e warrant you for Wenches, three hundred pounds
in drink.
[_Exeunt omnes_.
_Actus Secundus_. _Scena Prima_.
_Enter Lady, _her Sister_ Martha, Welford, Younglove, _and others_.
_Lady_. Sir, now you see your bad lodging, I must bid you good night.
_Wel_. Lady if there be any want, 'tis in want of you.
_Lady_. A little sleep will ease that complement. Once more good night.
_Wel_. Once more dear Lady, and then all sweet nights.
_Lady_. Dear Sir be short and sweet then.
_Wel_. Shall the morrow prove better to me, shall I hope my sute happier
by this nights rest?
_Lady_. Is your sute so sickly that rest will help it? Pray ye let it rest
then till I call for it. Sir as a stranger you have had all my welcome:
but had I known your errand ere you came, your passage had been straiter.
Sir, good night.
_Welford_. So fair, and cruel, dear unkind good night. [_Exit_ Lady.
Nay Sir, you shall stay with me, I'le press your zeal so far.
_Roger_. O Lord Sir.
_Wel_. Do you love _Tobacco_?
_Rog_. Surely I love it, but it loves not me; yet with your reverence I'le
be bold.
_Wel_. Pray light it Sir. How do you like it?
_Rog_. I promise you it is notable stinging geer indeed. It is wet Sir,
Lord how it brings down Rheum!
_Wel_. Handle it again Sir, you have a warm text of it.
_Rog_. Thanks ever promised for it. I promise you it is very powerful, and
by a Trope, spiritual; for certainly it moves in sundry places.
_Wel_. I, it does so Sir, and me especially to ask Sir, why you wear a
Night-cap.
_Rog_. Assuredly I will speak the truth unto you: you shall understand
Sir, that my head is broken, and by whom; even by that visible beast the
Butler.
_Wel_. The Butler? certainly he had all his drink about him when he did
it. Strike one of your grave Cassock? The offence Sir?
_Rog_. Reproving him at Tra-trip Sir, for swearing; you have the total
surely.
_Wel_. You told him when his rage was set a tilt, and so he crackt your
Canons. I hope he has not hurt your gentle reading: But shall we see these
Gentlewomen to night.
_Rog_. Have patience Sir until our fellow _Nicholas_ be deceast, that is,
asleep: for so the word is taken: to sleep to dye, to dye to sleep, a very
figure Sir.
_Wel_. Cannot you cast another for the Gentlewomen?
_Rog_. Not till the man be in his bed, his grave: his grave, his bed: the
very same again Sir. Our Comick Poet gives the reason sweetly; _Plenus
rimarum e
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