erve that signior? There's another humour has new-crack'd
the shell.
MIT. What! he is enamour'd of the fashion, is he?
COR. O, you forestall the jest.
FUNG. I marle what it might stand him in.
[ASIDE.
SOG. Nephew!
FUNG. 'Fore me, it's an excellent suit, and as neatly becomes him.
[ASIDE.] -- What said you, uncle?
SOG. When saw you my niece?
FUNG. Marry, yesternight I supp'd there. -- That kind of boot does very
rare too.
[ASIDE.
SOG. And what news hear you?
FUNG. The gilt spur and all! Would I were hang'd, but 'tis exceeding
good. [ASIDE.] -- Say you, uncle?
SOG. Your mind is carried away with somewhat else: I ask what news you hear?
FUNG. Troth, we hear none. -- In good faith [LOOKING AT FASTIDIOUS BRISK]
I was never so pleased with a fashion, days of my life. O an I might have
but my wish, I'd ask no more of heaven now, but such a suit, such a hat,
such a band, such a doublet, such a hose, such a boot, and such a --
[ASIDE.
SOG. They say, there's a new motion of the city of Nineveh, with Jonas and
the whale, to be seen at Fleet-bridge. You can tell, cousin?
FUNG. Here's such a world of questions with him now! -- Yes, I think there
be such a thing, I saw the picture. -- Would he would once be satisfied!
Let me see, the doublet, say fifty shillings the doublet, and between three
or four pound the hose; then boots, hat, and band: some ten or eleven
pound will do it all, and suit me for the heavens!
[ASIDE.
SOG. I'll see all those devices an I come to London once.
FUNG. Ods 'slid, an I could compass it, 'twere rare [ASIDE.] -- Hark you,
uncle.
SOG. What says my nephew?
FUNG. Faith, uncle, I would have desired you to have made a motion for me
to my father, in a thing that -- Walk aside, and I'll tell you, sir; no
more but this: there's a parcel of law books (some twenty pounds worth)
that lie in a place for a little more than half the money they cost; and I
think, for some twelve pound, or twenty mark, I could go near to redeem
them; there's Plowden, Dyar, Brooke, and Fitz-Herbert, divers such as I
must have ere long; and you know, I were as good save five or six pound, as
not, uncle. I pray you, move it for me.
SOG. That I will: when would you have me do it? presently?
FUNG. O, ay, I pray you, good uncle: [SOGLIARDO TAKE
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