Michael Perez:
I see you are
packing now my gentle cousin,
And my wife told
me I should find it so,
’Tis true
I do, you were merry when I was last here,
219] But ’twas your will to try my patience
Madam.
I am sorry that
my swift occasions
Can let you take
your pleasure here no longer,
Yet I would have
you think my honour’d cousin,
This house and
all I have are all your servants.
Leon:
What house, what pleasure Sir, what do you mean?
Michael Perez:
You hold the jest
so stiff, ’twill prove discourteous,
This house I mean,
the pleasures of this place.
Leon:
And what of them?
Michael Perez:
They are mine
Sir, and you know it,
My wifes I mean,
and so confer’d upon me,
The hangings Sir
I must entreat, your servants,
That are so busie
in their offices,
Again to minister
to their right uses,
I shall take view
o’th’ plate anon, and furnitures
That are of under
place; you are merry still cousin,
And of a pleasant
constitution,
Men of great fortunes
make their mirths at placitum.
Leon:
Prethee good stubborn
wife, tell me directly,
Good evil wife
leave fooling and tell me honestly,
Is this my kinsman?
Margarita:
I can tell ye nothing.
Leon:
I have many kinsmen,
but so mad a one,
And so phantastick—all
the house?
Michael Perez:
All mine,
And all within
it. I will not bate ye an ace on’t.
Can you not receive
a noble courtesie,
And quietly and
handsomely as ye ought Couz,
But you must ride
o’th’ top on’t?
Leon:
Canst thou fight?
Michael Perez:
I’le tell ye presently, I could have done Sir.
Leon:
For ye must law and claw before ye get it.
Juan de Castro:
Away, no quarrels.
Leon:
Now I am more
temperate,
I’le have
it prov’d if you were never yet in Bedlam,
Never in love,
for that’s a lunacy,
No great state
left ye that you never lookt for,
Nor cannot manage,
that’s a rank distemper;
That you were
christen’d, and who answer’d for ye,
And then I yield.
220]
Michael Perez:
H’as half
perswaded me I was bred i’th’ moon,
I have ne’r
a bush at my breech, are not we both mad,
And is not this
a phantastick house we are in,
And all a dream
we do? will ye walk out Sir,
And if I do not
beat thee presently
Into a sound belief,
as sense can give thee,
Brick me into
that wall there for a chimny piece,
And say I was
one o’th’ Caesars, done by a seal-cutter.