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Dol. Nor break his fast

In Heaven and Hell.

Sub. She's with you every where ! Nor play with costarmongers, at mum-chance, tray-trip. [done it ;) God make you rich; (when as your aunt has But keep

The gallant'st company, and the best games
Dap. Yes, sir.

[be true to us. Sub. Gleek and primero: and what you get, Dap. By this hand, I will.

Sub. You may bring's a thousand pound Before to-morrow night, if but three thousand Be stirring, an you will.

Dap. I swear I will then.

Sub. Your fly will learn you all games.
Face. [within. Have you done there?
Sub. Your grace will command him no more
Dol. No:

[duties? But come, and see me often. I may chance To leave him three or four hundred chests of treasure,

And some twelve thousand acres of fairy land, If he game well and comely with good gamesters. Sub. There's a kind aunt! kiss her departing

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Sub. Well, we will fit him, wench. Hast thou gull'd her of her jewels or her braceDol. No; but I will do't.

Sub. Soon at night, my Dolly, When we are shipp'd, and all our goods aboard, Eastward for Ratcliff; we will turn our course To Brainford, westward, if thou sayst the word, And take our leaves of this o'er-weening rascal, This peremptory Face.

Dol. Content, I'm weary of him.

Sub. Thou'st cause, when the slave will run a wiving, Dol, [us. Against the instrument that was drawn between

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Sub. The fish-wives' rings, I think, And the ale-wives' single money. Is't not, Dol? Dol. Yes; and the whistle that the sailor's wife [Ward. Brought you to know an her husband were with Face. We'll wet it to-morrow; and our silver. beakers [coats

And tavern cups. Where be the French petti And girdles and hangers!

Sub. Here, in the trunk, And the bolts of lawn.

Face. Is Drugger's damask there, And the tobacco?

Sub. Yes.

Face. Give me the keys.
Dol. Why you the keys?

Sub. No matter, Dol; because

We shall not open them before he comes.

Face. 'Tis true, you shall not open them,

indeed;

Nor have them forth, do you see? not forth, Dol. Dol. No!

Face. No, my smock rampant. The right is, my master

Knows all, has pardon'd me, and he will keep
them;
[ures:
Doctor, 'tis true-you look for all your fig-
I sent for him indeed. Wherefore, good partners,
Both he and she be satisfied; for here
Determines the indenture tripartite

"Twixt Subtle, Dol, and Face. All I can do
Is to help you over the wall, o'the back-side,
Or lend you a sheet to save your velvet gown,
Dol.

Here will be officers presently, bethink you
Of some course suddenly to 'scape the dock:
For thither you will come else. [Loud knocking.]
Hark you, thunder.

Sub. You are a precious fiend!

Offi. [without.] Open the door. [hear'st thou ? Face. Dol, I am sorry for thee, i'faith; but It shall go hard but I will place thee somewhere: Thou shalt have my letter to mistress Amo Dol. Hang you!

Face. Or madam Cæsarean.

Dǝl. Pox upon you, rogue,

Would I had but time to beat thee!
Face. Subtle,

[you

Let's know where you set up next; I will send A customer now and then, for old acquaintance: What new course have you?

Sub. Rogue, I'll hang myself; That I may walk a greater devil than thou, And haunt thee in the flock-bed and the buttery. [Exeunt.

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[are open;

Tri. Peace, deacon Ananias. Love. The house is mine here, and the doors If there be any such persons as you seek for, Use your authority, search on o'God's name. I am but newly come to town, and finding This tumult 'bout my door, to tell you true, It somewhat mazed me; till my man, here, fearMy more displeasure, told me he had done [ing Somewhat an insolent part, let out my house (Belike, presuming on my known aversion From any air o'the town while there was sickness,)

To a doctor and a captain: who, what they are Enter LOVEWIT in the Spanish dress, with the Or where they be, he knows not.

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Mam. Are they gone?

Love. You may go in and search, sir. [MAMMON, ANA. and TRIB. go in.] Here, I find The empty walls worse than I left them, smoak'd A few crack'd pots and glasses, and a furnace The ceiling fill'd with poesies of the candle, And madam with a dildo writ o'the walls: Only one gentlewoman, I met here, That is within, that said she was a widow—

Kas. Ay, that's my suster; I'll go thump her Where is she? [Goes in

Love. And should have married a Spanish count, but he,

When he came to't, neglected her so grossly,
That I, a widower, am gone through with her.
Sur. How have I lost her then?
Love. Were you the don, sir? [and says
Good faith, now, she does blame you extremely.
You swore, and told her you had taken the pains
To dye your beard, and umbre o'er your face,
Borrowed a suit, and ruff, all for her love;
And then did nothing. What an oversight,
And want of putting forward, sir, was this!
Well fare an old harquebuzier, yet.

Could prime his powder, and give fire, and hit, | That have the seal? were not the shillings num. All in a twinkling!

Re-enter MAMMON.

Mam. The whole nest are filed!

Love. What sort of birds were they?
Mam. A kind of choughs,

Or thievish daws, sir, that have pick'd my purse
Of eight score and ten pounds within these five
weeks,

Beside my first materials; and my goods,
That lie in the cellar, which I am glad they have
I may have home yet.

Love. Think you so, sir?

Mam. Ay.

[left,

ber'd,
[out
That made the pounds; were not the pounds told
Upon the second day of the fourth week,
In the eighth month, upon the table dormant,
The year of the last patience of the saints,
Six hundred and ten?

Love. Mine earnest vehement botcher,
And deacon also, I cannot dispute with you :
But if you get you not away the sooner,
I shall confute you with a cudgel.
Ana. Sir!

Tri. Be patient, Ananias.
Ana. I am strong,

And will stand up, well girt, against an host

Love. By order of law, sir, but not otherwise. That threaten Gad in exile.

Mam. Not mine own stuff!

Love. Sir, I can take no knowledge
That they are yours, but by public means.
If you can bring certificate that you were gull'd
Or any formal writ out of a court, [them,
That you did cozen your self, I will not hold
Mam. I'll rather lose them.
Love. That you shall not, sir,

By me, in troth; upon these terms, they are
yours.
[gold, all?
What! should they have been, sir, turn'd into
Mam. No,

I cannot tell-It may be they should - What
then?

Love. What a great loss in hope have you
sustain'd!

Mam. Not I, the common-wealth has.
Face. Ay, he would have built-
The city new; and made a ditch about it
Of silver, should have run with cream from
Hogsden;
[ers,
That, every Sunday, in Moor-fields, the younk-
And tits and tom-boys should have fed on,
gratis.
[preach
Mam. I will go mount a turnip-cart, and
The end of the world, within these two months.
What! in a dream?

[Surly,

Sur. Must I needs cheat myself,
With that same foolish vice of honesty!
Come, let us go and hearken out the rogues:
That Face I'll mark for mine, if e'er I meet him.
Face. If I can hear of him, sir, I'll bring you
word,
[strangers
Unto your lodging; for in troth, they were
To me, I thought them honest as my self, sir.
[Exeunt MAM. and SUR.

Re-enter ANANIAS and TRIBULATION.
Tri. "Tis well, the saints shall not lose all yet.
And get some carts --

[Go,

Love. For what, my zealous friends?
Ana. To bear away the portion of the right-
Out of this den of thieves.

Love. What is that portion?

[eous

Ana. The goods sometimes the orphan's, that
Bought with their silver pence.
[the brethren
Love. What, those in the cellar,

The knight sir Mammon claims?

Ana. I do defy

The wicked Mammon, so do all the brethren,

Thou profane man! I ask thee with what con

science

Thou canst advance that idol against us,

Love. I shall send you

To Amsterdam, to your cellar.

Ana. I will pray there,

Against thy house: may dogs defile thy walls,
And wasps and hornets breed beneath thy roof
This seat of falsehood, and this cave of cozenage!
[Exeunt ANA. and TRIB

Enter DRUGGER.

Love. Another too?
Drug. Not I, sir, I am no brother.
Love. [beats him.] Away, you Harry Nicho-
las! do you talk?

[Exit DRUG. Face. No, this was Abel Drugger. Good sir, go,

[To the Parson.
And satisfy him; tell him all is done:
He staid too long a washing of his face.
The doctor, he shall hear of him at West-
chester;

And of the captain, tell him, at Yarmouth, or
Some good port-town else, lying for a wind.

[Exit Parson. If you can get off the angry child, now, sir

Enter KASTRIL, dragging in his sister.
Kas. Come on, you ewe, you have match'd
most sweetly, have you not?
Did not I say, I would never have you tupp'd
But by a dubb'd boy, to make you a lady-tom:
'Slight, you are a mammet! Ŏ, I could touse
Death, mun' you marry, with a pox! [you, now.
Love. You lie, boy;

Kas. Anon!

As sound as you; and I'm aforehand with you.
[you, sirrah;
Love. Come, will you quarrel? I will fciza
Why do you not buckle to your tools?
Kas. Od's light,

This is a fine old boy as e'er I saw ! [proceed,

Love. What, do you change your copy now? Here stands my dove: stoop at her, if you dare. Kas. 'Slight, I must love him! I cannot

choose, i'faith,

An I should be hang'd for't! Suster, I protest,
I honor thee for this match.

Love. O, do you so, sir?

Kas. Yes, an thou canst take tobacco and
drink, old boy,

I'll give her five hundred pound more to he
Than her own state.

Love. Fill a pipe full, Jeremy.

[marriage

Face. Yes; but go in and take it, sir.

Love. We will

I will be ruled by thee in anything, Jeremy.

Kas. 'Slight, thou art not hide-bound, thou art a jovy boy!

Come, let us in, I pray thee, and take our whiffs. Love. Whiff in with your sister, brother boy.

[Exeunt KAS. and Dame P.] That master That had received such happiness by a servant, In such a widow, and with so much wealth, Were very ungrateful, if he would not be A little indulgent to that servant's wit, [strain And help his fortune, though with some small Of his own candor. [advancing.]-Therefore, gentlemen,

And kind spectators, if I have outstript

An old man's gravity, or strict canon, think

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What a young wife and a good brain may do; Stretch age's truth sometimes, and crack it too. Speak for thyself, knave.

Face. So I will, sir. [advancing to the front of the stage.] Gentlemen,

My part a little fell in this last scene,
Yet 'twas decorum. And though I am clean
Got off from Subtle, Surly, Mammon, Dol,
Hot Ananias, Dapper, Drugger, all
With whom I traded: yet I put my self
On you, that are my country: and this pelf,
Which I have got, if you do quit me, rests
To feast you often, and invite new guests.

[Exeunt

CATILINE HIS CONSPIRACY.

TO THE GREAT EXAMPLE OF HONOR AND VIRTUE, THE MOST NOBLE

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MY LORD,-In so thick and dark an ignorance, as now almost covers the age, 1 crave leave to stand near your light, and by that to be read. Posterity may pay your benefit the honor and thanks, when it shall know, that you dare, in hese jig-given times, to countenance a legitimate Poem. I call it so, against all noise of opinion; from whose crude and airy reports, I appeal to the great and singular faculty of judgment in your lordship, able to vindicate truth from error. It is the first, of this race, that ever I dedicated to any person; and had I not thought it the best, it should have been taught a less ambition. Now it approacheth your censure cheerfully, and with the same assurance that innocency would appear before a magistrate. Your lordship's most faithful honorer, BEN JONSON

TO THE READER IN ORDINARY.

THE muses forbid that I should restrain your meddling, whom I see already busy with the title, and tricking over the leaves; it is your own. I departed with my right, when I let it first abroad; and now, so secure an interpreter I am of my chance, that neither praise nor dispraise from you can affect me. Though you cominend the two first acts, with the people, because they are the worst; and dislike the oration of Cicero, in regard you read some pieces of it at school, and understand them not yet: I shall find the way to forgive you. Be any thing you will be at your own charge Would I had deserved but half so well of it in translation, as that ought to deserve of you in judgment, if you have any. I know you will pretend, whosoever you are, to have that, and more: but all pretensions are not just claims. The commendation of good things may fall within a many, the approbation but in a few; for the most command out of affection, self-tickling, an easiness, or imitation: but men judge only out of knowledge. That is the trying faculty: and to those works that will bear a judge, nothing is more dangerous than a foolish praise. You will say, I shall not havə yours therefore but rather the contrary, all vexation of censure. If I were not above such molestations now, I had great cause to think unworthily of my studies, or they had so of me. But I leave you to your exercise. Begin.

TO THE READER EXTRAORDINARY.

You I would understand to be the sette: man, though places in court go otherwise; to you I submit myself and work. Farewell.

BEN JONSON.

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SCENE I.

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SCENE, PARTLY AT ROME, AND PARTLY IN FESULE.

ACT I.

A Room in CATILINE'S House.

The Ghost of SYLLA rises.

Dost thou not feel me, Rome? not yet! is night
So heavy on thee, and my weight so light?
Can Sylla's ghost arise within thy walls,

Of thee and thine? Shake not the frighted heads
Of thy steep towers, or shrink to their first beas?
Or, as their ruin the large Tyber fills,
Make that swell up, and drown thy seven proud hills
What sleep is this doth seize thee so like death,
And is not it? wake, feel her in my
breath.
Behold, I come, sent from the Stygian sound,
As a dire vapor that had cleft the ground.
To ingender with the night, and blast the day;

Less threatening than an earthquake, the quick falls | Or like a pestilence that should display

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