Sylvia, disguised as a young man, again meets Captain Plume 

 Sylvia unmasked, and Plume recruited into wedlock: "Farewell, Subsistence, Welcome, Taxes!"

"With some regret I quit the active field,

Where glory full reward for life does yield;

But the recruiting trade, with all its train

Of lasting plague, fatigue, and endless pain,

I gladly quit, with my fair spouse to stay,

And raise recruits the matrimonial way."