gh to be a Souldier,
Nor have I faith enough to ward a Bullet;
This is no lining for a trench, I take it.
Juan de Castro:
Ye have said wisely.
Cacafogo:
Had you but my money,
You would swear it Colonel, I had rather drill at home
A hundred thousand Crowns, and with more honour,
Than exercise ten thousand Fools with nothing,
A wise Man safely feeds, Fools cut their fingers.
Sanchio:
A right State Usurer; why dost thou not marry,
And live a reverend Justice?
Cacafogo:
Is't not nobler to command a reverend Justice, than to be one?
And for a Wife, what need I marry, Captain,
When every courteous Fool that owes me money,
Owes me his Wife too, to appease my fury?
Juan de Castro:
Wilt thou go to dinner with us?
Cacafogo:
I will go, and view the Pearl of _Spain_, the Orient
Fair One, the rich One too, and I will be respected,
I bear my Patent here, I will talk to her,
And when your Captain's Ships shall stand aloof,
And pick your Noses, I will pick the purse
Of her affection.
Juan de Castro:
The Duke dines there to day too, the Duke of _Medina_.
Cacafogo:
Let the King dine there,
He owes me money, and so far's my Creature,
And certainly I may make bold with mine own, Captain?
Sanchio:
Thou wilt eat monstrously.
Cacafogo:
Like a true born _Spaniard_,
Eat as I were in _England_ where the Beef grows,
And I will drink abundantly, and then
Talk ye as wantonly as _Ovid_ did,
200] To stir the Intellectuals of the Ladies;
I learnt it of my Father's amorous Scrivener.
Juan de Castro:
If we should play now, you must supply me.
Cacafogo:
You must pawn a Horse troop,
And then have at ye Colonel.
Sanchio:
Come, let's go:
This Rascal will make rare sport; how the Ladies
Will laugh at him?
Juan de Castro:
If I light on him I'll make his Purse sweat too.
Cacafogo:
Will ye lead, Gentlemen?
[Exeunt.
[Enter _Perez_, an old Woman, and Maid.]
Michael Perez:
Nay, pray ye come out, and let me understand ye,
And tune your pipe a little higher, Lady;
I'll hold ye fast: rub, how came my Trunks open?
And my Goods gone, what Pick-lock Sp
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