_Wel._ Sir, my name calls me _Welford_.
_Roger._ Sir, you are a Gentleman of a good name. I'le try his wit.
_Wel._ I will uphold it as good as any of my Ancestors had this two
hundred years Sir.
_Roger._ I knew a worshipfull and a Religious Gentleman of your name in
the Bishoprick of _Durham_. Call you him Cousen?
_Wel._ I am only allyed to his vertues Sir.
_Roger._ It is modestly said: I should carry the badge of your
Christianity with me too.
_Wel._ What's that, a Cross? there's a tester.
_Roger._ I mean the name which your God-fathers and God-mothers gave you
at the Font.
_Wel._ 'Tis _Harry_: but you cannot proceed orderly now in your Catechism:
for you have told me who gave me that name. Shall I beg your name?
_Roger._ _Roger._
_Wel._ What room fill you in this house?
_Roger._ More rooms than one.
_Wel._ The more the merrier: but may my boldness know, why your Lady hath
sent you to decypher my name?
_Roger._ Her own words were these: To know whether you were a formerly
denyed Suitor, disguised in this message: for I can assure you she
delights not in _Thalame_: _Hymen_ and she are at variance, I shall return
with much hast. [_Exit_ Roger.
_Wel._ And much speed Sir, I hope: certainly I am arrived amongst a Nation
of new found fools, on a Land where no Navigator has yet planted wit; if I
had foreseen it, I would have laded my breeches with bells, knives,
copper, and glasses, to trade with women for their virginities: yet I
fear, I should have betrayed my self to a needless charge then: here's the
walking night-cap again.
_Enter_ Roger.
_Roger._ Sir, my Ladies pleasure is to see you: who hath commanded me to
acknowledge her sorrow, that you must take the pains to come up for so bad
entertainment.
_Wel._ I shall obey your Lady that sent it, and acknowledge you that
brought it to be your Arts Master.
_Rog._ I am but a Batchelor of Art, Sir; and I have the mending of all
under this roof, from my Lady on her down-bed, to the maid in the
Pease-straw.
_Wel._ A Cobler, Sir?
_Roger._ No Sir, I inculcate Divine Service within these Walls.
_Wel._ But the Inhabitants of this house do often imploy you on errands
without any scruple of Conscience.
_Rog._ Yes, I do take the air many mornings on foot, three or four miles
for eggs: but why move you that?
_Wel._ To know whether it might become your function to bid my man to
neglect his horse a little to attend on me.
_Roger._ Most properly Sir.
_Wel._ I pray you doe so then: the whilst I will attend your Lady. You
direct all this house in the true way?
_Roger._ I doe Sir.
_Wel._ And this door I hope conducts to your Lady?
_Rog._ Your understanding is ingenious. [_Ex. severally._
_Enter young_ Loveless _and_ Savil, _with a writing._
_Sa._ By your favour Sir, you shall pardon me?
_Yo. Lo._ I shall bear your favour Sir, cross me no more; I say they shall
come in.
_Savil._ Sir, you forget who I am?
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