why, then again, I frankly fay, no."

Gen. You are too good to me-Torrington thought I fhould meet with a repulfe.-[afide [Captain, Sir? Mifs Wal. Have you communicated this bufinefs to the Gen. No, my dear madam, I did not think that at all ne

teifary. I propofe that he fhall be married in a few days. Mifs Wal. What whether I will or not?

Gen. O, you can have no objection!

Mifs Wal. I must be confulted, however, about the day, General ; but nothing in my power fhall be wanted to make him happy.

Gen. Obliging loveliness!

Mifs Wal, You may imagine, that if I had not been previously impreft in favor of your proposal, it would not have met my concurrence fo readily.

Gen. Then you own I had a previous friend in the garrison. Mifs Wal. I don't blush to acknowledge it, Sir, when I confider the accomplishments of the object.

Gen. O, this is too much, Madam; the principal merit of the object is his paffion for Mifs Walfingham.

Mifs Wal. Don't fay that, General, I beg of you; for I don't think there are many women in the kingdom who could behold him with indifference.

Gen. Ah, you Aattering angel! and yet, by the memory of Marlborough, my lovely girl, it was the idea of a prepof feffion on your part, which encouraged me to hope for a fa'vorable reception,

Mifs Wal. Then I must have been very indifcreet, for I labored to conceal that prepoffeffion as much as poffible.

Gen. You could not conceal it from me; the female heart is a field I am thoroughly acquainted with.

Mifs Wal. I doubt, not your knowledge of the female heart, General; but as we now understand one another fo perfectly, you will give me leave to retire.

Gen. One word my dear creature, and no more; I fhall wait ou you fometime to.day about the neceffary fettlement.

Mifs Wal. You must do as you pleafe, General; you are invincible in every thing.

Gen. And if you please we will keep every thing a pro. found fecret, till the articles are all fettled, and the definative treaty ready for execution.

Mifs Wal. You may be fure that delicacy will not fuffer me to be communicative on the subject, Sir.

Gen. Then you leave every thing to my management.

Mifs Wal. I can't trust a more noble negociator. [goes out. Gen. The day is my owa. (Sings.) Britons, trike home; Atrike home.

Scene between General SAVAGE, Captain SAVACE, Mifs Wat SINGHAM and TORRINGTON, a lawyer, in which the General difcovers his miftake.

Capt. Sav. NAY, but my dearest Mifs Wallingham, the

extenuation of my conduct to Belville made it abfolutely neceflary for me to difcover my engage.. ments with you and as happiness is now to fortunately within our reach, I fatter myfelf you will be prevailed upon to for give an error which proceeded only from the extravagance of Love.

Mifs Wal. To think me capable of fuch an action, Captain Savage! I am terrified with the idea of a union with you; and it is better for a woman at any time, to facrifice an infolent lover, than to accept of a fufpicious hufband.

Capt. In the happieft union, my deareft creature, there muft alway be fomething to overlook on both fides.

Mifs Wal. Very civily, truly.

Capt. Pardon me, my life, for this franknefs; and recol left, that if the lover has thro mifconception, been unhappily guilty, he brings a hufband altogether reformed to your hands. Mifs Wal. Well, I fee I muft forgive you at laft; so I may, as well make a merit of neceffity, you provoking creature.

Capt. And may I indeed hope for the bleffing of this hand. Mifs Wal. Why, you wretch, would you have me force it upon you? I think after what I have faid, a foldier migħt venture to take it without further ceremony.

Capt. Angelic creature! thus I fize it as my lawful prize. Mifs Wal. Well, but now you have obtained this ineftimable prize, Captain, give me leave to afk, if you have had a certain explanation with the General.

Capt. How can you doubt it?

Mifs Wal. And is he really impatient for our marriage !:
Capt. 'Tis incredible how earneft he is.

Mifs Wal. What did he tell you of his interview with me this evening when he brough: Mr. Torrington ?

Caft. He did.

Mifs Wal. O, then I can have no doubt..

Capt. If a fhadow of doubt remains, here he comes to remove it. Joy, my dear Sir, joy a thousand times!

Enter General Savage and Torrington..

Gen. What my dear boy have you carried the day?

Mifs Wal. I have been week enough to endulge him with ~ victory, indeed, General,

Gen. Fortune favors the brave, Torrington.

Tor. 1 congratulate you heartily on this decree, General. Gen. This had nearly proved a day of disappointment, but the ftars have fortunately turned it in my favor, and now I reap the rich reward of my victory.

Capt. And here I take her from you as the greatest good: which heaven can send me.

Mifs Wal. O Captain!

Gen. You take her as the greatest good which Heaven can fend you Sirrah! I take her as the greatest good which Heaven' can fend me: And now what have you to fay to her?

Mifs Wal. General Savage!

For. Here will be fresh injanction to ftop proceedings.
Mifs Wal. Are we never to be done with mistakes?

Gen. What mistakes can have happened now, fweetest? you delivered up your dear hand this moment!

Mifs Wal. True, Sir: but I thot you were going to beftow my dear hand upon this dear Gentleman.

Gen. How! that dear Gentleman.

Capt. I am Thunder truck!

-Tor. Fortune favors the brave, General, none but the brave, [Laughingly.]

Gen. So the covert way is cleared at laft; and you have all' along imagined that I was negociating for this fellow, when I was gravely foliciting for myfelf.

Mifs Wal. No other idea, Sir, ever entered my imagination. Tor. General, noble minds fhould never defpair

[Laughingly Gen. Well, my hopes are all blown up to the moon at once, and I shall be the laughing ftock of the whole town.

Scene between Mrs. BELVILLE, Mifs WALSINGHAM, and Lady RACHEL MILDEW On DUELLING.

HERE is the generofity, where is the fenfe,

Mrs. Bel. W where is the fhame of men, to find pleasure [alone.] in purfuite which they cannot remember without the deepeft horror; which they cannot follow without the meaneft fraud; and which they cannot effect without confequences the most dreadful; the greatest triumph which a libertine can ever ex perience, is too defpicable to be envied; 'tis at beft nothing but a victory over humanity; and if he is a husband, he mult be doubly tortured on the wheel of recollection,