This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 Excerpt: ...mind the act; let me tell you this is a very proper, a very useful meeting; I want a servant or two myself, I must go see what your market affords; and you shall go, and the girls, my little Lucy and the other young rogue, and we'll make a day on't as well as the rest. J. Wood. I wish, master Hawthorn, I could teach you to be a little more sedate: why won't you take pattern by me, and consider your dignity --Odds heart, I don't wonder you are not a rich man; you laugh too much ever to be rich. Hawth. Right, neighbour Woodcock health, goodhumour, and competence, is my motto: and if my executors have a mind, they are welcome to make it my epitaph. The honest heart, whose thoughts are clear From fraud, disguise, and guile, Need neither fortune's frowning fear, Nor court the harlot's smile. The greatness that would make us grave Is lut an empty thing, -W hat more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king. Exeunt. Lucin. Hist, hist, Hodge Hodge. Who calls? here am I. Lucia. Well, have you been? ' Hodge. Been ay I ha' been far enough, an' that be all: you never knew any thing fall out so crossly in, your born days. Lucin. Why, what's the matter? Hodge. Why, you kn0w, I dare not take a horse out of his worship's stables this morning, for fear it should be missed, and breed questions; and our old nag at home was so cruelly beat i'th'hoofs, that, poor beast, it had not a foot to set to ground; so I was fain to go to Farmer Ploughshare's, at the Grange, to borrow the loan of his bald filly: and, would you think it after walking all that way--de'el from me, if the crossgrain'(l toad did not deny me the favour. Luein. Unlucky . Hodge. Well, tbenl went my ways to the Kingshead in the village, but all...