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ur Good. _Ge._ Nay, for all our Good. * * * * * _MAURICE, CYPRIAN._ _Ma._ You are come back fatter than you used to be: You are returned taller. _Cy._ But in Truth I had rather it had been wiser, or more learned. _Ma._ You had no Beard when you went away; but you have brought a little one back with you. You are grown somewhat oldish since you went away. What makes you look so pale, so lean, so wrinkled? _Cy._ As is my Fortune, so is the Habit of my Body. _Ma._ Has it been but bad then? _Cy._ She never is otherwise to me, but never worse in my Life than now. _Ma._ I am sorry for that. I am sorry for your Misfortune. But pray, what is this Mischance? _Cy._ I have lost all my Money. _Ma._ What in the Sea? _Cy._ No, on Shore, before I went abroad. _Ma._ Where? _Cy._ Upon the _English_ Coast. _Ma._ It is well you scap'd with your Life; it is better to lose your Money, than that; the loss of ones good Name, is worse than the Loss of Money. _Cy._ My Life and Reputation are safe; but my Money is lost. _Ma._ The Loss of Life never can be repair'd; the Loss of Reputation very hardly; but the Loss of Money may easily be made up one Way or another. But how came it about? _Cy._ I can't tell, unless it was my Destiny. So it pleas'd God. As the Devil would have it. _Ma._ Now you see that Learning and Virtue are the safest Riches; for as they can't be taken from a Man, so neither are they burthensome to him that carries them. _Cy._ Indeed you Philosophize very well; but in the mean Time I'm in Perplexity. * * * * * _CLAUDIUS, BALBUS._ _Cl._ I am glad to see you well come Home _Balbus_. _Ba._ And I to see you alive _Claudius_. _Cl._ You are welcome Home into your own Country again. _Ba._ You should rather congratulate me as a Fugitive from _France_. _Cl._ Why so? _Ba._ Because they are all up in Arms there. _Cl._ But what have Scholars to do with Arms? _Ba._ But there they don't spare even Scholars. _Cl._ It is well you're got off safe. _Ba._ But I did not get off without Danger neither. _Cl._ You are come back quite another Man than you went away. _Ba._ How so? _Cl._ Why, of a _Dutch_ Man, you are become a _French_ Man. _Ba._ Why, was I a Capon when I went away? _Cl._ Your Dress shows that you're turn'd from a _Dutch_ Man into a _French_ Man. _Ba._ I had rather suffer this Metamorpho
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