Wit Without Money - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Francis Beaumont
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and issue; a widow is a Christmas-box that sweeps all.
_Fount._ Yet all this cannot sink us. _Val._ You are my friends, and all my loving friends, I spend your mony, yet I deserve it too, you are my friends still, I ride your horses, when I want I sell 'em; I eat your meat, help to wear her linnen, sometimes I make you drunk, and then you seal, for which I'le do you this commodity, be ruled, and let me try her, I will discover her, the truth is, I will never leave to trouble her, till I see through her, then if I find her worthy. _Hare._ This was our meaning _Valentine_. _Val._ 'Tis done then, I must want nothing. _Hare._ Nothing but the woman. _Val._ No jealousie; for when I marry, the Devil must be wiser than I take him; and the flesh foolisher: come let's to dinner, and when I am well whetted with wine, have at her. [_Exeunt._ _Enter_ Isabella, _and_ Luce. _Isab._ But art thou sure? _Luce._ No surer than I heard. _Hare._ That it was that flouting fellows Brother? |
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