The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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_Bri._ Pray, Sir, be not moved, I meddle with no business but mine own, and in mine own 'tis reason I should govern. _Mir._ But how to govern then, and understand, Sir, and be as wise as y'are hasty, though you be my Brother, and from one bloud sprung, I must tell ye heartily and home too. _Bri._ What, Sir? _Mir._ What I grieve to find, you are a fool, and an old fool, and that's two. _Bri._ We'll part 'em, if you please. _Mir._ No, they're entail'd to 'em. Seek to deprive an honest noble Spirit, your eldest Son, Sir, and your very Image, (but he's so like you, that he fares the worse for't) because he loves his Book, and dotes on that, and only studies how to know things excellent, above the reach of such course Brains as yours, such muddy Fancies, that never will know farther than when to cut your Vines, and cozen Merchants, and choak your hidebound Tenants with musty Harvests. _Bri._ You go too fast. _Mir._ I'am not come to my pace yet. Because h'has made his study all his pleasure, and is retir'd into his Contemplation, not medling with the dirt and chaff of Nature, that makes the spirit of the mind mud too; therefore must he be flung from his inheritance? must he be dispossess'd, and Monsieur Gingle-boy his younger Brother-- |
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