Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

            A Woman will haue her will.
        
 137
        
                Math. But twelue yeare old? nay Father that's not so,
    
            138Our Sexton told mee I was three yeares mo.
    
 139
        
                Pisa. I say but twelue: you'r be
                st tell mee I lye.
    
            140What 
                sirra Anthony. 
            
                Anth. Heere 
                sir.
    
 141
        
                Pisa. Come here 
                sir, & you light huswiues get you in: 
        
            Exeunt si
                    sters.
    
            142Stare not upon me, moue me not to ire:
    
            143Nay 
                sirra 
                stay you here, Ile talke with you:
    
            144Did I retaine thee (villaine) in my house,
    
            145Gaue thee a 
                stipend twenty Markes by yeare,
    
            146And ha
                st thou thus infected my three Girles,
    
            147Vrging the loue of those, I mo
                st abhord;
    
            148Vnthrifts, Beggers; what is worse.
    
            149And all because they are your Country-men?
    
 150
        
                Anth. Why sir, I taught them not to keepe a Marchants
    
            151Booke, or ca
                st accompt: yet to a word much like that 
    
            152word Accounte.
    
 153
        
                Pisa. A Knaue pa
                st grace, is pa
                st recouerie.
    
            154Why sirra Frisco, Villaine, Loggerhead, where art thou?
    
 155
        
            Enter Frisco, the Clowne.
    
 156
        
                Frisc. Heere's a calling indeed; a man were better to 
    
            157liue a Lords life and doe nothing, then a Seruing creature,
    
            158and neuer be idle. Oh Mai
                ster, what a me
                s
                s
            e of Brewe
                s
                s
            e 
    
            159
            
                standes now vpon the poynt of spoyling by your ha
                sti-
        
            160ne
                s
                s
            e; why they were able to haue got a good Stomacke
    
            161with child euen with the 
                sight of them; and for a Vapour,
    
            162oh precious Vapour, let but a Wench come neere them 
    
            163with a Painted face, and you 
                should see the Paint drop and 
    
            164curdle on her Cheekes, like a peece of dry E
                s
                s
            ex Cheese
    
            165toa
                sted at the fire.
    
 166
        
                Pisa. Well sirra, leaue this thought, & minde my words,
    
            167Giue diligence, inquire about
    
            168For one that is expert in Languages,
    
            169A good Mu
                sitian, and a French-man borne:
    
            170And bring him hither to in
                struct my Daughters,
    
            171Ile neere tru
                st more a smooth-fac'd Engli
                    sh
            -man.
    
 172
        
                Frisc. What, mu
                st I bring one that can speake Langua-
        
ges,
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