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savoureth of Monarchy. _Lam._ My Lord, you must give Men of Quality leave to speak in a Language more gentile and courtly than the ordinary sort of Mankind. _Hew._ My Lord, I am sorry to hear there are any of Quality among this honourable Dissembly. [Stands up. _Cob._ Assembly, my Lord-- _Hew._ Well, you know my meaning; or if there be any such, I'm sorry they should own themselves of Quality. _Due._ How! own themselves Gentlemen! Death, Sir, d'ye think we were all born Coblers? _Hew._ Or if you were not, the more the pity, for little _England_, I say. [In a heat. _Fleet._ Verily, my Lords, Brethren should not fall out, it is a Scandal to the good Cause, and maketh the wicked rejoice. _War._ Wons, and theys garr the loosey Proverb on't te, _when loons gang together by th' luggs, gued men get their ene._ _All._ He, he, he. _Due._ He calls you Knaves by Craft, my Lords. _War._ Bread a gued, take't among ye, Gentlemen, I's ment weel. _Fleet._ I profess, my Lord _Wariston_, you make my Hair stand an end to hear how you swear. _War._ Wons, my Loord, I's swear as little as your Lordship, only I's swear out, and ye swallow aud. _Due._ There's a Bone for you to pick, my Lord. _All._ He, he, he. _Lam._ We give my Lord _Wariston_ leave to jest. _Des._ But what's this to the Government all this while? A dad I shall sit so late, I shall have no time to visit my Horses, therefore proceed to the Point. _Hew._ Ay, to the Point, my Lords; the Gentleman that spoke last spoke well. _Cob._ Well said, Brother, I see you will in time speak properly. _Duc._ But to the Government, my Lords! [Beats the Table. _Lam._ Put 'em off of this Discourse, my Lord. [Aside to _War._ _Des._ My Lord _Wariston_, move it, you are Speaker. _War._ The Diel a me, Sirs, and noo ya talk of a Speaker, I's tell ye a blithe Tale. _Fleet._ Ingeniously, my Lord, you are to blame to swear so. _Lam._ Your Story, my Lord. _War._ By my Sol, mon, and there war a poor Woman the other Day, begg'd o'th' Carle the Speaker, but he'd give her nought unless she'd let a Feart; wons at last a Feart she lat. Ay marry, quoth the Woman, noo my Rump has a Speaker te. _All._ He, he, he. _Due._ But to our Bus'ness-- _Des._ Bus'ness; ay, there's the thing, I've a World on't. I shou'd go and bespeak a Pair of Mittins and Shears for my Hedger and Shearer, a pair of Cards for my Thrasher, a Scythe for my Mow
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