_Mr. H._ Who knows but among the female natives might be found----
_Mr. H._ One who would be more kind than--some Oberea--Queen Oberea.
_Mr. H._ Or what if I were to seek for proofs of reciprocal esteem among unprejudiced African maids, in Monomotopa?
_Belvil._ Heyday, Jack! what means this mortified face? nothing has happened, I hope, between this lady and you? I beg pardon, Madam, but understanding my friend was with you, I took the liberty of seeking him here. Some little difference possibly which a third person can adjust--not a word. Will you, Madam, as this gentleman's friend, suffer me to be the arbitrator--strange--hark'ee, Jack, nothing has come out, has there? you understand me. Oh, I guess how it is--somebody has got at your secret; you haven't blabbed it yourself, have you? ha! ha! ha! I could find in my heart--Jack, what would you give me if I should relieve you?
_Mr. H._ No power of man can relieve me (_sighs_); but it must lie at the root, gnawing at the root--here it will lie.
_Belvil._ No power of man? not a common man, I grant you: for instance, a subject--it's out of the power of any subject.
_Mr. H._ Gnawing at the root--there it will lie.
_Belvil._ Such a thing has been known as a name to be changed; but not by a subject--(_shows a Gazette_).
_Mr. H._ Gnawing at the root--(_suddenly snatches the paper out of_ BELVIL'S _hand_)--ha! pish! nonsense! give it me--what! (_reads_) promotions, bankrupts--a great many bankrupts this week--there it will lie. (_Lays it down, takes it up again, and reads._) "The King has been graciously pleased"--gnawing at the root--"graciously pleased to grant unto John Hogsflesh,"--the devil--"Hogsflesh, Esq., of Sty Hall, in the county of Hants, his royal license and authority"--O Lord! O Lord!--"that he and his issue"--me and my issue--"may take and use the surname and arms of Bacon"--Bacon, the surname and arms of Bacon--"in pursuance of an injunction contained in the last will and testament of Nicholas Bacon, Esq., his late uncle, as well as out of grateful respect to his memory:"--grateful respect! poor old soul-----here's more--"and that such arms may be first duly exemplified "--they shall, I will take care of that--"according to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Herald's Office."