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The Demoiselle

Edited by L. Munro

ACT. II. Scene I.
Oliver. Ambroſe.

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Ol.ANd why this Gullery to me, good Ambroſe?
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Am.J ſwear J am ſerious, and you
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may beleeve it.
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Ol.What, that there can be in the World an Aſſe
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(Wert thou a fool to credit it) that would keep
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A Houſe, by way of publike Ordinary,
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For faſhionable Gueſts, and curious ſtomacks;
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The daintieſt Pallats, with rich Wine and Chear;
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And all for nothing, but alls paid and welcome?
[B7]Am.


The Damoiſelle.
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Am.Vall Dryground told it me, whoſe truth deſerves
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So well my credit, that, prove you it falſe,
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Ile pay all Ord’naries and Taverne reckonings
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You ſhall be at this twel’moneth.
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Ol.I have heard
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Of all the Mockeries, the Ape, the Ram, the Hornes,
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The Goat, and ſuch tame Monſters, whom poor wits
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Have ſent wiſe Tradeſmen to, as to a Knight,
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A Lord, or forrain Prince; to be his Mercer,
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His Taylor, Semſter, Millener, or Barber:
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When thoſe, that have been mock’d, ſtill ſent their
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Neighbours,
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Till halfe the City have bee fool-found. Ha!
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Iſt not ſome ſuch poor trick?
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Am.Here comes my Author.Enter Valentine.
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Ol.O Mr. Bridegroom, that ſtole the wealthy match!
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How got you looſe ſo ſoone? J thought you had beene
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tyed up by the Loines, like a Monkey to the Bed-poſt,
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for a fortnight at the leaſt. How does old Bumpſey, that
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Freecoſt Drunkard, thy mad Father-in-Law, take thy
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ſtolne Marriage? I am ſure he knows on’t.
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Val.He found’s abed laſt night i’th’ nick, as we ſay.
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But we are peec’d this morning.
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Am.Then he wrangled it out, of himſelfe. J know
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his ſingular humour.
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Ol.What has he gi’n thee?
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Val.Halfe, of all he has.
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Am.How?
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Val.On this Condition, that, if J ſave
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That halfe untill he dyes, the reſt is mine too.
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Ol.What if thou ſpendſt thy halfe?
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Val.Heel ſpend the tother; and the ſame way, hee
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ſweares.
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Ol.Hee’l nere keep Covenant.
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Val.Ile tell you how he runs at waſte already,
[B7v]This


The Damoiſelle.
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This morning the French Taylor brought a Gowne
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home,
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Of the faſhion, for my Wife. He bought one
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Streight, ready made, for his old Gentlewoman,
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That never wore ſo rich in all her life.
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Am.O brave old woman! How will ſhee carry it?
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Val.I ſpoke but of a Coach, and he beſpoke one.
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Ol.Wonder upon wonder! Nam was telling one
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Before thou cam’ſt.
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Val.What the new Ordnary?
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Ol.Doſt know the man that keeps it?
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Val.They call him Osbright.
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A brave old Blade. He was the Preſident
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Of the Can-quarrelling Fraternity,
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Now calld the Roaring Brotherhood, thirty years ſince,
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But now grown wondrous civill, free, and hoſpitable,
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Having had ſomething fallen to him, as it ſeemes.
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Ol.That Osbright has been dead theſe many years.
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Val.It was given out ſo: But he lived beyond Sea.
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Ol.There s ſome ſtrange plot in’t.
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Val.O thou pollitick Noll.
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Ol.Judge thy ſelfe, Val, what can the myſtery be?
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He tells me there’s no Gaming, ſo no Cheating;
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Nor any other by-way of expence,
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By Bawdry, or ſo, for privy profit.
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Val.Such a ſuſpition were a ſin. But now
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I will unfold the Riddle to you. This feaſting
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Has been but for three dayes, and for great perſons,
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That are invited, and to be prepar’d
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To venture for a prize. This very night
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There will be ſome great Rifling for ſome Jewell,
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Or other rare Commodity they ſay.
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I cannot nam’t: tis twenty pound a man.
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Ol.Is not that gaming prithee?
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Val.That s to come:
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But, hitherto, nor Dice, nor Cards, nor Wench,
[B8]Is


The Damoiſelle.
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Is ſeen ith’ houſe, but his owne onely Daughter.
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Ol.O! has he Daughter there? Mark that Nam.
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No gaming ſayſt thou? Ods me, and they play not
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At the old Game of old there, I dare -----
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Val.I dare be ſworne thou doſt ’em wrong.
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Ol.Shees too ſtale, is ſhee?
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Tis above twenty yeares ſince he went over,
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And was reported dead (they ſay) ſoon after,
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In France, I take it: But, then, it ſeemes, he lived,
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And got this Damſell there? Is ſhe French borne?
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Val.Yes, ſhe was born and bred there: And can ſpeak
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Engliſh but brokenly. But, for French behaviour,
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Shees a moſt compleat Damoiſelle, and able
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To give inſtructions to our Courtlieſt Dames.
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Ol.Shee muſt be ſeen.
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Am.But ſee who here comes firſt.Enter Vermine. Servant.
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Ver.Thou haſt undone me Villaine.
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Ser.Out alas!
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I was as ignorant of the deceit,
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As your owne innocent worſhip ever was
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Of cozening any man of Land or Living.
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Ver.Was ever man ſo curſed in his Children!
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Val.Tis the wretch Vermine.
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Ol.What makes he here, trow, in the Temple Walks?
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Val.What ſhould he do elſewhere, when Law’s his
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Lechery.
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The Devils itch dry up his marrow for’t.
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He undid a worthy Gentleman I know.
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Ol.I, Brookall, thruſting him out of his Land.
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Am.Hee’s fitted with an Heire for’t; one that can
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Juſtly inherit nothing but the Gallows.
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Ol.Wheres Brookalls ſon? He had a hopefull one;
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And, at ſixteen, a Student here ith’ Temple.
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Val.Alaſſe his Fathers fall has ruined him.
[B8v]Meer


The Damoiſelle.
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Meere want of maint’nance forc’d him to ſervice,
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In which hee’s lately travell’d into France.
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Ver.Go backe to the Recorders: Fetch the War-
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rant,
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Ile ſearch the City and the Suburbs for her.Exit Servant.
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Amp.But Vermine has a daughter may prove good,
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Val.A good one like enough: Ile lay a wager
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Hee’s poching ’mong the trees here, for a Broker,
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To match his daughter to a landed huſband.
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This is their walk.
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Ol.Let’s try if we can fit him.
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Val.Thou’lt nere indure his breath, it ſtinkes of
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brimſtone.
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Ol.Ile take the wind of him: You are well met,
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Sir.
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They ſay you have a daughter you would match, Sir.
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Ver.It may be I have; it may be not; How then?
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What’s that to you?
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Ol.Pray be not angry Sir.
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The worſt of us has land, and may deſerve her.
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Ver.Pray let me ask you firſt, if you be not
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The knaves confederates that ſtole her from me?
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Val.Is ſhe ſtolne from you Sir? In troth I am glad
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on’t.
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Amp.Tis the firſt newes we heard on’t.
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Ol.Though I aſſure you
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We heard none ill to day: But very good,
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As that of the New Ordinary.––––––
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Amp.Then the good ſucceſſe
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This Gentleman had lately with a wife ---
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Val.And laſtly, this you tell us; which, but that
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It comes from your own mouth, were e’en too good
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For our belief, me-thinks.
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Ol.Pray, is it true Sir?
CThat


The Damoiſelle.
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That your daughter’s gone, loſt, or ſtolne, as you ſay?
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Amp.May we report it after you, good Sir?
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Ver.What are you? I would know.
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Val.Gentlemen, Sir.
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That cannot but rejoyce at your affliction.
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And therefore blameleſſe, that deſire to hear it.
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Ver.Cannot this place, where Law is chiefly ſtudied,
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Relieve me with ſo much, as may revenge
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Me on theſe ſcorners? How my Slave ſtayes too!
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Yet I may find a time. ---Exit.
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All.Ha ha ha. –––––
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Ol.Look, look, what thing is this? –––––

Enter Amphilus, Trebaſco.

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Amb.Trebaſco, Skip-kennel.
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Tre. . . . .
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Amp.It ſpeaks, me-thinks.
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Ol.Yes, and its ſhadow anſwers it in Corniſh.
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Val.I know him; tis the wiſe Weſtern Knight, that
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ſhould
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Have married Vermines daughter.
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Amp.Skipkennell, you ſhall turn Footman, now,
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Skipkennell.
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I’le nere keep horſe more –––––––
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Tre.You muſt be Footman then your ſelf Sir.
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Amp.No nor Mare neither.
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Tre.You need not Sir, now you be determined to
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marry, and live here i’the City altogether. And truly,
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Sir, ſhe could never ha’ dyed better, nor been taken
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from you (as they ſay) in a better time, ſo neere her
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journeys end.
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Amb.His Mare’s dead it ſeems.
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Amp.Was it well done of her, doſt thinke, to die
[C1v]to


The Damoiſelle.
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to day upon the way, when ſhe had been i’my purſe
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to morrow in Smithfield: Poor fool, I think ſhe dyed
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for grief I would ha’ ſold her.
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Tre.’Twas unlucky to refuſe Reynold Pengutlings
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money for her.
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Amp.Would I had taken’t now: and ſhe had not
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dyed mine own, ’twould nere have griev’d me.
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Tre.Pray bear it Sir, as they ſay --- We are all mor-
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tall you know, and her time was come, we muſt think.
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Amp.And’t had not been the firſt loſſe that ere I
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had in my life, I could ha’ born it.
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Tre.And grace og (as they ſay) it ſhall not be the
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laſt.
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Amp.I would thou couldſt aſcertain me that; but
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miſchiefes are taild to one another, and I muſt grieve
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as well for the what’s to come, as the departed.
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Ol.We will have a bout with him: Who is depar-
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ted, Sir?
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Amp.My Mare, my Mare Sir: ’Twas the prettieſt
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Tit – But ſhe is gone –––––
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Ol.How, is ſhe gone Sir?
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Tre.You will not talk to ’em.
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Val.How is ſhe gone, I pray Sir?
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Tre.Sir, as it were, becauſe ſhe could goe no fur-
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ther.
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Val.Good angry man give us leave to talk with thy
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Maſter.
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Ol.Good Sir, a little more of your Mare.
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Tre.I would you had her all to do you good Sir:
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ſhe lies but a quarter of a mile beyond Brainford.
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Val.Did you leave ſkin and ſhooes, and all behind
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Sir?
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Tre.Shoes all behind? I thought how wiſe you
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were: Come away Maſter. No, while ſhe liv’d, ſhe
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never wore but two behind Sir.
C 2Ol. Gra-


The Damoiſelle.
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Ol.Gramercy honeſt fellow, thou haſt wit in thy
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anger.
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Amp.Sirrah, anſwer not the Gentleman ſo ſnap-
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piſhly.
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Tre.How can I chooſe, when they do nothing but
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make a foole of your Worſhip before your Worſhips
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face, and your Worſhip perceives it not.
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Val.Good Sir, fall from your man to your beaſt a-
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gaine.
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Tre.There againe, another main mock: He would
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have him fall from a man to a beaſt.
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Amp.Give me the ſhoon; let ’em go I ſay, I will
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have ’em.
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Tre.Pray take ’em then, hee’l ne’re be wiſer.
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Amp.Theſe were her ſhoon Gentlemen, I ’le keep
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’em for her ſake, that little Tit, my little poor Gonhel-
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ly, that would have carried me on this little iron from
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Penſans to S. Columb on a day. And that’s a way
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would try a ſtumbler you’l ſay, if you know it.
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Val.’Tis enough, I know you Sir Amphilus, and
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have fool’d enough with you. Adieu; my buſineſſe
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calls me. Gentlemen, will you meet me to night at the
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Ordinary. ---Exit.
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Ol.Yes, and perhaps, be there before you too.
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Come Ambroſe –––– ––Exeunt.
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Amp.Od Gentlemen, me-thinks
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Tre.Why did you talk with ’em? What had you
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to make with ’em?
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Amp.True, wee have other matters to think on:
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Your firſt courſe Trebaſco, after we come to our lodg-
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ing, ſhall be to Turnbull-ſtreet, to the Cobler,
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Tre.Your Dog-tutor.
[C2v]Amp.


The Damoiſelle.
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Amp.Yes, and ſee how my whelp proves, I put to
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him laſt Term.
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Tre.Yes, Sir.
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Amp.And know of him what Gameſters came to
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the Ponds now adayes, and what good dogs.
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Tre.Yes Sir.
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Amp.And aſk him --- Doſt thou heare? If he ha’ not
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done away his own dog yet, Blackswan with the white
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foot? If I can but purchaſe him, and my own whelp
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prove right, I will be Duke of the Ducking-pond.
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Tre.Never miſdoubt, your whelp’s right I warrant
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you; for why, he could lap before he could well go:
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And at ten weeks old he could piſſe under leg.
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Amp.He was a fine forward Puppy, true enough:
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But and that be a ſigne of ſhort life, and he ſhould
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peak away after my Mare now –– Here, prethee take
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her ſhoon againe: What ſhould I keep ’em for? They
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put me too much in mind of mortality, do ’em away,
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make money of ’em, and Ile convert it into a Dog-
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Collar –––––

Enter Vermine. Servant.

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Tre.Ile try the Market with ’em.
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Ver.the frumping Jacks are gone ––––
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Amp.See my Aldermanicall Father-in-Law! How
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d’yee do Sir? I am come. I keep my day you ſee before
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I am a Cittiner among you. How does my beſt belov’d
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I pray, your daughter? You do not ſpeak me-thinks.
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Ver.Ask you for my daughter? Let me aske you
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firſt what was your plot to put me in this fright, to
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make me trudge to your Inn, whilſt knave your man
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here -- Is not this he?
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Ser.I doubt Sir he was taller.
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Ver.Having firſt left a bag of Trumpery with me,
[C3]ſtones


The Damoiſelle.
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ſtones, and old iron, ſteals away the baggage,
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Amp.This is abhomination! What Inn? and what
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old iron? I came at no Inne to day, nor touch old I-
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ron, but that with ſorrow enough, my poore Mares
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ſhoes, ſhe left me at her ſad deceaſe to Brainford. I
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had rather ha’ loſt the beſt part of five Mark J wuſſe:
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From whence I came by water, landed here at the
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Temple, to leave a Letter to a kinſmans chamber, now
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right as ſure as can be. Say Trebaſco.
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Tre.He tells you true.
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Amp.But is your daughter gone?
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Ver.Gone, gone.
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Amp.All ill go with her: Did not I ſay I ſhould
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hear of more miſchief, and that one was ever tail’d to
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another?
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Tre.You ſaid ſo indeed: but if ſhe had been tail’d
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to your Mare, I ſhould have ſeen her ſure, when I ſtript
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her.
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Ver.This is the day of my affliction,
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This day Ile croſſe out of my Almanack
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For ever having any thing to do on’t.
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Amp.Why then, you will not ſeeke her out to
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day?
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Although me-thinks the day might ſerve as well
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To find her, as to loſe her, if luck ſerve.
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Ser.What elſe did you intend Sir by the warrant?
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Beſt loſe no time Sir.
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No, no, wee’l go.

Enter Brookeall.

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Broo.Firſt take my execratiou with thee, Monſter.
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Ver.Hell vomits all her malice this day on me.
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Broo.Hell ſends by mee this commendation to
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thee,
[C3v]That


The Damoiſelle.
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That thou haſt there a moſt deſerved Poſſeſſion,
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That gapes to entertain thee.
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Amp.Who’s this, a Conjurer that knowes
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hell ſo?
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Ser.No, but a certain Spirit, that my Maſter
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Conjur’d out of his Land.
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Amp.If you can conjure,
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Here’s money to be got Sir, but to tell us
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What may be now betid of this mans daughter?
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Broo.Himſelf, and his Poſterity muſt all
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Sink unavoydably to hell.
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Amp.You are moſt deeply read! May not a Son-
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in-Law –––––
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Ver.Why talk you to that Rayler?
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Amp.Pray Sir, may not
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A Son-in-Law eſcape in your opinion?
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Broo.No Sir: it was by Law he made the purchaſe,
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And by his Son-in-Law, or out-law’d, down he muſt:
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If he ſet ventrous foot, as his Inheritor,
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Upon the mould, was got by his oppreſſion.
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Amp.Pretty mad reaſon me-thinks; where’s that
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Land?
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Ver.Sirrah, Ile tame thy tongue.
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Broo.No, wretch, thou canſt not,
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Nor fly out of the reach of my fell curſes,
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That freedome (being all that thou haſt left me)
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Thou canſt not rob me of.
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Ver.I ſhall find meanes
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Then to confine it, and your ſelf in Bedlame.
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Broo.Thou canſt not be ſo juſt ſure, to exchange
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Thine own inheritance for mine.
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Amp.Have you made
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A purchaſe there too, Father-Law that ſhould be?
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Ver.How am I tortur’d! I will fly this place.
C 4Enter


The Damoiſelle.

Enter Phillis, a box in her hand.

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Phil.Nay prethee ſtay a little, good old man,
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Give ſomething to my box.
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Ver.Out on thee Baggage.
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Phil.A little ſomething, prethee; but a teſter.
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Ver.Out, out.
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Phil.Thou look’ſt like a good Penny-father,
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A little of thy money would ſo thrive here,
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’Twould grow, by that I were ready for a huſband,
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Up to a pretty portion. Pray thee now ---
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Ver.What canſt thou be?
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Phil.Inſooth a Gentlewoman, but a By-blow,
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My Father is a Knight, bnt muſt be nameleſſe.
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Ver.Can Knights get Beggars?
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Phil.Why not? when ſuch as thou get Knights.
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Nay, prethee, prethee now gi’ me a teſter.
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I ne’re aſk leſſe: My mother’s a poore Gentlewoman,
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And has no meanes, but what comes through my
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fingers.
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And this is all my work: Come, wring it out.
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Oh how I love a hard-bound Money-maſter,
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Whoſe count’nance ſhewes how loath hee is to part
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with’t!
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It comes ſo ſweetly from him, when it comes:
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Nay, when? I pray thee when? Piſh, make an end.

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Amp.It is the prettieſt merry Beggar.
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Ver.Huſwife Ile ha’ you whipt.
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Phil.I, when I beg i’ th’ ſtreets.
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I have allowance here, as well as any
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Brokers, Projectors, Common Bail, or Bankrnpts,
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Pandars, and Cheaters of all ſorts, that mix here
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Mongſt men of honor, worſhip, lands and money.
[C4v]Amp.


The Damoiſelle.
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Amp.O rare Beggar-wench!Lawyers and others
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Phil.I come not hither to in-paſſe over the Stage
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trap or cozen.as conferring by
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My work lies plain before me astwo and two.
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my way.
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With, will you give me? Praythee, hard old man.
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Ver.Away, away.
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Phil.What though thou com’ſt to deal
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For this mans Land, or ſell anothers right,
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Or els to match thy daughter, if thou haſt one
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To this young Gentleman –––– Thou wilt give mee
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ſomething.
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Ver.The Devill haunts me.
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Amp.Shee makes a youth of me.
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Phil.Yet I prethee make not
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Thy money ſuch an Idoll, as to think
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Thou ſhalt diſhonor’t, or impaire this bargain,
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That match, or whatſoever thou haſt in traffick,
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By parting with a ſilly ſilver ſixpence.
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Shalt not i’fecks la, ſhalt not; Ile ſtrike luck to it,
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Thy match ſhall thrive the better. Look, I have got
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Here, four and ſixpence, Prethee make it a Crowne,
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Twill nere be miſt in thy dear daughters Dowry,
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If (as I ſaid) thou haſt one.
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Ver.Helliſh baggage!
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Phil.Hee’l gi’t me by and by. I prethee find
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Thy money out the while. Come out with it man.
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Ver.Pull her away,
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I fly thee, as I would the Devill that ſent thee:
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Amp.Yes, let’s away, tis time; ſhe begs of mee
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now.
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Phil.The Devill is not ſurer to o’re-take thee. –––––– Exeunt omnes preter Brookeall.
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Broo.Good child I thanke thee: Thou haſt ſome-
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what eas’d
[C5r]My


The Damoiſelle.
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My penſive heart by his vexation:
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She ſpake as Divination had inſpir’d her
982
With knowledge of my wrongs, and his oppreſſion,
983
To take my part: Take thou a bleſſing for’t
984
Who ere thou art, whilſt I recalculate
985
The miſeries of a diſtreſſed man,
986
Caſt out of all. Unhappy chance of Law!
987
More falſe and mercileſſe then Dice or Strumpets;
988
That haſt into thy Hydra-throated mawe
989
Gulp’d up my lives ſupportance; left me nothing;
990
Not means for one dayes ſuſtenance, for breath
991
To cry thy cruelty before my death.
992
That Law, once called ſacred, and ordain’d
993
For ſafety and reliefe to innocence,
994
Should live to be accurs’d in her ſucceſſion,
995
And now be ſtil’d Supportreſſe of oppreſſion;
996
Ruine of Families, paſt the bloody rage
997
Of Rape or Murder: All the crying ſins
998
Negotiating for Hell in her wild practiſe.

Enter Attorney.

999
At.A man I hope for my purpoſe, and ſave me a
1000
going to the Church for one: Will you make an Oath
1001
Sir?
1002
Broo.An Oath? for what?
1003
At.For two ſhillings; and it be half a Crowne,
1004
my Client ſhall not ſtand w’ye; the Judge is at leiſure,
1005
and the other of our Bail is there already. Come, go
1006
along.
1007
Broo.I gueſſe you ſome Attorney: Do you know me?
1008
At.No, nor any man we imploy in theſe caſes.
1009
Broo.He takes me for a common Bail; a Knight o’th
1010
Poſt,
1011
Thou art a villaine, and crop-ear’d I doubt not:
[C5v]What


The Damoiſelle.
1012
What, dar’ſt thou ſay, thou ſeeſt upon me, that ---
1013
At.I cry you mercy: I muſt up (I ſee)
1014
To the old Synagogue, there I ſhall be fitted ––– Exit.
1015
Broo.Can I appear ſo wretched? or can grief
1016
So ſoile the face of poverty, which is vertue,
1017
To make it ſeem that Monſter Perjury?
1018
Rather let ſorrow end me all at once,
1019
Then vertue be miſconſtrued in my looks,
1020
Which I will hide from ſuch inter-He lies on his face.
1021
pretation.

Enter Frendly.

1022
Frend.Alas hee’s ſore afflicted, and my newes,
1023
I fear, will ſtrike him dead; yet I muſt ſpeak.
1024
Sir, give not miſery that advantage on you,
1025
To make your ſelf the leſſe, by ſhrinking under
1026
The buffetings of fortune.
1027
Broo.I deſir’d you
1028
To ſeek my ſon, Ha’ you found him at his Chamber?
1029
Or has not want of fatherly ſupplies
1030
(VVhich heaven knowes I am robb’d of) thruſt him
1031
out
1032
Of Commons, to the Common VVorld for ſuccour?
1033
Where is he, have you found him?
1034
Fren.No, not him.
1035
But I have found what may be comfort to you,
1036
If you receive it like a man of courage.
1037
Broo.Hee’s dead then, farewell my tender boy!
1038
Fren.Indeed, Sir, hee’s not dead.
1039
Broo.Phew ––––
1040
Fren.Pray, ſir, heare me.
1041
Broo.You’ll tell me, man nere dies; But changeth
1042
Life,
[C6r]And


The Damoiſelle.
1043
And happily for a better. He is happieſt
1044
That goes the right way ſooneſt: Nature ſent us
1045
All naked hither; and all the Goods we had
1046
We onely took on Credit with the World.
1047
And that the beſt of men are but meer borrowers:
1048
Though ſome take longer day. Sir, J know all
1049
Your Arguments of Conſolation –– –
1050
Fren.Indeed he is not dead; but lives –––
1051
Broo.In Heaven.
1052
J am the ſurer on’t; for that he liv’d
1053
Not to learn Law enough, to ––– huſh. No more.
1054
Fren.Subſtantially he lives in fleſh, as we do.
1055
Broo.Speak that again.
1056
Fren.A Gentleman of the next Chamber told me
1057
ſo.
1058
Onely, ſir, this; if you can brook his abſence
1059
Without feare, or miſtruſt; then he is well.
1060
Broo.How thou playeſt with me!
1061
Fren.He’s gone to travell, ſir. Here comes the Gen-
1062
tleman.

Enter Valentine.

1063
Val.I am ſure he does not know me. If he could,
1064
I were as ſure this Charity would be rejected.
1065
So much J know his Spirit. Is your name Brookeall,
1066
ſir?
1067
Brook.My loſſes, wrongs, and ſorrowes, ſpeak my
1068
name.
1069
Val.You had a Son late of this houſe.
1070
Broo.And do not you infer by that he’s dead?
1071
Good, do not mock me, ſir.
1072
Val.If this be gold,
1073
He lives and ſent it to you; forty peeces?
[C6v]Broo


The Damoiſelle.
1074
Broo.Pray, ſir, from whence, or where might he
1075
atchieve
1076
So great a Sum? Not in this World, J feare.
1077
A handſome poſſibility he had once,
1078
Could J ha’ kept it for him.
1079
Val.He’s in a way,
1080
Now to a hopefull fortune. A Noble Gentleman,
1081
Late gone to travell, ta’ne with good affection
1082
Towards your Son, has ta’ne hin to his care:
1083
And like a Father, not a Maſter, keeps him.
1084
From whoſe free bounty he receiv’d this meanes.
1085
Broo.Do you think the Boy did well to ſend it me
1086
then:
1087
When twas intended for his Maſters honour,
1088
To flye in Silks and Feathers? Tis not Servant like
1089
To wave a Maſters meaning ſo.
1090
Val.J had a Letter too;
1091
Though moſt unhappily miſlay’d.
1092
Broo.VVhat from my Boy?
1093
Val.In his own hand.
1094
Broo.Ha! -- but miſlay’d, you ſay. Ha, ha, ha, ––––
1095
VVhat is the Gentleman? Or whither travell’d?
1096
Val.That’s all J crave excuſe for.
1097
Broo.Keep your money.
1098
If you can render me my Son, Ile thank you.
1099
Val.You ſpeak not like a Father: wanting meanes
1100
Your ſelfe for his advancement, would you bar him
1101
The bounty of anothers full ability?
1102
Broo.J ſpeak more like a Father, then a Beggar:
1103
Although no Beggar poorer. And J feare,
1104
J am no Father: for J would not give
1105
My Son to gain a Province, nor except
1106
This Coyne to ſave my life: If he be loſt,
1107
Let me look neerer on you, ſir.
1108
Fren.J hope
[C7]He


The Damoiſelle.
1109
He will accept the Money. Poverty
1110
Was nere ſo coy elſe.
1111
Broo.J cannot remember.
1112
J ever ſaw this face: But I have ſeen
1113
(Many yeares ſince) one, that it ſo reſembles,
1114
As J could ſpit defiance on’t –––
1115
Val.What mean you?
1116
Broo.And charge thee with the Murther of my Son
1117
Val.Pray, ſir, collect your ſelfe.
1118
Broo.Your name is Valentine.
1119
Val.Right, ſir.
1120
Broo.Sir Humphrey Drygrounds Son:
1121
Val.Moſt true.
1122
Broo.Even ſo thy Father look’d, when, at like years
1123
He was my Rivall: For young man, J tell thee
1124
Thou hadſt a virtuous, well deſerving Mother.
1125
He won her without loſſe of my known Friend-ſhip:
1126
But, ſince her death, you cannot but have heard,
1127
He baſely wrong’d my Siſter, and, in her,
1128
Mee, and my Family: Whor’d her, and caſt her off,
1129
On the appointed Marriage day.
1130
Val.O, ſir.
1131
Broo.You cannot but have heard on’t. Nay, it ſeems,
1132
My Boy has charg’d thee with’t, before his yeares
1133
Could warrant his ability in Combate,
1134
And ſo is fallen; Or thou, not daring ſtand
1135
Tryall in ſuch a cauſe, by treachery
1136
Haſt cut him off; And com’ſt to make thy peace:
1137
Preſuming on my Poverty, with money.
1138
Worſe then the baſe Attornies Project this!
1139
Val.This is meer madneſſe. In an Act ſo foule,
1140
As your wilde Fancy gathers this to be;
1141
Who could eſcape the Law?
1142
Broo.The Law; ha, ha, ha.
1143
Talk not to me of Law, Law’s not my Friend.
[C7v]Law


The Damoiſelle.
1144
Law is a Fatall to me, as your houſe.
1145
I have enough of Law; pray ſtand you off.
1146
Will you, ſir, furniſh me, but with a Sword;
1147
And bring me to fit ground to end this difference?
1148
Will you do ſo, and like a Gentleman?
1149
Val.VVhat ſhall J do for pity? ––– Now J have
1150
it.
1151
Broo.Talk not to me of Law.[ He fenceth. ]
1152
Val.Pray heare me, ſir.
1153
Broo.Now, ſir, your wil before your end. Be briefe.
1154
Val.You know me for a Gentleman, though an E-
1155
nemy.
1156
(I muſt ſpeak in his phraſe) and by that honour
1157
A Gentleman ſhould keep ſacred, two houres hence
1158
Ile meet you in this place –––
1159
Broo.Pray ſtand you off ––– ––– to Friendly.
1160
Val.From whence wee’ll walke ----
1161
Broo.Silent, as nothing were ---
1162
Val.As nothing were betwixt us --- to ſome other
1163
Fit ground, (as you propounded) where wee’ll end
1164
the difference.
1165
Broo.By the Sword; no otherwiſe.
1166
No whinnelling ſatisfaction.
1167
Val.You ſhall ſee, ſir.
1168
Broo.Go ſet thy houſe in order. Here Ile meet thee,
Exit.
[C8]ACT.


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