Part 16

Maria Yes Mistress.—exit Maria

Hostess to Cook If their Honours in the Moon ask for the bill of fare, give it them.

Cook I will, I will. exit Cook.

Hostess to Charles If their Ladyships in the Sun ring their Bell—answer it.

Charles Yes Madam. exeunt Severally.

SCENE CHANGES TO THE MOON, and discovers Popgun and Pistoletta.

Pistoletta Pray papa how far is it to London?

Popgun My Girl, my Darling, my favourite of all my Children, who art the picture of thy poor Mother who died two months ago, with whom I am going to Town to marry to Strephon, and to whom I mean to bequeath my whole Estate, it wants seven Miles.

SCENE CHANGES TO THE SUN—

Enter Chloe and a chorus of ploughboys.

Chloe Where am I? At Hounslow.—Where go I? To London—. What to do? To be married—. Unto whom? Unto Strephon. Who is he? A Youth. Then I will sing a song.

SONG

I go to Town And when I come down, I shall be married to Streephon.* And that to me will be fun.

Chorus

Be fun, be fun, be fun, And that to me will be fun.

Enter Cook—

Cook Here is the bill of fare.

Chloe reads 2 Ducks, a leg of beef, a stinking partridge, and a tart.—I will have the leg of beef and the partridge.

Exit Cook.

And now I will sing another song.

SONG

I am going to have my dinner, After which I shan’t be thinner, I wish I had here Strephon For he would carve the partridge if it should be a tough one.

Chorus

Tough one, tough one, tough one For he would carve the partridge if it Should be a tough one.

Exit Chloe and Chorus.—

SCENE CHANGES TO THE INSIDE OF THE LION.

Enter Strephon and Postilion.

Streph:) You drove me from Staines to this place, from whence I mean to go to Town to marry Chloe. How much is your due?