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
_Val._ You have no mind to better me.
_Unc._ Yes, Cousin, and to that end I come, and once more offer you
all that my power is master of.
_Val._ A match then, lay me down fifty pounds there.
_Unc._ There it is, Sir.
_Val._ And on it write, that you are pleased to give this, as due
unto my merit, without caution of land redeeming, tedious thanks, or
thrift hereafter to be hoped for.
_Unc._ How? [Luce _lays a Suit and Letter at the door._
_Val._ Without daring, when you are drunk, to relish of revilings,
to which you are prone in Sack, Uncle.
_Unc._ I thank you, Sir.
_Lance._ Come, come away, let the young wanton play a while, away I
say, Sir, let him go forward with his naked fashion, he will seek you
too morrow; goodly weather, sultry hot, sultry, how I sweat!
_Unc._ Farewel, Sir. [_Exeunt_ Uncle _and_ Lance.
_Val._ Would I sweat too, I am monstrous vext, and cold too; and
these are but thin pumps to walk the streets in; clothes I must get,
this fashion will not fadge with me; besides, 'tis an ill winter
wear,--What art thou? yes, they are clothes, and rich ones, some fool
has left 'em: and if I should utter--what's this paper here? Let these
be only worn by the most noble and deserving Gentleman _Valentine,_--dropt
out o'th' clouds! I think they are full of gold too; well, I'le leave
my wonder, and be warm again, in the next house I'le shift. [_Exit._
_Actus Quartus. Scena Prima._
_Enter_ Francisco, Uncle, _and_ Lance.
_Fran._ Why do you deal thus with him? 'tis unnobly.
_Unc._ Peace Cousin peace, you are too tender of him, he must be
dealt thus with, he must be cured thus, the violence of his disease
_Francisco,_ must not be jested with, 'tis grown infectious, and
now strong Corrosives must cure him.
_Lance._ H'as had a stinger, has eaten off his clothes, the next
his skin comes.
_Unc._ And let it search him to the bones, 'tis better, 'twill make
him feel it.
_Lance._ Where be his noble friends now? will his fantastical
opinions cloath him, or the learned Art of having nothing feed him?
_Unc._ It must needs greedily, for all his friends have flung him
off, he is naked, and where to skin himself again, if I know, or can
devise how he should get himself lodging, his Spirit must be bowed, and
now we have him, have him at that we hoped for.
_Lance._ Next time we meet him cracking of nuts, with half a cloak
about him, for all means are cut off, or borrowing sixpence, to shew his
bounty in the pottage Ordinary?
_Fran._ Which way went he?
_Lance._ Pox, why should you ask after him, you have been trimm'd
already, let him take his fortune, [he] spun it out himself, Sir,
there's no pitie.
_Unc._ Besides some good to you now, from this miserie.
_Fran._ I rise upon his ruines! fie, fie, Uncle, fie honest
_Lance._ Those Gentlemen were base people, that could so soon take
fire to his destruction.
_Unc._ You are a fool, you are a fool, a young man.
_Enter_ Valentine.
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