FIT. Yes, and it ſhall be one of my ambitions To haue it the firſt _Buſineſſe_? May I not? 110 EVE. So you doe meane to make’t, a perfect _Buſineſſe_. FIT. Nay, I’ll doe that, aſſure you: ſhew me once. MER. S^r, it concernes, the firſt be a perfect _Buſineſſe_, For his owne honour! EVE. I, and th’ reputation Too, of my place. FIT. Why, why doe I take this courſe, elſe? 115 I am not altogether, an _Aſſe_, good Gentlemen, Wherefore ſhould I conſult you? doe you thinke? To make a ſong on’t? How’s your manner? tell vs. MER. Doe, ſatisfie him: giue him the whole courſe. EVE. Firſt, by requeſt, or otherwiſe, you offer 120 Your _Buſineſſe_ to the _Court_: wherein you craue: The iudgement of the _Maſter_ and the _Aſsiſtants_. FIT. Well, that’s done, now, what doe you vpon it? EVE. We ſtreight S^r, haue recourſe to the ſpring-head; Viſit the ground; and, ſo diſcloſe the nature: 125 If it will carry, or no. If wee doe finde, By our proportions it is like to proue A ſullen, and blacke _Bus’neſſe_ That it be Incorrigible; and out of, treaty; then. We file it, a _Dependance_! FIT. So ’tis fil’d. 130 What followes? I doe loue the order of theſe things. EVE. We then aduiſe the party, if he be A man of meanes, and hauings, that forth-with, He ſettle his eſtate: if not, at leaſt That he pretend it. For, by that, the world 135 Takes notice, that it now is a _Dependance_. And this we call, Sir, _Publication_. FIT. Very ſufficient! After _Publication_, now? EVE. Then we grant out our _Proceſſe_, which is diuers; Eyther by _Chartell_, Sir, or _ore-tenus_, 140 Wherein the Challenger, and Challengee Or (with your _Spaniard_) your _Prouocador_, And _Prouocado_, haue their ſeuerall courſes-- FIT. I haue enough on’t! for an hundred pieces? Yes, for two hundred, vnder-write me, doe. 145 Your man will take my bond? MER. That he will, ſure. But, theſe ſame Citizens, they are ſuch ſharks! There’s an old debt of forty, I ga’ my word For one is runne away, to the _Bermudas_, And he will hooke in that, or he wi’ not doe. 150 _He whiſpers_ Fitz-dottrell _aſide_. FIT. Why, let him. That and the ring, and a hundred pieces, Will all but make two hundred? MER. No, no more, Sir. What ready _Arithmetique_ you haue? doe you heare? _And then_ Guilt-head. A pretty mornings worke for you, this? Do it, You ſhall ha’ twenty pound on’t. GVI. Twenty pieces? [135] 155 (PLV. Good Father, do’t)