SER. I arreſt you. SLE. Keepe the peace, I charge you gentlemen. FIT. Arreſt me? Why? GVI. For better ſecurity, Sir. My ſonne _Plutarchus_ 5 Aſſures me, y’are not worth a groat. PLV. Pardon me, _Father_, I said his worſhip had no foote of Land left: And that I’ll iuſtifie, for I writ the deed. FIT. Ha’ you theſe tricks i’ the citty? GVI. Yes, and more. Arreſt this gallant too, here, at my ſuite. 10 _Meaning_ Mere-craft. SLE. I, and at mine. He owes me for his lodging Two yeere and a quarter. MER. Why M. _Guilt-head_, Land-Lord, Thou art not mad, though th’art _Constable_ Puft vp with th’ pride of the place? Do you heare, Sirs. Haue I deſeru’d this from you two? for all 15 My paines at _Court_, to get you each a patent. GVI. For what? MER. Vpo’ my proiect o’ the _forkes_, SLE. _Forkes?_ what be they? [162] _The_ Project _of forks_. MER. The laudable vſe of forkes, Brought into cuſtome here, as they are in _Italy_, To th’ ſparing o’ _Napkins_. That, that ſhould haue made 20 Your bellowes goe at the forge, as his at the fornace. I ha’ procur’d it, ha’ the Signet for it, Dealt with the _Linnen-drapers_, on my priuate, By cause, I fear’d, they were the likelyeſt euer To ſtirre againſt, to croſſe it; for ’twill be 25 A mighty ſauer of _Linnen_ through the kingdome (As that is one o’ my grounds, and to ſpare waſhing) Now, on you two, had I layd all the profits. _Guilt-head_ to haue the making of all thoſe Of gold and ſiluer, for the better perſonages; 30 And you, of thoſe of _Steele_ for the common ſort. And both by _Pattent_, I had brought you your ſeales in. But now you haue preuented me, and I thanke you. Sledge _is brought about_. SLE. Sir, I will bayle you, at mine owne ap-perill. MER. Nay chooſe. PLV. Do you ſo too, good Father. 35 _And_ Guilt-head _comes_. GVI. I like the faſhion o’ the proiect, well, The forkes! It may be a lucky one! and is not Intricate, as one would ſay, but fit for Plaine heads, as ours, to deale in. Do you heare _Officers_, we diſcharge you.