Moft inftantly, and tell in what degree
Of fafety it lies in, or mortality.

And how it may be borne, whether in a right line,
Or a half circle; or may elfe be cast

Into an angle blunt, if not acute:

All this he will demonftrate. And then, rules
To give and take the lie by.

Kaf. How? to take it?

Fac. Yes, in oblique he'll fhew you, or in circle; But never in diameter. The whole town

Study his theorems, and difpute them ordinarily
At the eating academies.

Kaf. But does he teach
Living by the wits too?

Fac. Any thing whatever.

You cannot think that fubtilty but he reads it.
He made me a captain. I was a stark pimp,
Juft o' your standing, 'fore I met with him:
It is not two months fince. I'll tell you his method:
First, he will enter you at fome ordinary.

Kaf. No, I'll not come there. You shall pardon me, Fac. For why, fir?

Kaf. There's gaming there, and tricks.

Fac. Why, would

you be

A gallant, and not game?
Kaf. I, 'twill fpend a man.

8 But never IN DIAMETER,] What Shakespear calls the lie direct; the others are the lie circumftantial. See As you Like it, act_5. fc. 6. where the feveral degrees are humorously recounted. The fame fubject is alluded to by Fletcher in words exactly similar to our author's:

Has he given the lie

"In circle or oblique, or femicircle,

"Or direct parallel? you must challenge him."

Queen of Corinth, alt 4. fc. 1. The ridicule upon this abfurdity of duelling, is finely maintained, as occafion prefented, by the great triumvirate of dramatick poets, Shakespear, Jonfon, and Fletcher.

Fac.

Fac. Spend you? it will repair you when you are spent: How do they live by their wits there, that have vented Six times your fortunes?

Kaf. What, three thousand a year!
Fac. I, forty thousand.

Kaf. Are there fuch?

Fac. I, fir.

And gallants yet. Here's a young gentleman
Is born to nothing, forty marks a year,
Which I count nothing. He is to be initiated,
And have a flie o' the doctor. He will win you
By unrefiftable luck, within this fortnight,
Enough to buy a barony. They will fet him
Upmoft at the groom porters all the Christmas!
And for the whole year through at every place
Where there is play, prefent him with the chair;
The beft attendance, the best drink; fometimes
Two glaffes of Canary, and pay nothing;
The pureft linen, and the fharpeft knife,
The partridge next his trencher: and somewhere
The dainty bed, in private, with the dainty.
You fhall ha' your ordinaries bid for him,
As play-houses for a poet; and the master
Pray him aloud to name what dish he affects,
Which must be butter'd fhrimps: and those that drink
To no mouth elfe, will drink to his, as being
The goodly prefident mouth of all the board.
Kaf. Do you not gull one?

Fac. 'Ods my life! do you think it?

You fhall have a caft commander, (can but get
In credit with a glover, or a fpurrier,
For fome two pair of either's ware aforehand)
Will, by moft fwift pofts, dealing with him,
Arrive at competent means to keep himself,
His punk, and naked boy, in excellent fashion,
And be admir'd for't.

Kaf.

Will the doctor teach this?

Fac.

Fac. He will do more, fir, when your land is gone,
(As men of spirit hate to keep earth long)
In a vacation, when fmall money is stirring,
And ordinaries fufpended till the term,
He'll fhew a perfpective, where on one fide
You fhall behold the faces and the perfons
Of all fufficient young heirs in town,
Whose bonds are current for commodity;
On th' other fide, the merchants forms, and others,
That without help of any fecond broker,
(Who would expect a fhare) will truft fuch parcels.
In the third fquare, the very street and fign
Where the commodity dwells, and does but wait
To be deliver'd, be it pepper, fope,

Hops, or tobacco, oat-meal, woad, or cheeses.
All which you may fo handle, to enjoy
To your own ufe, and never ftand oblig'd.
Kaf. I'faith! is he fuch a fellow?

Fac. Why, Nab here knows him.

And then for making matches for rich widows,
Young gentlewomen, heirs, the fortunat'ft man!
He's fent to, far and near, all over England,
To have his counfel, and to know their fortunes.
Kaf. God's will, my fufter fhall fee him.
Fac. I'll tell you, fir,

What he did tell me of Nab. It's a ftrange thing!
(By the way, you must eat no cheese, Nab, it breeds me-
lancholy;

And that fame melancholy breeds worms) but pafs it; He told me honeft Nab here was ne'er at tavern

But once in's life!

Dru. Truth, and no more I was not.

Fac. And then he was fo fick

Dru. Could he tell you that too?

Fac. How fhould I know it?

Dru. In troth we had been a fhooting,

And had a piece of fat ram-mutton to fupper,

That

That lay fo heavy o' my ftomach

Fac. And he has no head

To bear any wine; for what with the noise o' the fidlers, And care of his fhop, for he dares keep no fervantsDru. My head did so ake

Fac. As he was fain to be brought home,

The doctor told me. And then a good old woman-
Dru. (Yes, faith, fhe dwells in Sea-coal-lane) did cure
With fodden ale, and pellitory o' the wall:
Coft me but two-pence. I had another sickness
Was worse than that.

Fac. I, that was with the grief

Thou took'st for being cefs'd at eighteen-pence,
For the water work.

Dru. In truth, and it was like

T' have coft me almost my life.

Fac. Thy hair went off?

Dru. Yes, fir, 'twas done for fpight.
Fac. Nay, fo fays the doctor.

[me,

Kaf. Pray thee, tobacco-boy, go fetch my fufter, I'll fee this learned boy before I go:

And so shall she.

Fac. Sir, he is bufy now:

But if you have a fifter to fetch hither,

Perhaps your own pains may command her fooner; And he by that time will be free.

Kaf. I go.

Fac. Drugger, fhe's thine: the damask. (Subtle and I Muft wrestle for her.) Come on, mafter Dapper. You fee how I turn clients here away,

9 Fac.

I, that was with the grief Thou took ft for being cess'd at eighteen-pence

For the water-work,] The New-River begun in 1608 by Sir Hugh Middleton, and finished at a very great expence (about 500 thoufand pounds, in which he had the affiftance of King James I. the lordmayor, and commonalty of London) in the year 1613. See an account of the number of houfes (upplied by it at that time, in STOW's Annals, p. 938. Dr. GREY.

To

Ha' you perform'd

To give your cause dispatch.

The ceremonies were enjoin'd you?
Dap. Yes, o' the vinegar,

And the clean shirt.

Fac. 'Tis well: that fhirt may do you

More worship than you think.. Your aunt's a-fire,
But that the will not fhew it, t' have a fight o' you.
Ha' you provided for her grace's fervants?

Dap. Yes, here are fix fcore Edward fhillings.
Fac. Good.

Dap. And an old Harry's fovereign.

Fac. Very good.

Dap. And three James fhillings, and an Elizabeth Just twenty nobles.

Fac. O, you are too juft.

[groat,

I would you had had the other noble in Maries 1.
Dap. I have fome Philip and Maries.

Fac. I, thofe fame

Are beft of all. Where are they? Hark, the doctor.

10 Just twenty nobles. Fac. O, you are too juft.

I would you had had the other noble in Maries.] If the reader will be at the pains to reckon this account, he will find mafter Dapper deferves the praise of juftice which Face gives him. Twenty nobles, at fix fhillings and eight-pence each, amount to the fum of fix pounds thirteen fhillings and four-pence, which fum the other pieces make. The Harry's fovereign was a half fovereign only, and valued at ten fhillings. Face wanted the other noble in Maries, because the money was coined in the feveral fucceffive reigns of Henry, Edward, Elizabeth, and James; fo that Mary's being left out made a chafm in the account.

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