Jam.
And you Arsenio?
Ars.
Yes he’s gone,
Sir,
Strangely disguis’d,
he’s set upon his voyage.
Love guide his thoughts:
he’s a brave honest fellow.
Sit close Don Lawyer,
O that arrant knave now,
How he will stink, will
smoak again, will burst!
He’s the most
arrant Beast.
Mil.
He may be more beast.
Jam.
Let him bear six, and
six, that all may blaze him,
The villany he has sowed
into my Brother,
And from his State,
the Revenue he has reach’d at:
Pay him, my good Leandro,
take my prayers.
Ars.
And all our wishes plough with his fine white heifer.
Jam.
Mark him (my dear friend)
for a famous Cuckold,
Let it out-live his
Books, his pains, and hear me,
The more he seeks to
smother it with Justice,
Enter a Servant.
Let it blaze out the more: what news Andrea?
Andr.
News I am loth to tell
ye: but I am charg’d, sir,
Your Brother layes a
strict command upon ye,
No more to know his
house, upon your danger,
I am sorry, Sir.
Jam.
Faith never be:
I am glad on’t,
He keeps the house of
pride, and foolery:
I mean to shun it:
so return my Answer,
’Twill shortly
spew him out; Come, let’s be merry,
And lay our heads together,
carefully
How we may help our
friend; and let’s lodge near him,
Be still at hand:
I would not for my patrimony,
But he should crown
his Lawyer, a learned Monster;
Come, let’s away,
I am stark mad till I see him.
[Exeunt.
SCENA IV.
Enter Bartolus, and Amaranta.
Amar.
Why will ye bring men
in, and yet be jealous?
Why will ye lodge a
young man, a man able,
And yet repine?
Bar.
He shall not trouble
thee, sweet,
A modest poor slight
thing, did I not tell thee
He was only given to
the Book, and for that
How Royally he paies?
finds his own meat too.
Amar.
I will not have him
here: I know your courses,
And what fits you will
fall into of madness.
Bar.
’Faith, I will not, Wife.
Amar.
I will not try ye.
Bar.
He comes not near thee:
shall not dare to tread
Within thy Lodgings:
in an old out-Room
Where Logs, and Coles
were laid.
Amar.
Now ye lay fire; fire to consume your quiet.