Doct.  A Map of the Lunar Mundus, Sir! may I crave the Honour of seeing it?

Scar.  You shall, Sir, together with a Map of Terra Incognita; a great Rarity, indeed, Sir.

    Enter Bellemante.

Doct.  Jewels, Sir, worth a King’s Ransom!

Bell.  Ha,—­What Figure of a Thing have we here, bantering my credulous Uncle?—­This must be some Scout sent from our Forlorn Hope, to discover the Enemy, and bring in fresh Intelligence.—­Hum, that Wink tipt me some Tidings, and she deserves not a good Look, who understands not the Language of the Eyes.—­Sir, Dinner’s on the Table.

Doct.  Let it wait, I am employ’d—­

    [She creeps to the other side of Scaramouch, who makes
    Signs with his Hand to her.

Bell.  Ha, ’tis so:—­This Fellow has some Novel for us, some Letter or Instructions, but how to get it—­

    [As Scar. talks to the Doctor, he takes the Letters by degrees
    out of his Pocket, and unseen, given ’em Bellemante behind him.

Doct.  But this Map, Seignior; I protest you have fill’d me with Curiosity.  Has it signify’d all things so exactly, say you?

Scar.  Omitted nothing, Seignior, no City, Town, Village, or Villa; no Castle, River, Bridge, Lake, Spring, or Mineral.

Doct.  Are any, Sir, of those admirable Mineral Waters there, so frequent in our World?

Scar.  In abundance, Sir:  the Famous Garamanteen, a young Italian, Sir, lately come from thence, gives an account of an excellent Scaturigo, that has lately made an Ebulation there, in great Reputation with the Lunary Ladies.

Doct.  Indeed, Sir! be pleas’d, Seignior, to ’solve me some Queries that may enode some appearances of the Virtue of the Water you speak of.

Scar.  Pox upon him, what Questions he asks—­but I must on. [Aside.] Why, Sir, you must know,—­the Tincture of this Water upon Stagnation ceruleates, and the Crocus upon the Stones flaveces; this he observes —­to be, Sir, the Indication of a generous Water.

Doct.  Hum—­ [Gravely nodding.

Scar.  Now, Sir, be pleas’d to observe the three Regions:  if they be bright, without doubt Mars is powerful; if the middle Region or Camera be palled, Filia Solis is breeding.

Doct.  Hum.

Scar.  And then the third Region, if the Faeces be volatile, the Birth will soon come in Balneo.  This I observed also in the Laboratory of that ingenious Chymist Lysidono, and with much Pleasure animadverted that Mineral of the same Zenith and Nadir, of that now so famous Water in England, near that famous Metropolis, call’d Islington.

Doct.  Seignior—­

Scar.  For, Sir, upon the Infusion, the Crows Head immediately procures the Seal of Hermes; and had not Lac Virginis been too soon suck’d up, I believe we might have seen the Consummation of Amalgama.