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  • Title: Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)
  • Editor: Natalie Aldred
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    Author: William Haughton
    Editor: Natalie Aldred
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    Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

    Engli sh-men for my money: or,
    Moor. Mai ster Pisaro, tis in vaine to fret,
    And fume, and storme, it little now auayles:
    2670These Gentlemen haue with your Daughters helpe,
    Out stript you in your subtile enterprises:
    And therefore, seeing they are well descended,
    Turne hate to loue, and let them haue their Loues,
    Pisa. Is it euen so; why then I see that still,
    2675Doe what we can, Women will haue their Will.
    Gentlemen, you haue outreacht mee now,
    Which nere before you, any yet could doe:
    You, that I thought should be my Sonnes indeed,
    Mu st be content, since there's no hope to speed:
    2680Others haue got, what you did thinke to gaine;
    And yet beleeue mee, they haue tooke some paine.
    Well, take them, there; and with them, God giue ioy.
    And Gentlemen, I doe intreat to morrow,
    That you will Fea ste with mee, for all this sorrow:
    2685Though you are wedded, yet the Fea st's not made:
    Come let vs in, for all the stormes are pa st,
    And heapes of ioy will follow on as fa st.

    FINIS.