Lop.
Are ye not weary?
Die.
Never of well-doing.
Bar.
These are mad Legacies.
Die.
They were got as madly;
My Sheep, and Oxen,
and my moveables,
My Plate, and Jewels,
and five hundred Acres;
I have no heirs.
Bar.
This cannot be, ’tis monstrous.
Die.
Three Ships at Sea too.
Bar.
You have made me full Executor?
Die.
Full, full, and total,
would I had more to give ye,
But these may serve
an honest mind.
Bar.
Ye say true,
A very honest mind,
and make it rich too;
Rich, wondrous rich,
but where shall I raise these moneys,
About your house?
I see no such great promises;
Where shall I find these
sums?
Die.
Even where you please,
Sir,
You are wise and provident,
and know business,
Ev’n raise ’em
where you shall think good, I am reasonable.
Bar.
Think good? will that
raise thousands?
What do you make me?
Die.
You have sworn to see it done, that’s all my comfort.
Bar.
Where I please? this is pack’d sure to disgrace me.
Die.
Ye are just, and honest,
and I know you will do it,
Ev’n where you
please, for you know where the wealth is.
Bar.
I am abused, betrayed,
I am laugh’d at, scorn’d,
Baffl’d, and boared,
it seems.
Ars.
No, no, ye are fooled.
Lop.
Most finely fooled,
and handsomely, and neatly,
Such cunning Masters
must be fool’d sometimes, Sir,
And have their Worships
noses wiped, ’tis healthful,
We are but quit:
you fool us of our moneys
In every Cause, in every
Quiddit wipe us.
Die.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, some
more drink, for my heart, Gentlemen.
This merry Lawyer—ha,
ha, ha, ha, this Scholar—
I think this fit will
cure me: this Executor—
I shall laugh out my
Lungs.
Bar.
This is derision above
sufferance, villany
Plotted and set against
me.
Die.
Faith ’tis Knavery,
In troth I must confess,
thou art fool’d indeed, Lawyer.
Mil.
Did you think, had this man been rich—
Bar.
’Tis well, Sir.
Mil.
He would have chosen
such a Wolf, a Canker,
A Maggot-pate, to be
his whole Executor?