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[To them] SCANDAL. SCANDAL Sir Sampson, sad news. FORESIGHT Bless us! SIR SAMPSON LEGEND Why, what's the matter? SCANDAL Can't you guess at what ought to afflict you and him, and all of us, more than anything else? SIR SAMPSON LEGEND Body o' me, I don't know any universal grievance, but a new tax, or the loss of the Canary fleet. Unless popery should be landed in the West, or the French fleet were at anchor at Blackwall. SCANDAL No. Undoubtedly, Mr Foresight knew all this, and might have prevented it. FORESIGHT 'Tis no earthquake! SCANDAL No, not yet; nor whirlwind. But we don't know what it may come to. But it has had a consequence already that touches us all. SIR SAMPSON LEGEND Why, body o' me, out with't. SCANDAL Something has appeared to your son Valentine. He's gon
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