Pe. I would know two Days before Hand.  Give me Notice two Days before you come.  Make me acquainted two Days before.

Ch. If you will have me, I’ll make a Sybaritical Appointment, that you may have Time enough to provide afore Hand.

Pe. What Appointment is that?

Ch. The Sybarites invited their Guests against the next Year, that they might both have Time to be prepar’d.

Pe. Away with the Sybarites, and their troublesome Entertainments:  I invite an old Chrony, and not a Courtier.

You desire to your own Detriment.

Ch. Indeed ’tis to your Detriment.  Indeed ’tis to your own Harm.  To your own Loss.  You wish for it.  You pray for that to your own Ill-convenience.

Pe. Why so?  Wherefore.

Ch. I’ll come provided.  I’ll come prepar’d.  I’ll set upon you accoutred.  I’ll come furnish’d with a sharp Stomach; do you take Care that you have enough to satisfy a Vulture.  I’ll prepare my Belly and whet my Teeth; do you look to it, to get enough to satisfy a Wolf.

Pe. Come and welcome, I dare you to it.  Come on, if you can do any Thing, do it to your utmost, with all your Might.

Ch. I’ll come, but I won’t come alone.

Pe. You shall be the more welcome for that; but who will you bring with you?

Ch. My Umbra.

Pe. You can’t do otherwise if you come in the Day Time.

Ch. Ay, but I’ll bring one Umbra or two that have got Teeth, that you shan’t have invited me for nothing.

Pe. Well, do as you will, so you don’t bring any Ghosts along with you.  But if you please explain what is the Meaning of the Word Umbra.

Ch. Among the Learned they are call’d Umbrae, who being uninvited, bear another Person, that is invited, Company to a Feast.

Pe. Well, bring such Ghosts along with you as many as you will.

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I promise upon this Condition.

Ch. Well, I will come, but upon this Condition, that you shall come to Supper with me the next Day.  I will do it upon this Condition that you shall be my Guest afterwards.  Upon that Condition I promise to come to Supper, that you again shall be my Guest.  I promise I will, but upon these Terms, that you in the like Manner shall be my Guest the next Day.  I promise I will, I give you my Word I will, upon this Consideration, that you dine with me the next Day.

Pe. Come on, let it be done, let it be so.  It shall be as you would have it.  If you command me, I’ll do it.  I know the French Ambition, You won’t sup with me, but you’ll make me Amends for it.  And so by this Means Feasts use to go round.  From hence it comes to pass, that it is a long Time before we have done feasting one with another.  By this Interchangeableness Feasts become reciprocal without End.