A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
+Plot.+ Yes,
Free of your company. [_Aside._
+Ware.+ Have the people vail
As low to his trappings, as if he thrice had fin'd
For that good time's employment.
+Plot.+ Or as if
He had his rider's wisdom. [_Aside._
+Ware.+ Then the works
And good deeds of the city to go before thee,
Besides a troop of varlets.[185]
+Plot.+ Yes, and I
To sleep the sermon in my chain and scarlet. [_Aside._
+Ware.+ How say you? Let's hear that!
+Plot.+ I say, sir, I
To sit at sermon in my chain and scarlet.
+Ware.+ 'Tis right; and be remembered at the Cross.[186]
+Plot.+ And then at sessions, sir, and all times else,
Master Recorder to save me the trouble,
And understand things for me. [_Aside._
+Ware.+ All this is possible,
And in the stars and winds: therefore, dear nephew,
You shall pursue this course; and, to enable you,
In this half-year that I shall be away,
Cypher shall teach you French, Italian, Spanish,
And other tongues of traffic.
+Plot.+ Shall I not learn
Arithmetic too, sir, and shorthand?
+Ware.+ 'Tis well-remembered; yes, and navigation.
_Enter +Cypher+._
+Cyph.+ Sir, Master Seathrift says you will lose the tide;
The boat stays for you.
+Ware.+ Well, nephew, at my return,
As I hear of your carriage, you do know
What my intentions are; and, for a token
How much I trust your reformation,
Take this key of my counting-house, and spend
Discreetly in my absence. Farewell. Nay,
No tears; I'll be here sooner than you think on't.
Cypher, you know what you have to do.
+Cyph.+ I warrant you, sir. [_Exit +Warehouse+._
+Plot.+ Tears! yes, my melting eyes shall run; but it
Shall be such tears as shall increase the tide
To carry you from hence.
+Cyph.+ Come, Master Plotwell, shall I
Read to you this morning?
+Plot.+ Read! what? how the price
Of sugar goes; how many pints of olives
Go to a jar; how long wine works at sea;
What difference is in gain between fresh herrings
And herrings red?
+Cyph.+ This is fine: ha' you
Forgot your uncle's charge?
+Plot.+ Prythee, what was't?
+Cyph.+ To learn the tongues and mathematics.
+Plot.+ Troth,
If I have tongue enough to say my prayers
I' th' phrase o' th' kingdom, I care not: otherwise,
I'm for no tongues but dried ones, such as will
Give a fine relish to my backrag;[187] and for mathematics,
I hate to travel by the map; methinks
'Tis riding post.
+Cyph.+ I knew 'twould come to this.
Here be his comrades. [_Aside._
+Plot.+ What, my Fleet Street friends? [_Exit +Cypher+._
SCENE IV.
_Enter +Bright+ and +Newcut+._
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