She says, if you dare make your self a Fortune,
She will propose the means; my Lord _Don Henrique_
Is now from home, and she alone expects you,
If you dare trust her, so, if not despair of
A second offer.
[_Exit_.
_Jam_.
Though there were an Ambush
Laid for my life, I'le on and sound this secret.
Retire thee, my _Ascanio_, with thy Mother:
But stir not forth, some great design's on foot,
Fall what can fall, if e're the Sun be set
I see you not, give me for dead.
_Asc_.
We will expect you,
And those bless'd Angels, that love goodness, guard you.
[_Exeunt_.
SCENA V.
_Enter_ Lopez _and_ Bartolus.
_Bar_.
Is't possible he should be rich?
_Lop_.
Most possible,
He hath been long, though he had but little gettings,
Drawing together, Sir.
_Bar_.
Accounted a poor Sexton,
Honest poor _Diego_.
_Lop_.
I assure ye, a close Fellow,
Both close, and scraping, and that fills the Bags, Sir.
_Bar_.
A notable good fellow too?
_Lop_.
Sometimes, Sir,
When he hop'd to drink a man into a Surfeit,
That he might gain by his Grave.
_Bar_.
So many thousands?
_Lop_.
Heaven knows what.
_Bar.
'Tis strange,
'Tis very strange; but we see by endeavour,
And honest labour--
_Lop_.
_Milo_, by continuance
Grew from a silly Calf (with your worships reverence)
To carry a Bull, from a penny, to a pound, Sir,
And from a pound, to many: 'tis the progress.
_Bar_.
Ye say true, but he lov'd to feed well also,
And that me-thinks--
_Lop_.
From another mans Trencher, Sir,
And there he found it season'd with small charge:
There he would play the Tyrant, and would devour ye
More than the Graves he made; at home he liv'd
Like a Camelion, suckt th' Air of misery,
[_Table out, Standish, Paper, Stools_.
And grew fat by the Brewis of an Egg-shell,
Would smell a Cooks-shop, and go home and surfeit.
And be a month in fasting out that Fever.
_Bar_.
These are good Symptoms: do's he lye so sick say ye?
_Lop_.
Oh, very sick.
_Bar_.
And chosen me Executor?
_Lop_.
Only your Worship.
_Bar_.
No hope of his amendment?
_Lop_.
None, that we find.
_Bar_.
He hath no Kinsmen neither?
_Lop_.
'Truth, very few,
_Bar_.
His mind will be the quieter.
What Doctors has he?
_Lop_.
There's none, Sir, he believes in.
_Bar_.
They are but needless things, in such extremities.
Who draws the good mans Will?
_Lop_.
Marry that do I, Sir,
And to my grief.
_Bar_.
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