Wit Without Money; A Comedy: The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher — John Shaqi
Wit Without Money; A Comedy: The Works of Francis Beaumont and John FletcherFletcher, John
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Wit Without Money; A Comedy: The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Fletcher, John
Comedy plays; English drama -- 17th century
_Isab._ Is this true, wench? gone on so short a warning! what trick
is this? she never told me of it, it must not be, sirra, attend me
presently, you know I have been a carefull friend unto you, attend me in
the Hall, and next be faithful, cry not, we shall not go.
_Short._ Her Coach may crack.
_Enter_ Valentine, Francisco, _and_ Lance.
_Val._ Which way to live! how darest thou come to town, to ask such
an idle question?
_Fran._ Me thinks 'tis necessary, unless you could restore that
Annuitie you have tipled up in Taverns.
_Val._ Where hast thou been, and how brought up _Francisco_,
that thou talkest thus out of _France_? thou wert a pretty fellow,
and of a handsom knowledge; who has spoiled thee?
_Lan._ He that has spoil'd himself, to make him sport, and by
Copie, will spoil all comes near him: buy but a Glass, if you be yet so
wealthy, and look there who?
_Val._ Well said, old Copihold.
_Lan._ My heart's good Freehold Sir, and so you'l find it, this
Gentleman's your Brother, your hopeful Brother, for there is no hope of
you, use him thereafter.
_Val._ E'ne as well as I use my self, what would'st thou have _Frank_?
_Fran._ Can you procure me a hundred pound?
_Lan._ Hark what he saies to you, O try your wits, they say you are
excellent at it, for your Land has lain long bedrid, and unsensible.
_Fran._ And I'le forget all wrongs, you see my state, and to what
wretchedness your will has brought me; but what it may be, by this
benefit, if timely done, and like a noble Brother, both you and I may
feel, and to our comforts.
_Val._ (A hundred pound!) dost thou know what thou hast said Boy?
_Fran._ I said a hundred pound.
_Val._ Thou hast said more than any man can justifie, believe it:
procure a hundred pounds! I say to thee there's no such sum in nature,
forty shillings there may be now i'th' Mint and that's a Treasure,
I have seen five pound, but let me tell it, and 'tis as wonderful as
Calves with five Legs; here's five shillings, _Frank_, the harvest
of five weeks, and a good crop too, take it, and pay thy first fruits,
I'le come down and eat it out.
_Fran._ 'Tis patience must meet with you Sir, not love.
_Lanc._ Deal roundly, and leave these fiddle faddles.
_Val._ Leave thy prating, thou thinkest thou art a notable wise
fellow, thou and thy rotten Sparrow Hawk; two of the reverent.
_Lanc._ I think you are mad, or if you be not, will be, with the
next moon, what would you have him do?
_Val._ How?
_Lanc._ To get money first, that's to live, you have shewed him how
to want.
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