Capons or Chickens to present his worship
withall, _Thomas_.
_Tho_. I cry your worship mercy, you sold him land the last terme; I had
forgott that.
_Un_. I, that lay convenient for him. I us'd him like a gentleman and
tooke litle or nothing; 'twere pitty two or three hundred acres of dirt
should make friends fall out: we should have gone to fenceing schools.
_Tho_. How, sir?
_Un_. I meane to _Westminster_ hall, and let one another blood in Lawe.
_Tho_. And so the Land has parted you?
_Un_. Thou saist right, _Thomas_, it lies betweene both our houses
indeed. But now I am thus dignified (I thinke that's a good word) or
intituled is better, but tis all one; since I am made a Captaine--
_Tho_. By your owne desert and vertue.
_Un_. Thou art deceavd; it is by vertue of the Commission,--the
Commission is enough to make any man an officer without desert;
_Thomas_, I must thinke how to provide mee of warlike accoutrements to
accomodate, which comes of Accomodo[215]: _Shakespeare_. The first, and
the first--
_Tho_. No, Sir, it comes of so much money disburs'd.
_Un_. In troth, and it does, _Thomas_; but take out your table bookes
and remember to bring after me into the Country, for I will goe downe
with my father in law Sir _Richard_ this morning in the Coach,--let me
see--first and formost: a Buff Coate and a paire of breeches.
_Tho_. First and formost: Item, a Buff Coate fox and a paire of breeches
of the same Cloth.
_Un_. A paire of bootes and spurres, and a paire of shooes without
spurres.
_Tho_. Spurres.
_Un_. A paire of gray stockins, thick dapple gray stockins, with a belt,
to be worne either about my shoulder or about my wast.
_Tho_. Wast.
_Un_. A _London Dutch_ felt without a band, with a feather in't.
_Tho_. Without a feather in't.
_Un_. An old fox[216] blade made at _Hounsloe_ heath, and then all the
Bookes to be bought of warlike discipline, which the learned call
Tacticks.
_Tho_. Ticktacks.[217]--If your worship would take my Counsell,
considering the league at _Barwick_[218] and the late expeditions, wee
may find some of these things in the North or else speake with some
reform'd Captaine, though he bee a Catholike; and it may bee wee may
have them at cheaper rates.
_Un_. 'Tis true, Thomas: but I must change the lynings of the breeches,
for I love to bee cleanly.
_Tho_. So you may, Sir; and have the fowling of them yourselfe.
_Un_. Let me see: A leading staff--
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