_Slip._ How meane you that sir, of what trade? Marry Ile tell you, I haue many trades, The honest trade when I needs must, 430 The filching trade when time serues, The Cousening trade as I finde occasion. And I haue more qualities, I cannot abide a ful cup vnkist, A fat Capon vncaru’d, A full purse vnpickt, Nor a foole to prooue a Iustice as you do. _Andr._ Why sot why calst thou me foole? _Nano._ For examining wiser then thy selfe. _Andr._ So doth many more then I in _Scotland_. _Nano._ Yea those are such, as haue more autthoritie then wit, 440 And more wealth then honestie. _Slip._ This is my little brother with the great wit, ware him, But what canst thou do, tel me, that art so inquisitiue of vs? _Andr._ Any thing that concernes a gentleman to do, that can I do. _Slip._ So you are of the gentle trade? _Andr._ True. _Slip._ Then gentle sir, leaue vs to our selues, For heare comes one as if he would lack a seruant ere he went. Ent. _Ateu._ Why so _Ateukin_? this becomes thee best, Wealth, honour, ease, and angelles in thy chest: 450 Now may I say, as many often sing, No fishing to the sea, nor seruice to a king. Vnto this high promotions doth belong, Meanes to be talkt of in the thickest throng: And first to fit the humors of my Lord, Sweete layes and lynes of loue I must record. And such sweete lynes and louelayes ile endite: As men may wish for, and my leech delight, And next a traine of gallants at my heeles, That men may say, the world doth run on wheeles. 460 For men of art, that rise by indirection, To honour and the fauour of their King, Must vse all meanes to saue what they haue got, And win their fauours whom he neuer knew. If any frowne to see my fortunes such, A man must beare a little, not too much: But in good time these billes partend, I thinke, That some good fellowes do for seruice seeke. Read. _If any gentleman, spirituall or temperall, will entertaine out of his seruice, a young stripling of the age of 30. yeares, that can 470 sleep with the soundest, eate with the hungriest, work with the sickest, lye with the lowdest, face with the proudest, &c. that can wait in a Gentlemans chamber, when his maister is a myle of, keepe his stable when tis emptie, and his purse when tis full, and hath many qualities woorse then all these, let him write his name and goe his way, and attendance shall be giuen._ _Ateu._ By my faith a good seruant, which is he? _Slip._ Trulie sir that am I? _Ateu._ And why doest thou write such a bill, Are all these qualities in thee? 480 _Slip._ O Lord I sir, and a great many more, Some bettet, some worse, some richer some porer, Why sir do you looke so, do they not please you? _Ateu._ Trulie no, for they are naught and so art thou, If thou hast no better qualities, stand by.