Davenport, Robert · published 1639 · first performed or written 1625 [c.1624-1639] (Annals) comedy · Queen Henrietta Maria's Men (?); Lady Elizabeth's Men (?) unassigned nearest T6 Money, debt and credit · 490 words
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Which from his pre-eminence Must by mere consequence redound to you. You talk like an old woman, not like one That should make her first choice, as I must now; When I am grieved, can honour cure my heart? If discontent, can my Nobility Give ease unto my Corrosives? when your Lordship Is with your Trulls and Concubines abroad, Where is my loving Husband then at home To keep me warm at midnight? I am he. Sir, that's the thing I doubt. Why, I entreat you? You are a man? I am so. A Lord too? It is confessed. Could you not lend your Lordship to a friend, And keep the man yourself? To whom I pray? To a poor Gentleman, one Master Slightall, Who, had he but that slight Addition, I gladly would embrace. You trifle with me. Therefore to show me serious, Noble man, I take my leave thus gently. That's no answer; Why Nan, why Minion, good your Lordship, take nought in ill part; a peevish thing, God wot, that wants a little tutoring. Slightall quoth 'a? if she slight all as she hath slighted me, she'll fright hence all her Suitors. This I told you. Still will you prate? will't please your honour, take Such cheer as this our suddenness affords? And there's no question but ere dinner's done This Tempest will blow over. I'll take your kindness, he's no good Soldier that at first repulse Will leave the Breach; belike she's fasting now, I'll take her in full stomach. Please you enter? Attendance for his Lordship. 'Tis signed, sealed, and delivered? As fast as wax and witness can make good. And to my use? Yes, and as great an use as e'er you lent out money on. Is there no hope he will redeem't at all? Redeem this did you say? tush, had he more, More he would soon send after; why he's all expense and riot. I shall love expense and riot while I live; Not in myself, I must confess, but in such prodigals By whom we Usurers profit. He spends all. So let him, what he hath; But this I'll look to safe as my life. He minds nor cares for nothing. For this he minds not, my care is took already. Troth he's sinking, he's up to the neck already. May he drown for him that holds him by the Chin. Alas poor sheep, each Bramble shares his wool. Till he be fleeced quite. What makes he then 'mongst Briers? this be his comfort, His flesh will show the better when he's shorn, he'll make sale for the Shambles. Oh these Dice, Drabs, and Drink? Excellent sokers, brave pills to purge the purse: But for my part, I will take no such Physic. What will you do, sir? Marry, first home, and safely lock up these, Then seek some other new come to his Lands, To make like prey on him.
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Which from his preheminence Muſt by meere conſequence redownd to you. You talke like an old woman, not like one That ſhould make her firſt choiſe, as I muſt now; When I am griev'd, can honour cure my heart? If diſcontent, can my Nobility Give eaſe unto my Corſives? when your Lordſhip Is with your Trulls and Concubines abroad, Where is my loving Husband then at home To keepe me warme at midnight? I am hee. Sir, that's the thing I doubt. Why, I intreat you? You are a man? I am ſo. A Lord too? It is confeſſ'd. Could you not lend your Lordſhip to a friend, And keepe the man your ſelfe? To whom I pray? To a poore Gentleman, one Maſter Slightall, Who, had he but that ſlight Addition, I gladly would embrace. You trifle with me. Therefore to ſhew me ſerious, Noble man, I take my leave thus gently. That's no anſwer; Why Nan, why Minion, good your Lordſhip, take nought in ill part; a peeviſh thing, God wot, that wants a little tutering. Slightall quoth a? if ſhe ſlight all as ſhe hath ſlighted me, Shee'le fright hence all her Suters. This I told you. Still will you prate? wil't pleaſe your honour, take Such cheere as this our ſuddaineneſſe affords? And there's no queſtion but ere dinner's done This Tempeſt will blow over. Ile take your kindneſſe, Hee's no good Souldier that at firſt repulſe Will leave the Breach; belike ſhe's faſting now, Ile take her in full ſtomacke. Pleaſe you enter? Attendance for his Lordſhip. 'Tis ſign'd, ſeal'd, and delivered? As faſt as waxe and witneſſe can make good. And to my uſe? Yes, and as great an uſe as e're you lent out mony on. Is there no hope he will redeeme't at all? Redeeme this did you ſay? tuſh, had he more, More he would ſoone ſend after; why hee's all expence and riot. I ſhall love expence and riot while I live; Not in my ſelfe, I muſt confeſſe, but in ſuch prodigalls By whom we Uſurers profit. He ſpends all. So let him, what he hath; But this Ile looke to ſafe as my life. He minds nor cares for nothing. For this he minds not, my care is tooke already. Troth hee's ſinking, hee's up to the necke already. May he drowne for him that holds him by the Chin. Alas poore ſheepe, each Bramble ſhares his wooll. Till hee bee fleec'd quite. What makes he then 'mongſt Bryers? this be his comfort, His fleſh will ſhew the better when hee's ſhorne, Hee'le make ſale for the Shambles. Oh theſe Dice, Drabbs, and Drinke? Excellent ſokers, brave pills to purge the purſe: But for my part, I will take no ſuch Phyſicke. What will you doe, ſir? Marry, firſt home, and ſafely locke up theſe, Then ſeeke ſome other new come to his Lands, To make like prey on him.