FIT. I’ll entertaine him for the name ſake. Ha?
And turne away my tother man? and ſaue
Foure pound a yeere by that? there’s lucke, and thrift too!
The very _Diuell_ may come, heereafter, as well.
Friend, I receiue you: but (withall) I acquaint you, 40
Aforehand, if yo’ offend mee, I muſt beat you.
It is a kinde of exerciſe, I vſe.
And cannot be without.
PVG. Yes, if I doe not
Offend, you can, ſure.
FIT. Faith, _Diuell_, very hardly:
I’ll call you by your ſurname, ’cauſe I loue it. 45
[159] 46 ’hem] ’em G
[160] 47 Wife’s 1716 wife’s W, G passim
[161] 53 word?--_Enter_ PUG _handsomely shaped and apparelled_. G
[162] SD. on. G
[163] 9 SN. on. G || _Aside._ G
[164] 13 m’acater W
[165] 15 He has W, G
[166] 17 Even G
[167] 21 I’d W, G
[168] 22 I am G ’Prythe 1692 ’Prithee 1716, W Prithee G
[169] 23 An’ 1716, W An G || hadſt] hast 1692, 1716
[170] 26 Sir 1641. f. passim
[171] 28 cozen 1692, f. passim
[172] 29 SN. om. G
[173] 31 that, I] that I 1692, f.
[174] 37 t’other 1692, f.
[175] 39 [_Aside._ G
[176] 41 you W, G
ACT. I. SCENE. IIII.
INGINE. WITTIPOL. MANLY.
FITZDOTTRELL. PVG.
Yonder hee walkes, Sir, I’ll goe lift him for you.
WIT. To him, good _Ingine_, raiſe him vp by degrees,
Gently, and hold him there too, you can doe it.
Shew your ſelfe now, a _Mathematicall_ broker.
ING. I’ll warrant you for halfe a piece.
WIT. ’Tis done, S^r. 5
MAN. Is’t poſſible there ſhould be ſuch a man?
WIT. You ſhall be your owne witneſſe, I’ll not labour
To tempt you paſt your faith.
MAN. And is his wife
So very handſome, ſay you?
WIT. I ha’ not ſeene her,
Since I came home from trauell: and they ſay, 10
Shee is not alter’d. Then, before I went,
I ſaw her once; but ſo, as ſhee hath ſtuck
Still i’ my view, no obiect hath remou’d her.
MAN. ’Tis a faire gueſt, Friend, beauty: and once lodg’d [102]
Deepe in the eyes, ſhee hardly leaues the Inne. 15
How do’s he keepe her?
WIT. Very braue. Howeuer,
Himselfe be fordide, hee is ſenſuall that way.
In euery dreſſing, hee do’s ſtudy her.
MAN. And furniſh forth himselfe ſo from the _Brokers_?
WIT. Yes, that’s a hyr’d ſuite, hee now has one, 20
To ſee the _Diuell_ is an _Aſſe_, to day, in:
(This _Ingine_ gets three or foure pound a weeke by him)
He dares not miſſe a new _Play_, or a _Feaſt_,
What rate ſoeuer clothes be at; and thinkes
Himſelfe ſtill new, in other mens old.
MAN. But ſtay, 25
Do’s he loue meat ſo?
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