is family to torment me.

AMORETTO.
There is tail-general and tail-special, and Littleton is very copious in
that theme; for tail-general is when lands are given to a man and his
heirs of his body begotten; tail-special is when lands are given to a
man and to his wife, and to the heirs of their two bodies lawfully
begotten; and that is called tail-special.

SIR RADERIC.
Very well; and for his oath I will give a distinction. There is a
material oath and a formal oath; the formal oath may be broken, the
material may not be broken: for mark you, sir, the law is to take place
before the conscience, and therefore you may, using me your councillor,
cast him in the suit. There wants nothing to be full meaning of this
place.

PHANTASMA.
_Nihil hic nisi carmina desunt_.

INGENIOSO.
An excellent observation, in good faith. See how the old fox teacheth
the young cub to worry a sheep; or rather sits himself, like an old
goose, hatching the addle brain of Master Amoretto. There is no fool to
the satin fool, the velvet fool, the perfumed fool; and therefore the
witty tailors of this age put them under colour of kindness into a pair
of cloth bags, where a voider will not serve the turn. And there is no
knave to the barbarous knave, the moulting knave, the pleading
knave.--What, ho! Master Recorder? Master _Noverint universi per
presentes_,--not a word he, unless he feels it in his fist.

PHANTASMA.
_Mitto tibi merulas, cancros imitare legendo_.

SIR RADERIC _to_ FUROR.
Fellow, what art thou, that art so bold?

FUROR.
I am the bastard of great Mercury,
Got on Thalia when she was asleep:
My gaudy grandsire, great Apollo hight,[113]
Born was, I hear, but that my luck was ill,
To all the land upon the forked hill.

PHANTASMA.
_O crudelis Alexi, nil mea carmina curas?
Nil nostri miserere? mori me denique coges?_

SIR RADERIC _to_ PAGE.
If you use them thus, my master is a justice of peace, and will send
you all to the gallows.

PHANTASMA.
_Hei mihi, quod domino non licet ire tuo?_[114]

INGENIOSO.
Good Master Recorder, let me retain you this term--for my cause, good
Master Recorder.

RECORDER.
I am retained already on the contrary part. I have taken my fee;
begone, begone.

INGENIOSO.
It's his meaning I should come off.[115] Why, here is the true style of
a villain, the true faith of a lawyer; it is usual with them to be
bribed on the one side, and then to take a fee of the other; to plead
weakly, and to be br