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Scene 3.
Enter a spruce yong Captaine.Law.
Y'are welcome Captaine.
In your two causes I have done my best.
Cap.
And whats the issue pray sir?
Law.
Truely sir,
Our best course is not to proceed to triall.
Cap.
Your reason? I shall then recover nothing.
Law.
Yes, more by composition, than the Court
Can lawfully adjudge you, as I have labour'd.
And sir, my course is, where I can compound
A difference, Ile not tosse nor bandy it
Into the hazzard of a judgement.
Dia.
Still
An honest Lawyer, and tho poore, no marvaile.
Let.
A kisse for thy conceite.
Ioy.
A sweet occasion!
Cap.
How have you done sir?
Law.
First you understand
Your severall actions, and your adversaries.
The first a Battery against a Coach-man,
That beate you sorely.
What hard hearted fellow
Could beat so spruce a gentleman, and a captaine.
Cap.
By this faire hilt, he did sir, and so bruis'd
My armes, so crush'd my ribs, and stich'd my sides,
That I have had no heart to draw my sword since;
And shall I put it up, and not his purse
Be made to pay for't?
Law.
It is up already, sir,
If you can be advis'd, observe I pray,
Your other actions 'gainst your feathermaker,
And that of trespasse for th'incessant trouble
He puts you to by importunate requests,
To pay him no money, but take longer day.
Cap.
Against all humane reason, for although
I have bought feathers of him these foure yeares,
And never paid him a penny; yet he duns me
So desperately to keepe my money still,
As if I ought him nothing; he haunts and breaks my sleepes.
I sweare sir, by the motion of this I weare now,
Shakes it.
I have had twenty better feathers of him, and as ill paid for,
Yet still he duns me to forbeare my payment,
And to take longer day.
I ha'not said my prayers in
Mine owne lodging sir this twelve months day,
For sight or thought of him; and how can you
Compound this action, or the other of
That Ruffian Coachman that durst lift a hand
'Gainst a Commander.
Law.
Very easily thus,
The Coachman's poore, and scarce his twelvemoneths wages
Tho't be five markes a yeare will satisfie.
Cap.
Pray name no summe in markes, I have had too many
Of's markes already.
Law.
So you owe the other
A debt of twenty pound, the Coachman now
Shall for your satisfaction, beat you out
Of debt.
Cap.
Beate me againe?
Law.
No sir he shall beate
Cap.
So Ile be satisfied, and helpe him to
More customers of my ranke.
Law.
Leave it to me then,
It shall be by posterity repeaten
That souldiers ought not to be dund or beaten,
Away and keepe your money.
Capt.
Thanke you sir.
Dia.
An honest lawyer, still how he considers
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