o deserve) uncivilly.

_Hen_.

So brave! pray you give me hearing,
Who am I Sir?

_Jam_.

My elder Brother: One
That might have been born a fool, and so reputed,
But that you had the luck to creep into
The world a year before me.

_Lean_.

Be more temperate.

_Jam_.

I neither can nor will, unless I learn it
By his example: let him use his harsh
Unsavoury reprehensions upon those
That are his Hinds, and not on me. The Land
Our Father left to him alone rewards him,
For being twelve months elder, let that be
Forgotten, and let his Parasites remember
One quality of worth or vertue in him
That may authorize him, to be a censurer
Of me, or my manners, and I will
Acknowledge him for a Tutor, till then, never.

_Hen_.

From whom have you your means Sir?

_Jam_.

From the will
Of my dead Father; I am sure I spend not
Nor give't upon your purse.

_Hen.

But will it hold out
Without my help?

_Jam_.

I am sure it shall, I'le sink else,
For sooner I will seek aid from a Whore,
Than a courtesie from you.

_Hen_.

'Tis well; you are proud of
Your new Exchequer, when you have cheated him
And worn him to the quick, I may be found
In the List of your acquaintance.

_Lean_

Pray you hold
And give me leave (my Lord) to say thus much
(And in mine own defence) I am no Gull
To be wrought on by perswasion: nor no Coward
To be beaten out of my means, but know to whom
And why I give or lend, and will do nothing
But what my reason warrants; you may be
As sparing as you please, I must be bold
To make use of my own, without your licence.

_Jam_.

'Pray thee let him alone, he is not worth thy anger.
All that he do's (_Leandro_) is for my good,
I think there's not a Gentleman of _Spain_,
That has a better Steward, than I have of him.

_Hen_.

Your Steward Sir?

_Jam_.

Yes, and a provident one:
Why, he knows I am given to large expence,
And therefore lays up for me: could you believe else
That he, that sixteen years hath worn the yoke
Of barren wedlock, without hope of issue
(His Coffers full, his Lands and Vineyards fruitful)
Could be so sold to base and sordid thrift,