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Scene 8.
Enter Sedan-man.Wat.
See,
Our noble friend.
Sed.
Right happily encountred—
I am the just admirer of your vertues.
2.
We are, in all, your servants.
Sed.
I was in quest,
Of such elect society, to spend
A dinner-time withall.
2.
Sir we are for you.
Sed.
Three are the golden Number in a Taverne;
And at the next of best, with the best meate,
And wine the house affoords (if you so please)
We will be competently merry. I
Have receiv'd, lately, Letters from beyond Seas,
Importing much of the occurrences,
And passages of forraigne States. The knowledge
Of all I shall impart to you.
Wat.
And I
Have all the new advertisements from both
Our Universities, of what has past
The most remarkably of late.
Car.
And from
The Court I have the newes at full,
Of all that was observable this Progresse.
Per.
From Court?
Doct.
Yes sir: They know not there, they have
A new King here at home.
Sed.
Tis excellent!
We want but now, the newes-collecting Gallant
To fetch his Dinner, and Materialls
For his this weeks dispatches.
Wat.
I dare thinke
The meat and newes being hot upon the Table,
He'll smell his way to't.
Please you to know yours, sir?
Car.
Sir, after you.
Sed.
Excuse me.
Wat.
By no meanes sir.
Car.
Sweet Sir lead on.
Sed.
It shall be as your servant
Then, to prepare your dinner.
Wat:
Pardon me.
Car:
Insooth ile follow you.
Wat:
Yet tis my obedience
Ex.
Per:
Are these but labouring men, and tother Courtiers?
Doct:
Tis common here sir, for your watermen
To write most learnedly, when your Courtier
Has scarce ability to read.
Per:
Before I reigne
A Moneth among them, they shall change their notes,
Or ile ordaine a course to change their Coats.
I shall have much to doe in reformation.
Doct:
Patience and Counsell will goe through it sir.
Per:
What if I crav'd? a Counsell from New England?
The old will spare me none.
Doct:
Is this man mad?
My cure goes fairely on. Doe you marvaile that
Poore men out-shine the Courtiers? Looke you sir,
A sicke-man giving counsell to a Physitian:
And there's a Puritan Trades-man, teaching a
Great Traveller to lye: That Ballad-woman
Gives light to the most learned Antiquary
In all the Kingdome.
Bal:
Buy new Ballads, come.
Doct:
A naturall foole, there, giving grave instructions
These persōs passe over the Stage in Couples, according as he describes them.
T'a Lord Embassador: That's a Schismatick,
Teaching a Scrivener to keep his eares:
A parish Clearke, there, gives the Rudiments
Of Military Discipline to a Generall:
And there's a Basket maker confuting Bellarmine.
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