_Oct_.
My grief's too great
To be expressed in words--
[_Exit_.
_Hen_.
Take that and leave us,
[_gives mony to Jacinta_.
Leave us without reply, nay come back sirrah
And study to forget such things as these
As are not worth the knowledge.
[Asca. _offers to follow_.
_Asc_.
O good Sir,
These are bad principles--
_Hen_.
Such as you must learn
Now you are mine, for wealth and poverty
Can hold no friendship: and what is my will
You must observe and do, though good or ill.
[_Exeunt_.
SCENA IV.
_Enter_ Bartolus.
_Bar_.
Where is my wife? 'fore heaven, I have done wonders,
Done mighty things to day, my _Amaranta_,
My heart rejoyces at my wealthy Gleanings,
A rich litigious Lord I love to follow,
A Lord that builds his happiness on brawlings,
O 'tis a blessed thing to have rich Clyents,
Why, wife I say, how fares my studious Pupil?
Hard at it still? ye are too violent,
All things must have their rests, they will not last else,
Come out and breathe. [Leandro _within_.
_Lean_.
I do beseech you pardon me,
I am deeply in a sweet point Sir.
_Bar_.
I'le instruct ye:
_Enter_ Amaranta.
I say take breath, seek health first, then your study.
O my sweet soul, I have brought thee golden birds home,
Birds in abundance: I have done strange wonders:
There's more a hatching too.
_Am_.
Have ye done, good husband?
Then 'tis a good day spent.
_Bar_.
Good enough chicken,
I have spread the nets o'th' law, to catch rich booties,
And they come fluttering in: how do's my Pupil?
My modest thing, hast thou yet spoken to him?
_Am_.
As I past by his chamber I might see him,
But he is so bookish.
_Bar_.
And so bashfull too,
I' faith he is, before he will speak, he will starve there.
_Am_.
I pitie him a little.
_Bar_.
So do I too.
_Am_.
And if he please to take the air o'th' gardens,
Or walk i'th' inward rooms, so he molest not--
_Bar_.
He shall not trouble thee, he dare not speak to thee.
_Enter_ Moor, _with Chesse-board_.
Bring out the Chesse-board,--come let's have a game wife,
I'le try your masterie, you say you are cunning.
_Am_.
As learned as ye are, Sir, I shall beat ye.
_Enter_ Leandro.
_Bar_.
Here he steals out, put him not out of countenance,
Prethee look another way, he will be gone else
Walk and refresh your self, I'll be with you presently.
_Lean_.
I'le take the air a little. [_Play at chess_.
_Bar_.
'Twill be healthfull.
_Am_.
Will ye be there? then here? I'le spare ye that man.
_Lea_.
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