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y shillings there may be now i'th' Mint and that's a Treasure, I have seen five pound, but let me tell it, and 'tis as wonderful as Calves with five Legs; here's five shillings, _Frank_, the harvest of five weeks, and a good crop too, take it, and pay thy first fruits, I'le come down and eat it out. _Fran._ 'Tis patience must meet with you Sir, not love. _Lanc._ Deal roundly, and leave these fiddle faddles. _Val._ Leave thy prating, thou thinkest thou art a notable wise fellow, thou and thy rotten Sparrow Hawk; two of the reverent. _Lanc._ I think you are mad, or if you be not, will be, with the next moon, what would you have him do? _Val._ How? _Lanc._ To get money first, that's to live, you have shewed him how to want. _Val._ 'Slife how do I live? why, what dull fool would ask that question? three hundred three pilds more, I and live bravely: the better half o'th' Town live most gloriously, and ask them what states they have, or what Annuities, or when they pray for seasonable Harvests: thou hast a handsome Wit, stir into the world, _Frank_, stir, stir for shame, thou art a pretty Scholar: ask how to live? write, write, write any thing, the World's a fine believing World, write News. _Lan._ Dragons in _Sussex_, Sir, or fiery Battels seen in the Air at _Aspurge_. _Val._ There's the way _Frank_, and in the tail of these, fright me the Kingdom with a sharp Prognostication, that shall scowr them, Dearth upon Dearth, like leven Taffaties, predictions of Sea-breaches, Wars, and want of Herrings on our Coast, with bloudy Noses. _Lan._ Whirl-winds, that shall take off the top of _Grantham_ Steeple, and clap it on _Pauls_, and after these, a Lenvoy to the City for their sins. _Val._ _Probatum est_, thou canst not want a pension, go switch me up a Covey of young Scholars, there's twenty nobles, and two loads of Coals, are not these ready wayes? Cosmography thou art deeply read in, draw me a Map from the Mermaid, I mean a midnight Map to scape the Watches, and such long sensless examinations, and Gentlemen shall feed thee, right good Gentlemen, I cannot stay long. _Lan._ You have read learnedly, and would you have him follow these Megera's, did you begin with Ballads? _Fran._ Well, I will leave you, I see my wants are grown ridiculous, yours may be so, I will not curse you neither; you may think, when these wanton fits are over, who bred me, and who ruined me, look to your self, Sir, a providence I
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