_Nou._ Pish: no more, 95
Thy gall sure’s ouer throwne; these are my Councell,
And we were now in serious discourse.
_Pont._ Of perfume and apparell, can you rise
And spend 5 houres in dressing talke, with these?
_Nou._ Thou ’idst haue me be a dog: vp, stretch and shake, 100
And ready for all day.
_Pont._ Sir, would you be
More curious in preseruing of your honour.
Trim, ’twere more manly. I am come to wake
Your reputation, from this lethargy
You let it sleep in, to perswade, importune, 105
Nay, to prouoke you, sir, to call to account
This Collonell _Romont_, for the foule wrong
Which like a burthen, he hath layd on you,
And like a drunken porter, you sleepe vnder.
’Tis all the towne talkes, and beleeue, sir, 110
If your tough sense persist thus, you are vndone,
Vtterly lost, you will be scornd and baffled
By euery Lacquay; season now your youth,
With one braue thing, and it shall keep the odour
Euen to your death, beyond, and on your Tombe, 115
Sent like sweet oyles and Frankincense; sir, this life
Which once you sau’d, I ne’re since counted mine,
I borrow’d it of you; and now will pay it;
I tender you the seruice of my sword
To beare your challenge, if you’ll write, your fate: 120
Ile make mine owne: what ere betide you, I
That haue liu’d by you, by your side will dye.
_Nou._ Ha, ha, would’st ha’ me challenge poore _Romont_?
Fight with close breeches, thou mayst think I dare not.
Doe not mistake me (cooze) I am very valiant, 125
But valour shall not make me such an Asse.
What vse is there of valour (now a dayes?)
’Tis sure, or to be kill’d, or to be hang’d.
Fight thou as thy minde moues thee, ’tis thy trade,
Thou hast nothing else to doe; fight with _Romont_? 130
No i’le not fight vnder a Lord.
_Pont._ Farewell, sir,
I pitty you.
Such louing Lords walke their dead honours graues,
For no companions fit, but fooles and knaues.
Come _Malotin_.
_Exeunt Pont. Mal._
_Enter Romont._
_Lila._ ’Sfoot, _Colbran_, the low gyant. 135
_Aym._ He has brought a battaile in his face, let’s goe.
_Page._ _Colbran_ d’ee call him? hee’l make some of you smoake,
I beleeue.
_Rom._ By your leaue, sirs.
_Aym._ Are you a Consort?
_Rom._ D’ee take mee
For a fidler? ya’re deceiu’d: Looke. Ile pay you.
_Kickes ’em._
_Page._ It seemes he knows you one, he bumfiddles you so. 140
_Lila._ Was there euer so base a fellow?
_Aym._ A rascall?
_Lila._ A most vnciuill Groome?
_Aym._ Offer to kicke a Gentleman, in a Noblemans chamber?
A pox of your manners. 145
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