Miss Snapper ascribed it to the true cause, namely ignorance; and, when he asked her how she relished his music, answered that, in her opinion, the music and the words were much of a piece.

"Oh, d--n my blood!" said he "I take that as a high compliment; for everybody allows the words are d--able fine." "They may be so," replied the lady, "for aught I know, but they are above my comprehension." "I an't obliged to find you comprehension, madam, curse me!" cried he.

"No, nor to speak sense neither," said she.

"D--n my heart," said he, "I'll speak what I please." Here the lawyer interposed, by telling him, there were some things he must not speak; and upon being defied to give an instance, mentioned treason and defamation.

"As for the king," cried the soldier, "God bless him--I eat his bread, and have lost blood in his cause, therefore I have nothing to say to him--but, by G--d, I dare say anything to any other man." "No," said the lawyer, "you dare not call me rogue." "D--me, for what ?" said the other.