Wit Without Money - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Francis Beaumont
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_Lance._ Hey, hey boys, old _Valentine_ i'faith, the old boy still. _Unc._ Fie Cousin. _Val._ I mean besotted to his state, he had never left me the misery of so much means else, which till I sold, was a meer meagrim to me: If you will talk, turn out these Tenants, they are as killing to my nature Uncle, as water to a Feaver. _Lance._ We will go, but it is like Rams, to come again the stronger, and you shall keep your state. _Val._ Thou lyest, I will not. _Lance._ Sweet Sir, thou lyest, thou shalt, and so good morrow. [_Exeunt_ Tenants. _Val._ This was my man, and of a noble breeding: now to your business Uncle. _Unc._ To your state then. _Val._ 'Tis gone, and I am glad on't, name it no more, 'tis that I pray against, and Heaven has heard me, I tell you, Sir, I am more fearful of it, I mean, of thinking of more lands, or livings, than sickly men are travelling o' Sundays, for being quell'd with Carriers; out upon't, _caveat emptor_, let the fool out-sweat it, that thinks he has got a catch on't. |
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