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Enter Matheo (braue) and Bellafront.
Mat.
How am I suited, Front? am I not gallant, ha?

Bel.
Yes, sir, you are suited well.

Mat.
Exceeding passing well, and to the time.

Bel.
The Taylor has plaid his part with you.

Mat.

And I haue plaid a Gentlemans part with my Taylor,
for I owe him for the making of it.

Bel.

And why did you so, sir?

Mat.

To keepe the fashion; It's your onely fashion now
of your best ranke of Gallants, to make their Taylors waite

for their money, neither were it wisedome indeed to pay
them vpon the first edition of a new suite: for commonly
the suite is owing for, when the lynings are worne out, and
there's no reason then, that the Taylor should be paid before
the Mercer.

Bel.

Is this the suite the Knight bestowed vpon you?

Mat.

This is the suite, and I need not shame to weare it,
for better men then I would be glad to haue suites bestowed
on them. It's a generous fellow,—but—pox on him—we
whose Pericranions are the very Limbecks and Stillitories
of good wit, and flie hie, must driue liquor out of stale gaping
Oysters. Shallow Knight, poore Squire Tinacheo: Ile
make a wild Catame of forty such: hang him, he's an Asse,
he's alwaies sober.

Bel.

This is your fault to wound your friends still.

Mat.

No faith, Front, Lodouico is a noble Slauonian: it's
more rare to see him in a womans company, then for a Spaniard
to goe into England, and to challenge the English Fencers
there.—One knockes,—See—La, fa, sol, la, fa, la,
rustle in Silkes and Satins: there's musique in this, and a
Taffety Petticoate, it make both flie hie,—Catzo.