r shillings!
pox on your worship! If I catch thee at Ostend--I dare not stay for the
sergeant. [_Exit_.

SIR RADERIC'S PAGE.
Good faith, Master Prodigo is an excellent fellow. He takes the Gulan
Ebullitio so excellently.

AMORETTO'S PAGE.
He is a good liberal gentleman: he hath bestowed an ounce of tobacco
upon us; and, as long as it lasts, come cut and long tail, we'll spend
it as liberally for his sake.

SIR RADERIC'S PAGE.
Come, fill the pipe quickly, while my master is in his melancholy
humour; it's just the melancholy of a collier's horse.

AMORETTO'S PAGE.
If you cough, Jack, after your tobacco, for a punishment you shall kiss
the pantofle.

SIR RADERIC.
It's a foul oversight, that a man of worship cannot keep a wench in his
house, but there must be muttering and surmising. It was the wisest
saying that my father ever uttered, that a wife was the name of
necessity, not of pleasure; for what do men marry for, but to stock
their ground, and to have one to look to the linen, sit at the upper end
of the table, and carve up a capon; one that can wear a hood like a
hawk, and cover her foul face with a fan. But there's no pleasure
always to be tied to a piece of mutton; sometimes a mess of stewed broth
will do well, and an unlaced rabbit is best of all. Well, for mine own
part, I have no great cause to complain, for I am well-provided of three
bouncing wenches, that are mine own fee-simple; one of them I am
presently to visit, if I can rid myself cleanly of this company. Let me
see how the day goes [_he pulls his watch out_]. Precious coals! the
time is at hand; I must meditate on an excuse to be gone.

RECORDER.
The which, I say, is grounded on the statute I spake of before, enacted
in the reign of Henry VI.

AMORETTO.
It is a plain case, whereon I mooted[111] in our Temple, and that was
this: put case, there be three brethren, John a Nokes, John a Nash, and
John a Stile. John a Nokes the elder, John a Nash the younger, and John
a Stile the youngest of all. John a Nash the younger dieth without issue
of his body lawfully begotten. Whether shall his lands ascend to John a
Nokes the elder, or descend to John a Stile the youngest of all? The
answer is, the lands do collaterally descend, not ascend.

RECORDER.
Very true; and for a proof hereof I will show you a place in Littleton
which is very pregnant in this point.

ACTUS IV., SCAENA 2.

_Enter_ INGENIOSO, FUROR, PHANTASMA.

INGENIOSO.
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