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Young Fashion has recently returned to England following three years abroad. He has no money and needs his brother, Lord Foppington to renew his annuity. However, Lord Foppington has refused and Young Fashion is seething. He did not get on with his brother in the first place but their relationship is now destroyed. The old matchmaker, Coupler, has recently arranged the marriage of Lord Foppington to the wealthy heiress, Miss Hoyden, but he is concerned that Lord Foppington will renege on the
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Young Fash. By this Light, old Coupler alive still! Why, how now, Matchmaker, art thou here still to plague the World with Matrimony? You old Bawd, how have you the Impudence to be hobbling out of your Grave twenty Years after you are rotten!
Coup. When you begin to rot, Sirrah, you'll go off like a Pippin, one Winter will send you to the Devil. What Mischief brings
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