Wit Without Money - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Francis Beaumont
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Calves with five Legs; here's five shillings, _Frank_, the harvest
of five weeks, and a good crop too, take it, and pay thy first fruits, I'le come down and eat it out. _Fran._ 'Tis patience must meet with you Sir, not love. _Lanc._ Deal roundly, and leave these fiddle faddles. _Val._ Leave thy prating, thou thinkest thou art a notable wise fellow, thou and thy rotten Sparrow Hawk; two of the reverent. _Lanc._ I think you are mad, or if you be not, will be, with the next moon, what would you have him do? _Val._ How? _Lanc._ To get money first, that's to live, you have shewed him how to want. _Val._ 'Slife how do I live? why, what dull fool would ask that question? three hundred three pilds more, I and live bravely: the better half o'th' Town live most gloriously, and ask them what states they have, or what Annuities, or when they pray for seasonable Harvests: thou hast a handsome Wit, stir into the world, _Frank_, stir, stir for shame, thou art a pretty Scholar: ask how to live? write, write, write any thing, the World's a fine believing World, write News. _Lan._ Dragons in _Sussex_, Sir, or fiery Battels seen in the Air at _Aspurge_. |
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