Surrendering the possession, you shall ease
Yourself and me, of chargeable suits in law;
Which, if you prove not honest (as I doubt it),
Must, of necessity, follow.

Lady. In my judgment,
He does advise you well.

Over. Good, good! conspire

With your new husband, lady; second him
In his dishonest practices; but, when
This manor is extended to my use,

Mar. Keep him

From using of his hands, I'll use my tongue
To his no little torment.

Over. Mine own varlet
Rebel against me?

Mar. Yes, and uncase you too.

The ideot; the patch; the slave; the booby;
The property, fit only to be beaten

For your morning exercise; your football, or
The unprofitable lump of flesh, your drudge,

You'll speak in an humble key, and sue for fa- Can now anatomize you, and lay open

Your testimony

Help with an oath or two; and for thy master,
Thy liberal master, my good honest servant,
I know you will swear any thing to dash
This cunning slight: besides, I know thou art
A public notary, and such stands in law
For a dozen witnesses; the deed being drawn too
By thee, my careful Marrall, and delivered
When thou wert present, will make good my

title;
Wilt thou not swear this?

Mar, I! no, I assure you,

I have a conscience, not seared up like yours;
I know no deeds.

Over. Wilt thou betray me?

All your black plots, level with the earth
Your hill of pride, and shake,

Nay, pulverize, the walls, you think defend you.
Lady. How he foams at the mouth with rage!
Over. O that I had thee in my gripe! I would
tear thee

Joint after joint!

Mar. I know you are a tearer.

But I'll have first your fangs pared off; and then
Come nearer to you; when I have discovered,
And made it good before the judge, what ways
And devilish practises, you used to cozen with.
Over. But that I will live, rogue, to torture

thee,

You dare do any ill, yet want true valour
To be honest and repent.

Over. They are words I know not,

Nor e'er will learn. Patience, the beggar's virtue,
Shall find no harbour here-After these storms,
At length a calm appears.

Enter GREEDY and Parson WELLDO.

Welcome, most welcome!

There's comfort in thy looks; is the deed done?
Is my daughter married? say but so, my chaplain,
And I am tame.

Welldo. Married? yes, I assure you.

Over. Then vanish all sad thoughts! there's
more gold for thee.

My doubts and fears are in the titles drowned
Of my right honourable, right honourable daugh-

To my wish, to my wish. Now, you that plot | Lead not the way, let's quit the house, and

against me,

And hoped to trip my heels up; that contemned

me;

Think on it and tremble!-[Loud music.]—They come, I hear the music.

A lane there for my lord!

Well. This sudden heat

May yet be cooled, sir.

Over. Make way, there, for my lord!

Enter ALLWORTH, MARGARET, LOVELL, and

LADY.

change

Six words in private.

Lov. I am ready.
Well. You'll grow like him,
Should you answer his vain challenge.
Over. Are you pale?

Borrow his help, though Hercules call it odds,
I'll stand against both, as I am hem'd in thus.
Say they were a squadron

Of pikes, lined through with shot, when I am
mounted

Upon my injuries, shall I fear to charge them?

Marg. Sir, first your pardon, then your bles-No: I'll thro' the battalia, and, that routed, sing, with

Your full allowance of the choice I have made.
Not to dwell too long on words,
This is my husband,

Over. How!

[Kneeling.

All. So, I assure you; all the rites of marriage,

With every circumstance, are past;

And for right honourable son-in-law, you may say
Your dutiful daughter.

Over. Devil! are they married?

Welldo. Do a father's part, and say, Heaven give them joy!

Over. Confusion and ruin! speak, and speak quickly,

Or thou art dead.

Welldo. They are married.

Over. Thou hadst better

Have made a contract with the king of fiends

Than these. My brain turns!

Welldo. Why this rage to me?

I'll fall to execution.-Ha! I am feeble:
Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,
And takes away the use of't! and my sword,
Glewed to my scabbard with wronged orphans'
tears,

Will not be drawn. Ha! what are these? Sure,
hangmen,

That come to bind my hands, and then to drag

me

Before the judgment-seat.-Now they are new
shapes,

And do appear like furies, with steel whips,
To scourge my ulcerous soul! Shall I then fall
Ingloriously, and yield? No: spite of fate
I will be forced to hell like to myself;
Tho' you were legions of accursed spirits,
Thus would I fly among you.-

[Dragged off by ORDER and AMBle. Mar. Is't brave sport?

Greedy. Brave sport? I'm sure it has taken away my stomach,

Is not this your letter, sir? and these the words I do not like the sauce.
Marry her to this gentleman?

Well. As it appears,

You are so, my grave uncle.

Over. Village nurses

Mar. Was it not a rare trick,

(An't please your worship) to make the deed nothing?

Certain minerals I used,

Incorporated in the ink and wax.

Besides, he gave me nothing, but still fed me
With hopes and blows; and that was the induce-

ment

To this conundrum.

Well. You are a rascal. He, that dares be
false

To a master, tho' unjust, will ne'er be true
To any other. Look not for reward,

Revenge their wrongs with curses; I'll not waste Or favour from me; I will shun thy sight

A syllable, but thus I take the life,
Which, wretch! I gave to thee.

[Offers to kill MARGARET.
Lov. Hold, for your own sake!
Though charity to your daughter hath quite left
you,

Will you do an act, tho' in your hopes lost here,
Can leave no hope for peace or rest hereafter?

Over. Lord! thus I spit at thee,
And at thy counsel; and again desire thee,
As thou art a soldier, if thy valour

Dares shew itself where multitude and example

[TO MARG.

Their own abilities leave them. Pray you take | It is a time of action; if your lordship
Will please to confer a company upon me
In your command, I doubt not, in my service
To my king and country, but I shall do some-
thing,

comfort.
I will endeavour you shall be his guardians
In his distraction: and for your land, Mr. Well-
born,

Be it good or ill in law, I'll be an umpire
Between you, and this the undoubted heir
Of sir Giles Overreach; for me, here's the

That may make me right again,
Lov. Your suit is granted,
And you loved for the motion.

Well. Nothing wants, then, [To the audience.
But your allowance-and, in that, our all
Is comprehended; it being known, nor we,
Nor he that wrote the comedy, can be free
Without your manumission; which, if you
Grant willingly, as a fair favour due
The poet's and our labours, as you may,
(For we despair not, gentlemen, of the play)
We jointly shall profess your grace hath might
To teach us action, and him how to write.
[Exeunt omnes.

SCENE I.

ACT I.

Enter CAROLO CHAROMONTE. and CONTARINO.
Car. You bring your welcome with you.
Con. Sir, I find it,

In every circumstance.

Car. Again more welcome.

Yet, give me leave to wish (and pray you excuse

me,

For I must use the freedom I was born with)
The great duke's pleasure had commanded you
To my poor house upon some other service;
Not this you are designed to: but his will
Must be obeyed, howe'er it ravish from me
The happy conversation of one,

As dear to me as the old Romans held

To bless and guard their families.
Con. 'Tis received so

On my part, signior; nor can the duke
But promise to himself as much as may
Be hoped for from a nephew. And it were
weakness

In any man to doubt, that Giovanni,
Trained up by your experience and care,
In all those arts peculiar and proper
To future greatness, of necessity
Must, in his actions, being grown a man,
Make good the princely education
Which he derived from you.

Car. I have discharged,

To the utmost of my power, the trust the duke
Committed to me, and, with joy, perceive

Their household Lares, who, they believed, had The seed of my endeavours was not sown

power

Upon the barren sands, but fruitful glebe,

Which yields a large increase; my noble charge, | That is without their power. When they ad-
By his sharp wit, and pregnant apprehension,
Instructing those that teach him; making use,
Not in a vulgar and pedantic form,

If you please, to some other subject, though I But break we off. Here comes my princely