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Michaelmas terme As it hath been sundry times acted by the Children of Paules.
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Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.
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STC 17890; ESTC S112589
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in Waxe and Parchment as many Gentlemen haue done before him Eas. Al y-blow for me Quo. I will honestly discharge you and recevue it in due forme and order of law to strengthen it for euer to my sonne and heyre that he may vndoubtedly enter vppon 't without the let or molestation of any man at his or our pleasure whensoeuer Sho. T is so assurde vnto you Quo. Why then maister Basie y' are a freeman sir you may deale in what you please and goe whether you will Why Tomazin maister Easie is come from Essex bid him welcome in a cup of small Beare Tom. Not onely vilde but in it tyrannous Quom. If it please you sir you knowe the house you may visite vs often and dine with vs once a quarter Eas. Confusion light on you your wealth and heyre Worme gnaw your conscience as the Moth your ware I am not the first heyre that rob'd or beg'd Exit Quo. Excellent excellent sweet Spirits Sho. Landed maister Quomodo Quo. Delicate shortyard commodious Falslight Hug and away shift shift T is slight not strength that giues the greatest lift Nowe my desires are full for this tyme Men may haue Cormorant wishes but alas A little thing three hundred pound a yeare Suffices nature keepes life and soule together I le haue 'em kept immediately I long to warme my selfe by 'th wood A fine iourney in the Whitsun-holy dayes yfaith to ride downe with a number of Citizens and their wiues some vpon pillions some vpon Side saddles I and little Tomazin i th middle our some and heire Sim Quomodo in a peach colour Taffata Iacket some horses length or a long yard before vs there will be a fine shew on 's I can tell you where we Citizens will laugh and lie downe get all our wiues with child against a bank and get vp againe stay ha hast thou that wit yfaith t will be admirable to see how the very thought of greene fieldes puts a man into sweet inuenttions I will presently possesse Sim Quomodo of all the land I haue a toy and I le doo 't and because I see before mine eies that most of our heires proue notorious Rioters after our deaths and that cousonage in the father wheeles about to follie in the sonne our posteritie commonly foylde at the same weapon at which we plaide rarely And being the worlds beaten worde what 's got ouer the Diuels backe that 's by knauerie must be spent vnder his bellie that 's by lechery being awake in these knowings why should not I oppose 'em now and breake destinie of her custome preuenting that by pollicie which without it must needes be Destinie and I haue tooke the course I will forthwith sicken call for my keyes make my Will and dispose of all giue my sonne this blessing that hee trust no man keepe his hand from a queane and a Scriuener liue in his fathers faith and doe good to no bodie then will I begin to raue like a fellow of a wide conscience and for all the worlde counterfeit to the life that which I know I shall do when I die take on for my golde my landes and my wrytings grow worse and worse call vpon the Diuell and so make an ende by this time I haue indented with a couple of searchers who to vphold my deuice shall fray them out a' th Chamber with report of sicknesse and so la I start vp and recouer agen for in this businesse I will trust no not my spirits Falslight shortyard but in disguise note the condition of al how pittiful my wife takes my death which wil appear by Nouember in her eye and the fall of the leaf in her bodie but especially by the cost she bestows vpō my funeral there shall I trie her loue and regard my daughters marrying to my will lyking and my sonnes affection after my disposing for to cōclude I am as jealous of this land as of my wife to know what would become of it after my decease Exit Enter Curtezan with her disguised father Fath. Tho I be poore t is my glorie to liue honest Curt. I prethee doe not leaue me Faith To be bawde Hell has not such an office I thought at first your minde had beene preseru'd In vertue and in modestie of bloud that such a face had not bene made to please the vnsetled Appetites of seuerall men Those eyes turn'd vp through prayer not through lust But you are wicked and my thoughts vniust Curt. Why thou art an vnreasonable fellow yfaith doe not al Trades liue by their ware and yet cald honest Liuers doe they not thriue best when they vtter moste and make it away by the great is not hole-sale the chiefest marchandize doe you thinke some Merchants could keepe their wiues so braue but for their hole-sale you 'r fowly deceiu'd and you thinke so Fath. You are so glewde to punishent and shame Your wordes ee'n deserue whipping to beare the habit of a Gentlewoman and be in minde so distant Curt. Why you foole you are not Gentlewomen Sinners and there 's no coragious Sinner amongst vs but was a Gentlewoman by the Mothers side I warrant you besides wee are not alwaies bound to thinke those our fathers that marrie our Mothers but those that lye with our Mothers and they may be Gentlemen borne born agen for ought we know you knowe Fath. True corruption may well be Generations first Wee 're bad by nature but by custome worst Exeunt A Bell Toales a Confused crie within Toma. Oh my Husband Sim. My Father O my Father Fals. My sweete Maister dead Enter Shortyard and the Boy Short Runne boy bid 'em ring out hee 's dead hee 's gone Boy Then is as arrant a knaue gone as ere was cal'd vppon Sho. The happyest good that euer Shortyard felt I want to be exprest my mirth is such To bee struck now eene when his ioyes were hye Men onely kisse their knaueries and so dye Iu'e often markt it Hee was a famous Coozner while he liu'd And now his Sonne shall reape it I le ha the lands Let him Studye law after t is no labour to vndoe him for euer but for Easie Onely good confidence did make him foolish And not the lack of Sence that was not it T is worldly craft beates downe a Schollars wit For this our Sonne and heyre now hee From his conception was entayl'd an Asse And hee ha's kept it well twentie fiue yeares now Then the sleightest art will doo 't the landes lye faire No Sinne to begger a deceiuers heyre Exit Enter Tomazin with Winefride her maide in hast Toma. Heere Wenefride heere heere heere I haue alwaies found thee secret Wini. You shall alwaies finde me so Mistris Toma. Take this letter and this Ring Wini. Yes forsooth Toma. Oh how all the partes about me shake enquire for one Maister Easie at his olde lodging 'i th the Blackfryers Win. I will indeed forsooth Toma. Tell him the partie that sent