dust! dross! offals! Let me at them!--Nay,
Call you this kind? then kindness know I not;
Nor do I thank you for't! Let go, I say!

_Clif_. Nay, Master Walter, they're not worth your wrath.

_Wal_. How know you me for Master Walter? By
My hunchback, eh!--my stilts of legs and arms,
The fashion more of ape's than man's? Aha!
So you have heard them, too--their savage gibes
As I pass on,--"There goes my lord!" aha!
God made me, sir, as well as them and you.
'Sdeath! I demand of you, unhand me, sir!

_Clif_. There, sir, you're free to follow them! Go forth,
And I'll go too: so on your wilfulness
Shall fall whate'er of evil may ensue.
Is't fit you waste your choler on a burr?
The nothings of the town; whose sport it is
To break their villain jests on worthy men,
The graver still the fitter! Fie for shame!
Regard what such would say? So would not I,
No more than heed a cur.

_Wal_. You're right, sir; right,
For twenty crowns! So there's my rapier up!
You've done me a good turn against my will;
Which, like a wayward child, whose pet is off,
That made him restive under wholesome check,
I now right humbly own, and thank you for.

_Clif_. No thanks, good Master Walter, owe you me!
I'm glad to know you, sir.

_Wal_. I pray you, now,
How did you learn my name? Guessed I not right?
Was't not my comely hunch that taught it you?

_Clif_. I own it.

_Wal_. Right, I know it; you tell truth. I like you for't.

_Clif_. But when I heard it said
That Master Walter was a worthy man,
Whose word would pass on 'change soon as his bond;
A liberal man--for schemes of public good
That sets down tens, where others units write;
A charitable man--the good he does,
That's told of, not the half; I never more
Could see the hunch on Master Walter's back!

_Wal_. You would not flatter a poor citizen?

_Clif_. Indeed, I flatter not!

_Wal_. I like your face--
A frank and honest one! Your frame's well knit,
Proportioned, shaped!

_Clif_. Good sir!

_Wal_. Your name is Clifford--
Sir Thomas Clifford. Humph! You're not the heir
Direct to the fair baronetcy? He
That was, was drowned abroad. Am I not right?
Your cousin, was't not?--so succeeded you
To rank and wealth, your birth ne'er promised you.

_Clif_. I see you know my history.

_Wal_. I do.
You're lucky who conjoin the benefits
Of penury and abundance; for I know
Your father was a man of slender means.
You do not blush, I see. That's ri