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Scene. 4.

Beaufort.
Latimer. Host.
Why here's returne inough of both our venters,
If we doe make no more discouery.

Lat.
what?
Then o' this Parasite?

Bea.
O he's a deinty one.
The Parasite o'the house.

Lat.
here comes mine host.

Hos.
My Lords, you both are welcome to the Heart.

Bea.
To the light heart we hope.

Lat.
And mery I sweare.
We neuer yet felt such a fit of laughter,
As your glad heart hath offerd vs, sin' we entred.

Bea.
How came you by this propertie?

Hos.
who? my Fly?

Bea.
Your Fly if you call him so.

Hos.
nay, he is that.
And will be still.

Beau.
In euery dish and pot?

Hos.
In euery Cup, and company, my Lords,
A Creature of all liquors, all complexions,
Be the drinke what it will, hee'l haue his sip.

Lat.
He'is fitted with a name.

Hos.
And he ioyes in't:
I had him when I came to take the Inne, here,
Assign'd me ouer, in the Inuentory,
As an old implement, a peice of houshold-stuffe,
And so he doth remaine.

Bea.
Iust such a thing,
We thought him,

Lat.
Is he a scholler?

Hos.
Nothing lesse.
But colours for it, as you see: wear's black;
And speakes a little taynted, fly-blowne Latin,
After the Schoole.

Bea.
Of Stratford o' the Bow.
For Lillies Latine, is to him vnknown.

Lat.
What calling has' he?

Hos.
Only to call in, still.
Enflame the reckoning, bold to charge a bill,
Bring vp the shot i'the reare, as his owne word is,

Bea.
And do's it in the discipline of the house?
As Corporall o' the field, Maestro del Campo,

Hos.
And visiter generall, of all the roome,
He has' form'd a fine militia for the Inne too.

Bea.
And meanes to publish it?

Hos.
With all his titles.
Some call him Deacon Fly, some Doctor Fly.
Some Captaine, some Leiutenant, But my folkes
Doe call him Quarter-master, Fly, which he is.