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The Alchemist - Ben Johnson

Jan 21, 20253 hr 2 min
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Speaker 1

Act one, Scene one, a room in Lovewood's house, and to face in a captain's uniform with his sword drawn and suddled with a vial, quarreling, and followed by doll common believe it, I will.

Speaker 2

Thy worst, I fart at thee.

Speaker 3

Have you your wits?

Speaker 4

Why, gentlemen, for love, sir, I'll strip you what to do?

Speaker 2

Lick figs out at my row, row out of all your slight.

Speaker 3

Nay, look ye, sovereign general, Are you madmen?

Speaker 5

Oh?

Speaker 2

Let the wild sheep loose. I'll gum your silks with good strong water, and you come.

Speaker 3

Will you have the neighbors hear you? Will you betray all?

Speaker 4

Hark?

Speaker 2

I hear somebody, sir, h I shall mar all that the tailor is made.

Speaker 4

If you approach you most notarious, well, you insolent slave, dear you do this?

Speaker 6

Yes?

Speaker 2

Faith?

Speaker 6

Yes?

Speaker 2

Faith?

Speaker 4

Why who am I? My mongrel? Who am I?

Speaker 2

I'll tell you, since you know not.

Speaker 4

Yourself speak lower rogue.

Speaker 2

Yes, you were once times not long past, the good honest plain livery three pound thrum that kept your master's worship's house here in the friars for the vacations.

Speaker 4

Will you be so loud?

Speaker 2

Since by my means translated suburb captain.

Speaker 4

By your means doctor dog.

Speaker 2

Within man's memory. All this I.

Speaker 4

Speak of why I pray you. Have I been countenanced by you or you by me? Do but collect, sir, where I met you first, I do not hear well none of this I think it, But I shall put you in mind, Sir, at pie corner, taking your meal of steam in from cook stalls, where, like the father of hunger, you did walk piteously costive, with your pinched horn nose and your complexion of the Roman wash stuck full of black and melancholic worms like powder corn shot at the artillery yard.

Speaker 2

I wish you could advance your voice.

Speaker 4

A little when you went pinned up in the several rags you had raped and picked from dunghills before day, your feet in moldy slippers for your chives, a felt of rug, and a thin threadned cloak that scarce would cover your no buttocks. So suh, when all your alchemy and your algebra, your minermals, vegetables and animals, your conjuring cousining, and your dozen of trades could not relieve your core with so much linen as would make you tender. But

to see a fire. I give you countenance. Credit for your coals, your stills, your glasses, your materials, built you a furnace, drew you customers, advanced all your black arts, lent you beside a home to practice. In your masta's house, where you have studied the more writhing skill of bardary sense.

Speaker 2

Yes, in your master's house, you and the rats there kept possession. Make it not strange. I know you were one could keep the buttery hatch still locked and save the chippings, sell the dole beer to aquavitae men the witch together with your Christmas veils at post and pair. Your letting out of counters made you a pretty stock some twenty marks and gave you credit to converse with cobwebs.

Speaker 6

Here.

Speaker 2

Since your mistress's death has broke up.

Speaker 4

House, you might talk softlier, Rascal.

Speaker 2

No, you Scarab, I'll thunder you in pieces. I will teach you how to beware to tempt a fury again that carries tempest in his hand and voice.

Speaker 4

The place has made you valiant.

Speaker 2

No your clothes, thou vermin. Have I tained thee out of dung, so poor, so wretched, when no living thing would keep THEE company but a spider or worse raised THEE from brooms and dust and watering pots, sublimed THEE, and exalted THEE, and fixed THEE in the third region called our state. A grace brought THEE to spirit, to quintessence. With pains would twice have won me. The philosopher's work put THEE in words, in fashion, made THEE fit for

more than ordinary fellowships. Given THEE thy oaths, thy quarreling dimensions, thy rules to cheat at horse race, cockpit, cards, dice, or whatever gallant tincture else made THEE a second in mine own great art? And have I this for thanks? Do you rebel? Do you fly out in the projection? Would you be gone? Now?

Speaker 3

Gentlemen? What mean you?

Speaker 2

Will you mar all slave? Thou hadst had no name?

Speaker 3

Who you undo yourselves with?

Speaker 2

Civil war never had been known past equi clebanum, the heat of horse stung underground in cellars or an alehouse darker than deaf John's been lost to all mankind, But laundresses and tapsters had not I been Do you know who hears you?

Speaker 3

Sovereign sir nay general? I thought you were civil?

Speaker 4

I shall turn desperate if you grow thus loud.

Speaker 2

And hang thyself.

Speaker 4

I cannot hang thee collier and all thy pots and pans in picture. I will since thou hast.

Speaker 3

Moved me, Oh this will all throw all.

Speaker 4

Write thee up bottom palls. Have all thy tricks of cousining with a hollow call, dust scrapings, searching for things lost with the sieven shears, erecting figures in your rows of houses, taking in of shadows with a glass told in red letters and a face cut for thee worst in gramule ratzies.

Speaker 3

Are you sound? Have you your senses? Masters?

Speaker 4

I will have a book, but barely reckoning thy impostures shall prove a trueful lostos of her stone.

Speaker 2

To printers away you trench a rascal out.

Speaker 4

You dog leech the vomit of all prisons.

Speaker 3

Will you be your own destructions?

Speaker 4

Gentlemen still spewed out for lying too heavy on a.

Speaker 2

Basket cheetah, bod cow herd, conjurer cut purse, which.

Speaker 3

Oh me, we are ruined lost? Have you no more regard to your reputations? Where's your judgment? Slight? Have yet some care of me of your republic?

Speaker 4

Away this rock, I'll bring thee role within the statute of sorcery Tricissimo Xio of Henry the eighth I and perhaps thy neck within a noose for laundering gold and barbing it.

Speaker 1

Snatch's face is sword.

Speaker 3

You'll bring your head within a coxcomb, will you? And you, sir, with your men's.

Speaker 1

Strew Nuscius subtle's vile out of his.

Speaker 3

Hand, gather it up death, you abominable of stinkerds. Leave off your barking and grow one again. Or by the light that shines, I'll cut your throats. I'll not be made a prey. And to the marshal for ne'er a snarling dog bolts of you both have you together cousined all this while and all the world. And shall it now be said you've made most courteous shift to cousin yourselves. You will accuse him. You will bring him in within

the statute. Who shall take your word a horse and upstart apocryphal captain whom not a Puritan in blackfriars will trust so much as for a feather, And you too will give the cause forsooth you will insult and claim a primacy in the divisions. You must be chief, as if you only had the powder to project with and the work will not begun out of equality. The venture

tripartite all things in common without priority. Death, you perpetual curz fall to your couples again and cousin kindly and heartily and lovingly as you should, and lose not the beginning of a term, or by this hand I shall grow factious too, and take my part and quit.

Speaker 4

You tis his fault. He ever murmurs and objects his pains and says the weight of all lies upon him?

Speaker 2

Why so it does?

Speaker 3

How does it do?

Speaker 4

Not?

Speaker 3

We sustain our parts?

Speaker 2

Yes, but they are not equal.

Speaker 3

Why if your part exceed today, I hope os may tomorrow match it. I they may may murmuring mastiff aye, and do death on me. Help me to throttle him.

Speaker 1

Ceizus subtle by the throat.

Speaker 2

Dorothy, mistress, Dorothy, what's precious? I'll do anything.

Speaker 3

What do you mean because of your fermentation and cibation?

Speaker 2

Not I, by Heaven your soul and lunar help me what I were hanged? Then I'll conform myself.

Speaker 3

Will you, sir?

Speaker 1

Do so?

Speaker 3

Then, and quickly.

Speaker 2

Swear what should I swear?

Speaker 3

To leave your factions, sir, and labor kindly in the common work.

Speaker 2

Let me not breathe if I meant at beside, I only use those speeches as a spur to him.

Speaker 3

I hope we need no spurs, Sir, do we.

Speaker 4

Slid proof to day? Who shall shark best?

Speaker 2

Agreed?

Speaker 3

Yes? And work close and friendly.

Speaker 2

Slight and not shall grow the stronger for this breach with me?

Speaker 1

They shake hands?

Speaker 3

Why so, my good baboons, shall we go make a sort of sober scurvy precise neighbors that scarce have smiled twice since the king came in a feast of laughter at our follies. Rascals would run themselves from breath to see me. Ride, Are you to have but a hole to thrust your heads in? For she should pay ear rent? No agree, and may don provost ride a feasting lung

in his old velvet jerkin and stained scarfs. My noble sovereign and worthy general, how we contribute a new cruel garter to his most worsted worship.

Speaker 2

Royal doll spoken like Claridiana and.

Speaker 4

Thyself, for which at supper thou shalt sit in triumph, and not be styled doll common, but doll propper doll singular, the longest cut at night shall draw thee for his doll.

Speaker 1

Particular bell rings without who's that one?

Speaker 2

Rings? To the window?

Speaker 4

Doll, Exit Doll.

Speaker 2

Pray Heaven the master do not trouble us this quarter.

Speaker 4

Oh, fear not him. While there dies one a week of a plague. He's safe from thinking towards London. Besides, he's safe at his hot yards now. I had a letter from him. If he do, he'll send such words for airing of the house, as you shall have sufficient time to quit it. Though we break up a fortnight, tis no matter. Re enter Doll.

Speaker 2

Who is it Doll?

Speaker 3

A fine young quadling.

Speaker 4

Oh, my lawyer's clerk. I lighted on him last night in Holborn at the dagger. He would have. I told you of him, a familiar to rifle with at horses and win cups.

Speaker 3

Oh, let him in stay, who shall do it?

Speaker 4

Get you your robes on. I shall meet him as going.

Speaker 3

Out, And what shall I do not be seen away?

Speaker 4

Exit? Doll? Seen you very reserved enough?

Speaker 1

Exit allowed and retiring.

Speaker 4

God be with you, sir. I pray you let him know that I was here. His name is Dapper. I would gladly have stayed.

Speaker 7

But Captain I am here.

Speaker 4

Who is that he's come, I think, doctor, and to dapper good faith? Sir, I was going away.

Speaker 7

In truth, I am very sorry, captain.

Speaker 4

But I thought sure I would meet you.

Speaker 7

I I am very glad. I had a scurvy rite or two to make, and I had lent my watch last night to one that dines today at the sheriff's and so was robbed of my past time.

Speaker 1

Re enter subtle in his velvet cap and gown?

Speaker 7

Is this the cunning man?

Speaker 4

This is his worship?

Speaker 7

Is he a doctor?

Speaker 6

Yes?

Speaker 7

And have you broke with him, Captain? I?

Speaker 4

And how faith he does make the matter, sir? So dainty, I know not what to.

Speaker 7

Say, not so good, captain.

Speaker 4

Would I were fairly rid of it, believe me? Nay?

Speaker 7

Now you grieve me, sir? Why should you wish so? I dare assure you I'll not be ungrateful.

Speaker 4

I cannot think you will, sir. But the law is such a thing. And then he says, reads matter failing so lately.

Speaker 7

Read he was an ass and dealt sir with a fool.

Speaker 4

It was a clerk, sir, A clerk. Nay, hear me, sir? You know the law better?

Speaker 7

I think I should, sir. And the danger. You know I chewed the statute to you. You did so, and will I till then by this hand of flesh what I might never write? Good court hand? More if I discover what do you think of me? That I'm a SIUs?

Speaker 4

What's that?

Speaker 7

The turk was here? As one would say? Do you think I am a turk?

Speaker 4

I'll tell the doctor?

Speaker 7

So do good sweet to captain.

Speaker 4

Calm, noble doctor, pray thee. Let's prevail. This is the gentleman, and he is no Caius.

Speaker 2

Captain, I have returned you all my answer. I would do much, sir for your love, but this I neither may nor can.

Speaker 4

Tut do not say. So you deal now with a noble fellow, doctor, one that will thank you richly, and he is no Caius. Let that, sir, move you.

Speaker 2

Pray you forbear.

Speaker 4

He has four angels here.

Speaker 2

You do me wrong, good, sir doctor.

Speaker 4

We're in to tempt you with these spirits.

Speaker 2

To tempt my art and love, sir, to my peril for heaven. I scarce can think you are my friend, that so would draw me to a parent day.

Speaker 4

I'd draw you a horse, draw you and a halter, you and your flies together nay, good captain, that know no difference.

Speaker 2

Of men, good words, sir, good.

Speaker 4

Deeds, Sir doctor, dog's meat slight. I bring you no cheating climb, little clous or caravels that look as big as five and fifty and flesh and spit out secrets like hot custard coptain. Nor any melancholic underscribe shall tell

the vicar. But a special gentle that is the heir to forty marks a year, consorts with the small poets of the time, is the sole hope of his old grandmother, that knows the law and writes you six fair hands, is a fine clerk and has his ciphering perfect, will take his oath of the Greek Testament if need be in his pocket, and can court his mistress out of ovid. Nay, dear captain, did you not tell me so?

Speaker 7

Yes, But I'd have you use master doctor with some more respect.

Speaker 4

Hang him proud stag with his broad velvet head. But for your sake, i'd choke ere I wo change an article of breath with such a pup fist. Come, let's be gone.

Speaker 2

Going pray you let me speak with you.

Speaker 7

His worship calls you, captain.

Speaker 4

I am sorry I ever embarked myself in such a business.

Speaker 7

Nay, good, sir, he did call you.

Speaker 4

Will he take then?

Speaker 2

First hear me?

Speaker 4

Not a syllable, lest you take? Pray you, sir, upon no terms, but an assumpset.

Speaker 2

Your humor must be law.

Speaker 4

He takes the floor, angels, Why now, sir, talk Now? I dare hear you with mine honor speak? So may this gentleman too?

Speaker 1

Why sir offering to whisper face?

Speaker 2

No whispering, for heaven, you do not apprehend the loss you do yourself in this. We're in for what mary to be so importunate for one that, when he has it, will undo you all. He'll win up all the money in the town. How yes, and blow up gamester after gamester, as they do crackers in a puppet play. If I do give him a familiar, give you him all you play for, never set him, but he will have it.

Speaker 4

You are mistaken, doctor. Why he does ask one but for cups and horses, a riffling fly, none of your great familiars.

Speaker 7

Yes, captain, I would have it for all games.

Speaker 2

I told you so.

Speaker 4

Taking Dappa aside, slight, this is a new business. I understood you a tame bird to fly twice in a term or so on Friday nights, when you had left the office for a nag of forty or fifty shillings.

Speaker 7

I tis trussa, but I do think now I shall leave the law.

Speaker 4

And therefore why this change is quite the case? Do you think that I dare move him?

Speaker 7

If you please, sir, all's one to him?

Speaker 4

I see what for that money? I cannot with my conscience, nor should you make the request, methinks no.

Speaker 7

Sir, I mean to add consideration.

Speaker 4

Why then, sir, I'll try goes to subtle, say that it were for all games.

Speaker 2

Doctor, I say, then not a mouse shall eat for him at any ordinary, but on the score that is a gaming mouth. Conceive me. Indeed, he'll draw you all the treasure of the realm, if it be set him.

Speaker 4

Speak you this from art.

Speaker 2

I serend reason too the ground of art. He is of the only best complexion. The Queen of fairy loves what is he?

Speaker 3

Peace?

Speaker 2

All over? Hear you, sir? Should she but see him? What do not you tell him?

Speaker 4

Will he win at cards? Too?

Speaker 2

Ah? The spirits of dead holland living Isaac. You'd swear we're in him such a vigorous luck as cannot be resisted. Slight. He'll put six of your gallants to a cloak.

Speaker 4

Indeed, a strange success that some man shall be born to. He hears you, man, sir, I'll not be ungrateful. Faith I have confidence in his good nature. You hear, he says he will not be ungrateful.

Speaker 2

Why, as you please, My venture follows yours.

Speaker 4

Trot do it, doctor, Think him trusty and make him. He may make us both happy in an hour, win some five thousand pound and send us two unt.

Speaker 7

Believe it and I will, sir.

Speaker 4

And you shall, Sir takes him aside. You have heard all no what nothing, I sir, nothing A little sir, well, A rare star reigned in your birth.

Speaker 7

At mine, sir.

Speaker 4

No, the doctor swears that you.

Speaker 2

Are nay captain. You'll tell all now.

Speaker 4

Allied to the Queen of fairy, who that I am, believe it?

Speaker 7

No such matter?

Speaker 4

Yes, And then you were born with a call on your head, who said, so come you know it well enough, though you dissemble it.

Speaker 7

If face I do not, you are mistaken.

Speaker 4

Ha swear you by your fact and in a thing so known onto the doctor. How shall we, sir, trust you in the other matter? Can we ever think when you have one five or six thousand, you'll send us shares in it? By this right?

Speaker 7

By jove, sir, I'll win ten thousand pounds and send you half if faces no oath.

Speaker 2

No, no, he did, But jest.

Speaker 4

Go too, go fanky doctor. He's your friend to take it, So I thank his wiship. So another angel must I mustn't you slight? What else is fans? Will you be trivial? Doctor?

Speaker 1

Doctor gives him the money?

Speaker 4

When must he come for his familiar?

Speaker 7

Shall I not have it with me?

Speaker 6

Oh?

Speaker 2

Good, sir, there must a world of ceremonies pass. You must be bathed and fumigated first. Besides, the Queen of Fairy does not rise till it be noon, not if she danced to night, and she must bless it.

Speaker 4

Did you never see her royal grace yet, hum your aunt of Fairy, not.

Speaker 2

Since she kissed him in the cradle. Captain, I can resolve you.

Speaker 4

That well, see her grace, whate'er it cost you for a thing that I know it will be somewhat hard to compass. But however, see her you are made believe it. If you can see her her grace is a lone woman and very rich, and if she takes a fancy she will do strange things. See her at any hand slid. She may have to leave you all she has. It is the doctor's fear. How wilt be done? Then let me alone. Take you no thought? Do you but say to me, Captain, I'll see her grace.

Speaker 7

Captain, I'll see her grace enough.

Speaker 2

Within who's there anon aside to face? Conduct him forth by the back way, sir, against one o'clock. Prepare yourself till when you must be fasting. Only take three drops of vinegar in at your nose, two at your mouth, and one at either ear. Then bathe your fingers ends and wash your eyes to sharpen your five sentences, and cry hum thrice and then buzz as often, and then come exit.

Speaker 4

Can you remember this? I want you well? Then away it is but your bestowing some twenty nobles among her Grace's servants, and put on a clean shirt. You do not know what grace or grace may do you in clean linen.

Speaker 1

Excellant face and dappa within.

Speaker 2

Come in, good wives, I pray you for bear me now, troth, I can do you no good till afternoon.

Speaker 1

Re enters follows by Drugger.

Speaker 2

What is your name? Say you, able Drugger?

Speaker 6

Yes, sir, A seller.

Speaker 2

Of tobacco, Yes, sir, hm three of the grocer's ay, And it please you well your business able this and.

Speaker 8

Please your worship. I am a young beginner and am building of a new shop, and like your worship, just at corner of a street. Here's the plot on it. And I would know by art, Sir, of your worship, which way I should make my door by necromancy, and wear my shelves, and which should be for boxes and which for pots. I would be glad to thrive, sir. And I was wished to your worship by a gentleman one captain face that says, you know men's planets, and they're good angels and they're bad.

Speaker 2

I do if I see them, re Iner face.

Speaker 4

What my honest Abel, thou art well met here?

Speaker 8

Truth, Sir? I was speaking just as your worship came here. Of your worship, I pray you speak for me to master doctor.

Speaker 4

He shall do anything. Doctor. Do you hear? This is my friend Abel, an honest fellow. He lets me have good tobacco, and he does not sophisticate it with sack lees or oil, nor washes it in muscatel and grains, nor buries it in gravel underground, wrapped up in greasy leather or pisted clouds, but keeps it in fine lily pots that open smell like a conserve of roses or

French beans. He has maple block, his silver tongs, winchester pipes, and a fire of juniper, a neat spruce, honest fellow, and no goldsmith.

Speaker 2

He is a fortunate fellow that I am sure on.

Speaker 4

Already, sir, have you found it?

Speaker 2

Lowee abel and in a right way toward riches, sir. This summer he will be of the clothing of his company, and next spring called to the scarlet spend what he can what and so little beard, sir, you misthink he may have a receipt to make hair come, but he'll be wise, preserve his youth and fine for it. His fortune looks for him another way.

Speaker 4

Slid doctor, How canst thou know this so soon?

Speaker 2

I'm amused at that by a rule, captain in metaposcopy, which I do work, by a certain star of the forehead, which you see, not your chestnut or your olive colored face does never fail in your long eared promise. I knew it by certain spots too, in his teeth, and on the nail of his mercurial finger, which fingers that his little finger. Look, you were born upon a Wednesday.

Speaker 8

Yes, indeed, sir, the thumb.

Speaker 2

In cairomancy, we give Venus the forefinger to Jove, the midst to Saturn, the ring to sol the least to Mercury, who was the lord, sir, of his horoscope, his house of life being Libra, which fall showed he should be a merchant and should trade with balance.

Speaker 4

Why this is strange? Is it not honest?

Speaker 2

Now there is a ship now coming from Ormus that shall yield him such a commodity of drugs.

Speaker 1

Pointing to the plan, this is.

Speaker 2

The west, and this the south, Yes, sir, and those your two sides, ay sir, make me your door, then south, your broadside west, and on the east side of your shop aloft right mathl Tarmiel, and baraborat upon the north part rye l vellel fiel. They are the names of those mercurial spirits that do fright flies from boxes, yes, sir. And beneath your threshold bury me a loadstone to draw in gallants that wear spurs. The rest they'll seem to follow.

Speaker 4

That's a secret.

Speaker 2

Now, And on your stool a puppet with a vice and a court fucus to call city dames. You shall deal much with minerals.

Speaker 8

Sir, I have at home already.

Speaker 2

Ay, I know you have arsenic vitriol, sal tartar, argyle, alkali, cineper I know all this. Fellow captain will come in time to be a great distiller and give a say I will not say directly, but very fair at the philosopher's stone.

Speaker 4

Why how now able is this true? Aside to face good captain?

Speaker 8

What must I give?

Speaker 4

Nay, I'll not counsel thee thou hearest? What wealth? He says, spend what thou canst thou wert like to come to?

Speaker 8

I would give him a crown.

Speaker 4

A crown and towards such a fortune. Heart thou shalt rather give him a shop no gold about thee.

Speaker 8

Yes, I have a ported you. I have kept this half year.

Speaker 4

Out on thee nab slight. There was such an offer. Shalt keep it no longer. I'll give it him for thee doctor Nab. Praise your worship to drink this and swears he will appear more grateful as your skill does raise him in the world.

Speaker 8

I would entreat another favor of his worship. What isn't nab but to look over, sir, my almanac and cross out my ill days, that I may neither bargain nor trust upon.

Speaker 4

Them, that he shall nab leave it. It shall be done against afternoon.

Speaker 2

And a direction for his shelves.

Speaker 4

Now nab art thou well pleased?

Speaker 8

Ned, thanks sir, both your worships.

Speaker 4

Oh way, exit Drugger. Why now, you smoky persecutor of nature? Now do you see that something to be done? Beside your breech coal and your corrosive waters, your crosslots, crucibles and corcobytes, you must have stuff brought home to you to work on. And yet you think I am at no expense in searching out these veins and following them then trying them out. For God, my intelligence costs me more money than my share oft comes to in these rare works.

Speaker 2

You are pleasant, sir, re enter doll How now what says my dainty Dolkin.

Speaker 3

Yonder fish wife will not away? And there's your giant tess the board of Lambeth.

Speaker 2

Hard I cannot speak with them.

Speaker 3

Not a for night. I have told them in a voice through the trunk, like one of your familiars. But I have spied sir epicure mammon where coming along at far end of the lane. Slow of his feet, but earnest of his tongue to one that's with him.

Speaker 2

Face go you and shift exit face doll. You must presently make ready to two.

Speaker 3

Why what's the matter?

Speaker 9

Oh?

Speaker 2

I did look for him with the sun's rising, marvell he could sleep. This is the day I am to perfect for him, this magisterium, our great work, the stone and yielded made into his hands, of which he has this month talked as he were possessed. And now he's

dealing pieces. Aren't away, bethinks I see him entering ordinaries, dispensing for the pox and plaguey houses, reaching his dose, walking moor fields for lepers, and offering citizens wives pomonder bracelets as his preservative, made of the elixir, searching the spittle to make old boards young, and the highways for beggars to make rich. I see no end of his labors. He will make nature ashamed of her long sleep. When art who's but a step dame, shall do more than she,

in her best love to mankind ever could. If his dream lasts, he'll turn the age to go.

Speaker 1

Exant. End of Act one, Act two, Seen one. An outer room in Lovewit's house. Enter, sir, epicure mammon, and surly, come.

Speaker 5

On, sir. Now you set your foot on shore in nevu o'erbe. Here's the rich Peru, and there within, sir, are the golden mines. Great Solomon's o fear. He was sailing to it three years, but we have reached it in ten months. This is the day wherein to all my friends I will pronounce the happy word, be rich. This day you shall be spectatissime you shall learn more.

Deal with the hollowed die or the frail card. No more be a charge of keeping the livery punk for the young heir that must seal at all hours in his shirt. No more, if he deny, have him beaten to it as he is that brings him the commodity. No more shall thirst of Saturn, or the covetous hunger of velvet entrails for a rude spun cloak to be displayed at Madam Augustus make the sons of Sword and Hazard full before the golden calf and on their knees

whole nights. Commit I dulatry with wine and trumpets, or go a feasting after drum and ensign no more of this. You shall start up, young viceroys, and have your punks and punketees. My Shirley, and unto thee I speak it first.

Speaker 6

Be er ret chh.

Speaker 5

Wells, by subtle there within.

Speaker 4

O within, sir, here come to you by and.

Speaker 5

By that is his fire drake, his lungs, his zephirits, he that puffs his curls till he firk nature up in her own center. You are not faithful, sir. This night I'll change all that is metal in my house to gold. And early in the morning will I send to all the plumbers and the pewterers and buy their tin and lead up, and to Lothbury for all the copper.

Speaker 9

What and turn that too years and.

Speaker 5

I'll purchase Devonshire and Cornwall and make them perfect indeeds. You admire now no faith, But when you see the effect of the great men Madison, of which one part projected, or a hundred of mercury or venus or the moon shall turn it to as many of the sun, nay, to a thousand so add infinitum.

Speaker 9

You will believe me, Yes, when I see it, I will. And if my eyes do cousin me so, and I giving them no occasion, sure I'll have a whore, shall piss them out next day.

Speaker 5

H Why do you think I fable with you? I assure you he that has once the flower of the sun, the perfect ruby, which we call elixa, not only can do that, but by its virtue, can confer honor, love, respect, long life, give safety, valet yea, and victory to whom he will. In eight and twenty days, I'll make an old man of Falscore a.

Speaker 9

Child, now dab is that already?

Speaker 6

Nay?

Speaker 5

I mean, restore his years, renew him like an eagle to the fifth age, make him get sons and daughters, young giants, as our philosophers have done the ancient patriarchs afore the flood. But taking once a week at a knife's point the quantity of a grain of mustard, of it become stout marses, and beget young cupids.

Speaker 9

The decayed vestals of pickt hatch would thank you that keep the fire alive.

Speaker 5

There tis the secret of nature naturalized against all infections, cures old diseases, coming of all causes, amongst grief. For a day are years in twelve, and of what age soever in a month past all the doses of your drugging doctors. I'll undertake with o to fright the plague of the kingdom in three months.

Speaker 9

And I'll be bound. The players shall sing your praises them without their poets.

Speaker 5

Sir, I'll do it meantime. I'll give away so much unto my man, shall serve the whole city with preservative weekly, each house his days, and at the rate.

Speaker 9

As he that built the water works does with water. You are incredulous faith, I have a humor. I would not willingly be gulled. Your stone cannot transmute me.

Speaker 5

Patraks my sally. Will you believe antiquity records? I'll show you a book where Moses and his sister and Sullivan have written of the art Ay, and a treatise penned by Adam, how of the Philosopher's Stone, And in high Dutch.

Speaker 9

Did Adam writ, Sir, in high Dutch he did.

Speaker 5

Which proves it was the primitive town? What paper on cedar board.

Speaker 9

Oh that indeed, they say will last against words.

Speaker 5

Tis like your Irish wood against cobwebs. I've a piece of Jason's fleece, too, which was no other than a book of alchemy, ritty large sheep skin, a good fat ram vellum. Such was Pythagoras's thigh, Pandora's top, and all that fable of Medea's charms, the manner of our work.

The bulls our furnace, still breathing fire, our argent v v. The dragon, the dragon's teeth, mercury, sublimate that keeps the whiteness, hardness, and the biting, And there gather'd into Jason's helm, the alembic, and then sow'd in mars his field, and thence sublime, so often till they're fix'd both this the Hesperian garden, Cadmas his story, Jove Shower, the boone, and Nidas Argas's eyes, Boccacci is Demogorgon, thousands more, all abstract riddles of our stone.

Speaker 1

And to face as a servant.

Speaker 5

Oh now do we succeed? Is our day come and holds it?

Speaker 4

The evening will set red upon you, sir. You have color for it Crimson the red ferment has done his office three hours. Hence prepare you to see.

Speaker 5

Projection partodox by Sally Again. I say to thee aloud, be rich this day thou shalt have ingots, and tomorrow give lords the affront? Is it massif IRUs right blushes the boat's.

Speaker 4

Head like a wench with child, Sir, that were but now discovered to her.

Speaker 5

Master, excellent witty lungs. My only care where to get stuffy enough now to project on this towel will not half serve.

Speaker 4

Me, no, sir, by the covering off the churches, that's true. Yes, let them stand bare as do their auditory, or cap them new with shingles.

Speaker 5

No good thatch. Thatch will lie light upon the rafters, lungs, lungs. I will manumit thee from the furnace. I will restore thee thy complexion puff lost in the embers, and repair this brain hurt with the fume of the metals.

Speaker 4

I have blown, sir, hard for your worship, thrown by many a coal when twas not beach. Wait those I put in just to keep your heat still. Even those bleared eyes have waked to read your several colors, sir, of the pari citron, the green lion, the crow, the peacock's tail, the plume swan.

Speaker 5

And lastly thou hast descried the flower the sung with unye. Yes, sir, where's master.

Speaker 4

And his prayers?

Speaker 10

Sir?

Speaker 4

He good man, he's doing his devotions for the success, lungs.

Speaker 5

I will set a period to all thy labors. Thou shalt be the master of my sir ralio good sir. But do you hear I'll guild you lungs, yes, sir, for I do mean to have a list of wives and concubines equal with Solomon, who had the stone alike with me. And I will make me aback with the elixir that shall be as tough as hercules to encounter fifty at knight, Thou show thou sort'sts.

Speaker 4

It blood, both blood and spirit.

Speaker 8

Sir.

Speaker 5

I will have all my beds blown up, not stuffed down is too hard, And then mine oval room filled with such pictures as Tiberius took from Eliphantis and dull Aretine, but coldly imitated. Then my glasses cut in more angles to disperse and multiply the figures. As I walk naked between my sacubay, my mists. I'll have of perfume vapid about the room to lose ourselves in, and my baths like pits to fall into. From whence we will come

forth and roll as dry and gossamer and roses. Is it arriv'd at ruby Where I spy a wealthy citizen or a rich lawyer, have a sublime, pure wife. Unto that fellow, I'll send a thousand pound to be my cuckold.

Speaker 4

And I shall carry it.

Speaker 5

No, I'll have no boards, but fathers and mothers, they will do it best best of all others. And my flatterers shall be the pure and gravest of divines that I can get for money, my mere fools, eloquent burgesses, and then my poets, the same that riched so subtle of the fart, whom I will entertain still for that subject, the few that would give out themselves to be court and town stallions, and each where bellaie ladies who are

known most innocent. For them, those will I beg to make me eunuchs of And they shall find me with ten estrich tails, apiece made in a plume to gather wind. We will be brave puff. Now we have the medicine. My meat shall all come in Indian shells, dishes of agate, set in gold and studded with emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies, the tongues of carps, dormice, and camel's heels, boiled in a spirit of soul and dissolved pearl aspicies's diet against

the epilepsy. And I will eat these broths with spoons of amber, headed with diamond and carbuncle. My foot boy shall eat pheasants, carver'd salmons, knots, godwits, lampreys. I thyself will have the beards of bibles serv'd instead of salads, oiled mushrooms, and the swelling, unctuous PEPs of a fat pregnant sow, newly cut off, dress'd with an exquisite and poignant sauce, for which i'll see unto my cook there's gold. Go forth and be a knight, sir.

Speaker 4

I'll go look a little how it heightens exit my shirts.

Speaker 5

I'll have of taffet as sassnet, soft and light as cobwebs. And for all my other arrayment it shall be as might provoke the Persian, were he to teach the world riot anew, my gloves of fishes and bird skins, perfum'd with gums of paradise and eastern air.

Speaker 9

And do you think to have the stone with this?

Speaker 5

No? I do think to have all this with the stone.

Speaker 9

Why I have heard it must be Homo frugi, a pious, holy and religious man, one free from mortal sin, a very virgin.

Speaker 5

That brings it c sar. He is so, but I buy it. My venture brings it me. He honest wretch, a notable, superstitious good soul, has worn his knees bare and his slippers bold with prayer and fasting for it. And sir, let him do it alone for me. Still here he comes not a profane word afore him tis poison and the subtle good borrow.

Speaker 2

Father, gentle son, good morrow, and your friend there? What is he is with you?

Speaker 5

A heretic that I did bring along in hops are to convert him?

Speaker 2

Son, I doubt you are covetous that thus you meet your time in the just point, prevent your day at morning. This argue something worthy of a fear of importune and carnal appetite. Take heed, you do not cause the blessing

leave you with your ungoverned haste. I should be sorry to see my labors even now at perfection, got by long watching and large patience, not prosper where my love and zeal hath placed them, which Heaven I call to witness with yourself, to whom I have pulled my thoughts in all my ends have looked no way, but unto public good, to pious uses and dear charity, have grown

a prodigy with men. Wherein if you, my son, should now prevaricate, and to your own particular lusts employ so great and catholic a bliss, be sure a curse will follow yea and overtake your subtle and most secret ways.

Speaker 5

I know, sir, uh, you shall not need to fear me. I but come to have you confused.

Speaker 9

This gentleman, who is, indeed, Sir, somewhat costive of belief towards your stone, would not be gulled.

Speaker 2

Well son, All that I can convince him in is this The work is done. Bright soul is in his robe. We have a medicine of the triple soul, the glorified spirit. Thanks be to Heaven and make us worthy of it. Ullin Spiegel within on an sir, look well to the register, and let your heat still lessen by degrees to the alliadels within. Yes, sir, did you look on the bolt's head yet?

Speaker 4

Within which aunt dee?

Speaker 2

Sir, ay, what's the complexion within? We'll whitish, infuse vinegar to draw his volatile substance and his tincture. Let the water and glass e be filtered and put into the gripes eig loot him well and leave him closed in bownio.

Speaker 9

Then I will, sir, what a brave language is here? Next to canting.

Speaker 2

I have another work you never saw, son, that three days since passed the philosopher's wheel in the lent heat of athenol and become the sulfur of nature.

Speaker 5

But it is for me?

Speaker 2

What need you? You have enough in you that is perfect? Oh, but why this is covetous, No.

Speaker 5

I assure you I shall employ it all impious uses found your colleges and grammar schools, marrying young virgins, building hospitals, and now and then a church.

Speaker 4

Re enter face, how now, sir, please you, shall I not change the filter?

Speaker 2

Marry yes, and bring me the complexion.

Speaker 4

Of glass b exit face?

Speaker 5

Have you another?

Speaker 2

Yes? Son? Were I assured your piety were firm, we would not want the means to glorify it. But I hope the best. I mean to tink to sea in sand heat to morrow and give him imbibition of white oil. No, sir, of red f is, come over the helm too. I thank my maker in s Mary's bath and shows lack Virginie, blessed be Heaven. I sent you of his species there calcined out of that calcus, I have won the salt of mercury.

Speaker 5

By pouring on your rectified.

Speaker 2

Water, Yes, and reverberating in athenore and a face. How now, what color? Says it?

Speaker 4

The ground? Black?

Speaker 5

Sir? That's your crewise head.

Speaker 9

Your coxcomb's, is it not?

Speaker 10

No?

Speaker 2

Tis not perfect? Would it were? The crow that work wants something aside?

Speaker 9

Oh? I looked for this, the hazer pitching.

Speaker 2

Are you sure you loosed them in their own men.

Speaker 4

Strew, yes, sir, and then married them and put them in a bolt's head, riched to digestion, according as you bade me. When I set the liquor of mars to circulation in the.

Speaker 2

Same heat, the process then was right.

Speaker 4

Yes, by the token, sir, the retort brake, and what was saved was put into the pelican and signed with Hermi's seal.

Speaker 2

I think twas so we should have a new amalgama a signed.

Speaker 9

Oh, this ferry is rank as any pole can.

Speaker 2

But I cannot let him even die. We have enough beside an embrion. He is his white shirt on.

Speaker 4

Yes, sir, he's ripe for insurration. He stands warm in his ash fire. I would not you should let any die. Now, if I might counsel, sir, for luck's sake, to the rest. It is not good, he says, right a sign?

Speaker 9

Ay are you bolted?

Speaker 4

Nay? I know it, sir, I have seen the ill fortune? What is some three ounces of fresh materials?

Speaker 8

Is no more?

Speaker 4

No more, sir? Of gold to algamine with some six of mercury.

Speaker 5

OUI here's money? What will sell?

Speaker 4

Ask him, sir?

Speaker 5

How much?

Speaker 2

Give him nine pounds? You may give him ten?

Speaker 9

Yes, twenty, and be cousin to do third will give his face.

Speaker 2

The money this needs not but that you will have it. So to see conclusions of all, For two of our inferior works are at vexation, a third is in ascension. Go your ways. Have you set the oil of Luna in Kemia?

Speaker 4

Yes, sir, and.

Speaker 2

The philosopher's vinegar.

Speaker 9

I exit, we shall have a salad when you make projection.

Speaker 2

Son, be not hasty. I exalt our medicine by hanging him in balnio vaporoso and giving him solution, then congeal him, and then dissolve him, then again congeal him. For look, how oft I iterate the work so many times I add and his virtue, as if at first one ounce convert a hundred after his second loose, he'll turn a thousand his third solution, ten his fourth, a hundred after his fifth, a thousand thousand ounces of any imperfect metal into pure silver or gold in all examinations, as good

as any of the natural mine. Get you your stuff here against afternoon, your brass, your pewter, and your.

Speaker 6

And ions, not those of iron.

Speaker 2

Yes, you may bring them to will change all metals.

Speaker 9

I believe you in that.

Speaker 5

Then I may shed my.

Speaker 9

Spits, Yes, and your racks and tripping pans and pot hangers and hooks. Shall he not if he please to be an ass.

Speaker 5

How sir, this gentleman, you must bear withal I told you he had.

Speaker 9

No faith and little hope, Sir, that much less charity should I gull myself.

Speaker 2

Why what have you observed, sir? In our art seems so impossible.

Speaker 9

But your whole work no more that you should hatch gold in a furnace, Sir, as they do eggs in Egypt.

Speaker 4

Sir?

Speaker 2

Do you believe that eggs are hatched?

Speaker 9

So if I should, why.

Speaker 2

I think that the greater miracle no egg, but differs from a chicken more than metals in themselves.

Speaker 9

That cannot be the eggs ordained by nature to that end, and is a chicken in potensia.

Speaker 2

The same we say of lead and other metals, which would be gold if they had time.

Speaker 5

And that our art doth further, I.

Speaker 2

For twere absurd to think that nature in the earth breed gold perfect in the instant something went before. There must be remote matter.

Speaker 9

I what is that?

Speaker 2

Marry? We say, hey, Now.

Speaker 5

It heats stand father, pound him to dust.

Speaker 2

It is of the one part a humid exhalation, which we call material liquida, or the unctuous water, on the other part a certain crass and vicious portion of earth, both which concorporate do make the elementary matter of gold, which is not yet proper a materia, but common to all metals, and all stones. For where it is forsaken of that moisture and hath more dryness, it becomes a stone. Where it retains more of the humid fatness, it turns to sulfur, or to quicksilver, who are the parents of

all other metals. Nor can this remote matter suddenly progress so from extreme unto extreme as to grow unto gold and leap o'er all the means. Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then precede she to the perfect of that airy and oily water. Mercury is engendered sulfur of the fat and earthy part, the one which is the last, supplying the place of male, the other of the female. In all metals. Some do believe hermaphrodity, that both do

act and suffer. But these two make the rest ductile, malleable, extensive, and even in gold they are, for we define seeds of them by our fire, and gold in them, and can produce the species of each metal more perfect vent than nature doth in earth. Besides, who doth not see in daily practice art can beget bees, hornets, beetles, wasps out of the carcasses and dung of creatures. Yea scorpio

it's of an herb being rightly placed. And these are living creatures, far more perfect and excellent than metals.

Speaker 5

Well said father. Nay, if we take you in hand, sir, with an argument, he'll bray you in a mortar.

Speaker 9

Pray you, sir, stay, rather than I'll be braid sir. I'll believe that alchemy is a pretty kind of game, somewhat like tricks of the cards to cheat a man

with charming Sir? What else are all your terms? Whereon no one of your writers grees with other of your elixir, your lack vyginis your stone, your medicine, and your chryso sperm, your sow, your sulfur, your mercury, your oil of height, your tree of life, your blood, your march site, your twote, your magnesia, your toad, your crow, your dragon and your panther, your sun, your moon, your firmament. You're a drop, your

latto azok zenich chibrite hoiter it. And then your red man and your white woman and all your broths, your men's strews and materials of piss and eggshell, women's terms and men's blood hair are the head burnt clouts, chalk, merds and clay, powder of bones, scalings of iron, glass, and worlds of other strange ingredients would burst a man to name.

Speaker 2

And all these named intending but one thing, which art our writers used to obscure their art.

Speaker 5

So I told him, because the simple idiot should not learn it and make it vulgar.

Speaker 2

Was not all the knowledge of the Egyptian's written mystic symbols speak not the scriptures. Often parables are not the choicest fables of the poets. That were the fountains and first springs of wisdom wrapped in perplexed allegories.

Speaker 5

I urge that, and clared to him that Sisyphus was dumb to roll the ceaseless stone only because he would obeit. Owl's common as at the door?

Speaker 3

Oh is this s precious?

Speaker 2

What do you mean? Go in, good lady, Let me.

Speaker 4

Entreat you, dolly tires?

Speaker 2

Where's this vallet re?

Speaker 4

Interface?

Speaker 2

Sir, you very knave? Do you use me thus worry?

Speaker 5

Sir?

Speaker 2

Go in and see you traitor?

Speaker 4

Go exit face?

Speaker 5

Who is it? Sir?

Speaker 2

Nothing, sir? Nothing?

Speaker 5

What's the matter, A good sir? I have not seen you thus distempered?

Speaker 2

Who ist all arts have still had?

Speaker 6

Sir?

Speaker 2

Their adversaries, but as the most ignorant re interface.

Speaker 4

What now twas not my fault, sir. She would speak with you what she sir? Follow me, exit stopping him?

Speaker 6

Stay lung I dare not.

Speaker 5

Sir, stay man.

Speaker 4

What is she a lord's sister? Sir?

Speaker 5

Oh, pray thee. Stay.

Speaker 4

She's mad, sir, and sent hither. He'll be mad too.

Speaker 5

I warrant thee. Why send hither, sir, to be cured with?

Speaker 9

Then?

Speaker 2

Why rascal?

Speaker 4

Hello you here, sir?

Speaker 5

Exit for God a bradamante, a brave peace harm.

Speaker 9

This is a body house.

Speaker 5

I'll be burnhelse oh by delie know, do not wrong him. He's too screw plus that way it is his vice. No, he's a rare physician. Do him right, an excellent Paracelsian, and has done strange cures with mineral physique. He deals all with spirits. He he will not hear a word of Galen or his tedious recipes.

Speaker 4

Face. Oh, now, lungs softly, sir, speak softly. I meant to have told your worship all this must not hear.

Speaker 5

No, he will not be golled. Let him alone.

Speaker 4

You are very right, sir. She is a most rare scholar, and has gone mad with studying Broughton's works. If you but name a word touching the Hebrew, she falls into her fit and will discourse so learnedly of genealogies as you would run mad too to hear her.

Speaker 5

Sir, how might one do it? Have conference with her lungs? Oh?

Speaker 4

Diverse have run mad upon the conference? I do not know, Sir. I am sent in haste to fetch a vial.

Speaker 9

Be not gold, sir, mammon, we're in pray. Be patient, yes as you are, and trust confederate knaves and bulls and oars.

Speaker 5

You are too foul, believe it? Come here, Ulin, one word.

Speaker 4

I dare not in good faith going stay knave. He is extremely angry that you saw her, Sir, drink that gives him money.

Speaker 5

What is she when she's out of her fit?

Speaker 9

Oh?

Speaker 4

The most affable creature, sir, So mary, so pleasant. She'll mount you up like quicksilver over the helm, and circular like oil, a very vegetable discourse of state of mathematics body anything?

Speaker 5

Is she in no way accessible? No means, no trick to give him out a taste of her wit?

Speaker 4

Or so within Ulin, I'll come to you again sir, exit surly.

Speaker 5

I do not think one of your breedy would us parsonages of worth.

Speaker 9

Sir, epicure your friend to use, yet still loath to be gold. I do not like your philosophical bulls. Their stone is lechery enough to pay for Without this beat.

Speaker 5

Heart, you abuse yourself. I know the lady and her friends and means the original of this disaster. Her brother has told.

Speaker 9

Me all, and yet you never saw her till now.

Speaker 5

Oh, yes, but I forgot I have. I believe it one of the treacherous test memories. I do think of old mankind.

Speaker 9

What call you her brother?

Speaker 5

My lord? He will not have his name known now, I think aunt.

Speaker 9

A very treacherous memory on my faith. Tut if you have it not about you, pass it till we meet next.

Speaker 5

Nay, by this hand, it tis true, is what I honor and my noble friend, and I respect his house.

Speaker 9

Huh Can it be that a grave sir, a rich that has no need, A wise sir too at other times, should thus, with his own oaths and arguments, make hard means to gull himself. And this be your elixir, Your lapis mineralis, and your lunary. Give me your honest trick. Yes, at primero or gleek, and take your lutum sapientis and your menstrums simplex. I'll have gold before you, and with less danger of the quicksilver or the hot sulfur re.

Speaker 4

And to face, here's one from Captain face. Sir too surly desires you meet him in the temple church some half hour heads and upon earnest business, Sir whispers, mammon, if you wish to quit us now and come again within two hours, you shall have my master busy examining all the works, and I will steal you in under the party that you may see her converse sir, may I say you'll meet the captain's worship.

Speaker 9

Sir, I will walks aside, But bunturjourney and to a second purpose. Now I'm sure is a bodyhouse. I'll swear it, were the marshal here to thank me. The naming of this commander doth confirm it, don face. Why is the most authentic dealer in these commodities? The superintendent of all the quainter traffickers in town? He is their visitor, And doth a point who lies with whom and at what hour? What price? Which gown, and what smock, what fall? What

tire him? Will I prove by a third person to find the subtleties of this dark labyrinth, which if I do discover, dear sir, mammon, I'll give your poor friend leave, though no philosopher to laugh for you that artis thought. Shall weep, sir?

Speaker 4

He does pray you'll not forget.

Speaker 9

I will not, sir, sir epicure, I shall leave you exit.

Speaker 5

I follow you street, But do.

Speaker 4

So good, sir, to avoid suspicion. This gentleman has a parlor's head.

Speaker 5

But wilt thou olen be constant to thy promise as my life, sir? And wilt thou insinuate what I am and praise me and say I am a noble.

Speaker 4

Fellow, or what else, sir? And that you'll make her royal with a stone, an empress, and yourself king of Batham.

Speaker 5

Wilt thou do this?

Speaker 4

Will I?

Speaker 6

Sir?

Speaker 5

Lungs my lungs.

Speaker 4

I love thee Send your stuff, sir, that my master may busy himself about projection.

Speaker 5

Thou hast witched me rogue.

Speaker 4

Take go, give some money your jack and all, sir.

Speaker 5

Thou art a villain. I will send by jack and the weights to slave. I could bite thine ear away. Thou dost not care for.

Speaker 11

Me, not I, sir, come, I was born.

Speaker 5

To make thee my good weasel. Sit there on a bench, and have thee twirl a chain with the best lords of Erman.

Speaker 11

Of them all away, sir, a count n a count Pelatine could sir go, shall not advance thee better, no nor faster.

Speaker 1

Exit re ander, subtle and dull?

Speaker 2

Has he bit?

Speaker 4

Has he bit and swallowed to my subtle? I have given him line? And now he plays our faith?

Speaker 2

And shall we twitch him.

Speaker 4

Through both the gills. A wench is a rare bait in which a man is no sooner taken. But he's straight, firks, mad, dull.

Speaker 2

My lord Wat's ISM's sister, you must now bear yourself statelessh.

Speaker 3

Oh, let me alone. I'll not forget my race, I warrant you. I'll keep my distance, laugh and talk aloud, have all the tricks of a proud scurvy lady, and be as rude as her woman.

Speaker 4

Well said Sanguine.

Speaker 2

But will he send his hand ions his.

Speaker 4

Jack to an iron shoeing horn. I have spoke to him, well, I must not lose my wary gamester yonder.

Speaker 2

Oh monsieur caution that will not be gulled.

Speaker 4

Ay if I can strike a fine hoal gunwim Now the temple church, there I have cast my an angle. Well, pray for me all about it, knocking without what more?

Speaker 2

Gudgeons doll.

Speaker 4

Scout, Scout Doll goes to the window.

Speaker 2

Stay face, you must go to the door. Pray God, it be my ana Baptist. Who ist Doll?

Speaker 3

I know him not? He looks like a gold end man odd.

Speaker 2

So tis he he said he would send what call you in the sanctified elder that should deal for Mammon's jack and Dandyon's Let him in. Stay, help me off first with my gown.

Speaker 1

Exit face with a gown.

Speaker 2

Away, Madam, to your withdrawing chamber.

Speaker 4

Exit doll.

Speaker 2

Now in a new tune, new gesture, but old language. This fellow is sent from one negotiates with me about the stone too, for the holy brethren of Amsterdam, the exiled saints that hope to raise their discipline by it. I must use him in some strange fashion now to make him admire me.

Speaker 1

Enter anoneus allowed, Where is my drudge re Enter face sir.

Speaker 2

Take away the recipient and rectify your menstry from the flegma. Then pour it on the soul and the cocuabite, and let the maserrate together.

Speaker 4

Yes, sir, and save the ground.

Speaker 2

No terror, damn notta must not have entrance in the work.

Speaker 10

Who are you a faithful brother? If it please you?

Speaker 2

What's that a lullionist, a ripley phileas artist? Can you sublime and dulcify calcinae? Know you the sapor pontic, sapau stippic, or what is homogene or heterogene?

Speaker 10

I understand and know he's in a language true.

Speaker 2

Heathen you nipperdoling is ours sacra or chrysopoeia or spagyerica, or the pamphysic or panarchic knowledge a heathen language Heathen Greek.

Speaker 12

I trecate how heathen Greek all's heathen.

Speaker 2

But the hebu sirah my varlet stand you forth and speak to him like a philosopher. Answer in the language. Name the vexations and the martyrizations of metals in the work.

Speaker 4

Sir, putrification, solution, ablution, sublimation, corrobation, calcination, sorration and fixation, This is.

Speaker 2

Heathen Greek to you. Now? And when comes.

Speaker 4

Vivification after mortification?

Speaker 2

What's cohobation?

Speaker 4

Tis the pouring on your aquaageous and then drawing him off to the trine circle of the seven spheres?

Speaker 2

What's the proper passion of metals malleation? What's your ultimum supplicuum ari antimmonium? This is heathen Greek to you? And what's your mercury?

Speaker 4

A very fugitive he will be gone, sir? How know you him by his viscosity, his oliosity, and his suscibility.

Speaker 2

How do you sublime him with.

Speaker 4

A calceat of egg shells of white marble.

Speaker 2

Talc Your magisterium now wants that shifting, sir, your elements dry into cold, cold, into moist, moist into hot, hot into dry. This is heathen Greek to you. Still your lapis philosophicus.

Speaker 4

Kiss a stone and not a stone, a spirit, a soul and a body which, if you do dissolve it is dissolved. If you coagulate, it is coagulated. If you make it to fly, it flieth enough exit face.

Speaker 2

This is heathen Greek to you. What are you, sir?

Speaker 10

Please? You a servant of the exiled brethren that deal with widows and with orphans goods and make a just account until the saints a decon.

Speaker 2

Oh, you are sent from Master wholesome, your teacher.

Speaker 10

From the Tribulacion the whole sun are very zealous, pastor good.

Speaker 2

I have some orphans goods to come here of what kind, sir? Pewter and brass, and irons and kitchen where metals that we must use our medicine on wherein the brethren may have a penny worth for ready money?

Speaker 10

Why the orphans parents? Sincere professors?

Speaker 2

Why do you ask?

Speaker 10

Because wesa a not to deal justly and give in truth their utmost value.

Speaker 2

Slid you'd cousin else? And if their parents were not of the faithful, I will not trust you now, I think on it till I have talked with your pastor. Have you brought money to buy more coals?

Speaker 5

No?

Speaker 12

Sali, No, how so the brethren bid me say unto your sir, surely they must not venture any more till the day may see projecsion. How you have had for the instruments as ricks and loam and glasses already thirty varnd and for materials, they say, some ninety more, and they have heard since that one at Heidelberg made it of an egg and a small paper of pin dust.

Speaker 2

What's your name? My name is Unanias, out the varlet that cozened the apostles, hence away flea mischief. Had your holy consistory no name to send me of another sound than wicked Ananius. Send your elders hither to make atonement for you quickly and give me satisfaction. Or out goes the fire and down the alembics in the furnace, Piger Henricus or what not. Now wretch both Seracon and Bufos. I'll be lost. Tell them all hope of rooting out.

The bishops of the anti Christian hierarchy shall perish if they stay three score minutes, that a quiety, teriety and sulfuriety shall run together again, and all should be annulled. Thou wicked andaneus, exit anneas this will fetch them and make them haste towards their gulling. More, a man must deal like a rough nurse and fright those that are frowed. To an appetite re and a.

Speaker 1

Face in his uniform followed by a drugger.

Speaker 4

He is busy with his spirit, but will upon him.

Speaker 2

How now, what mates? What bayards have we here?

Speaker 4

I told you he would be furious, Sir, Here's Nab has brought you another piece of gold to look on. We must appease him, give it to me and praise you. You would devise? What is it? Nab?

Speaker 6

A sign, sir ah, A good.

Speaker 4

Lucky one, a thriving sign.

Speaker 2

Doctor, I was devising.

Speaker 4

Now slight, do not say so? He will repent he gave you any more? What say you to his constellation? Doctor the ballance?

Speaker 2

No, that way is stale and common. A townsman born in Taurus gives the bull or the bull's head in aries the ram a poor device. No, I will have his name formed in some mystic character whose radii, striking the senses of the passes by, shall by a virtual influence, breed affections that may result upon the party owns it.

As Thus, Nah, he shall have a bell that's Abel, and by its standing one whose name is D in a rug gown, there's D and rug that's drug and right anainst him a dog snarling er, there's drug er Abel drug er that's his sign. And here is now mystery and hieroglyphic.

Speaker 4

Able thou art made, Sir, I do think his worship six of thy legs more will not do it now he is brought to a private tobacco doctor.

Speaker 8

Yes, Sir, I have another thing. I would impart out with it now, Sir. There is lodged hard by me, a which young widow.

Speaker 4

Good, a bona roba, but nineteen at the most very good Abel Mary.

Speaker 8

She's not in fashion yet. She wears a hood, but it stands a.

Speaker 4

Cop no matter, Abel, and.

Speaker 8

I do now and then give her a fucus.

Speaker 4

What dost thou deal?

Speaker 2

Nab, I did tell you.

Speaker 8

Captain, and physic too sometimes, sir, for which she trusts me with all her mind. She's come up here of purpose to learn the.

Speaker 4

Fashion good is match too on Nab.

Speaker 8

And she does strangely long to know her fortune Odd's lid.

Speaker 4

Nab send her to a doctor hither.

Speaker 8

Yes, I have spoke to her of his worship already, but she's afraid it will be blown abroad and hurt her marriage.

Speaker 4

Heard it, sheis a way to heal it. If toward hurt twould make it more follow and sought, Nab, thou shalt tell her this she'll be more known, more talked of. And your widows are near of any price till they be famous. Their honor is their multitude of suitors. Send her. It may be thy good fortune. What thou dost not know, No.

Speaker 8

Sir, she'll never marry under a knight. Her brother has made a vow.

Speaker 4

What and dost thou to spare my little Nab? Knowing what the doctor has set down for thee and seeing so many of the city dubbed one glass of thy water with a matam, I know will have it done, Nab. What's your brother a knight.

Speaker 8

No, sir. A gentleman newly warm in his land, Sir, scarce cold in his one in twenty that does govern his sister here, and is a man himself of some three thousand a year, and is come up to learn to quarrel and to live by his wits, and will go down again and die in the country. How to quarrel, yes, sir, to carry quarrels as gallants do, to manage them by line slid nap.

Speaker 4

The doctor is the only man in Christendom.

Speaker 10

For him.

Speaker 4

He has made a table with mathematical demonstrations touching the art of quarrels. He will give him an instrument to quarrel. Go bring them both him and his sister, and for thee with her. The doctor happily may persuade go too, shalt give his worship a new damask suit upon the premises.

Speaker 2

Oh, good, captain.

Speaker 4

He shall. He is the honestest fellow doctor. Stay not no offers. Bring the damask and the parties.

Speaker 8

I'll try my power, sir.

Speaker 4

And I will too.

Speaker 2

Nab tis good tobacco. This what just announce?

Speaker 4

He'll send you a pound doctor, Oh no, he will do it. It is the goodest soul able about it. Thou shalt know more. Anon away be gone, exits able a miserable rogue, and lives with cheese, and has the worms. That was the cause. Indeed why he came. Now he dealt with me in private to get medicine for them.

Speaker 2

And shall, sir, this works.

Speaker 4

A wife a wife for one on us, My dear souttle will even draw lots, and he that fails shall have the more in goods the other has entail.

Speaker 2

Rathertheless, she may be so light, she may want grains.

Speaker 4

Aye, or be such a burden a man would scarce endure her for the hall faith best.

Speaker 2

Let's see her first and then determine content.

Speaker 4

But dor may have no breath on it.

Speaker 2

Mum, away you to your surly yonder, catch him.

Speaker 4

Pray God, I have not stayed too long.

Speaker 2

I fear it excellent.

Speaker 1

And of Act two, Act three, Scene one, the lane before love its house, and a tribulation wholesome and anonyus.

Speaker 13

These chastisements are common to the saints, and such rebukes we of the separation must bear with willing shoulders, as the trials sent forth to tempt our frailties impure zeal.

Speaker 10

I do not like the man. He is a heazin and speaks the language of Canaan.

Speaker 13

Truly, I think him a profane person.

Speaker 10

Indeed, he passed the visible mark of the beast in his forehead, and for his stone. It is a work of darkness, and with philosophy blinds the eyes of man.

Speaker 13

Good brother, we must bend unto all means that may give furtherance to the holy cause.

Speaker 10

Which his cannot. The sanctified cause should have a sanctified.

Speaker 13

Cause not always necessary. The children of perdition are ofttimes made instruments, even of the greatest works. Besides, we should give somewhat to man's nature the place he lives in, Still about the fire and fume of metals that intoxicate the brain of man and make him prone to passion. Where have you greater atheists than your cooks, or more profane or choleric than your last men, more anti Christian than your bell founders. What makes the devil so devilish?

I would ask you, Sathan, our common enemy. But his being perpetually about the fire and boiling brimstone and arsenic we must give, I say, unto the motives and the stirrs up of humors in the blood. It may be so, when as the work is done the stone is made, this heat of his may turn into a zeal and stand up for the beauteous discipline against the menstruous cloth and rag of Rome. We must await his calling and the coming of the good spirit. You did fault to

upbraid him with the brethren's blessing of Heidelberg. Weighing what need we have to hasten on the work for the restoring of the silenced saints, which ne'er will be but by the philosopher's stone, And so a learned elder one of Scotland assured me, our ramportobile being the only medicine for the civil magistrate to incline him to a feeling of the cars, and must be daily used in the disease.

Speaker 10

I have not edified more truly by man, not since the beautiful light first shone on me. And I am sad, my zeal that's so offended.

Speaker 13

Let us call on him.

Speaker 10

Then the muscion's good and of the spirit, I will knock fast knocks, peace be within.

Speaker 1

The door is opened, and they enter scene too, a room in Lovewit's house, and to subtle, followed by tribulation and anonyus, Oh.

Speaker 2

You come twas time your three school minutes were at last thread you see, and down had gone furnace a sea taris circulatorious lembic, bolt said retort, and pelican, it all been cinders, wicked inaneus art thou returned, Nay, then it goes down.

Speaker 13

Yet, sir, be appeased. He has come to humble himself in spirit, and to ask your patience. If too much Zeal hath carried him aside from the due.

Speaker 2

Path, why this doth qualify.

Speaker 13

The brethren had no purpose verily to give you the least grievance, but are ready to lend their willing hands to any project the spirit, and you direct.

Speaker 2

This qualifies more.

Speaker 13

And for the orphan's goods, let them be valued, or what is needful else to the holy work. It shall be numbered. Here by me the saints throw down their purse before you.

Speaker 2

This qualifies most. Why thus it should be now you understand. Have I discoursed so on you of our stone and of the good that it shall bring your cause showed you beside the mane of hiring forces abroad, drawing the Hollanders, your friends from the Indies, to serve you with all their fleet, that even the medicinal you shall make you a faction and party in the realm. As put the case that some great man in state, he have the gout while you but send three drops of your elixir,

and you help him straight. There you have made a friend. Another has the palsy or the dropsy. He takes of your incombustible stuff. He's young again. There you have made a friend. A lady that is past the feet of body, though not of mind, and hath her face decayed beyond all cure of paintings. You restore with the oil of talc.

There you have made a friend and all her friends a lord that is a leper, a knight that has the bonache, or a squire that hath both these you make them smooth and sound with a bare phrickacy of your medicine. Still you increase your friends.

Speaker 13

Aye, it is very pregnant.

Speaker 2

And then the turning of this lawy is pewter to plait at Christmas christ Tide, I pray you, yet, naneus I have done or changing is parcel guilt to massy gold. You cannot but raise you friends with all to be of power to pay an army in the field to buy the King of France out of his realm or Spain out of his indies. What can you not do against lord spiritual or temporal that shall oppone you?

Speaker 13

Verily tis true, we may be temporal lords ourselves.

Speaker 2

I take it you may be anything, and leave off to make long winded exercises or suck up your huh and hump in a tune. I not deny, but such as are not graced in a state, may for their ends be adverse in religion and get a tune to call the flock together, for to say sooth. A tune does much with women and other phlegmatic people. It is your bell, bellezaur profane.

Speaker 10

A tune may be religious.

Speaker 2

No warning with you, then farewell, my patience slight, it shall down. I will not be thus tortured. I pray you, sir, all shall perish. I have spoken it.

Speaker 13

Let me find grace, sir, in your eyes. The man he stands corrected. Neither did his zeal. But as yourself, allow a tune somewhere which now being towards the stone. We shall not need.

Speaker 2

No nor your holy wizard to win widows to give you legacy, please, or make zealous wives to rob their husbands for the common cause. Nor take the start of bonds broke but one day and say they were forfeited by providence. Nor shall you need or night to eat huge meals to celebrate your next day's fast. The better the whilst the brethren and the sisters humble debate the

stiffness of the flesh. Nor cast before your hungry hearers scrupulous bones, as whether a Christian may hawk or hunt, or where the matrons of the Holy Assembly may lay their hair out, or wear doublets, or have that idol starch about their linen.

Speaker 10

It is indeed an idol.

Speaker 13

Mind him nuts, Sir, I do command the spirit of zeal, but trouble to peace within him. Pray you, sir, go on.

Speaker 2

Nor shall you need to go libel gainst the prelates, and shorten so your ears against the hearing of the next wire drawn grace, nor of necessity rail against plays to please the all men who daily custard you devour, nor lie with zealous rage till you are horse. Not one of these so singular arts, Nor call yourselves by names of tribulation, persecution, restraint, long patience, and such like affected by the whole family or wood of you, only for glory and to catch the ear of the disciple.

Speaker 13

Truly, sir, they are ways that the godly brethren heave invented for propagation of the glorious cause, as very notable means, and whereby also themselves grow soon and profitably famous.

Speaker 2

Oh but the stone all's idle to it nothing the art of Angel's nature's miracle, the divine secret that doth fly in clouds from east to west, and whose tradition is not from men but spirits.

Speaker 10

I hate traditions.

Speaker 6

I do not trust them peace.

Speaker 10

They are popish. All I will not peace.

Speaker 13

I will not an anis.

Speaker 10

Please the propane to glease the godly.

Speaker 2

I may not well an aeneas thou shalt overcome.

Speaker 13

It is ignorant zeal that haunts him, sir, But truly else, a very faithful brother, a butcher, and a man by revelation that hath a competent knowledge of the truth.

Speaker 2

Has he a competent sum there in the bag to buy the goods within. I am made guardian and must for charity and conscience sake. Now see the most be made for my poor orphan. Though I desire the brethren, two good gainers. There they are within. When you have viewed and bought them and tained the inventory of what they are, they are ready for projection. There's no more to do. Cast on the medicine. So much silver as therein there, and so much gold as brass. I'll give it to you. Buy and wait.

Speaker 13

But how long time, sir, must the saints expect? Yet?

Speaker 2

Let me see, how's the moon now? Eight nine, ten days? Since it will be silver potate. Then three days before he citronizes, some fifteen days the magisterium will be perfected.

Speaker 10

About the second day of the third week in the ninth months.

Speaker 2

Yes, my good inaneus, what will the orphan's goods arise? To think you some hundred marks as much as filled three cars unlaided. Now you'll make six millions of them. But I must have more coals laid in how another load, and then we have finished. We must now increase our fire to ignis ardens. We are past Femus Aquinas Paalny Cisnerus and all those lenter heats. If the holy purse should with this draft fall low, and that the saints do need a present sum, I have a trick to

melt the pewter. You shall buy now instantly and with a tincture make you as good Dutch dollars as any are in Holland. Can you sew aye, and shall bide the third examination?

Speaker 10

It will be joyful tidings to the brethren.

Speaker 2

But you must carry its secret.

Speaker 13

Aye, But stay this act of coining? Is it lawful?

Speaker 10

Ah? Lawful? We known how majist rate or if we did. This is foreign coin.

Speaker 2

It is no coining, sir, It is but casting.

Speaker 13

Ha you distinguish well? Casting of money may be lawful, Oh kids, sir, truly, I take it so.

Speaker 2

There is no scruple, sir, to be made of it. Believe Ananeus this case of conscience, see you studied in.

Speaker 13

I'll make a question of it to the brethren.

Speaker 10

The brethren shall approve it lawful, doubt not well shall it be done knocking without?

Speaker 2

For that will talk? Anon there's some to speak with me. Go in, I pray you and view the parcels. That's the inventory. I'll come to you.

Speaker 4

Straight, excellent tribulation. And Ananos, who is it?

Speaker 2

Face appear and to face in his uniform. How now, good prize.

Speaker 4

Good pars yon, cost of cheater never came on? How then I have walked around till now and no such thing?

Speaker 2

And have you quit him?

Speaker 4

Quit him? And Hell would quit him too he were happy, slight? Would you have me stalk like a mill jade all day for one that will not yield uscrains? I know him of old.

Speaker 2

How but to have gulled him would been a mastery.

Speaker 4

Let him go, black boy, and turn thee, that some fresh news may possess thee A noble count, a dawn of Spain, My dear delicious Compierre, and my party bod who has come hither private for his conscience, and brought munition with him six great slops bigger than three Dutch boys, besides round trunks furnished with pistolets and pieces of eight Will straight be here, my rogue, to have thy bath that is the color, and to make his battery upon our dole, our castle, our singapourt, our dover pier our

What thou wilt where is she? She must prepare perfumes, delicate linen, the bath in chief, a banquet, and her wit, for she must milk his epidus. Where is the doxy?

Speaker 2

I'll send her to thee and but despatch my brace of little John Leyden's, and come again myself.

Speaker 4

Are they within? Then?

Speaker 2

Numbering the sum? How much a hundred marks? Boy?

Speaker 4

Exit, why this is a lucky day. Ten pounds of mammon, three of my clerk, a portridge of my grocer, this of the brethren, besides reversions and states to and the widow and my count. My share today will not be bought for forty and a doll What pounds, dainty Dorothy art thou so near?

Speaker 3

Yes, say loud, general, how fares our.

Speaker 4

Camp as with the few that had entrenched himself safe by their discipline against a world doll, and left within these trenches, and grew fat with thinking on the booties doll brought in daily by their small parties. This dear hour, a doughty dawn is taken with my doll, And thou mayst make his ransom what thou wilt, my dusse belle.

He shall be brought here, fettered with thy fair looks before he sees thee, and thrown in a down bed as dark as any dungeon, where thou shalt keep him waking with thy drum, thy drum, my dole, thy drum, till he be tame as the poor blackbirds were in the great frost, or bees are with a basin, And so hive him in the swan skin coverlid and cambric sheets, till he work honey in wax. My little God's gift, what is he? General anatolanto, a grandy girl.

Speaker 14

Was not my dapper here yet, no nor my drugger, neither.

Speaker 4

A pox on them. They are so long a furnishing, such stinkred would not be seen upon thy festival days. How now have you done done?

Speaker 2

They are gone? The sum is here in bank my face, and would we knew another chapman now would buy him out.

Speaker 4

Right flid napshall do it against he have the widow to furnish household.

Speaker 2

Excellent well thought on pray God he come, I.

Speaker 4

Pray he keep away to our new business before past.

Speaker 2

But faye, how camest thou by this secret dawn?

Speaker 4

A spirit brought me the intelligence and a paper here as I was conjuring yonder in my circle. For surely I have my flies abroad. Your bath is famous subtle by my means, Sweet doll, you must go to your virginal no losing of the least time. And do you hear good action? Fur like a flounder, kiss like a scullar, Close and tickle him with thy mother tongue. He's great, for a douggish ship has not a jot of language, So much the easier to be cousined to, my dolly.

He will come here in a hired coach obscure and our own coachman, whom I have sent as a guide. No creature else knocking without Who's that exit, doll?

Speaker 3

It is not he?

Speaker 4

Oh no, not yet this hour?

Speaker 2

Re enter, dol, who ist dapper your clerk?

Speaker 4

God's will then Queen of fairy. On with your tire, exit, doll, and doctor with your robes. Let's dispatch him for God's sake.

Speaker 2

Twill be long, I warrant you.

Speaker 4

Take, but the cues I give you it shall be brief enough. Goes to the window, slight here are more able, And I think the angry boy the air that fain would quarrel. And the widow no, not that I see away.

Speaker 1

Exit subtle, enter Dappa.

Speaker 4

Oh, sir, you are welcome. The doctor is within a moving for you. I have had the most to do to win him to it. He swears you'll be the darling of the dice. He never heard her highest dope till now. Your aunt has given you the most gracious words that can be thought on.

Speaker 7

Shall I see her grace?

Speaker 4

See her and kiss her too?

Speaker 1

And Abel, followed by castrile, what.

Speaker 4

Honest Nab has brought the damask? 'tis well done? Nab thoual to bring the damisk.

Speaker 8

To Yes, here's the gentleman, Captain, Master Castrole, I have brought to see the doctor.

Speaker 4

Where's the widow?

Speaker 8

Sir? As he likes his sister, he says, shall come.

Speaker 4

Oh is it so good?

Speaker 6

Time?

Speaker 4

Is your name? Castrol, sir, ay.

Speaker 6

And the best of the castroles. He'd be sorry else by fifteen hundred a year. Where's the doctor? Moly mad tobacco boy here? Tells me a one that can do things? Is he any skill we're in, sir, to carry a business, manage a quarrel fairly upon fit terms?

Speaker 4

It seems, sir, you are but young about the town that can make that a question?

Speaker 6

Sir, not so young. I've heard some speech of the angry boys, and I seen him take tobacco and in his shop. I know you can take it too. I know you would faint be one of them, and go down and practice in the country, Sir.

Speaker 4

For the duello, the doctor, I assure you, shall inform you to the least shadow of a hair, and show you an instrument he has of his own making, wherewith no sooner shall you make a report of any quarrel. But he will take the height on it most instantly, and tell him what degree of safety it lies in, or mortality, and how it may be born, where in a right line or a half circle, or may else be cast into an angle bluffed if not acute, And this he will demonstrate, and then rules to give and take.

Speaker 6

The lie by how to take it?

Speaker 4

Yes, in oblique he'll show you, or in circle, but never in diameter. The whole town study his theorems and dispute them, ordinarily at the eating academies.

Speaker 6

But does he teach living boy the wits too?

Speaker 4

Anything? Whatever? You cannot think that subtlety, But he reads it. He made me a captain. I was a stark pimp just of your standing before I met with him. It is not two months since I'll tell you his method. First he will enter you at some ordinary.

Speaker 6

No, I'll not come there. You shall pardon me for why, sir, Well, there's gaming there and tricks.

Speaker 4

Why would you be a gallant and not game?

Speaker 6

I twill spend a man spend you.

Speaker 4

It will repair you when you are spent. How do they live by their wits? There that have vented six times your fortunes?

Speaker 6

What three thousand a year? I?

Speaker 4

Forty thousand?

Speaker 6

Are there such I, sir?

Speaker 4

And gallants? Yet here's a young gentleman is born to nothing points to docta forty marks a year, which I count nothing. He is to be initiated and to have a fly of a doctor. He will win you by irresistible luck within this fortnight enough to buy a barony.

They will set him upmost at the groomed porter, all the Christmas, and for the whole year through at every place where there is play, present him with the chair, the best attendants, the best drink, sometimes two glasses of cannery, and say nothing, the purest linen, and the sharpest knife, the partridge, next his trencher, and somewhere the dainty bed.

In private with the dainty. You shall have your ordinary's bid for him, as playhouse is for a poet, and the master pray him allowed to name what dish he affects, which must be buttered shrimped, and those that drink till no mouth else will drink to his, as being thy goodly president mouth of all the board.

Speaker 6

Do you not gull one odds my life?

Speaker 4

Do you think it? You shall have a caste commander, can but get in credit with a glover or a spurrier for some two pair eithers wear a forehand, will by most swift posts dealing, but with him arrive that competent means to keep himself his punk and naked boy in excellent fashion, and be admired for it.

Speaker 6

Will the doctor teach this.

Speaker 4

He will do more, sir, when your land is gone, as men of spirit hate to keep earth long in a vacation, when small money is stirring an ordinary suspended till the term. He'll show our perspective, where on one side you shall behold the faces and the persons of all sufficient young heirs in town whose bonds are current

for commodity. On the other side the merchant's forms and others that, without help of any second broker who would expect to share, will trust such parcels in the third square, the very street and signed where the commodity dwells and does but wait to be delivered, be it pepper, soap, hops, or tobacco, oatmeal, woad or cheese, all which you may so handle to enjoy to your own use, and never stand obliged.

Speaker 6

If faith is he such a fellow.

Speaker 4

Why nab here knows him? And then for making matches for rich widows, young gentlemen, heirs, the fortunatest man. He's sent to far and near all over England to have his counsel and to know their fortunes.

Speaker 6

God's well, my sisters shall see him.

Speaker 4

I'll tell you, sir, what he did tell me of nab it's a strange thing. By the way, you must eat no cheese. Nab it breeds melancholy, and that same melancholy breeds worms. But pass it, he told me, honest, nab here was ne'er at a cavern's, but once it's.

Speaker 8

His life, truth, and no more I was not.

Speaker 4

And then he was so sick?

Speaker 8

Could he tell you that too?

Speaker 4

And how should I know it?

Speaker 8

In truth? We had been a shooting and had a piece of fat ram mutton to supper that lay so heavy on my stomach.

Speaker 4

And he has no head to bear any wine for what with the noise of the fiddlers and care of his shop, or he dares keep no servants.

Speaker 8

My head did so egg, and he was.

Speaker 4

Fain to be brought home, the doctor told me. And then a good woman.

Speaker 8

Yes, faith, she dwells in sea coal lane did cure me with sodden ale and pelltry of the wall cost me but twopence I had Another sickness was worse than that, ay, that was.

Speaker 4

With the grief thought took us for being seized at eighteen pence for the water work.

Speaker 8

In truth, and it was like to have cost me almost my life.

Speaker 4

Thy hair went off.

Speaker 8

Yes, sir, twas done for spite.

Speaker 4

Nay, so says the doctor.

Speaker 6

Pretty tobacco boy, Go fetch my sister. I'll see this learned boy before I go and social.

Speaker 4

She sir, he is busy now. But if you have a sister to fetch hither, perhaps your own pains may command her sooner, and he by that time will be free. Oi go exit, drugger. She's thine the damask exit able subtle, and I must rustle for her beside. Come on, master dapper. You see how I turn clients here away to give your cause dispatch? Have you performed the ceremonies? Word joined you?

Speaker 5

Yes?

Speaker 7

Of the vinegar and the clean shirt'tis well?

Speaker 4

That shirt may do you more worship than you think. Your aunt's a fire, but that you will not show it to have a sight of you. Have you provided for her Grace's servants?

Speaker 7

Yes? Here are six score Edward Shillings good, and an old Harry's Sovereign very good, and three James Shillings, and an Elizabeth wrote just twenty nobles.

Speaker 4

Oh you are too just. I would you had had the other noble and Murray's I.

Speaker 7

Have some Philip and Mary's ay.

Speaker 4

Those same are best of all? Where are they?

Speaker 1

Hark the doctor and a subtle disguised like a priest of fairy, with a stripe of cloth, in a faint voice.

Speaker 2

Is yet her Grace's cousin come?

Speaker 4

He is come?

Speaker 2

And is he fasting?

Speaker 6

Yes?

Speaker 2

And half cried hum thrice?

Speaker 4

You must answer.

Speaker 2

Thrice, and as oft buzz.

Speaker 4

If you have say, I have.

Speaker 2

Then to her cousin, hoping that he hath vinegared his senses as he was bid. The fairy Queen dispenses by me this robe, the petticoat of fortune, which that he straight put on, she doth importune. And though to fortune near be her petticoat, yet nearer is his smock, the Queen doth note. And therefore, even of that apiece she has sent, which, being a child, to wrap him in was rent and praise him for a scarf, he now will wear it with as much much love is then her grace did tear it about his eyes.

Speaker 1

They blind him with the rag to.

Speaker 2

Show he is fortunate and trusting unto her, to make his state, to throw away all worldly pelf about him, which that he will perform, she doth not doubt him She.

Speaker 4

Need not doubt him, Sir alas he has nothing but what he will part withal as willingly, upon Her Grace's word, throw away your purse as she would ask it, handkerchiefs and all.

Speaker 1

If he throws away as they bid him.

Speaker 4

She cannot bid that thing, but he'll obey. If you have a ring about you, cast it off, or a silver seal at your wrist. Her Grace will send her fairies here to search you, and therefore deal directly with Her Highness. If they find you conceal a mite, you are undone.

Speaker 7

Truly, there's all all what my money, truly.

Speaker 4

Keep nothing that is transitory about you, aside to subtle, bid dull play some music.

Speaker 1

The all places on the sittern within.

Speaker 4

Look, the elves are come to pinch you. If you tell not the truth, advise you they pinch him.

Speaker 7

Oh, I have a paper with the spur ole in it.

Speaker 4

T T they knew it, they say.

Speaker 2

T T T he has more yet.

Speaker 4

T T T T aside to subtle in the other pocket.

Speaker 3

T T T T T T T T t T.

Speaker 2

They must pinch him or he will never confess, they say.

Speaker 1

They pinch him again.

Speaker 4

Oh, oh, nay pray you hold he is her greatest nephew. T T T what care you good faith? You show care? Do you plainly, sir? And shame the fairies show you are innocent.

Speaker 7

By this good light. I have nothing.

Speaker 2

T T T T do ta. He does equivocate. She says T T doo T T T doo te ta and swears by the light when he is blinded.

Speaker 7

By this good dark. I have nothing but a half crown of gold about my wrist that my love gave me, and a leaden heart I wore since she forsook me.

Speaker 4

I thought was something. And would you incur your aunt's displeasure for these trifles? Come? I had rather you had thrown away twenty half crowns. Takes it off. You may wear your leaden heart still entered doll hastily, How now what news?

Speaker 2

Doll?

Speaker 3

Yonder's your knight, Sir Mammon Odd's lid.

Speaker 4

We never thought of him till now? Where is he here?

Speaker 3

Hard By? He is at the door, and you are not ready.

Speaker 2

Now, Doll, get.

Speaker 4

His suit exited.

Speaker 2

Doll, you must not be sent back.

Speaker 4

Oh I no means what shall we do with the same puffin here? Now he's on the spit.

Speaker 2

Why lay him back a while with some device?

Speaker 1

Re entered doll with faces clothes, tit t tit titty.

Speaker 2

Would her grace speak with me? I come help, doll.

Speaker 1

Knocking with that speaks through the keyhole. O, sir, sir, acature mar master's in the way, Please you to walk free?

Speaker 4

A poor turned, but gill us back. We turned, and I am for you, quick, doll.

Speaker 2

Her Grace commends her kindly to you, Master dapper.

Speaker 7

I long to see her grace.

Speaker 2

She now is set at dinner in her bed, and she has sent you from her own private trencher, a dead mouse and a piece of ginger bread. To be merry withal, and stay your stomach lest you be faint with fasting. Yet, if you could hold out till she saw you, she says, it would be better for you.

Speaker 4

Sir, he shall hold out and toward this two hours for her Highness, I can assure you that we will not lose all we have done.

Speaker 2

He must not see nor speak to anybody till then.

Speaker 4

For that will put sir a stay in his mouth. Of what of gingerbread make you a fit? He didn't have pleased her Grace? Thus far shall not now crinsele for a little gape, sir, and let him fit you.

Speaker 1

They thrust a gag of gingerbread in his mouth.

Speaker 2

Where shall we now bestow him in the privy? Come along, sir, I now must show you fortunes privy lodgings.

Speaker 4

Are they perfumed? And his death ready?

Speaker 2

Oh, only the fumigation somewhat strong speaking through the.

Speaker 4

Keyhole, sir, I the cure I am yours, sir by and by.

Speaker 1

Exhaunt with Dappa. End of Act three, Act four, Scene one a room in Lovewood's house, and to face and mammon.

Speaker 4

Oh, sir, you're come in the only finest time. Will's master now preparing for projection, Sir, your stuff will be all changed shortly into gold to gold and sore, sir, so that I can not four well, yes, sir, all little to give beggars.

Speaker 5

Well the lady at hand.

Speaker 4

Here I have told her such brave things of you, touching your bounty and your noble spirit hust thal, as she is almost in her fit to see you. But good, sir, no divinity in your conference. For fear of putting her.

Speaker 5

In rage, I warrant thee.

Speaker 4

Six men, Sir, will not hold her down. And then if the old man should hear or see you, fear not the very house, sir would run mad. You know it, how scrupulous he is and violent against the least act of sin physics or mathematics, poetry, state or body. As I told you, she will endure and never startle. But no word of controversy.

Speaker 5

I am schooled, good ulen.

Speaker 4

And you must praise her house, remember that and her nobility.

Speaker 5

Let me alone, No herald, no nor antiquary lung shall do it better.

Speaker 1

Go asigned.

Speaker 4

Why this is yet a kind of modern happiness, to have calm for a great lady.

Speaker 5

Exit now epicure, heighten thyself. Talk to her all in gold, rain her as many showers as Jove did drops unto his denaie show the god a miser compared with mammon. What the stone will do it? She shall feel gold, Taste gold here, gold, sleep gold. Nay, we will conquem bear gold. I will be puissant and mighty in my talk to.

Speaker 1

Her, re interface were dull, richly dressed.

Speaker 5

Here she comes to.

Speaker 4

Him, doll suckle him. This is the noble knight.

Speaker 5

I told your ladyship, madam, with your pardon, I kiss your vesture.

Speaker 3

Sir, I were uncivil if I would suffer that my lip to you, Sir.

Speaker 5

I hope, my lord your brother be in health.

Speaker 3

Lady, my lord my brother is, though I no lady, sir.

Speaker 4

Aside, well said my guinea bird.

Speaker 5

Right, noble madam.

Speaker 4

Besides, oh, we shall have most fierce idolatry.

Speaker 2

Tis your prerogative rather your courtesy, were there not.

Speaker 5

Else to enlarge your virtues. To me, these answers speak your breeding and your blood blood.

Speaker 3

We boast none, sir, a poor baron's daughter.

Speaker 5

Poor and get you profane. Not had your father slept all the happy remnant of his life after that act lion, But there still and punted, he had done enough to make himself his issue and his posterity.

Speaker 3

Noble sir, although we may be said to want the guilt and trapping things the dress of honor, yet we strive to keep the seeds and the materials.

Speaker 5

I do see the old ingredient of virtue was not lost, nor the drug money who used to make your compound. There is a strange nobility in your eye. This lip that chin me think she do resemble one of the Austriac.

Speaker 4

Princes, very like beside, her father was an Irish costuremonger.

Speaker 5

The house of Valeoirs just had such a nose and such a farag. Yet the Merdici of Florence boast.

Speaker 3

Truth, and I have been likened to all these princes.

Speaker 4

Side, I'll be sworn I heard it.

Speaker 5

I know not how it is not anyone, but in the very choice of all their features.

Speaker 4

Beside, I'll in and laugh exit.

Speaker 5

A certain touch or air that sparkles a divinity beyond an earthly beauty.

Speaker 3

Oh, you play the courtier.

Speaker 5

Good lady, give me leave.

Speaker 3

In faith, I may not to mock me, sir.

Speaker 5

For bird in the sweet flame, the phoenix never knew a nobler death.

Speaker 3

Nay, how you caught the courtier and destroy what you would build? This art, Sir, in your words, calls your whole faith in question.

Speaker 6

By my soul, nay, oaths.

Speaker 3

Are made of the same as, sir.

Speaker 5

Nature never bestowed upon mortality a more unblamed, a more harmonious feature. She played the step dame in all faces else, Sweet madam, let me be.

Speaker 3

Particular particular, Sir. I pray you know your distance.

Speaker 5

Who no ill cent, sweet lady, But ask how your fair graces past the hours. I see you are lodged here in the house of a rare man, an excellent artist. But what's that to you?

Speaker 3

Yes, sir, I study here the mathematics and distillation.

Speaker 5

Oh, I cry your pardon. He's a divide instructor, can extract the souls of all things by his art, call all the virtues and the miracles of the sun into a temperate furas, teach dull nature what her own forces are A man the Emperor has courted above Kelly, set his medals and chains to invite him.

Speaker 3

I and for his physics, sir.

Speaker 5

Above the art of Esculapius that drough the envy of the thunderer. I know all this and more truth.

Speaker 3

I am taken, sir, who with these studies that contemplate nature?

Speaker 5

It is a noble humor. But this form was not intended to sow dark a use? Have you been crooked fowl of some coarse mode? A cloister had done well, But such a feature that might stand up the glory of a kingdom to live recluse is a mere solecism, though in a nunnery it must not be. I amuse, my lord, your brother will permit it. You should spend half my land. First, where I he does not this diamond better on my finger than in the quarry. Yes, why you are like it. You are created, lady, for

the light. Here you shall wear it. Take it the first pledge of what I speak to Bide you to.

Speaker 3

Believe me in chains of adamant.

Speaker 5

Yes, the strongest bounds, and take a secret too. Here by your side, doth stand this hour the happiest man in Europe.

Speaker 2

You are contented, sir, nay in true being, the envy of princes and the fair of states.

Speaker 3

Say you so, sir, epicure.

Speaker 5

Yes, and thou shalt prove it, daughter of honor. I have cast my eye upon thy form, and I will rear this beauty above all styles.

Speaker 6

You mean no treason, sir, No, I will take away that jealousy.

Speaker 5

I am the lord of the philosopher's stone, and thou.

Speaker 3

The lady, How, sir, have you that I am.

Speaker 5

The master of the mystery this day, the good old wretch here a Thour's has made it for us. Now he's at projection. Think therefore thy first wish. Now let me hear it, and it shall raid into thy lap. No shower but floods of gold whole cataracts a deluge to get a nation on thee.

Speaker 3

You are pleased, sir, to work on the ambition of our sex.

Speaker 5

I am pleased. The glory of her sex should know this nook here of the friars is no climate for her to live obscurely in to learn physique and surgery for the constable's wife of some odd hundred in Essex. But it come forth and taste the air of palaces, eat, drink the toils of empirics and their boasted practice. Tincture of pearl and coral, gold and amber be seen at feasts and triumphs. Have it asked what miracle she is?

Set all the eyes of caught a fire like a burning glass, and work them into cinders, where the jewels of twenty states adorn thee, and the light strikes out the stars. That when thy name is mentioned, queens may look pale, and we but showy. I love Nero's papare may be lost in story. Thus will we have it?

Speaker 3

I could well consent, sir, But in a monarchy, how will this be? The prince will soon take notice and both sees you and your stone, it being a wealth unfit for any private.

Speaker 15

Subject, if he knew it.

Speaker 3

Yourself, do boast it, sir, to thee my life. Oh but beware, sir, you may come to end the remnants of your days in a loathed prison. By speaking of it tis.

Speaker 5

No idle fear. We will therefore go with all my girl, and live in a free state, where we will eat our mullets salved in high country wines, sup pheasants, eggs, and have our cockles boiled in silver shells our shrimps to swim again as when they lived in a rare butter made of dolphin's milk, whose cream does look like apples. And with these delicate meats, set ourselves high for pleasure, and take us down again, and then renew our youth and strength with drinking the elixir, and so enjoy a

perpetuity of life and lust. And thou shalt have thy wardrobe richer the natures still to change thyself, and very oftener for thy pride than she or art her wise and almost equal servant.

Speaker 4

Re enter face, sir, you are too loud. I hear your every word in the laboratory, some fitter place, the garden or great chamber above, how.

Speaker 5

Like you her excellent lungs. There's for thee.

Speaker 1

Give some money.

Speaker 4

But do you hear good? Sir? Beware no mention of the rabbins.

Speaker 5

We think not on em excellent.

Speaker 1

Mammon and dawn.

Speaker 4

Oh it is well, sir, subtle and too subtle. Dost thou not laugh?

Speaker 2

Yes? Are they gone?

Speaker 4

All's clear?

Speaker 2

The widow is come, and.

Speaker 4

Your quarreling disciple, I I muster my captainship.

Speaker 2

Again, then stay, bring them in first?

Speaker 4

So I meant, what is she a bontabelle?

Speaker 2

I know not?

Speaker 6

Well?

Speaker 4

Draw a lot? You'll stand to that?

Speaker 2

What else?

Speaker 4

Oh for a suit to fall? Now like a curtain flap to the door.

Speaker 6

Man.

Speaker 4

You'll have the first kiss because I am not ready exit.

Speaker 2

Yes, and perhaps hit you through both the nostrils within?

Speaker 4

Who would you speak with? Within?

Speaker 6

Where's the captain within?

Speaker 4

Gone?

Speaker 10

Sir?

Speaker 4

About the business within?

Speaker 6

Gone?

Speaker 4

Within? He'll return straight, But master doctor, his lieutenant is here.

Speaker 1

Enter castro follow by day, impliant, Come.

Speaker 2

Near, my worshipful boy, my ter I Philly, that is my boy of land. Make thy approaches welcome. I know thy lusts and thy desires, and I will serve and satisfy them. Begin charge me from thence or thence or in this line here is my center ground thy quarrel? You lie, how child of wrath and anger, the loud lie? For what my sudden boy?

Speaker 6

Nay that look you two, I am aforehand.

Speaker 2

Oh this is no true grammar and as ill logic. You must render causes, child, your first and second intentions. Know your cannons and your divisions, moods, degrees and differences, your predicaments, substance and accident, series, extern and intern with their causes, efficient material, formal findl and have your elements perfect aside?

Speaker 6

What is this? The angry tully tocsin, That.

Speaker 2

False precept of being a forehand is deceived in number and made them mento quarrels, oftentimes before they were aware, and afterward against their wills.

Speaker 6

How must I do? Then, sir?

Speaker 2

I cry this lady mercy. She should first have been saluted.

Speaker 1

Kisses her.

Speaker 2

I do call you lady, because you are to be one. Ere it be long, my soft and buxom widow.

Speaker 5

Is she faith?

Speaker 2

Yes? Or my art is an egregious liar? Oh?

Speaker 9

No?

Speaker 2

You by inspection on her forehead and subtlety of her lip, which must be tasted often to make a judgment.

Speaker 1

Kisses her again.

Speaker 2

Slight, She melts like a miro bolony. Here is yet a line in rivaux Frontis tells me he is no knight. What is he? Then, sir, let me see your hand, Oh your linear fortune? Ya makes it plain and stella here in monte veneris, but most of all junctura and ularis. He is a soldier or a man of art, lady, but shall have some great honor shortly, brother, he's a rare man.

Speaker 1

Believe me, we're in to face in his uniform.

Speaker 6

Hold your piece. Here comes to the rare man. Save you, captain, good master Castro. Is this your sister? Oi, sir? Please you to kiss her and be proud to know her.

Speaker 4

I shall be proud to know you. Lady kisses her brother.

Speaker 2

He calls me lady too.

Speaker 6

Ay, peace, I heard it?

Speaker 1

Takes her aside.

Speaker 4

The count has come. Where is he at the door?

Speaker 2

Why you must entertain him?

Speaker 4

What will you do with these the while?

Speaker 2

I have them up and show them some fustian book or the dark glass?

Speaker 4

For god, she is a dark and I must hear her exit?

Speaker 2

Must you ay? If your fortune will you must come, sir? The captain will come to us. Presently, I'll have you to my chamber of demonstrations, where I will show you both the grammar and logic and rhetoric of my quarreling, the whole method drawn out in tables, and my instrument that hath the several scales upon shall make you able to quarrel at a straw's breadth by moonlight. And lady, I'll have you look in a glass some half an hour, but to clear your eyesight against you see your fortune

which is greater? Then I may judge upon the sudden dressed me.

Speaker 1

Exit, followed by castorle and a impliant.

Speaker 4

Re and to face where are you? Doctor?

Speaker 2

Within, I'll come to you presently.

Speaker 4

I will have the same widow. Now I have seen her on any composition re and to subtle.

Speaker 2

What do you say?

Speaker 4

Have you disposed of them? I have sent them up subtle in trot. I needs must have this widow.

Speaker 2

Is that the matter?

Speaker 10

Nay?

Speaker 2

But hear me go too. If you rebel once doll shall know at all. Therefore, be quiet and obey your chance.

Speaker 4

Nay, the arts all violent? Now do but conceive thou art old, and canst not serve?

Speaker 2

Who cannot? I? Snight, I will serve her with THEE for.

Speaker 4

A nay, but understand, I'll give you composition.

Speaker 2

I will not treat with THEE. What sell my fortune tis better than my birthright? Do not murmur winner and carrier. If you grumble Doll knows it directly.

Speaker 4

Well, sir, I am silent. Will you go help to fetch in dawn instead? Exit?

Speaker 2

I follow you, sir. We must keep face in awe or he will overlook us like a tyrant.

Speaker 1

Reant to face introducing surly disguised as a spaniard.

Speaker 2

Brain of a tailor, who comes here?

Speaker 9

Don John senores best o las manos have western Mercedes, would you.

Speaker 2

It's stooped a little and kissed our arnos.

Speaker 4

Piece a sorle stab me.

Speaker 2

I shall never hold man. He looks in that deep rough like a head in a platter, served in by a short cloak upon two tressels.

Speaker 4

Or what would you say to a call or braun cut down beneath the souths and wriggled with a knife slud.

Speaker 2

He does look too fat to be a spaniard.

Speaker 4

Perhaps some Flemming or some Hollander gut him. 'tis Valvin's time, Count Eggman's bastard dawn.

Speaker 2

Your scurvy yellow Madrid face is welcome.

Speaker 9

Gratsia.

Speaker 2

He speaks out of a fortification. Pray God, you have no squibs in those deep sets.

Speaker 9

Poor deal Senores Mu Linda Cassa.

Speaker 2

What says he.

Speaker 4

Praise is the house I think I know no more of as action.

Speaker 2

Yes, the casa, my precious Diego will prove fair enough to cousin you in? Do you mark you shall be cousined?

Speaker 6

Diego, cousin?

Speaker 4

Do you see my worthy Donzel? Cousin Intendo?

Speaker 2

Do you intend it?

Speaker 5

So?

Speaker 4

Do we?

Speaker 2

Dear Don? Have you brought pistolettes or Portuguese? My solemn Don? Does that feel any feels his pockets? For you shall be emptied, Don, pumped and drawn dry?

Speaker 4

As they say milk in troth, Sweet Don, see.

Speaker 2

All the monsters, the great line of all.

Speaker 9

Don, condescensia, see played of the esther Senora?

Speaker 2

What dogs he now.

Speaker 4

Of the Sonora?

Speaker 2

Oh Don, this is the lioness which you shall see also, My.

Speaker 4

Don, slid satle. How shall we do for what wh doors? Employed?

Speaker 2

You know that's true? For heaven I know not. You must stay, that's all.

Speaker 4

Stay that he must not? By no means no, why unless you'll mar all slight, you will suspect it, and then he will not pay, not half so well. This is a traveled punk master and does know all the delays, a notable hot rascal, and looks already.

Speaker 2

Revant steph and mammon must not be troubled.

Speaker 4

Mammon, In no case, what shall we do?

Speaker 2

Then?

Speaker 4

Think you must be.

Speaker 9

Sudden in tiendo kayla senora e tan irmosa cakodicio tan avela, como la bien a ventaranka dimivida.

Speaker 4

Mivida sly sobtle. He puts me in mind of the widow. What dost thou say to draw her to it?

Speaker 6

La?

Speaker 4

And tell her tis her fortune? All our venture now lies upon it. It is but one man more which of us chance to have her? And beside there is no maidenhead to be feared or last? What dost thou think on it? Subtle?

Speaker 2

Who I wait?

Speaker 4

The credit of our house too was engaged.

Speaker 2

You made me an offer for my share a while, what wilt thou give me a faith?

Speaker 8

Oh?

Speaker 4

By that light, I'll not buy now you know you're doomed to me. E'n take your lot, obey your chance, sir, win her and wear her out.

Speaker 2

For me, sly, I'll not work her. Then it is.

Speaker 4

The common cause. Therefore bethink you door else must know it as you said, I can.

Speaker 9

Not, senor is paul que setanta tanto.

Speaker 2

Faith, I am not fit, I am old.

Speaker 9

That's now no reason, sir, pwait day said the aza berla di miamoor.

Speaker 4

You fear the dawn too. By this, heir, I call and loose the hinges.

Speaker 2

Doll a plague of hell?

Speaker 4

Will you then?

Speaker 2

Do you are a terrible rogue? I'll think of this, will you, sir?

Speaker 4

Call the widow, yes, and I'll take her to with our thoughts. Now I think upon it better with all.

Speaker 2

My heart, sir am, I discharged to the lot.

Speaker 4

As you please. Hands they take hands. Remember now that upon any change you never claim her much.

Speaker 2

Good joy and health? Do you, sir? Marry a whore? Faith? Let me bet a witch first.

Speaker 9

Poor estas honradas barabas he.

Speaker 2

Swears by his beard, dispatch and call the brother to.

Speaker 9

Exit face tengo duda sennores, Can you know me again? Alguna tricion?

Speaker 2

How is you on? Yes? Praisto snor please you enthraffer the chambrata worthy don where if you please the fates in your bath ardor you shall be soaked and stroked and tubbed and rubbed and scrubbed and fubbed. Deer don before you go, you shall, in faith, my scurvy baboon, don be cud and clothed and flowed and towed. Indeed, I will the hartly go about it now and make the widow a punk. So much the sooner to be revenged on this impetuous face. The doing quickly of it is the grace.

Speaker 1

Excellent, subtle and surly scene to another room in the same and to face castrel and the impliant.

Speaker 4

Come, lady. I knew the doctor would not lead till he found the very nick of her fortune.

Speaker 6

To be a count Essay you a Spanish countess?

Speaker 9

Suit?

Speaker 3

Why is that better than an English countess?

Speaker 4

Better? Slight? Make you that question, lady.

Speaker 6

Nay, she is a fool. Captain, you must pardon her.

Speaker 4

Ask from your courtier, to your inns of court man, to your marrior milliner. They will tell you all. Your Spanish genet is the best horse, Your Spanish group is the best guard. Your Spanish beard is the best cut. Your Spanish roughs are the best ware, your Spanish palet on the best dance, your Spanish trotulation in a glove, the best perfume, and for your Spanish pike and Spanish blade. Let your poor captain speak. Here comes the doctor and to subtle with a paper.

Speaker 2

My most honored lady. If so I am now to style you, having found by this my scheme you ought to undergo an honorable fortune very shortly, What will you say now?

Speaker 4

If some I have told her all sir and her right worshipful brother here that she shall be a countess, Do not delay them, sir, a Spanish countess.

Speaker 2

Still, my scarce worshipful captain, you can keep no secret. Well, since he has told you, Madam, do you forgive him? And I do?

Speaker 6

She shall do that, sir Oi look to it tis my charge?

Speaker 2

Well, then, no rests but that she fits her love now to her fortune. Truly I shall never brook a Spaniard. No never since eighty eight could I abide them, and that was some three year before I was born. In truth, come, you must love him or be miserable.

Speaker 4

Choose which you will by this good rush persuade her. She will christ robberries else within this twelvemonth.

Speaker 2

Nay shads and mackerel, which is worse.

Speaker 4

Indeed, Sir Od's late.

Speaker 6

You shall love him or I'll kick you.

Speaker 2

Why, I'll do as you will have me.

Speaker 6

Brother, do well, buy this and I'll mole you.

Speaker 4

Nay good, sir, be not so fierce.

Speaker 2

No, my enraged child. She will be ruled what when she comes to taste the pleasures of a countess, to be courted.

Speaker 4

And kissed and rubbled.

Speaker 2

I behind the hangings.

Speaker 4

And then come forth and pop and know estate of keeping all the idolators of the chamber bearer to her than at her prayers.

Speaker 2

Is served upon the knee, and has.

Speaker 4

Her pages ushers, footmen and coaches, has six mares, nay eight to.

Speaker 2

Hurry her through London to the exchange Bethleem the china houses, Yes.

Speaker 4

And how the citizens gave it her and praise her tires and my lord goosterd bands that ride with her.

Speaker 6

Most brave boy this hand. You are not my sister. If you refuse, I.

Speaker 1

Will not refuse, brother, and.

Speaker 9

Desli chae sisto senores cann savinga estetandaza mimata.

Speaker 4

It is the count come. The doctor knew he would be here by his.

Speaker 2

Art n gallente, madame, madame galanis.

Speaker 9

Sima poortodos lostios la mas a cabarda emosura ka a visto a mifida.

Speaker 4

Is it not a gallant language?

Speaker 6

Do they speak an admirable language? It's not French, No Spanish, sir. It goes like law French, and that they say is the courtliest language.

Speaker 9

Alles, sir, el sult al petido se lambre con el resplendo queitran estadama valgamithios.

Speaker 4

He admires, your sister.

Speaker 6

Must she not make curtsey odds?

Speaker 2

Will she must go to a man and kiss him. It is the Spanish fashion for the women to make first.

Speaker 4

Court tis crue, he tells you, sir, his art knows all poor que duce acude he speaks to her.

Speaker 6

I think that he does.

Speaker 9

Sir, poor l amor didos k s estoda.

Speaker 6

And I see she will not understand him. Gull noddy, What say you, brother? As my sister go kiss him as the cunning man? What have you? I'll thrust a pin in your butto cells.

Speaker 9

Oh no, sir, senora mia mi persona mi indigna esta ale at kanta emisoura.

Speaker 4

Does he not use her bravely, bravely faith Nay, he will use her better.

Speaker 9

Do you think so, Senora? She SAIDA Ceveda and tremos.

Speaker 1

Exit with the impliant.

Speaker 4

Where does he carry her into the garden? Sir, take you no thought? I must interpret for her.

Speaker 2

Give doll the word.

Speaker 1

Aside to face who goes out?

Speaker 2

Come my face? Child? Advance will two our quarreling.

Speaker 6

Lesson again agreed, Oh, I love a Spanish boy with all my hurt.

Speaker 2

Nay, and by this means, sir, you shall be brother to a great count.

Speaker 5

Ai.

Speaker 6

I knew that first this match will advance the house of the castles.

Speaker 2

God, pray your sister prove but pliant?

Speaker 6

Why her name is so by her other husband? How the widow ployant knew you not that no faith.

Speaker 2

Sir, Yet by erection of her figure, I guessed it. Come, let's go to practice.

Speaker 6

Yes, but do you think doctor I er shall quarrel well?

Speaker 2

N I warrant you.

Speaker 1

Excellent Scene three another room in the same enter Dole in her fit of raving, followed by Mammon.

Speaker 3

For after Alexander's death, good lady that perdicuss And and Tiginess were slain, the two that stood Seluke and p Ptolemy Madam.

Speaker 16

Made up the two legs, and the fourth beast, that was Gog north and Egypt south, which after was called Gog iron leg and South iron leg leady, and then Gog horned.

Speaker 3

So was Egypt too, then Egypt clay leg and Gog clay leg, sweet Murdam, and last Gog dust and Egypt dust, which fall in the last link of the fourth chain. And these be stars in story which none see or look at.

Speaker 6

What shall I do, for, as.

Speaker 3

He says, except we call the Rabins and the heathen Greeks.

Speaker 5

Dear lady, to come.

Speaker 3

From Salem and from Athens and teach the people of Great Britain.

Speaker 1

And to face hastily in his servants' stress, what's the matter.

Speaker 3

Sir, to speak the tongue of Eber and Javin.

Speaker 5

Ooh, she's all in her fit.

Speaker 4

We shall know nothing, guess, sir, we are undone.

Speaker 3

Where then a learned linguist shall see the ancient used communion of vowels and consonants.

Speaker 4

My master will hear a wisdom.

Speaker 3

Which Pythagoras held most high.

Speaker 5

Sweet honorable lady.

Speaker 3

To comprise all sounds of voices in few marks of letters.

Speaker 4

Nay, you must never hope to lay her. Now they all speak.

Speaker 3

Together, and so we may arrive, by Talmid's skill and profane Greek, to raise the building up of Helen's house against the Ismaelite king of Thogarma and his habergeans brimstony, blue and fiery, and the force of King Abadun and the beast of citym which Rabbi David Kimshi on Calos and Abe and Ezra do interpret Rome.

Speaker 4

How did you put her into it?

Speaker 5

I talked of the fifth monarchy. I would erect with the Philosopher's stone by chance. And she falls on the other four street.

Speaker 4

Out of Ranton. I told you so, slid stark her mouth.

Speaker 5

It's best.

Speaker 4

She'll never leave else if the old man hear her, we are Mathezi's.

Speaker 1

Ashes, and to subtle they run different ways.

Speaker 4

Oh, we are lost. Now she hears him. She is quiet.

Speaker 5

Where shall I hide me?

Speaker 2

How? What sight is here? Close? Deeds of darkness, and that shun the light? Bring him again? Who is he?

Speaker 7

What?

Speaker 2

My son? Oh? I have lived too long?

Speaker 5

Nay, good dear father, there was no unchased.

Speaker 2

Purpose, not and flee me when I come in. That was my era, error, guilt, guilt, my son, give it the right name, no marvel? If I found check in our great work within, when such a fair as these were managing, Why have you so it has stood still this half hour, and all the rest of our less works gone back? Where is the instrument of wickedness? My lewde false strudge?

Speaker 5

Nay, good, sir, blame not him, Believe me, twas against his will or knowledge I saw her by chance?

Speaker 2

Will you commit more sin to excuse a volet?

Speaker 5

By my hope tis true? Sir?

Speaker 2

Nay than I wonder less if you for whom the blessing was prepared, would so tempt heaven and lose your fortunes?

Speaker 5

Why, sir, this.

Speaker 2

Will retard the work a month at least?

Speaker 5

Why if it do, why remedy? But think it not? Good Father? Our purposes were.

Speaker 2

Honest as they were, So the reward.

Speaker 1

Will prove a loud explosion within?

Speaker 2

How now, ah me, God and all saints be good to us?

Speaker 4

And to face what's that? Oh sir? We are defeated. All the works are flown and fumial, Every glass is burst, furnace, and all rent down, as if a bolt of thunder had been driven through the house, retorts, receivers, pelicans, bolt heads, all struck in shivers.

Speaker 1

Subtle falls down as in a swoon.

Speaker 4

Help with Sir, alas cold and death invades him. Nay, Sir, mammon, do the fair offices of a man? You stand as you were readier to depart than he knocking within? Who's there? My lord? Her brother is come, huh, lungs. His coach is at the door. Avoid his sight, for he's as furious as his sister's. Mad alas, my brain is quite undone with the fume. Sir, I ne'er must hope to be mine own man again?

Speaker 5

Is all lost lungs? Will nothing be preserved?

Speaker 4

Of all our costs faith, very little, sir, A pack of coals or so which is cold comfort?

Speaker 5

Sir, ooh, my voluptuous bale, And I am justly punished, and so am I, Sir, cast from all my hopes, nay certainty, Sir, by mine own base affections.

Speaker 1

Seeming to come to himself.

Speaker 2

Oh, oh, the curst fruits of vice and lust.

Speaker 5

Good father, it was my sin, forgive it.

Speaker 2

Hangs my roof over us still, and will not fall o justice upon us for this wicked man.

Speaker 4

Nay, look, sir, you grieve him now is staying in his sight? Good sir. The nobleman will come too and take you, and that may read a tragedy. I'll go aye, and repent at home, Sir. It may be for some good pennant. You may have it yet, one hundred pounds to the box at Bathorn, Yes, for the restoring, such as have their.

Speaker 5

Wits, I'll do it.

Speaker 4

I'll send one to you to receive it.

Speaker 5

Do is no projection left, all low or stinks, sir, will not be saved, think though.

Speaker 4

I cannot tell, sir, there will be perhaps something about the scraping of the shards will cure the itch, though not your rag of mine, sir. Beside, it shall be saved for you and sent home, Good sir, this way, for fear of the Lord should meet you.

Speaker 1

Exit mammon, raising.

Speaker 2

His head face.

Speaker 4

I is he gone, Yes, and as heavily as all the gold he hold, For we're in his blood. Let us be light though, leaping up.

Speaker 2

I as bulls, and bound and hit our heads against the roof for joy. There's so much of our care now cast.

Speaker 4

Away now to our don Yes.

Speaker 2

Your young widow by this time has made a countess face. She has been in travail of a young heir.

Speaker 6

For you, good, sir, off.

Speaker 2

With your case and greet her kindly as a bridegroom should after these common hazards.

Speaker 4

Very well, sir, Will you go fetch don diego off the while.

Speaker 2

And fetch him over too, if you'll be pleased, sir wood Doll were in her place to pick his pockets.

Speaker 4

Now why you can't do as well if you had said to it. I pray you prove your virtue.

Speaker 2

For your sake, sir.

Speaker 1

Excellent, see in for another room in the same and to surly. And I am blind.

Speaker 9

Lady. You see into what hands you are fallen a mongst, what a nest of villains, and how near your honor was to have catched a certain clap through your credulity. Had I but been so punctually forward as place, time and other circumstances would have made a man, for you are a handsome woman. Would that you were wise too. I am a gentleman, come here disguised only to find the neighbories of this citadel. And where I might have

wronged your honor, I have not. I claim some interest in your love you are, they say, a widow rich, and I am a bachelor worth naught. Your fortunes may make me a man, as mine have preserved you a woman. Think upon it, and whether I have deserved you or no, I will, sir, And for these household rogues, let me alone to treat with them, and to suddle.

Speaker 2

How doff my noble Diego and my dear Madam Countess. Had the count been courteous, lady liberal and open? Donzel methinks you look melancholic after your quatum and scurvy. Truly, I do not like the dullness of your eye. It had a heavy cast. Tis upsee Dutch and says you are a lumpish hall master. Be lighter, and I will make your pockets.

Speaker 1

So attempt to pick them. Throws open his cloak.

Speaker 9

Will you don bard and pick purse?

Speaker 4

Strikes him down?

Speaker 9

How now? Will you stand up, sir? And you shall find since I am so heavy, I'll give you equal weight help murder, No, sir, there's no such thing intended. A good cart and a clean whip shall leave you of that fear. I am the Spanish don that they should be cousined. Do you see cousined where's your captain, face that parcel broker and the whole ball or rascal.

Speaker 1

And to face in his uniform.

Speaker 9

How surely oh make your approach good captain, I have found from whence your copper rings and spoons come now? Wherewith you cheated broad in taverns? Twas here you learn to anoint your boot with brimstone, then rub men's gold on it for a kind of touch, and say, twas nought when you had changed the color, that you might

have for nothing. And this doctor, your sooty smokebeard comp here, He will close you so much gold in a balt's head, and on a turn convey instead another with sublime mercury that shall burst in the heat and fly out in FuMO. Then weeps Mammon, then swoons his.

Speaker 4

Worship face slips out.

Speaker 9

Or is he the faustus that cast if figures and conconjure Gilber's plagues, piles and hawks by the ephemerides, and hold the intelligence of all the bulls and midwives of three shires? While you sending captain, what is he gone? Damsels with child wives that are baronal waiting maids with the green.

Speaker 1

Sickness, caesars subtle as he is retiring.

Speaker 9

Nay, sir, you must tarry, though he be scaped and answered by the years.

Speaker 1

Sir, reanter face with Castril.

Speaker 4

Why now is the time, if ever you will quarrel well, as they say, and be a true born child. The Doctor and your sister ball are abused.

Speaker 6

Where is he? Which is he? He is a slave? Where he is? And the son of a whore? Are you the man, sir? I would know?

Speaker 9

I should be loath, sir, to confess so much.

Speaker 6

Then you lie in your throat?

Speaker 1

How to Castril?

Speaker 4

A very errand rogue, sir, and a cheater employed here by another conjurer that does not love the doctor, and would cross him if he knew.

Speaker 9

How, sir, you are abused?

Speaker 6

You lie, and tis no matter.

Speaker 4

Well said sir, he is the it is Drascal.

Speaker 9

You are indeed, will you hear me, sir?

Speaker 4

By no means?

Speaker 6

Bid him be gone, begone, sir quickly.

Speaker 9

This is strange, lady. Do you inform your brother?

Speaker 4

There is not such a voice in all the town. The doctor had him presently and finds yet the Spanish count will come here aside, Bear up.

Speaker 2

Subtle, yes, sir, he must appear within this hour.

Speaker 4

And yet this rogue would come in the disguise by the temptation of another spirit to trouble our art, though he could not hurt it.

Speaker 6

Ay, I know away to his sister, you talk like a foolish.

Speaker 9

Mother, sir. All is truth, she says.

Speaker 4

Do not believe him, sir, he is a lying to swabber. Come your way, sir.

Speaker 9

You are a valiant out of company.

Speaker 6

Yes, how then, sir.

Speaker 4

And to drugga with a piece of damask Nay, here's an honest fellow too, that knows him and all his tricks make good what I say, Abel, This cheater would have cousin dear or the widow assigned to Drugger. He owes, this honest drugger here seven pounds he has had on him in two pennyworths of tobacco.

Speaker 8

Yes, sir, And he has damned himself three terms to pay me.

Speaker 4

And what does he offer the lotsy.

Speaker 8

On thirty shillings sir, and for six syringes.

Speaker 9

Hydra villainy Nay, sir.

Speaker 4

You must borrow him out of the house.

Speaker 6

Or you will, sir, if you get no out of doors, you lie and you are a pimp.

Speaker 9

Why this is madness, sir, not valoring you, I must laugh at this.

Speaker 6

It is my humor. You are a pimp and a trig and an amateistigal, or a don Quixote or.

Speaker 8

A knight of the curious Coxcomb.

Speaker 4

Do you see an Anaeus?

Speaker 10

Peace to the household.

Speaker 6

I'll keep peace for no man costing.

Speaker 10

Of dollars is concluded lawful?

Speaker 2

Is he the constable pace Andaneus?

Speaker 4

No, sir?

Speaker 6

Then you are an otter and a shad a wit a very.

Speaker 9

You'll hear me, sir, I will not.

Speaker 10

What is the motive.

Speaker 2

Zeal and the young gentleman against his Spanish slops?

Speaker 10

Oh? They are profane, leude, superstitious and idolatorous bitches.

Speaker 9

New rascals.

Speaker 6

Will you be answer?

Speaker 10

Have I sat on thou art not of the light? That ruff of pride about thy neck betrays thee and is the same with that which the unclean birds in seventy seven were seen to prank it with on divers coasts. Thou lookest like anti Christ in that lewd hot.

Speaker 9

I must give way be answer, but I'll take a course with.

Speaker 10

You Deppart, proud Spanish fiend.

Speaker 9

Captain and doctor child Podission.

Speaker 4

Hence sir, exit surly.

Speaker 6

Did I not quarrel bravely?

Speaker 4

Yes, indeed, sir.

Speaker 6

May and I give my mind to it. I shall do it.

Speaker 4

Oh, you must follow, sir and threaten him tame he'll turn again.

Speaker 6

Else can I'll return him?

Speaker 1

Then exit subtle takes an Anny's a signed Drugger.

Speaker 4

This rogue prevented us for thee. We had determined that thou shouldst have come in a Spanish suit and have carried her. So and he, a brokerly slave goes, puts it on himself, has brought the damask. Yes, sir, thou must borrow a Spanish suit. Hast thou no credit with the players?

Speaker 8

Yes, sir, did you never see me play the fool?

Speaker 4

I know not? Nab thou shalt if I can help it aside Eronimo's old cloak rock and have will, sir. I'll tell thee more when thou bringest them exits Drugger, sah.

Speaker 10

I know the Spaniard hates the Brethren and hot spies upon their axioms, and that this was one. I make no scruple, But the Holy Synod have been in prayer and meditation for it, and tis revealed no less to them than me, that casting of money is most lawful.

Speaker 2

True, But here I cannot do it. If the house should chance to be suspected, all would doubt, and we be locked up in the tower forever to make gold there for the state never come out, and then you are defeated.

Speaker 10

I will tell this to the elders and the weaker brethren, that the whole company of the separation may join in humble.

Speaker 2

Prayer again and fasting.

Speaker 10

Yay for some bitter place. The peace of mind rest with these walls.

Speaker 2

Thanks courteous Ananeus. What did he come for about casting? Dollar's presently out of hand? And so I told him a Spanish minister came here to spy against the faithful?

Speaker 4

I conceive, come subtle, thou art so down upon the least disaster. How wouldst thou have done if I had not helped thee out?

Speaker 2

I thank thee face for the angry boy of faith, who would.

Speaker 4

Have looked he should have been that rascal shirly he had dyed his beard, and all, well, sir, here's Dan that's come to make you a suit.

Speaker 2

Where's Drugger?

Speaker 4

He has gone to borrow me a Spanish habit. I'll be the count.

Speaker 2

Now, But where's the widow within?

Speaker 4

With my lord's sister? Madame Dol is entertaining her.

Speaker 2

By your favor. Face now she is on his sty will stand again.

Speaker 4

You will not offer it? Why stand to your word? Or here comes Dol.

Speaker 2

She knows you are tyrannus.

Speaker 4

Still and to Doll hastily strict from my right? How now, Doll hast thou told her the Spanish count will come?

Speaker 3

Yes? But is come you little looked for?

Speaker 4

Who's that?

Speaker 6

Your master?

Speaker 3

The master of the house?

Speaker 2

How Doll she lies?

Speaker 4

This is some trick. Come leave your equivalents, Dorothy.

Speaker 3

Look out and see.

Speaker 1

Face goes to the window, Art.

Speaker 2

Thou in earnest slight.

Speaker 3

Forty of the neighbors are about him talking?

Speaker 4

Tis he by this good day?

Speaker 3

Twill prove ill day for some on us.

Speaker 4

We are undone and taken lost.

Speaker 2

I'm afraid you said he would not come while they'd died one a week within the liberties.

Speaker 4

No twas within the walls.

Speaker 2

So cry you, mercy, I thought the Liberty's what shall we do now?

Speaker 4

Face be silent, not a word. If he should call her knock, i'llso look into mine own shape again and meet him of Jeremy the Butler. In the meantime, do you two pack up all the goods and purchase that we can carry in the two trunks. I'll keep him off for today if I cannot longer, And then at night i'll ship you all away to Radcliffe, where we shall meet tomorrow, and there we'll share. Let mammon's grass and pewter. Keep the cellar. We'll have another time for that.

But doll pray they go heat a little water quickly, sort a a shade. All my captain's beard must go to make me appear smooth. Jeremy, you'll do it.

Speaker 2

Yes, I'll shave you as well as I can.

Speaker 4

And not cut my throat, but trim me.

Speaker 2

You shall see, sir.

Speaker 1

And of Act four, Act five of the alchemists seen one before love WIT's door, and the love Wit with several of the neighbors.

Speaker 15

Has there been such resorts, say.

Speaker 2

You daily, sir, and nightly too, hie.

Speaker 8

Some as brave as the lords.

Speaker 17

Ladies and gentlewomen, citizens, wives and knights in coaches, yes, and oyster women beside other gallants, sailors, wives, tobacco men.

Speaker 15

Another pimlical, What should my knave advance to draw this company. He hung out No banners of a strange calf with five legs to be seen, or a huge lobster with six claws, No.

Speaker 8

Sir, we had gone in.

Speaker 15

Then, sir, he has no gift of teaching in the nose that ere I knew of. You saw no bill set up that promised cure of agues or the toothache.

Speaker 3

No such things, sir.

Speaker 15

Nor heard a drum struck for baboons or puppets a lever, Sir, what device should he bring forth?

Speaker 2

Now?

Speaker 15

I love a teeming wit, as I love my nourishment. Pray God he have not kept such open house that he hath sold my hangings and my bedding. I left him nothing else if he have et them a plague of the moth, say I sure he has got some body pictures to call all this ging the friar and the nun, or the new motion of the knight's courser covering the parson's mare. Or it may be he has the fleas that run at tilt upon a table, or some dog to dance. When saw you him?

Speaker 3

Who, sir, Jeremy Jeremy Butler. We saw him not this month? How not these five weeks, sir.

Speaker 14

These six weeks at the least, you amaze me.

Speaker 15

Neighbors.

Speaker 9

Sure, if your Worship knows not where he is he slipped away.

Speaker 3

Pray God he be not made away.

Speaker 15

Hah, It's no time to question.

Speaker 1

Then knocks at the door.

Speaker 14

About some three weeks since I heard a doleful cry as I sat up amending my wife's stockings.

Speaker 15

Tis strange that none will answer. Didst thou hear a cry?

Speaker 14

Sayest thou, yes, sir, like unto a man that had been strangled an hour and could not speak. I heard it too, just this day, three weeks at two o'clock next morning.

Speaker 15

These be miracles, or you make them so? A man an hour strangled and could not speak, and both heard him cry. Yes, downward, sir, thou art a wise fellow, Give me thy hand? I pray thee What trade art thou on?

Speaker 9

A smith?

Speaker 15

And please your worship a smith? Then lend me thy help to get this door open.

Speaker 8

Then I will, presently, sir, but fetch my tools.

Speaker 2

Exit, sir, best to knock again before you break it.

Speaker 1

Knocks again, I will and to face in his butler's library.

Speaker 4

What do you mean, sir?

Speaker 2

Oh?

Speaker 3

Please James jeremy.

Speaker 4

Good, sir, come from the door.

Speaker 15

Why what's the matter?

Speaker 4

Get farther you are too near?

Speaker 15

Yet, in the name of wonder, what means the.

Speaker 4

Fellow the house, sir, has been visited?

Speaker 15

What with the plague? Stand thou? Then farther?

Speaker 4

No, sir, I had it?

Speaker 3

Not?

Speaker 15

Who had it?

Speaker 5

Then?

Speaker 15

I left none else but thee in the house.

Speaker 4

Yes, sir, my fellow, the cat that kept a buttery had it on her a week before I spied it. But I got her covered away in the night, and so I shut the house up for a month. How purposing, then, sir, to have burt rose, vinegar, treacle and tar, and had it made sweet? That you should never have known it, because I knew the news would but afflict you, sir.

Speaker 15

Breathe less and farther off. Why this is stranger? The neighbors tell me all here that the doors have still been open. How, sir, gallants, men and women and of all sorts tag rag being seen to flock here in threes these ten weeks, as to a second hogs Den. In days of Pimlico and eye, write.

Speaker 4

Sir, their wisdoms will not say so.

Speaker 15

Today they speak of coaches and gallants. One in a French hood went in, they tell me, and another was seen in a velvet gown at the window. Divers more pass in and out.

Speaker 4

They did pass through the doors then, or walls. I assure their eye sights and their spectacles. For here, sir, are the keys, and here have been in this my pocket now above twenty days, and for before I kept the fourd alone there, But that tis yet not deep in the afternoon. I should believe my neighbors have seen double through the black pot and made these apparitions. For on my faith to your worship, for these three weeks and upwards, the door has not been opened.

Speaker 15

Strange good faith.

Speaker 3

I think I saw a coach, and I too, I'd have been sworn.

Speaker 15

Do you but think it now? And but one coach we cannot tell.

Speaker 17

Sir, Jeremy is an honest fellow.

Speaker 4

Did you see me at all?

Speaker 3

No, that we are sure on I'll be sworn to that.

Speaker 15

Fine rogues to have your testimonies built on re enter.

Speaker 4

Third neighbor with his tools, is Jeremy?

Speaker 8

Come?

Speaker 2

Oh, yes, you may leave your tools. We were deceived, he.

Speaker 15

Says, like enough peace and get hands you changelings.

Speaker 4

And to Surley and mumm aside surely come and Mammon made acquainted, they'll tell all how shall I beat them off? What shall I do? Nothing's more wretched than a guilty conscience.

Speaker 9

No, sir, he was a great physician. This it was no body house but a mere chancel. You knew the lord and his sister. Nay, good, surly the happy word be.

Speaker 5

Rich lay not the tyrant.

Speaker 9

Should be today pronounced to all your friends. And where be your and irons now, and your brass points that should have been gold flagons and great wedges.

Speaker 5

Let me but breathe what they have shut their doors?

Speaker 9

Methinks I now'sis holiday with them rogues and surly not.

Speaker 5

Cousiners, impostors boards.

Speaker 4

What mean you, sir, to win?

Speaker 5

If we can?

Speaker 4

Another man's house? Here is the owner, sir, Turn you to him and speak your business?

Speaker 5

Are you, sir, the owner?

Speaker 15

Yes, sir?

Speaker 5

And are those knaves within your cheatahs?

Speaker 15

Wit eves? What cheaters subtle?

Speaker 4

And his lungs the gentleman is distracted, sir. No lungs nor lights have been seen here in these three weeks, sir, within these doors.

Speaker 9

Upon my word, your word grew arrogant.

Speaker 4

Yes, Sir, I am the housekeeper, and know the keys have not been out of my hands.

Speaker 9

This is a new face.

Speaker 4

You do mistake the house, Sir? What side was it at you?

Speaker 9

Rascal? This is one of the confederacy. Come, let's get officers and force the door.

Speaker 15

Pray you stay, gentlemen, No, sir.

Speaker 5

We'll come with warrant I and then we'll have your doors open.

Speaker 1

Excellent Mammon and Surley.

Speaker 15

What means this?

Speaker 4

I cannot tell, Sir.

Speaker 2

These are two of the gallants that we do think we.

Speaker 4

Saw two of the fools. Your talk as highly as they good faith, Sir, I think the moon has crazed.

Speaker 1

Them all aside, oh me, and to Castril.

Speaker 4

The angry boy, come too. He'll make a nose and narrow way. Alicia will betrayed us, all knocking.

Speaker 6

What rogues, bards sleeves. You'll open the door and on punk cocketres Why sister, by this light, I'll fetch the marshal to you. You are a hord to keep your castle.

Speaker 4

Who would you speak with, sir?

Speaker 6

The body doctor and the cousin and captain and Puss, my sister, this is.

Speaker 15

Something sure upon my trust.

Speaker 4

The doors were never opened sir.

Speaker 6

I have heard all their tricks, told me twice over by the fat knight and the lean gentlemen.

Speaker 15

Here comes another.

Speaker 1

And an Anius, and Tribulation.

Speaker 4

And Ennius too, and his pastor beating at the door.

Speaker 13

The doors are shut against us.

Speaker 10

Oh, come fast, you see the Salfar sons of fire. You are a stench. It is broke fast. Ah by nasty on is in the house.

Speaker 6

Oh, my sister's there.

Speaker 10

The place It has become a cage of unclean buds.

Speaker 6

Yes, I will fetch the scavenger and the constable.

Speaker 10

You shall do well, we'll join to weed them out.

Speaker 6

You will not come then, punk devoise my sister, call.

Speaker 10

Not sister, she's a hard lot. Very.

Speaker 6

I'll raise the straight.

Speaker 15

Good gentlemen a word Satan.

Speaker 1

And hinder, not our zeal excellent and Annius, Tribulation and Castro.

Speaker 15

The world's turn beth them.

Speaker 4

These are all broke loose out of Saint Catharine's where they used to keep the better sort of ned folks.

Speaker 2

All these persons we saw go in and out here.

Speaker 8

Yes, indeed, sir, these are the parties.

Speaker 4

Please you, drunkards, sir, I wonder at it please you to give me leave to touch the door. I'll try and the lock be changed.

Speaker 15

It amazes me.

Speaker 4

Ghost to the door, good faith, sir, I believe there's no such thing. 'tis all decepsiovisis aside? Would I could get him away within?

Speaker 7

Muster coptain master doctor?

Speaker 4

Who's that our clerk?

Speaker 10

Within?

Speaker 4

That I forgot? I know not, sir?

Speaker 7

Within for God's sake, when will the grace be at leisure?

Speaker 4

Ha illusions? Some spirit of the air aside? His gag is melted, and now he sets out the throat within?

Speaker 7

I am almost stifled aside?

Speaker 4

Would you were altogether.

Speaker 15

Tis in the house?

Speaker 8

Huh?

Speaker 4

List believe it, sir? In the air piece you my aunt's grace does not use me?

Speaker 2

Well, you fool peace?

Speaker 4

You'll moral speaks through the keyhole?

Speaker 1

Who I love it advances to the door unobserved.

Speaker 6

Or you will as your rogue?

Speaker 15

Oh is it so? Then you converse with spirits? Come, sir, No more of your tricks, Good jeremy truth the shortest way.

Speaker 4

Dismiss this rabble, sir, assigned? What shall I do?

Speaker 15

I am catched, Good neighbors, I thank you all. You may depart, excellt neighbors, Come, sir, you know that I am an indulgent master, and therefore conceal nothing. What's your medicine to draw so many several sorts of wild fowl?

Speaker 4

Sir, you were wont to affect mirth and wit. But there's no place to talk out in the street. Give me but leave to make the best of my fortune, and only pardon me the abuse of your house. It's all I beg I hope you to a widow in recompense that you shall give me thanks for will make you seven years younger and a rich one. Tis, but you're putting on a Spanish cloak. I have her within. You need not fear the house. It was not.

Speaker 15

Visited but by me, who came sooner than you expected.

Speaker 4

It is true, sir, pray you forgive me.

Speaker 15

Well, let's see your widow.

Speaker 1

Excellt seem to a room in the same and to subtle leading in dapper with his eyes bound as before.

Speaker 2

How you've eaten your gag.

Speaker 7

Yes, faith, it crumbled away in my mouth.

Speaker 2

You've spoiled all.

Speaker 7

Then no, I hope my aunt a fairy, will forgive me.

Speaker 2

Your aunt's a gracious lady. But in truth you were to blame the.

Speaker 7

Fume did overcome me, and I did do to stay my stomach, pray you so satisfy her.

Speaker 1

Grace, and to face in his uniform.

Speaker 7

Here comes the captain.

Speaker 4

How now is his mouth down?

Speaker 2

Ah? He has spoken a pox.

Speaker 4

I heard him, and you too. He's undone. Then I have been fain to say the house is haunted with spirits to get the churl back.

Speaker 2

And hast thou done it sure for this night? Why then, triumphant sing a face so famous, the precious king of present wits?

Speaker 4

Did you not hear the coil about the door?

Speaker 2

Yes? And I dwindled with it.

Speaker 4

Show him his aunt and let him be dispatched. I'll send her to you.

Speaker 2

Exit face well, sir, your aunt, your grace will give you audience presently on my suit. And the Captain's word that you did not eat your gag in any contempt of her Highness.

Speaker 1

Unbinds his eyes. Not I introltzir enter doll like the queen of fairy.

Speaker 2

Here she is. Come down your knees and a wriggle. She has a stately.

Speaker 1

Presence, dapper kneels and shuffles towards her.

Speaker 2

Good yet nearer and bid God save you, madam, and your aunt and.

Speaker 7

My most gracious aunt. God save your grace.

Speaker 3

Nephew, we thought you have been angry with you, But that sweet face of yours hath turned the tide and made it flow with joy, that ebbed of love. Arise and touch our velvet, gown the skirts and kissm So let me now stroke that head much, nephew. Shalt thou win much, Shalt thou spend much? Shalt thou give away? Much?

Speaker 4

Shalt thou lend aside?

Speaker 2

I'm much indeed, why do you not thank her grace?

Speaker 7

I cannot speak for joy?

Speaker 2

See the kind wretch, your Grace's kinsman, right.

Speaker 3

Give me the bird. Here is your fly, in a purse about your neck, cousin, wear it and feed it about this day seven night on your right.

Speaker 2

Wrist, open a vein with a pin, and let it suck, but once a week till then you must not look on.

Speaker 3

No and kinsmen, bear yourself worthy of the blood you come on.

Speaker 2

Her grace would have you eat no more woolsack pies, nor dagger from te.

Speaker 3

Nor break his fast in heaven and in hell.

Speaker 2

She's with you everywhere, Nor play with costamongers at mumchance tray trip, God make you rich when as your aunt has done it. But keep the gallantest company and the best game ms. Yes, sir, gleek and primero, and what you get to be true.

Speaker 7

To us by this hand? I will.

Speaker 2

You may brings one thousand pound before tomorrow night. If but three thousand be stirring, and you will, I swear I will, then your fly will learn you all games have you done?

Speaker 1

There?

Speaker 2

Your grace will command him no more duties.

Speaker 3

No, but come and see me often. I made chance to leave him three or four hundred chests of treasure and some twelve thousand acres of fairy land if he game well and comely with good gamesters, there's.

Speaker 2

A kind aunt. Kiss her departing part. But you must sell your forty mark a year now, ay, sir, I mean I'll give it away, poxunt.

Speaker 7

I'll give my aunt. I'll go and fetch the writings.

Speaker 2

Exit tis well away, re.

Speaker 4

Ander face, where's sorrow here? What news drugger is at? Go? Take his suit and bid him fetch a PARSI presently say he will marry the widow. Thou shalt spend one hundred pound by the service.

Speaker 1

Exit subtle.

Speaker 4

Now, Queen dol have you packed up all. Yes, and how do you like the lady pliant?

Speaker 3

A good, dull, innocent re enter subtle.

Speaker 2

Here's your hieronimo's cloak and hat, give me them and the rough too.

Speaker 4

Yes, I'll come to you presently. Exit Now he.

Speaker 2

Has gone about his project, Doll I told you of.

Speaker 3

For the widow tis direct against our articles.

Speaker 2

Well, we will fit him wench hast thou gulter of her jewels or her bracelets? No, but I will do it soon at night, my dolly, when we are shipped and all our goods aboard eastward for Ratcliffe, we will turn our course to Brainford westward. If thou sayest the word, and take our leaves of this o'er weening rascal, this peremptory face content.

Speaker 3

I'm weary of him.

Speaker 2

Thou'st cause when the slave will run a wiving doll against the instrument that was drawn between us.

Speaker 3

I'll pluck his bird as bare as I can.

Speaker 2

Yes, tell her, she must, by any means, address some present to the cunning man, make him amends for wronging his art with her suspicion. Send a ring or chain of pearl. She will be tortured else extremely in her sleep, say, and have strange things come to her? Wilt thou yes, my fine flitter mouse, my bird of the night. We'll tickle it at the pigeons when we have all, and may unlock the trunks and say this is mine, and thine, and thine and mine.

Speaker 4

They kiss re enter face. What now are billing?

Speaker 2

Yes, a little exalted in the good passage of our stock affairs.

Speaker 4

Drugger has brought a parson. Take him in sorrow, and send nab back again to wash his face.

Speaker 2

I will and shave himself.

Speaker 4

Exit if you can get him.

Speaker 3

You are hot upon it face whate'er.

Speaker 4

It is a trick that dol shall spend ten pounds a month by re and to subtle. Is he gone?

Speaker 2

The chaplain waits you in the hall, sir.

Speaker 4

I'll go bestowe exit.

Speaker 3

He'll now marry her instantly.

Speaker 2

He cannot yet he is not ready, dear doll cousin her. Of all thou canst to deceive him. Is no deceit, but justice that would break such an inextricable tie as ours was.

Speaker 3

Let me alone to fit him re and to face.

Speaker 4

Calm my venturers. You have packed up all where be the trunks ring fourth here, let us see them. Where's the money here? In this Mammon's ten pound eight score before the brethren's money. This druggers and drappers. What paper's that?

Speaker 3

The jewel of the waiting maids that stole it from her lady to know certain.

Speaker 4

If she should have presidents of her mistress?

Speaker 2

Yes?

Speaker 4

What box is that?

Speaker 2

The fishwives rings? I think in the alewives single money, it's not doll? Yes?

Speaker 3

And the whistle that the sailor's well, I've brought you to know when her husband were with ward.

Speaker 4

We'll wed it tomorrow. And our silver beakers and tavern cuffs? Where be the French petticoats and girdles and hangers?

Speaker 2

Here in the trunk and the boats of lawn.

Speaker 4

Is Drugger's demons there in the tobacco, Yes, give me the keys.

Speaker 2

Why you the keys, no, Matta doll, because we shall not open them before he comes?

Speaker 4

Tis true? You shall not open them indeed, nor have them forth. Do you see not fourth doll?

Speaker 3

No?

Speaker 4

No, my smart report. The right is My master knows All has pardoned me, and he will keep them. Doctor, tis true? You look for all your figures I send for him. Indeed, Wherefore good partners, both he and she be satisfied. For here determines the indentured tripart betwixt subtle doll and face. All I can do is to help you, or the wall or the backside, or lend you a sheet to save your velvet gown.

Speaker 9

Doll.

Speaker 4

Here will be officers.

Speaker 6

Presently.

Speaker 4

If you think you of some course, suddenly to escape the dock, for thither you will come else loud knocking, hark you thunder.

Speaker 2

You are a precious fiend.

Speaker 4

Without open the door, doll. I am sorry for thee in faith, but hear'st thou. It will go hard, But I will place THEE somewhere. Thou shalt have my letter to Mistress Almah hang you, or Madam Cesarin.

Speaker 3

Pox upon you rogue. Would I had but time to beat thee.

Speaker 4

Subtle, Let's know where you set up next. I will send you a customer now and then for old acquaintance. What new course have you, rogue?

Speaker 2

I'll hang myself that I may walk a greater devil than thou, and haunt THEE in a flock bed in the buttery excellt.

Speaker 1

Scene three, and out of room in the same, and to love it in the Spanish dress with the parson loud knocking at the door.

Speaker 15

What do you mean, my master's without open your door?

Speaker 5

Cheetahs, boards conjurers, or will break it open?

Speaker 15

What warrant have you warrant enough?

Speaker 5

Sir dono? If you'll not open it?

Speaker 15

Is there an officer there?

Speaker 4

Yes?

Speaker 9

Two or three for failing.

Speaker 15

Have but patience and I will open it.

Speaker 1

Straight and to face as butler, Sir?

Speaker 4

Have you done? Is it a marriage? Perfect?

Speaker 5

Yes?

Speaker 15

My brain?

Speaker 4

Off with your rough and cloak. Then be yourself, sir, down with the door, slight, ding it open, opening the door.

Speaker 15

Hold hold, gentlemen, what means this violence?

Speaker 1

Mammon surly castrol and annis tribulation? And officers rush in?

Speaker 5

Where is this? Coliar?

Speaker 9

And my captain face.

Speaker 5

These day owls.

Speaker 9

That are birding in men's purses, Madam suppository.

Speaker 6

Doxy, my sister.

Speaker 13

Lo cast of the foul pit profane as bell and the dragon?

Speaker 10

Wha stand a grasshopper or the life of Egypt?

Speaker 15

Good gentlemen, hear me? Are you officers and cannot stay this violence?

Speaker 9

Keep the peace?

Speaker 15

Gentlemen, what is the matter? Whom do you seek?

Speaker 9

The chemical Cozada and the captain pandar the not my.

Speaker 5

Sister, Madam Rabbi, Scorpions and catapillars.

Speaker 15

Fewer at once. I pray you.

Speaker 7

One after another. Gentlemen, I charge you by virtue of my staff.

Speaker 10

They are the vessels of pride last and the.

Speaker 13

Cart peace deacon ananias.

Speaker 15

The house is mine here and the doors are open. If there be any such persons as you seek for, use your authority search on O God's name. I am but newly come to town, and finding this tumult, but my door to tell you true it somewhat mazed me till my man here, fearing my more displeasure, told me he had done somewhat an insolent part. Let out my house, be like presuming on my known aversion from any air of the town while there was sickness to a doctor

and a captain. Who what they are or where they be? He knows not.

Speaker 5

Are they gone?

Speaker 15

You may go in and search.

Speaker 1

Sir Mammon and an ice and tribulation.

Speaker 6

Go in here.

Speaker 15

I find the empty walls worse than I left them, smoked, a few cracked pots and glasses, and a furnace, the ceiling filled with posies of the candle and madam with a dildo, writ all the walls. Only one gentlewoman I met here, that is within that said she was a widow.

Speaker 6

Hoy, that's my sister. I'll go thumper where is?

Speaker 15

She goes in and should have married a Spanish count. But he, when he came to it, neglected her so grossly that I a widower, am gone through with her?

Speaker 9

How have I lost her? Then?

Speaker 15

Were you the dawn?

Speaker 6

Sir?

Speaker 15

Good faith? Now she does blame you extremely and says you swore and told her you had taken the pains to dye your beard and umber o'er your face, borrowed a suit and rough all for her love, and then did nothing. What an oversight and want of putting forward, sir? Was this welfare and all harkwabusier, yet could prime his powder and give fire and hit all in a twinkling and.

Speaker 4

A mammon, oh nesta fled?

Speaker 15

What sort of birds? Were they?

Speaker 5

A kind of chucks or thievish doors? Sir? Let have picked my past, a eat score and ten pounds within these five weeks, besides my first materials and my goods that lie in the cellar, which I am glad they have left. I may have home.

Speaker 15

Yet think you so, sir? Aye by order of life, sir, but not otherwise not mine own stuff, Sir. I can take no knowledge that they are yours, but by public means, if you can bring certificate that you were a gauld of them, or any formal writ out of a court that you did causing yourself, I will not hold them.

Speaker 5

I'd rather lose them.

Speaker 15

That you shall not, sir by me in Troth upon these terms they are yours? What should they have been, sir? Turned into gold?

Speaker 2

All? No?

Speaker 5

I cannot tell it may be they should?

Speaker 15

What then what a great loss and hope have you sustained?

Speaker 5

Not I the commonwealth has ay, and.

Speaker 4

He would have built the city new and made a ditch. A bottle of silver should have run with cream from Hogsden. Then every Sunday in Moresfield the yonkers and tits and tom boys should have fed on gratis.

Speaker 5

I will give mouth to turnip Cart and preach the end of the world within these two miles ones, Surley, What in a.

Speaker 9

Dream must I needs cheat myself with that same foolish vice of honesty. Come let us go and hearten out the rogues that face will mark for mine If I meet him.

Speaker 4

If I can hear him, Sir, I'll bring your word unto your lodgings, foreign truth. There were strangers to me. I thought them honest as myself, Sir.

Speaker 1

Excellent Mammon, and surny re enter annies and tribulation.

Speaker 13

Tis well, the Saints shall not lose all. Yet, go and get some carts.

Speaker 15

For what my zealous friends, to bear.

Speaker 10

Away the posson of the righteas out of this den of thieves?

Speaker 15

What is that portion the gods?

Speaker 10

Sometimes the orphans that the brethren bought with their silver pence?

Speaker 15

What those in the cellar the knight, Sir Mammon claims, I do.

Speaker 10

Depi the wicked Mammon, So do all the brethren, profane man, I ask me with what conscience thou canst advance that idol against us? But have the seal? Were not the shillings numbered that made the pounds? Were not the pounds told out upon the second day of the fourth week in the eighth month upon the table dormant the year of the last patience of the Saints six hundred And tell.

Speaker 15

Mine, earnest, vehement botcher and deacon, also, I cannot dispute with you, but if you get you not away the sooner, I shall confuse you with a cudgel.

Speaker 13

Sah, the patient Anonius.

Speaker 10

I am strong and will stand up well God against an host that threatened God in exile.

Speaker 15

I shall send you to Amsterdam to yourself.

Speaker 10

I will praise the hell against thy house. May dogs defile thy walls, and wasps and hornets breathe beneath thy roof this seat of falls short, and this cave of cosinage.

Speaker 1

Excellent, and an ice and tribulation.

Speaker 15

And the Drugger another two not I, sir, I am no brother beats him. O away you, Harry Nicholas.

Speaker 4

Do you talk exit Drugger. No, this was able, Drugger. Good, Sir. Go to the parson and satisfy him. Tell him all was done. He stayed too long. A washing of his face. The doctor, he shall hear of him in Westchester, and of the captain. Tell him at Yarmouth or some good Port townells lying for a wind exits puss. If you can get off the angry child now, sir.

Speaker 1

Enter castrel dragging in his sister.

Speaker 6

Come on you you you have matched most sweetly, have you not? Did I not say I would never have you tapped, but by a dubbed boy to make you a lady. Tom Slight, you are a mammot. Oh I could touse you now death mun you marry with a pox?

Speaker 15

You lie boy, as sound as you, and I'm aforehand with you. Anon, Come will you quarrel? I will phase you, surah? Why do you not buckle to your tools?

Speaker 6

Oh it's light, This is a fine old boy's air.

Speaker 15

Iyesare what do you change? Your copy? Now proceed? Here stands my dove stupid her.

Speaker 6

If you dare slight, I must love him. I cannot choose a faith, and I should be hanged for it. Sister, I protest. I honor THEE for this match.

Speaker 15

Oh do you so, sir?

Speaker 6

Yes? And now can take tobacco and drink. Oh boy, I'll give her five hundred pound more, or to wear marriage in their own state.

Speaker 4

Fill a pipeful, Jeremy, Yes, but go in and take it, sir.

Speaker 5

We will.

Speaker 15

I will be ruled by THEE in anything, Jeremy.

Speaker 6

Sly, thou art not hide bound? Thou art a jovie boy. Come let us in. I pray THEE and take our whiffs.

Speaker 15

Within with your sister, brother boy.

Speaker 1

Exunt castrol and then blind.

Speaker 15

That master that had received such happiness by a servant in such a widow, and with so much wealth, were very ungrateful if he would not be a little indulgent to that servant's wit and help his fortune, though with some small strain of his own candor advancing. Therefore, gentlemen and kind spectators, if I have outstripped an old man's gravity or strict canon, think what a young wife and a good brain may do. Stretch ages truth sometimes and crack it too. Speak for thyself knave, so.

Speaker 4

I will, sir, advancing to the front of the stage, gentlemen, my part a little fell in this last scene. Yet twas decorum, and though I am clean, got off from subtle surly Mammon doll hotteniis dapper, drugger all with whom I traded. Yet I put myself on you that are my country, and this pelf which I have got. If you do quit, me rest to feast you often and invite new guests.

Speaker 1

Excellent end of Act five. End of the Alchemist by Ben Jonson,

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