_Mil._ Well, if this is _London_, give me my Country Cottage; which, tho' it is not a great House, nor a fine House, is my own House, and I can shew a Receipt for the Building on't.
_King._ I wish all the great Builders in the Kingdom could say as much.
_Mil._ Come, Sir, our Supper, I believe, is ready for us, by this time; and to such as I have, you're as welcome as a Prince.
_1 K._ The Report of the Gun was somewhere this Way I'm sure.
_2 K._ Yes, but I can never believe that any-body would come a Deer stealing so dark a Night as this.
_3 K._ Where did the Deer harbour to Day?
_4 K._ There was a Herd lay upon _Hamilton-Hill_, another just by _Robin Hood's Chair_, and a third here in _Mansfield Wood_.
_2 K._ But we shall never be able to find 'em to Night, 'tis so dark.
_1 K._ Zoons! you're afraid of a broken Head, I suppose, if we should find 'em; and so had rather slink back again. Hark! Stand close. I hear 'em coming this Way.
_1 C._ Did not you hear some-body just now? Faith I begin to be afraid we shall meet with some Misfortune to Night.
_2 C._ Why, if any-body should take what we have got, we have made a fine Business of it.
_3 C._ Let 'em take it if they will; I am so tir'd I shall make but small Resistance.
_2 K._ Ay, Rogues, Rascals, and Villains, you have got it, have you?
_2 C._ Indeed we have got but very little, but what we have you're welcome to, if you will but use us civilly.
_1 K._ O, yes! very civilly; you deserve to be us'd civilly, to be sure.
_4 C._ Why, what have we done that we may not be civilly us'd?
_1 K._ Come, come, don't trifle, surrender.
_1 C._ I have but three Half-Crowns about me.
_2 C._ Here is Three and Six-pence for you, Gentlemen.
_3 C._ Here's my Watch; I have no Money at all.
_4 C._ Indeed I have nothing in my Pocket but a Snuff-box.
_4 K._ What, the Dogs want to bribe us, do they? No, Rascals; you shall go before the Justice To-morrow, depend on't.
_4 C._ Before the Justice! What, for being robb'd?
_1 K._ For being robb'd! What do you mean? Who has robb'd you?
_4 C._ Why, did not you just now demand our Money, Gentlemen?
_2 K._ O, the Rascals! They will swear a Robbery against us, I warrant.
_1 K._ No, no; We did not demand your Money, we demanded the Deer you have kill'd.