Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_2 Law._ None but this, a Writ of error to remove the cause.
_Long._ No more of error, we have been in that too much already.
_2 Law._ If you will reverse the judgement, you must trust to that
delay.
_Long._ Delay? indeed he's like to trust to that,
With you has any dealing.
_2 Law._ E'r the Law proceeds to an _Habere facias possessionem_.
_Dub._ That's a language Sir, I understand not.
_Long._ Th'art a very strange unthankful fellow to have taken Fees
of such a liberal measure, and then give a man hard words for's
money.
_1 Law._ If men will hazard their salvations,
What should I say? I've other business.
_Mont._ Y'are i'th' right;
That's it you should say, now prosperity has left me.
_Enter two Creditors._
_1 Cred._ Have an eye upon him; if
We lose him now, he's gone for ever; stay
And dog him: I'll go fetch the Officers.
_Long._ Dog him you Bloud-hound: by this point thou shalt more
safely dog an angry Lion, than attempt him.
_Mont._ What's the matter?
_Long._ Do but stir to fetch a Serjeant; and besides your loss
Of labour, I'll have you beaten, till
Those casement in your faces be false lights.
_Dub._ Falser than those you sell by.
_Mont._ Who gave you Commission to abuse my friends thus?
_Lon._ Sir, are those your friends that would betray you?
_Mont._ 'Tis to save themselves rather than betray me.
_1 Cred._ Your Lordship makes a just construction of it.
_2 Cred._ All our desire is but to get our own.
_Long._ Your wives desires and yours do differ then.
_Mont._ So far as my ability will go
You shall have satisfaction _Longeville_.
_Long._ And leave your self neglected; every man
Is first a debtor to his own demands, being honest.
_Mont._ As I take it, Sir, I did
Not entertain you for my Counselor.
_Long._ Counsel's the office of a servant,
When the master falls upon a danger; as
Defence is; never threaten with your eyes,
They are no cockatrices; do you hear?
Talk with [a] Girdler, or [a] Mill'ner,
He can inform you of a kind of men
That first undid the profit of those trades
By bringing up the form of carrying
Their _Morglays_ in their hands: with some of those
A man may make himself a priviledge
To ask a question at the prison gates
Without your good permission.
_2 Cred._ By your leave.
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