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Enter galeas. & Iacomo:.
ga
you spake wt h him as I comaunded you

Iaco:
and had his promise to meet you presently

ga:
I haue heard much ffame of him since my arriue
his generous nature, hospitable loue
his good to all men, enemy to none
indeed hee has that perfect Character
before I see him I'm in loue wt h him

Iaco:
hee has the ffame few Cittizens deserue

ga:
why sir few Cittizens

Iaco
his wordes his bond, and does not breake that bond
to banckrupt others, he makes you not
a library of large Monopolie to cosen all men
sub intelligitur he hates to deale
wt h such portentious othes, as furr his mouth
in the deliverance

Enter Iouanny
ga:
hee comes him selfe

Iou:
sir galeas if I mistake not

ga:
I weare my ffathers name sir

Iou:
and tis a dignity to weare that name
whattes yor. affaires in parma

ga:
to vissit you sir

Iou
gladnes nor sorrow neuer paid mans debtes
yor pleasure sir

ga:
the livery of my griefe my ffathers dead
and mee hath made his poore executor

Iou
what, ought hee ten thousand ducketes
thy ffathers face ffixt in thy ffront
should be the pay master tho from my hand

ga
I doe not come to borrow, please yee read

Iou:
read, and wt h good regard, for sorrow paies
noe debtes

ga
the summes soe great I feare once read by him
my seeming ffrend will proue my enemy

Iaco:
ffaith if hee doe
hee proues like yor ffrench galloshes
that promise faire to the ffeet, yet twice
a day leaue a man in the durt

Iou:
was this yor ffathers pleasure

ga:
it was his hand

Iou:
it was his writing I know it as my owne
wherein hee has wrong'd mee beyond measure

ga:
how my ffather wrong'd, yee I'm his sonn

Iou:
wer't thou his ffather I'm wrong'd
iniu'rd calumniated, baffled to my teeth
and were it not that these gray haires of mine
were priviledg'd and enemy to vallour
I haue a heart could see yor ffathers wrong

ga:
[Iaco:]
what raile you sir

Iaco:
challenge a halfe pint pot

Iou:
there in a sawpitt knaue, to quitt my selfe of
such an iniury, hee writes mee here
that I should pay to you, tenn thousand Crownes

ga:
as being due to him

Iou:
but thattes not my quarrell sir, for I did owe to him
Millions of Crownes, millions of my loue
and but to send a note here for his owne
ist not a quarrell for an honest man

Iaco:
wt h very few I thinke

Iou:
why looke yee sir
when after many a storme and dreadfull blow
strooke from ffire belching cloudes, bankrupt of life
I haue home return'd, when all my ffrendes
denide their thresholdes to mee, and my creditors
desir'd to sinke mee in a prissoners graue
hee gaue mee dying life his helpefull hand
sent mee to sea and kept mee safe on land
ist not a quarrell then to seeke buttes owne

ga
oh pray sir

Iou
when all the talentes of oppression
of vsurers, lawyers, and my Creditors
had fang'd vpon my wife and ffamily
hee gaue mee dying life his helpfull hand
sent mee to sea, & kept mee safe on land
ist not a quarrell then to seeke but's owne

ga:
good sir

Iou
come in sir, where I will pay all yt you can dem̄au«nd»
noe other quarrell sir shall passe yor hand

ga:
if euery should pay as well as you
the world were good, wee should haue bankruptes few

Iaco:
I'm of yor mind for that

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