ye,
You will place the Devil next for a Companion.
_Bar_.
No more such words, good wife,
What would you have, Maid?
_Moor_.
Master Curate, and the Sexton, and a stranger, sir,
Attend to speak with your worship.
_Bar_.
A stranger?
_Ama_.
You had best to be jealous of the man you know not.
_Bar_.
'Pray thee no more of that.
_Ama_.
'Pray ye goe out to 'em,
That will be safest for ye, I am well here,
I only love your peace, and serve like a slave for it.
_Bar_.
No, no, thou shalt not; 'tis some honest Client,
Rich, and litigious, the Curate has brought to me,
Pre'thee goe in (my Duck) I'le but speak to 'em,
And return instantly.
_Ama_.
I am commanded,
One day you will know my sufferance.--
[_Exit_.
_Bar_.
And reward it.
So, so, fast bind, fast find; Come in my neighbours,
My loving neighbours pray ye come in, ye are welcome.
_Enter_ Lopez, Leandro, _and_ Diego.
_Lop_.
Bless your good reverence.
_Bar_.
Good-day, good Master Curate,
And neighbour _Diego_, welcom: what's your business?
And 'pray ye be short (good friends) the time is pretious,
Welcom, good Sir.
_Lop_.
To be short then with your Mastership,
(For I know your several hours are full of business)
We have brought ye this young-man, of honest parents,
And of an honest face.
_Bar_.
It seems so, Neighbours,
But to what end?
_Lop_.
To be your Pupil, Sir,
Your Servant, if you please.
_Lea_.
I have travell'd far, Sir,
To seek a worthy man.
_Bar_.
Alas, good Gentleman,
I am a poor man, and a private too,
Unfit to keep a Servant of your Reckoning;
My house a little Cottage, and scarce able
To hold my self, and those poor few live under it;
Besides, you must not blame me Gentlemen,
If I were able to receive a Servant,
To be a little scrupulous of his dealing,
For in these times--
_Lop_.
'Pray let me answer that, sir,
Here is five hundred Duckets, to secure him,
He cannot want, Sir, to make good his credit,
Good gold, and coin.
_Bar_.
And that's an honest pledge;
Yet sure, that needs
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