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ese scoffs With your best blood: help me once noble anger, (Nay stir not, I alone must right my self) And with one leg transport me, to correct These scandalous praters: O that noble wounds [_Falls._ Should hinder just revenge! D'ye jear me too? I got these, not as you do, your diseases In Brothels, or with riotous abuse Of wine in Taverns; I have one leg shot, One arm disabled, and am honour'd more, By losing them, as I did, in the face Of a brave enemy, than if they were As when I put to Sea; you are _French-men_ only, In that you have been laied, and cur'd, goe to: You mock my leg, but every bone about you, Makes you good Almanack-makers, to foretell What weather we shall have. _Din._ Put up your Sword. _Cler._ Or turn it to a Crutch, there't may b[e] usefull, And live on the relation to your Wife Of what a brave man you were once. _Din._ And tell her, What a fine vertue 'tis in a young Lady To give an old man pap. _Cler._ Or hire a Surgeon To teach her to roul up your broken limbs. _Din._ To make a Pultess, and endure the scent Of oils, and nasty Plasters. _Verta._ Fie Sir, fie, You that have stood all dangers of all kinds, to Yield to a Rivalls scoffe? _Lamira._ Shed tears upon Your Wedding day? this is unmanly Gentlemen. _Champ._ They are tears of anger: O that I should live To play the woman thus! All powerfull heaven, Restore me, but one hour, that strength again, That I had once, to chastise in these men Their folies, and ill manners, and that done, When you please, I'le yield up the fort of life, And do it gladly. _Cler._ We ha' the better of him, We ha' made him cry. _Verdo._ You shall have satisfaction. And I will do it nobly, or disclaim me. _Beaup._ I say no more, you have a Brother, Sister, This is your wedding day, we are in the street, And howsoever they forget their honour, 'Tis fit I lose not mine, by their example. _Vert._ If there be Laws in _Paris_, look to answer This insolent affront. _Cler._ You that live by them, Study 'em for heavens sake; for my part I know not Nor care not what they are. Is the[re] ought else That you would say; _Din._ Nothing, I have my ends. _Lamira_ weeps, I have said too much I fear; So dearly once I lov'd her, that I cannot Endure to see her tears. [_Exeunt_ Dinant, _and_ Cleremont. _Champ._ See you perform it, And do it like my Nephew. _Verdo._ If I fail in't Ne'r know me more, Cousin _Beaupre_. _Cham
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