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SCENE III.

Vanity and Tenacitie.
Van.
Tis he in deed: what say you to him?

Ten.
Marry sir, cham now come for mony.

Van.
For mony man? what, still so hastily?

Ten.
Yoo by gisse, sir, tis high time che vore ye,
Cham averd another will hate afore me.

Van.
Why so? who is it thou fearest? tell me.

Ten.
Marry sir, they call him Mast Prodigality.

Van.
Prodigality, is it true? yong, wastfull, roysting Prodigality,
To encounter old, sparing, couetous niggard, Tenacity!
Sure such a match as needs must yeeld vs sport:
Therefore vntill the time that Prodigalitie resort,
Ile entertaine this Croust, with some deuice.
Well, father, to be sped of money with a trice,
What will you giue me?

Ten.
Cha vore thee, sonne, do rid me quickly hence,
Chill giue thee a vaire peece of threehalpence.

Van.
Indeed?

Ten.
Here's my hand.

Van.
Now, sir, in sooth you offer so bountifully,
As needs you must be vs'd accordingly.
But tell me, know you him that commeth here?

Ten.
Cocks bores, tis Prodigality; tis he I did feare.
Cham afraid che may goe whistle now for money.

Van.
Tush man, be of good cheare, I warrant thee,
He speedeth best, that best rewardeth me.