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Scena 2d./.

Enter Captayne fitzIohn. Naupegus, & Clarke of the Checke./.
Cap:
Propinquitie of tyme (but two dayes more
& then full Moone) sum̄ons our arts & Cares
to preparation gaynst the lanchinge daye.
saye gentlemen, for you Canne best resolue
are all thinges in a readynes?

Naup:
They are.
onely our pennants, Ensignes, banners, flaggs,
not yet Come [Com] downe?

Cla:
my Charge[s] consists in that.
your Charge is men, & myne materialls,
supply you one, the other shall not fayle.

Cap:
Tis a delightful harmonie to heare,
how all thinges doe concurre: your good accordance
In matters of import, should still be so,
& so I hope they are./ & yet me thinkes
you looke as yf there weare some difference
your lookes portend some priuate grudges,

Cla-
Mine.
I must Confesse is pale & wanne, but free
from the lest freckle of malignitie.
some Iarrs, we haue, b'ou[ght]te matters of small waight,
and are (I thinke[s]) as soone forgott, as spoke.

Cap:
Whether they are no, they should be so,
your mutuall disagreement, yf but knowne,
would mutulate the good opinions
the m'chants haue of your integrities.

Naup.
farre be such rancour from us from such [deepe] hate
I hope wee both are free. our [difference is] Iarringes are
like bubbles in a streame, soone blowne, soone falne.

Cap:
yt saues some Iarrs, there are, to make these some,
more, or of more effect, take this aduise.
your busynes is not his, nor is his yours,
meddle not you wth him, nor he wth you.
stand not vpon preheminence of place.
retaliate not Contrarieties
forgett not those, from whom you doe deriue
the offices & [suffrage] lyvinge you enioye.
doe not exceede the bounds of your Com̄aund
by Contradictinge each the others actions.
what you should be, you know,: I speake thus free
to let you knowe what I would haue you bee./

Nau:
Ile arme my selfe to be what you perswade

Cla:
And be you sure Ile be no retrograde.

Cap:
To ratefie this your Coniunction
let me desire your Companies a while
in good discourse an houre to beguile.
more tyme wee will not spend, so much wee maye,
your busines Calls: and mine brookes no delaye./

exeunt./