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s fellow here? Whether would ye, Sir? _Serv_. Sir, to desire accesse unto my Lord Were to ask that I know must be denide, And therefore I forbeare it; but intreating What cannot wrong you in the graunt, I hope To find you curteous. _Pro_. What's the Suit? _Serv_. This onely: My Lord, your prisoner, for my service gave me A poore house with an Orchard in the Cuntry. The fruites of which he did not scorne to taste of In th'height of his prosperitie; but of all That pleasd his pallat there was one faire tree, On which theis Peares grew, which by his appointment Were still reservd for him, and as a Rent Due for my Living I stood bound to tender. Theis, yf you please, the last I shall pay to him, I would present him with, by what Attorney Your goodnes shall prescribe me. _Prov_. They are faire Peares, Exceeding faire ones: ile make bold with one, The rest beare to him. _Serv_. [aside[200]] All wilbe discoverd, I am glad I am got off, yet. [_Exit_. _Enter Provosts Wife_[201]. _Prov_. What make you here? Do you come to traile a pike or use a Musket? _Wife_. For neither, Sir; I came to see you. _Pro_. Home! This is no place for women. To your Gossips! This burthen would become a Chamber better. _Wife_. 'Tis a faire Peare. _Prov_. You long for't: pray you take it, You are priviledgd now to beg.--Ha! charmes in't? stay, Give mee't. I would not for a thousand dollars This had byn undiscoverd. Pray you goe home; At night ile see you. _Wife_. You know my obedience And I must practise it. _Prov_. Make out for the fellow That came with this device. 'Twas queintly carried: The stalke pluckt cleanly out, and in the quill This scroll conveyd. What ere it be the Prince Shall instantly peruse it. _Enter Orange, Wm., Vandort, Bredero_. _Or_. How came you by this? _Prov_. I intercepted it in a dish of Peares Brought by a man of _Barnavelts_, but sent to him From some of better ranck. _Or_. See what is written here,-- 'You have frends left and therefore, Sir, dispaire not.' _Vand_. 'Tis this that feeds his Insolence, theis are they That, when they should have paid their prairs for him As for a guilty man, adoarnd his house In the dispight of us and of our Justice. _Bred_. But such shall find their flattering breath but makes The fire, our Cuntries safetie byds us cherish, To burne with greater heate. _Vand_. And so consume him. _Or_. The freedom of our goverment, and o
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