Wit Without Money - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Francis Beaumont
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as honest as persecuting the starved inheritance, with musty Corn, the
very rats were fain to run away from, or felling rotten wood by the pound, like spices, which Gentlemen do after burn by th' ounces? do not I know your way of feeding beasts with grains, and windy stuff, to blow up Butchers? your racking Pastures, that have eaten up as many singing Shepherds, and their issues, as _Andeluzia_ breeds? these are authentique, I tell you Sir, I would not change ways with you, unless it were to sell your state that hour, and if it were possible to spend it then too, for all your Beans in _Rumnillo_, now you know me. _Unc._ I would you knew your self, but since you are grown such a strange enemy to all that fits you, give me leave to make your Brothers fortune. _Val._ How? _Unc._ From your mortgage, which yet you may recover, I'le find the means. _Val._ Pray save your labour Sir, my Brother and my self will run one fortune, and I think what I hold a meer vexation, cannot be safe for him, I love him better, he has wit at will, the world has means, he shall live without this trick of state, we are heirs both, and all the world before us. _Unc._ My last offer, and then I am gone. _Val._ What is't, and then I'le answer. _Unc._ What think you of a wife yet to restore you, and tell me |
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