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eartily To see'm mourne together. _And._ Twill be rare, Sir. _Exeunt._ _Actus 5. Scaena 1._ Eustace, Egremont. Cowsy. Turn'd out of doores and baffled! _Egre._ We share with you In the affront. _Cow._ Yet beare it not like you With such dejection. _Eust._ My Coach and horses made The ransome of our cowardize. _Lew._ _Cow._ Pish, that's nothing, Tis _Damnum reparabile_, and soone recover'd. _Egre._ It is but feeding a suitor with false hopes, And after squeeze him with a dozen of oathes. You are new rigg'd, and this no more remembred. _Eust._ And does the Court that should be the example And Oracle of the Kingdome, read to us No other doctrine! _Egre._ None that thrives so well As that, within my knowledge. _Cow._ Flatterie rubbes out, But since great men learne to admire themselves, Tis something crest-falne. _Egre._ To be of no Religion, Argues a subtle moral understanding, And it is often cherisht. _Eust._ Pietie then, And valour, nor to doe nor suffer wrong, Are they no vertues? _Egre._ Rather vices, _Eustace_; Fighting! What's fighting? It may be in fashion, Among Provant swords, and buffe-jerkin men: But w'us that swim in choice of silkes and Tissues; Though in defence of that word reputation, Which is indeed a kind of glorious nothing, To lose a dram of blood must needs appeare As coarse as to be honest. _Eust._ And all this You seriously beleeve. _Cow._ It is a faith, That we will die in, since from the black guard To the grim Sir in office, there are few Hold other Tenets. _Eust._ [N]ow my eyes are open, And I behold a strong necessity That keepes me knave and coward. _Cow._ Y'are the wiser. _Eust._ Nor can I change my copy, if I purpose To be of your society. _Egre._ By no meanes. _Eust._ Honour is nothing with you? _Cow._ A meere bubble, For what's growne common, is no more regarded. _Eust._ My sword forc'd from me too, and still detain'd, You think's no blemish. _Egre._ Get me a battoone? Tis twenty times more courtlike, and less trouble. _Eust._ And yet you weare a sword. _Cow._ Yes, and a good one, A Millan hilt, and a Damasco blade, For ornament, no use the Court allowes it. _Eust._ Wil't not fight of it selfe? _Cow._ I nere tri'd this, Yet I have worne as faire as any man, I'me sure I've made my Cutler rich, and paid For several weapons, Turkish and Toledo's, Two thousand Crownes, and yet could never light Upon a fighting one. _Eust._ Ile
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