ILF. Gentlemen, I am to prefer some conference and especially to you, Master Scarborow: our meeting here for your mirth hath proved to me thus adverse, that in your companies I am arrested. How ill it will stand with the flourish of your reputations, when men of rank and note communicate that I, Frank Ilford, gentleman, whose fortunes may transcend to make ample gratuities future, and heap satisfaction for any present extension of his friends' kindness, was enforced from the Mitre in Bread Street to the Counter in the Poultry. For mine own part, if you shall think it meet, and that it shall accord with the state of gentry to submit myself from the feather-bed in the master's side[387] or the flock-bed in the knight's ward, to the straw-bed in the hole, I shall buckle to my heels, instead of gilt spurs, the armour of patience, and do't. WEN. Come, come, what a pox need all this! this is _mellis flora_, the sweetest of the honey: he that was not made to fat cattle, but to feed gentlemen. BAR. You wear good clothes. WEN. Are well-descended. BAR. Keep the best company. WEN. Should regard your credit. BAR. Stand not upon't, be bound, be bound. WEN. Ye are richly married. BAR. Love not your wife. WEN. Have store of friends. BAR. Who shall be your heir? WEN. The son of some slave. BAR. Some groom. WEN. Some horse-keeper. BAR. Stand not upon't; be bound, be bound. SCAR. Well, at your importunance,[388] for once I'll stretch my purse; Who's born to sink, as good this way as worse. WEN. Now speaks my bully like a gentleman of worth. BAR. Of merit. WEN. Fit to be regarded. BAR. That shall command our souls. WEN. Our swords. BAR. Ourselves. ILF. To feed upon you, as Pharaoh's lean kine did upon the fat. [_Aside_.] SCAR. Master Gripe, is my bond current for this gentleman? ILF. Good security, you Egyptian grasshopper, good security. [_Aside_.] GRIPE. And for as much more, kind Master Scarborow, Provided that men, mortal as we are, May have-- SCAR. May have security. GRIPE. Your bond with land conveyed, which may assure me of mine own again. SCAR. You shall be satisfied, and I'll become your debtor For full five hundred more than he doth owe you. This night we sup here; bear us company, And bring your counsel, scrivener, and the money With you, where I will make as full assurance As in the law you'd wish. GRIPE. I take your word, sir, And so discharge you of your prisoner. ILF. Why then let's come And take up a new room, the infected hath spit in this. He that hath store of coin wants not a friend; Thou shalt receive, sweet rogue, and we will spend. [_Aside. Exeunt_. _Enter_ THOMAS _and_ JOHN SCARBOROW. JOHN. Brother, you see the extremity of want Enforceth us to question for our own, The rather that we see, not like a brother, Our brother keeps from us to spend on other.