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Per.By the Description it should—Egad, if I could get that Girdle, I'd ride with the Sun, and make the Tour of the whole World in four and twenty Hours
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And are you to give that Girdle to the first of the four Guardiar s that shall give his Consent to marry that Lady, say you, Sir?Col.I am so order'd, when I can find him.Per.I fancy I know the very Woman—her Name is Ann Lovely.Col.Excellent!—he said, indeed, that the first Let|ter of her Name was L.Per.Did he really?—Well, that's prodigiously amazing, that a Person in Grand Cairo should know any thing of my Ward.Col.Your Ward?Per.To be plain with you, Sir, I am one of those four Guardians.Col,Are you indeed, Sir? I am transported to find the Man who is to possess this Moros Musphonon is a Person of so curious a Taste—Here is a Writing drawn up by that famous Egyptian, which, if you will please to sign, you must turn your Face full North, and the Girdle is yours.Per.If I live till this Boy is born, I'll be embalm'd and sent to the Royal Society when I die.Col.That you shall most certainly.Enter Drawer.Draw.Here's Mr. Staytape the Taylor, enquires for you, Colonel.Sack.Who do you speak to, you Son of a Whore?Per.Ha! Colonel
