Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

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                    sh-men for my money: or,
 
            2461To marry him incontinent to my Daughter.
    
            2462Or else the gift he hath be
                stowde, is vaine:
    
            2463Marry and hee recouer; no my Sonne,
    
            2464I will not loose thy loue, for all this Land.
    
 2465
        
                Alua. Here you padre, do no lose his Lands, his hun-
        
            2466dred pont 
                per anno
             tis wort to hauar; let him haue de ma-
        
            2467tre
                s
                s
            e Marina in de mariage, tis but vor me to attendre vne
        
            2468day more: if he will no die, I sal giue him su
                sh a Drincke,
    
            2469
            su
                sh a Potion sal mak him giue de Bonos noches
             to all de 
    
            2470world.
    
 2471
        
                Pisa. Aluaro, here's my Keyes, take all I haue,
    
            2472My Money, Plate, Wealth, Iewels, Daughter too:
    
            2473Now God be thanked, that I haue a Daughter,
    
            2474worthy to be Aluaroes bedfellow:
    
            2475Oh how I doe admire and prayse thy wit,
    
            2476Ile 
                straight about it: Heare you Mai
                ster Moore.
    
 2477
        
            Enter Marina and Frisco.
    
 2478
        
                Frisc. Nay fayth hee's 
                sicke, therefore though hee be
    
            2479come, yet he can doe you no good; there's no remedy but
    
            2480euen to put your selfe into the hands of the Italian, that by
    
            2481that time that he hath pa
                st his grouth, young Haruie will
    
            2482be in case to come vpon it with a 
                sise of fre
                sh force.
    
 2483
        
                Mari. Is my Loue come, & 
                sicke? I, now thou loue
                st me,
    
            2484How my heart ioyes: Oh God, get I my will,
    
            2485Ile driue away that Sickne
                s
                s
            e with a ki
                s
                s
            e:
    
            2486I need not faine, for I could weepe for ioy.
    
 2487
        
                Pisa. It 
                shall be so; come hither Daughter.
    
            2488Mai
                ster Haruie, that you may see my loue
    
            2489Comes from a 
                single heart vnfaynedly,
    
            2490See heere my Daughter, her I make thine owne:
    
            2491Nay looke not 
                strange, before these Gentlemen,
    
            2492I freely yeeld Marina for thy Wife.
    
 2493
        
                Haru. Stay, 
                stay good 
                sir, forbeare this idle worke,
    
            2494My soule, is labouring for a higher place,
    
Then
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