MER. Why, S^r? FIT. Tis fatall. 5 MER. That you ſay right in. _Spenſer_, I thinke, the younger, Had his laſt honour thence. But, he was but _Earle_. FIT. I know not that, Sir. But _Thomas_ of _Woodſtocke_, I’m ſure, was _Duke_, and he was made away, At _Calice_; as _Duke Humphrey_ was at _Bury_: 10 And _Richard_ the third, you know what end he came too. MER. By m’faith you are cunning i’ the _Chronicle_, Sir. FIT. No, I confeſſe I ha’t from the _Play-bookes_, And thinke they’are more _authentique_. ING. That’s ſure, Sir. MER. What ſay you (to this then) _He whiſpers him of a place._ FIT. No, a noble houſe. 15 Pretends to that. I will doe no man wrong. MER. Then take one propoſition more, and heare it As paſt exception. FIT. What’s that? MER. To be _Duke_ of thoſe lands, you ſhall recouer; take Your title, thence, Sir, _Duke_ of the _Drown’d lands_, 20 Or _Drown’d-land_. FIT. Ha? that laſt has a good ſound! I like it well. The _Duke_ of _Drown’d-land_? ING. Yes; It goes like _Groen-land_, Sir, if you marke it. MER. I, And drawing thus your honour from the worke, You make the reputation of that, greater; 25 And ſtay’t the longer i’ your name. FIT. ’Tis true. _Drown’d-lands_ will liue in _Drown’d-land_! MER. Yes, when you Ha’ no foote left; as that muſt be, Sir, one day. And, though it tarry in your heyres, some _forty_, _Fifty_ deſcents, the longer liuer, at laſt, yet, 30 Muſt thruſt ’hem out on’t: if no quirk in law, Or odde _Vice_ o’ their owne not do’it firſt. Wee ſee thoſe changes, daily: the faire lands, That were the _Clyents_, are the _Lawyers_, now: And thoſe rich Mannors, there, of good man _Taylors_, 35 Had once more wood vpon ’hem, then the yard, By which th’ were meaſur’d out for the laſt purchaſe. [121] Nature hath theſe viciſſitudes. Shee makes No man a ſtate of perpetuety, Sir. FIT. Yo’ are i’ the right. Let’s in then, and conclude. 40 _Hee ſpies_ Diuell. I my ſight, againe? I’ll talke with you, anon. [360] SD. ACT. ...] om. _Enter_ MEERCRAFT _and_ ENGINE. G [361] 3 [_Exit Mrs. Fitz._ G [362] 6 comma after ‘thinke’ om. 1692, f. [363] 12 m’] my W, G [364] 13 have it G [365] 14,18 ’s] is W, G [366] 15 SN.] [_whispers him._] G [367] 15 period after ‘house’ om. 1716, f. [368] 26 ’t] it G [369] 32 do’t 1641 [370] 37 th’] they G [371] 40 You’re 1716, W || SN.] _Re-enter_ PUG. G