Ars.
A Capias from my Surgeon, and my Silk-man!
Bar.
Your carefull makers,
but they have mar’d your diet.
Stir not, your Swords
are gone: there’s no avoiding me,
And these are Algazeirs,
do you hear that passing bell?
Lop.
A strong Citation, bless me!
Bar.
Out with your Beads,
Curate,
The Devil’s in
your dish: bell, book, and Candle.
Lop.
A warrant to appear
before the Judges!
I must needs rise, and
turn to th’ wall.
Bar.
Ye need not,
Your fear I hope will
make ye find your Breeches.
All.
We are betrai’d.
Bar.
Invited do not wrong
me,
Fall to, good Guests,
you have diligent men about ye,
Ye shall want nothing
that may persecute ye,
These will not see ye
start; Have I now found ye?
Have I requited ye?
You fool’d the Lawyer,
And thought it meritorious
to abuse him,
A thick ram-headed knave:
you rid, you spur’d him,
And glorified your wits,
the more ye wronged him;
Within this hour ye
shall have all your Creditours,
A second dish of new
debts, come upon ye,
And new invitements
to the whip, Don Diego,
And Excommunications
for the learned Curate,
A Masque of all your
furies shall dance to ye.
Ars.
You dare not use us thus?
Bar.
You shall be bob’d,
Gentlemen,
Stir, and as I have
a life, ye goe to prison,
To prison, without pitie
instantly,
Before ye speak another
word to prison.
I have a better Guard
without, that waits;
Do you see this man,
Don Curate? ’tis a Paratour
That comes to tell ye
a delightfull story
Of an old whore ye have,
and then to teach ye
What is the penaltie;
Laugh at me now Sir,
What Legacie would ye
bequeath me now,
(And pay it on the nail?)
to fly my fury?
Lop.
O gentle Sir.
Bar.
Do’st thou hope
I will be gentle,
Thou foolish unconsiderate
Curate?
Lop.
Let me goe Sir.
Bar.
I’le see thee hang first.
Lop.
And as I am a true Vicar,
Hark in your ear, hark
softly—
Bar.
No, no bribery.
I’le have my swindge
upon thee; Sirra? Rascal?
You Lenten Chaps, you
that lay sick, and mockt me,
Mockt me abominably,
abused me lewdly,
I’le make thee
sick at heart, before I leave thee,
And groan, and dye indeed,