Wit Without Money - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Francis Beaumont
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_Fran._ I am fit, but who'le take me thus? mens miseries are now
accounted stains in their natures. I have travelled, and I have studied long, observed all Kingdoms, know all the promises of Art and manners, yet that I am not bold, nor cannot flatter, I shall not thrive, all these are but vain Studies, art thou so rich as to get me a lodging _Lance_? _Lan._ I'le sell the titles of my house else, my Horse, my Hawk, nay's death I'le pawn my wife: Oh Mr. _Francis_, that I should see your Fathers house fall thus! _Isab._ An honest fellow. _Lan._ Your Fathers house, that fed me, that bred up all my name! _Isab._ A gratefull fellow. _Lan._ And fall by-- _Fran._ Peace, I know you are angry _Lance_, but I must not hear with whom, he is my Brother, and though you hold him slight, my most dear Brother: A Gentleman, excepting some few rubs, he were too excellent to live here else, fraughted as deep with noble and brave parts, the issues of a noble and manly Spirit, as any he alive. I must not hear you; though I am miserable, and he made me so, yet still he is my Brother, still I love him, and to that tye of blood link my affections. _Isab._ A noble nature! dost thou know him _Luce_? |
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