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SCENE IX.

Enter Michael, Francis, and Officers.
Mich.
Come Sir, for this night I shall entertain ye,
And like a Gentleman, how e'r your fortune
Hath cast ye on the worst part.

Fran.
How you please, Sir,
I am resolv'd, nor can a joy or misery
Much move me now.

Mich.
I am angry with my self now
For putting this forc'd way upon his patience,
Yet any other course had been too slender:
Yet what to think I know not, for most liberally
He hath confess'd strange wrongs, which if they prove so,
How e'r the others long love may forget all,
Yet 'twas most sit he should come back, and this way.
Drink that; and now to my care leave your Prisoner,
I'll be his guard for this night.

Officers.
Good night to your Worship.

Mich.
Good night, my honest friends; come, Sir, I hope
There shall be no such cause of such a sadness
As you put on.

Fran.
'Faith, Sir, my rest is up,
And what I now pull shall no more afflict me
Than if I plaid at span-Counter, nor is my face
The map of any thing I seem to suffer,
Lighter affections seldom dwell in me, Sir.

Mich.
A constant Gentleman; would I had taken
A Feaver when I took this harsh way to disturb him.
Come, walk with me, Sir, ere to morrow night
I doubt not but to see all this blown over.

[Exeunt.