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Untainted in her reputation too, The best of France shall know how I am juggled with. She is my heire, and if she may be ravisht Thus from my care, farewel Nobilitie; Honour and blood are meer neglected nothings. _Bri._ Nay then, my Lord you go too far, and tax him Whose innocencie understands not what feare is; If your unconstant daughter will not dwell On certainties, must you thenceforth conclude, That I am fickle? What have I omitted, To make good my integritie and truth? Nor can her lightnesse, nor your supposition Cast an aspersion on me. _Lew._ I am wounded In fact, nor can words cure it: doe not trifle, But speedilie, once more I doe repeate it, Restore my daughter as I brought her hither. Or you shall heare from me in such a kinde, As you will blush to answer. _Bri._ all the world I think conspires to vex me, yet I will not Torment my selfe; some spriteful mirth must banish The rage and melancholie which hath almost choak'd me, T'a knowing man tis Physick, and tis thought on, One merrie houre Ile have in spight of fortune, To cheare my heart, and this is that appointed, This night Ile hugge my _Lilly_ in mine armes, Provocatives are sent before to cheare me; We old men need 'em, and though we pay deare, For our stolne pleasures, so it be done securely; The charge much like a sharp sawce gives 'm relish. Well honest _Andrew_, I gave you a farme, And it shall have a beacon to give warning To my other Tenants when the Foe approaches; And presently, you being bestowed else where, Ile graffe it with dexteritie on your forehead; Indeed I will _Lilly_. I come poore _Andrew_. _Exit._ _Actus IV. Scaena II._ _Enter_ Miramont, Andrew. Do they chafe roundly? _And._ As they were rubb'd with soap, Sir, And now they sweare alowd, now calme again, Like a ring of bells whose sound the wind still alters, And then they sit in councel what to doe, And then they jar againe what shall be done; They talke of Warrants from the Parliament, Complaints to the King, and forces from the Province, They have a thousand heads in a thousand minutes, Yet nere a one head worth a head of garlick. _Mir._ Long may they chafe, and long may we laugh at 'em, A couple of pure puppies yok'd together. But what sayes the young Courtier Master _Eustace_, And his two warlike friends? _And._ They say but little, How much they think I know not; they looke ruefully, As if they had newly come from a vaulting house, A
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