_Young Lo_. He shall dance, and drink, and be drunk and dance, and be
drunk again, and shall see no meat in a year.
_Poet._ And three quarters?
_Young Lo._ And three quarters be it.
_Capt._ Who knocks there? let him in.
_Enter_ Elder Loveless _disguised._
_Savill._ Some to deliver me I hope.
_Elder Lo._ Gentlemen, God save you all, my business is to one Master
_Loveless_?
_Capt._ This is the Gentleman you mean; view him, and take his Inventorie,
he's a right one.
_Elder Lo._ He promises no less Sir.
_Young Lo._ Sir, your business?
_Elder Lo._ Sir, I should let you know, yet I am loth, yet I am sworn
to't, would some other tongue would speak it for me.
_Young Lo._ Out with it i' Gods name.
_Elder Lo._ All I desire Sir is, the patience and sufferance of a man, and
good Sir be not mov'd more.
_Young Lo._ Then a pottle of sack will doe, here's my hand, prethee thy
business?
_Elder Lo._ Good Sir excuse me, and whatsoever you hear, think must have
been known unto you, and be your self discreet, and bear it nobly.
_Young Lo._ Prethee dispatch me.
_Elder Lo._ Your Brother's dead Sir.
_Young Lo._ Thou dost not mean dead drunk?
_Elder Lo._ No, no, dead and drown'd at sea Sir.
_Young Lo._ Art sure he's dead?
_Elder Lo._ Too sure Sir.
_Young Lo._ I but art thou very certainly sure of it?
_Elder Lo._ As sure Sir, as I tell it.
_Young Lo._ But art thou sure he came not up again?
_Elder Lo._ He may come up, but ne're to call you Brother.
_Young Lo._ But art sure he had water enough to drown him?
_Elder Lo._ Sure Sir, he wanted none.
_Young Lo._ I would not have him want, I lov'd him better; here I forgive
thee: and i'faith be plain, how do I bear it?
_Elder Lo._ Very wisely Sir.
_Young Lo_. Fill him some wine. Thou dost not see me mov'd, these
transitorie toyes ne're trouble me, he's in a better place, my friend I
know't. Some fellows would have cryed now, and have curst thee, and faln
out with their meat, and kept a pudder; but all this helps not, he was too
good for us, and let God keep him: there's the right use on't friend. Off
with thy drink, thou hast a spice of sorrow makes thee dry: fill him
another. _Savill_, your Master's dead, and who am I now _Savill_? Nay,
let's all bear it well, wipe _Savill_ wipe, tears are but thrown away: we
shall have wenches now, shall we not _Savill_?
_Savill_. Yes Sir.
_Young Lo_. And drink innumerable.
_Savil_. Yes forsooth.
_Young Lo_. And you'll strain curtsie and be drunk a little?
_Savil_. I would be glad, Sir, to doe my weak endeavour.
_Yo. Lo_. You may be brought in time to love a wench too.
_Savil_. In time the sturdie Oak Sir.
_Young Lo_. Some more wine for my friend there.
_Elder Lo_. I shall be drunk anon for my good news: but I have a loving
Brother, that's my comfort.
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