Michael Perez:
Ha, ha, ha.
Cacafogo:
Dost thou laugh? damnably, I say most damnably.
Michael Perez:
By whom, good spirit speak, speak ha, ha, ha.
Cacafogo:
I will utter,
laugh till thy lungs crack, by a rascal woman,
A lewd, abominable,
and plain woman.
Dost thou laugh
still?
Michael Perez:
I must laugh,
prethee pardon me,
I shall laugh
terribly.
Cacafogo:
I shall be angry, terrible angry, I have cause.
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Michael Perez:
That’s it,
and ’tis no reason but thou shouldst be angry,
Angry at heart,
yet I must laugh still at thee.
By a woman cheated?
art’ sure it was a woman?
Cacafogo:
I shall break thy head, my valour itches at thee.
Michael Perez:
It is no matter,
by a woman cozen’d,
A real woman?
Cacafogo:
A real Devil,
Plague of her
Jewels and her copper chains,
How rank they
smell.
Michael Perez:
Sweet cozen’d
Sir let me see them,
I have been cheated
too, I would have you note that,
And lewdly cheated,
by a woman also,
A scurvie woman,
I am undone sweet Sir,
Therefore I must
have leave to [l]augh.
Cacafogo:
Pray ye take it,
You are the merriest
undone man in Europe.
What need we fiddles,
bawdy songs and sack,
When our own miseries
can make us merry?
Michael Perez:
Ha, ha, ha.
I have seen these
Jewels, what a notable penniworth
Have you had next
your heart? you will not take Sir
Some twenty Duckets?
Cacafogo:
Thou art deceiv’d, I will take.
Michael Perez:
To clear your bargain now.
Cacafogo:
I’le take
some ten, some any thing, some half ten,
Half a Ducket.
Michael Perez:
An excellent lapidary
set these stones sure,
Do you mark their
waters?
Cacafogo:
Quick-sand choak
their waters,
And hers that
bought ’em too, but I shall find her.
Michael Perez:
And so shall I,
I hope, but do not hurt her,
You cannot find
in all this Kingdom,
(If you had need
of cozening, as you may have,
For such gross
natures will desire it often,
’Tis at
some time too a fine variety,)
A woman that can
cozen ye so neatly,
She has taken
half mine anger off with this trick.
[Exit.
Cacafogo:
If I were valiant
now, I would kill this fellow,
I have mony enough
lies by me at a pinch
To pay for twenty
Rascals lives that vex me,
224] I’le to this Lady, there I shall be satisfied.