Wit Without Money - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Francis Beaumont
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kinds of fools, mark this note Gentlemen, mark it, and understand it.
_Fount._ Well, go forward. _Val_ An Innocent, a knave fool, a fool politick: the last of which are lovers, widow lovers. _Bell._ Will you allow no fortune? _Val._ No such blind one. _Fount._ We gave you reasons, why 'twas needful for us. _Val._ As you are those fools, I did allow those reasons, but as my Scholars and companions damn'd 'em: do you know what it is to wooe a widow? answer me coolely now, and understandingly. _Hare._ Why to lie with her, and to enjoy her wealth. _Val._ Why there you are fools still, crafty to catch your selves, pure politick fools, I lookt for such an answer; once more hear me, it is, to wed a widow, to be doubted mainly, whether the state you have be yours or no, or those old boots you ride in. Mark me, widows are long extents in Law upon news, livings upon their bodies winding-sheets, they that enjoy 'em, lie but with dead mens monuments, and beget only their own ill Epitaphs: Is not this plain now? _Bell._ Plain spoken. _Val._ And plain truth; but if you'le needs do things of danger, do |
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