LIGHT. So now I shall have a sight of my cousin gallant: he that hath consumed £800 a year in as few years as he hath ears on his head: he that was wont never to be found without three or four pair of red breeches running before his horse or coach: he that at a meal hath had more several kinds than, I think, the ark contained: he that was admired by niters[365] for his robes of gallantry, and was indeed all that an elder brother might be--prodigal; yet he, whose unthriftiness kept many a house, is now glad to keep house in a house that keeps him, the poor tenant of a porter. And see his appearance! I'll seem strange to him. _Enter_ HADDIT, _in poor array_. HAD. Cousin Lightfoot, how dost? welcome to the city. LIGHT. Who calls me cousin? where's my cousin Haddit? he's surely putting on some rich apparel for me to see him in. I ha' been thinking all the way I came up, how much his company will credit me. HAD. My name is Haddit, sir, and your kinsman, if parents may be trusted; and therefore you may please to know me better when you see me next. LIGHT. I prythee, fellow, stay: is it possible thou shouldst be he? why, he was the generous spark of men's admiration. HAD. I am that spark, sir, though now raked up in ashes; Yet when it pleaseth fortune's chaps to blow Some gentler gale upon me, I may then From forth of embers rise and shine again. LIGHT. O, by your versifying I know you now, sir: how dost? I knew thee not at first, thou'rt very much altered. HAD. Faith, and so I am, exceeding much since you saw me last--about £800 a year; but let it pass, for passage[366] carried away the most part of it: a plague of fortune. LIGHT. Thou'st more need to pray to Fortune than curse her: she may be kind to thee when thou art penitent: but that, I fear, will be never. HAD. O, no, if she be a woman, she'll ever love those that hate her. But, cousin, thou art thy father's firstborn; help me but to some means, and I'll redeem my mortgag'd lands, with a wench to boot. LIGHT. As how, I pray thee? HAD. Marry thus: Hog the usurer hath one only daughter. LIGHT. Is his name Hog? It fits him exceeding well; for as a hog in his lifetime is always devouring, and never commodious in aught till his death; even so is he, whose goods at that time may be put to many good uses. HAD. And so I hope they shall before his death. This daughter of his did, and I think doth, love me; but I, then thinking myself worthy of an empress, gave but slight respect unto her favour, for that her parentage seemed not to equal my high thoughts, puffed up---- LIGHT. With tobacco, surely. HAD. No; but with as bad a weed--vainglory. LIGHT. And you could now be content to put your lofty spirits into the lowest pit of her favour. Why, what means will serve, man? 'Sfoot, if all I have will repair thy fortune, it shall fly at thy command.