SCENE II.--_An alehouse_. TONY LUMPKIN _carousing with the village

riff-raff_. MARLOW _and_ HASTINGS _arrive, and inquire the way to_ MR. HARDCASTLE'S _house_. TONY _tells them they cannot possibly reach the house that night, but directs them to it as an inn_.

TONY: The old Buck's Head on the hill, one of the best inns in the whole county. But the landlord is rich and just going to leave off business; so he wants to be thought a gentleman, and will be for giving you his company. Ecod, he'll persuade you that his mother was an alderman, and his aunt a justice of the peace. I'll just step myself, and show you a piece of the way. [_Exeunt._