Of the angry boys, and seen them take tobacco,
And in his shop; and I can take it too :

And I would fain be one of them, and go down
And practise i' the country.

Face. Sir, for the duello,

The doctor, I assure you, shall inform you,
To the least shadow of a hair; and then, rules

To give and take the lie by.

Kas. How! to take it?

Face. Yes, in oblique, he'll shew you, or in circle, But never in diameter.

"The whole town

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

"Kas. But does he teach

"Living by the wits too?

"Face. Any thing whatever.

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"You cannot think that subtlety but he reads it. "He made me a captain. I was a stark pimp, "Just o' your standing, 'fore I met with him : "'Tis not two months since." I'll tell you his method: First, he will enter you at some ordinary.

Kas. No, I'll not come there. You shall pardon me. Face. For why, sir?

Kas. There's gaming there, and tricks.

Face. Why, would you be

A gallant, and not game?

Kas. Ay, 'twill spend a man.

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

Kas. What, three thousand a year ?

Face. Ay, forty thousand.

"Kas. Are there such?

"Face. Ay, sir.

"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 fly o' the doctor.

He will win you,

By unresistible luck, within this fortnight,
Enough to buy a barony.

Kas. Do you not gull one?

Face. 'Ods my life! do you

Why, Nab here knows it.

Drug. Yes; what is it?

think it?

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Face. And then for making matches for rich widows,
Young gentlewomen, heirs, the fortunat'st man!
He's sent to, far and near, all over England,
To have his counsel, and to know their fortunes.
Kas. Adsooks! my suster shall see him.
Face. I'll tell you, sir,

What he did tell me of Nab.
Drug. Ay; what is it?

Face. It's a strange thing;

(By the way, you must eat no cheese, Nab; it breeds melancholy,

And that same melancholy breeds worms) but pass it; He told me, honest Nab here was ne'er at tavern 340 But once in's life!

Drug. Truth, and no more I was not.

Face. And then he was so sick

Drug. Could he tell you that too?

Face. How should I know it?

Drug. In troth, I'll tell you the whole story: We had been a shooting,

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

That lay so heavy o' my stomach

Face. And he has no head

Drug. No, I have no head.

Face. To bear any wine: for what with the noise of the fidlers,

And care of his shop; for he dares keep no servantDrug. My head did so ache

Face. As he was fain to be brought home,

The doctor told me. And then a good old womanDrug. (Yes, faith, she dwells in Sea-coal-lane) did

cure me

With sodden ale, and pellitory o' the wall;

Cost me but two-pence. I had another sickness,
Was worse than that-

-Face. Ay, that was the grief

Thou took'st for being 'sess'd at eighteen pence,

For the water-work.

Drug. In truth, and it was like

T'have cost me almost my life.

Face. Thy hair went off.

Drug. Yes, and it has never been very good since.

'Twas done for spite.

Face. Nay, so says the doctor.

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Kas. Pray thee, tobacco-boy, go fetch my suster;

I'll see this learned boy before I go;

And so shall she.

Face. Sir, he is busy now;

But if

you have a sister to fetch hither,

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

Kas. I go.

Face. Drugger, she's thine—the damask. [Ex. Drug. and Kastril.] Suhtle and I

Must wrestle for her. [Aside.] Come on, Master

Dapper;

You see how I turn clients here away,

To give your cause dispatch. Ha' you perform'd
The ceremonies were enjoin'd you?

Dap. Yes, o' the vinegar,

And the clean shirt.

Face. 'Tis well; that shirt may do you

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More worship than you think. "Your aunt's a-fire, "But that she will not shew it, t'have a sight o' you." Ha' you provided for her grace's servants ?

Dap. Yes, here are six-score Edward's shillings. Face. Good.

Dap. And an old Harry's sovereign.

Face. Very good.

Dap. And three James's shillings, and an Elizabeth groat;

Just twenty nobles.

Face. Oh, you are too just!

I would you had the other noble in Mary's.
Dap. I have some Philip and Mary's.

Face. Ay, those same

Are best of all. Where are they? Hark! the doctor.

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Enter SUBTLE.

Sub. Is yet her grace's cousin come?

Face. He is come.

Sub. And is he fasting?

Face. Yes.

Sub. And hath cry'd hum?

Face. Thrice, you must answer.
Dap. Thrice.

Sub. And as oft, buz?

Face. If you have, say.
Dap. I have.

Sub. Then, to her cuz,

Hoping that he hath vinegar'd his senses,
As he was bid, the Fairy queen dispenses,
By me, this robe, the petticoat of Fortune;
Which that he straight put on, she doth importune,
And though to Fortune near be her petticoat,
Yet nearer is her smock, the queen doth note:
And therefore, even of that a piece she has sent,
Which, being a child, to wrap him in was rent;
And prays him for a scarf he now will wear it
(With as much love as then her grace did tear it)
About his eyes, to shew he is fortunate.

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[They blind him with a rag.

And, trusting unto her to make his state,

He'll throw away all worldly pelf about him:

Which that he will perform she doth not doubt him.

Face. She need not doubt him, sir. Alas, he has

nothing