_I can already Riddle, and can Sing_ _[Ca]tches, sell bargains, and I fear shall bring_ _My self to speak the hardest words I find,_ _Over, as oft as any, with one wind,_ _That takes no medicines: But one thought of thee_ _Makes me remember all these things to be_ _The wit of our young men, fellows that show_ _No part of good, yet utter all they know:_ _Who like trees of the Guard, have growing souls._ _Only strong destiny, which all controuls,_ _I hope hath left a better fate in store,_ _For me thy friend, than to live ever poor,_ _Banisht unto this home; fate once again_ _Bring me to thee, who canst make smooth and plain_ _The way of Knowledge for me, and then I,_ _Who have no good but in thy company,_ _Protest it will my greatest comfort be_ _To acknowledge all I have to flow from thee_. Ben. _when these_ Scænes _are perfect, we'll taste wine;_ _I'll drink thy Muses health, thou shalt quaff mine_. The Honest Man's Fortune. A TRAGI-COMEDY. The Persons represented in the Play. Duke of _Orleans, a spleenful detracting Lord_. { _Brother-in-law to_ Orleans, Earl of { _a noble accomplish'd_ _Amiens_, { _Gentleman, servant to_ { Lamira. Mountague, _an honest Lord_. Du-boys, } _Two faithful followers_ Longueville, } _of_ Mountague. Voramer, _the loving and loyal Page of_ Mountague. La Verdine, _a knavish Courtier_. La Poop, _a foisting Captain_. Mallicorn, _a sharking Citizen_. Two Lawyers. Two Creditors. Officers. Servants. WOMEN. Duchess of { _a virtuous Lady, and_ _Orleans_, { _chaste, (but suspected)_ { _wife to the Duke_. Lamira, _a modest Virgin, and a Lady, rich and noble_. Charlotte, Lamira's _Woman_. The Scene France. The Principal Actors were _Nathan Field_, _Rob. Benfield_, _Emanuel Read_, _Joseph Taylor_, _Will. Eglestone_, _Thomas Basse_. _Actus Primus. Scæna Prima._ _Enter the Duke of_ Orleance, _and the Earl of_ Amiens, _at several doors_. _Amiens._ Morrow, my Lord of _Orleans_. _Orl._ You salute me like a stranger; brother _Orleance_ were to me a Title more belonging, whom you call the Husband of your Sister. _Ami._ Would the circumstances of your brotherhood had never offer'd cause to make our conversation less familiar: I meet you like a hindrance in your way: your great Lawsuit is now upon the tongue, and ready for a judgement. _Orl._ Came you from the Hall now? _Ami._ Without stay; the Court is full, and such a press of people does attend the issue, as if some great man were brought to his arraignment.