Wit Without Money - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Francis Beaumont
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_Wid._ What ward for that, wench? _Isa._ Alas, it never touched me. _Fran._ Well, gentle Lady, yours is the first money I ever took upon a forced ill manners. _Isa._ The last of me, if ever you use other. _Fran._ How may I do, and your way to be thought a grateful taker? _Isa._ Spend it, and say nothing, your modesty may deserve more. _Wid._ O Sister will you bar thankfulness? _Isa._ Dogs dance for meat, would ye have men do worse? for they can speak, cry out like Wood-mongers, good deeds by the hundreds, I did it that my best friend should not know it, wine and vain glory does as much as I else, if you will force my merit, against my meaning, use it in well bestowing it, in shewing it came to be a benefit, and was so; and not examining a Woman did it, or to what end, in not believing sometimes your self, when drink and stirring conversation may ripen strange perswasions. _Fran._ Gentle Lady, I were a base receiver of a courtesie, and you a worse disposer, were my nature unfurnished of these fore-sights. Ladies honours were ever in my thoughts, unspotted Crimes, their good deeds holy Temples, where the incense burns not; to common eyes your fears are vertuous, and so I shall preserve 'em. |
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