FIT. Tell him, we haue _veniſon_,
I’ll g’ him a piece, and ſend his wife a _Pheſant_.
TRA. A Forreſt moues not, till that _forty_ pound, 100
Yo’ had of him, laſt, be pai’d. He keepes more ſtirre,
For that ſame petty ſumme, then for your bond
Of _ſixe_; and _Statute_ of _eight_ hundred!
FIT. Tell him
Wee’ll hedge in that. Cry vp _Fitz-dottrell_ to him,
Double his price: Make him a man of mettall. 105
TRA. That will not need, his bond is current inough.
[419] SD. ACT. ...] om. _Enter_ MEERCRAFT _and_ ENGINE. G || II]
III 1641
[420] 6,7 Now ... Sir.] “Now ... sir.” W
[421] 24 SN.] [_whispers Meercraft._] G
[422] 28 she is W, G
[423] 29 and om. 1641
[424] 31 fashion flocke,] fashion, flock 1692, f.
[425] 36 &c.] _et caetera_; G
[426] 45 to it G
[427] 49 do it G
[428] 52 _Diamond_ 1692, 1716 diamond W, G passim
[429] 55 SN.] [_Exit._ G
[430] 61 of it G
[431] 64 _Dick_ 1692, 1716 Dick W Dickey G
[432] 66 friend W, G
[433] 69 T’a 1716, W
[434] 81 SN....] Fit.... 1716 Fitz-dottrel ... W
_Re-enter_ FITZDOTTREL. G
[435] 83 sullen 1692, f.
[436] 85, 6 ’t] it G
[437] 92 SN.] _Enter_ TRAINS. G
[438] 95, 103 FIT.] _Meer._ W, G
[439] 98 ’T] It G
[440] 99 gi’ 1716, W give G [_Exit._ G
[441] 106 [_Exeunt._ G
ACT. III. SCENE. I. [129]
GVILT-HEAD. PLVTARCHVS.
All this is to make you a Gentleman:
I’ll haue you learne, Sonne. Wherefore haue I plac’d you
With S^r. _Poul Either-ſide_, but to haue ſo much Law
To keepe your owne? Beſides, he is a _Iuſtice_,
Here i’ the Towne; and dwelling, Sonne, with him, 5
You ſhal learne that in a yeere, ſhall be worth twenty
Of hauing ſtay’d you at _Oxford_, or at _Cambridge_,
Or ſending you to the _Innes_ of _Court_, or _France_.
I am call’d for now in haſte, by Maſter _Meere-craft_
To truſt Maſter _Fitz-dottrel_, a good man: 10
I’haue inquir’d him, eighteene hundred a yeere,
(His name is currant) for a diamant ring
Of forty, ſhall not be worth thirty (thats gain’d)
And this is to make you a Gentleman!
PLV. O, but good father, you truſt too much!
GVI. Boy, boy, 15
We liue, by finding fooles out, to be truſted.
Our ſhop-bookes are our paſtures, our corn-grounds,
We lay ’hem op’n for them to come into:
And when wee haue ’hem there, wee driue ’hem vp
In t’one of our two Pounds, the _Compters_, ſtreight, 20
And this is to make you a Gentleman!
Wee Citizens neuer truſt, but wee doe coozen:
For, if our debtors pay, wee coozen them;
And if they doe not, then we coozen our ſelues.
But that’s a hazard euery one muſt runne, 25
That hopes to make his Sonne a Gentleman!
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