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dge we shall dine under? Shall we feed gratis? _Mar._ I know not what to think: Pray you, make me not mad. _Enter_ Order. _Order._ This place becomes you not: 'Pray you, walk sir, to the dining room. _Wellb._ I am well here, Till her ladyship quits her chamber. _Mar._ Well here, say you! 'Tis a rare change! but yesterday, you thought Yourself well in a barn, wrapp'd up in pease-straw. _Enter_ Woman _and_ Chambermaid. _Wom._ O sir, you are wish'd for. _Chamb._ My lady dreamt, sir, of you. _Wom._ And the first command she gave After she rose, was to give her notice When you approached here. _Order._ Sir, my lady. _Exit._ _Enter_ Lady Allworth.--_Salutes him._ _Lady A._ I come to meet you, and languished till I saw you. This first kiss for form: I allow a second, As token of my friendship. _Mar._ Heaven bless me! _Wellb._ I am wholly yours; yet, madam, if you please To grace this gentleman with a salute---- _Mar._ Salute me at his bidding! _Wellb._ I shall receive it As a most high favour. [_To_ Marall. _Lady A._ Sir, your friends are welcome to me. _Wellb._ Run backward from a lady! and such a lady! _Mar._ To kiss her foot, is to poor me, a favour I am unworthy of. [_Offers to kiss her Foot._ _Lady A._ Nay, pray you rise; And since you are so humble, I'll exalt you: You shall dine with me to-day at mine own table. _Mar._ Your ladyship's table! I am not good enough To sit at your steward's. _Lady A._ You are too modest: I will not be denied. _Enter_ Order. _Order._ Dinner is ready for your ladyship. _Lady A._ Your arm, Mr. Wellborn: Nay, keep us company. _Mar._ I was never so grac'd. Mercy on me! [_Exeunt_ Wellborn, Lady Allworth, Amble, _and_ Marall. _Enter_ Furnace. _Order._ So, we have play'd our parts, and are come off well. But if I know the mystery, why my lady Consented to it, or why Mr. Wellborn Desir'd it, may I perish! _Fur._ 'Would I had The roasting of his heart, that cheated him, And forces the poor gentleman to these shifts! Of all the griping and extorting tyrants I ever heard or read of, I never met A match to Sir Giles Overreach. _Watch._ What will you take To tell him so, fellow Furnace? _Fur._ Just as much As my throat is worth, for that would be the price on't. To have a usurer that starves himself, And wears a cloak of one and twenty years On a suit of fourteen groats, bought of the hangman, To grow rich, is t
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