are most honest, you shall find me no less, and so I leave
you, prosper your business my friends. [_Ex._ Mer.
_Unc._ Pray Heaven it may, Sir.
_Lance._ Nay if he will be mad, I'le be mad with him, and tell him
that I'le not spare him, his Father kept good Meat, good Drink, good
Fellows, good Hawks, good Hounds, and bid his Neighbours welcome; kept
him too, and supplied his prodigality, yet kept his state still; must
we turn Tenants now, after we have lived under the race of Gentry, and
maintained good Yeomantry, to some of the City, to a great shoulder of
Mutton and a Custard, and have our state turned into Cabbidge Gardens,
must it be so?
_Unc._ You must be milder to him.
_Lance._ That's as he makes his game.
_Unc._ Intreat him lovingly, and make him feel.
_Lance._ I'le pinch him to the bones else.
[_Valen._ _Within_.] And tell the Gentleman, I'le be with him
presently, say I want money too, I must not fail boy.
_Lance._ You'l want Cloaths, I hope.
_Enter_ Valentine.
_Val._ Bid the young Courtier repair to me anon, I'le read to him.
_Unc._ He comes, [b]e diligent, but not too rugged, start him, but
affright him not.
_Val._ Phew, are you there?
_Unc._ We come to see you Nephew, be not angry.
_Val._ Why do you dog me thus, with these strange people? why, all
the world shall never make me rich more, nor master of these troubles.
_Tenants._ We beseech you for our poor Childrens sake.
_Val._ Who bid you get 'em? have you not threshing work enough, but
Children must be bang'd out o'th' sheaf too? other men with all their
delicates, and healthful diets, can get but wind eggs: you with a clove
of Garlick, a piece of Cheese would break a Saw, and sowre Milk, can
mount like Stallions, and I must maintain these tumblers.
_Lance._ You ought to maintain us, we have maintained you, and when
you slept provided for you; who bought the Silk you wear? I think our
labours; reckon, you'll find it so: who found your Horses perpetual
pots of Ale, maintain'd your Taverns, and who extol'd you in the
Half-crown-boxes, where you might sit and muster all the Beauties?
we had no hand in these; no, we are all puppies? Your Tenants base
vexations.
_Val._ Very well, Sir.
_Lance._ Had you Land, Sir, and honest men to serve your purposes,
honest and faithful, and will you run away from 'em, betray your self,
and your poor Tribe to misery; mortgage all us, like old Cloaks; where
will you hunt next? you had a t
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