sir, 'tis very rarely well made; I never saw a suit sit
better, I can tell on.
TAI. Nay, we have no art to please our friends, we!
FUNG. Here, haberdasher, tell this same.
[GIVES HIM MONEY.
HABE. Good faith, sir, it makes you have an excellent body.
FUNG. Nay, believe me, I think I have as good a body in clothes as another.
TAI. You lack points to bring your apparel together, sir.
FUNG. I'll have points anon. How now! Is't right?
HABE. Faith, sir, 'tis too little' but upon farther hopes -- Good morrow
to you, sir.
[EXIT.
FUNG. Farewell, good haberdasher. Well now, master Snip, let me see your
bill.
MIT. Me thinks he discharges his followers too thick.
COR. O, therein he saucily imitates some great man. I warrant you, though
he turns off them, he keeps this tailor, in place of a page, to follow him
still.
FUNG. This bill is very reasonable, in faith: hark you, master Snip --
Troth, sir, I am not altogether so well furnished at this present, as I
could wish I were; but -- if you'll do me the favour to take part in hand,
you shall have all I have, by this hand.
TAI. Sir --
FUNG. And but give me credit for the rest, till the beginning of the next
term.
TAI. O lord, sir --
FUNG. 'Fore God, and by this light, I'll pay you to the utmost, and
acknowledge myself very deeply engaged to you by the courtesy.
TAI. Why, how much have you there, sir?
FUNG. Marry, I have here four angels, and fifteen shillings of white
money: it's all I have, as I hope to be blest
TAI. You will not fail me at the next term with the rest?
FUNG. No, an I do, pray heaven I be hang'd. Let me never breathe again
upon this mortal stage, as the philosopher calls it! By this air, and as I
am a gentleman, I'll hold.
COR. He were an iron-hearted fellow, in my judgment, that would not credit
him upon this volley of oaths.
TAI. Well, sir, I'll not stick with any gentleman for a trifle: you know
what 'tis remains?
FUNG. Ay, sir, and I give you thanks in good faith. O fate, how happy I
am made in this good fortune! Well, now I'll go seek out monsieur Brisk.
'Ods so, I have forgot riband for my shoes, and points. 'Slid, what luck's
this! how shall I do? Master Snip, pray let me reduct some two or three
shillings for points and ribands: as I am an honest m
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