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SCENE II.
MOTHER PUNCHBOWL, CAPTAIN BILKUM, CHAIRMAN.CHAIRMAN.
Your Honour, Sir, has paid but half my Fare.
I ask but for my Fare.
CAPTAIN BILKUM.
Thy Fare be damn'd.
CHAIRMAN.
This is not acting like a Gentleman.
CAPTAIN BILKUM.
Begone, or by the Powers of Dice I swear,
Were there no other Chairman in the World,
From out thy empty Head, I'd knock thy Brains.
CHAIRMAN.
Oh, that with me, all Chairmen would conspire,
No more to carry such sad Dogs for Hire,
But let the lazy Rascals straddle thro' the Mire.
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