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Actus secundus

[sc. i]

Sollempne Musick
Recorders
Enter 2: Heralts wt h gilt spurrs & Gauntlet, a rich Herse wt h 5. pendantes, Armor. plumed Helmet & sword vpon it, The countess & yong Gerard as chefe mourners—then Archibald. Conon Devon, Elidure, Gentleme & servants Howlet buzy Amongst e'm— Heralts Lead the rest in order after the Herce, [a] fflamyns lead it
Gerard.

Sic finis priami so much for the Mourners part, & I think I have
plaid it off handsomly too, for a halfe heire, & why but halfe
an heire, doth my father make a Cot Lamb on me, & bycause
my mother lawe brought me vp by hand, wt h a litle clarifyed
whey may Buds [blancht Allmds] & buttermilke, must she go halfes wt h me in
the whole in heritance? No. His man Howlet

Ta witta woes me out
of a ffarme of 200 per An̄n of the old Rents [too], but I have put
in a Cave, at comon Lawe all ready. And a Civillean has
promisd me wt h a trick of Tertullea, to set both there Rights beside
the Cushion in that Court too: my mother pre tends a great
zeale to turne vestall, & that spark will I blow to a flame &
feed it wt h fuell of fare promise & peace full composition & ether
foole or fright her out of my «in»heritac [OMITTED] [if that]
[faile Ile fyer her out of my Inheritance, by la{we}, Ile make her]
[zeale fry fort else], Ile to [court A bout] it presentlye—worke vpon
that & to court presently

Ext

[sc. ii]

Enter Prorex in his Gorget &c. Varletti
Pro
we shall have stormes Varletti, kpe thy Tent
some musick there, & whilst we tread a march
dance thow a measure. but wt papers that
the plotforme of some Battaile, thow art still
medling wt h danger,

Varl
Theres no [safety] bullwark like it: weare ner so safe as when in sight of danger.
It ministers occasion to shon it
this tho's a slite request I wood intreat
yor highnes hand to ere the Batailes Ioind
'bout setling my estate, heres pen & Ink sr.

Pro:
And hears my hand. thy shoulder—and yet staye
first let me se if it be worth my signeing
& thy receveinge, to mary wt h my sister.
slite one Indeed.—but hast thow ner a wife

Varl.
yes my good lord—but know—

Pro.
I may dispence
wt h such slite Tryvialls, hast got her consent

Varl.
neither my Lord—but

Pro.
but thow knowst our will
must be her law & ther fore—

Varl.
now tis done Lor

Pro.
I thinke the penns not willing to the Mach
twonot cast Inke, no matter my Varletti
for beare till I have conquerd the Barrons
& then wc h will ad «mo»re vnto thine Honor
Ile have e'm all vnder there hands subscribe
both thy divorce & mariage.

Enter Capt Iordan
Varl.
yow much Honor me

Pro.
Ile do the Right Varletti—now thy news—

Capt
my Lord the Barons strangly penitent
Humbly Intreat

pro.
pece do not flatter me
Barranns intreat

Capt.
[humbly]/[submissive] vpon there knees,

pror
knees they have None, at Least like Elephants
none that will Bend, no not to Iove him selfe,

Capt.
to yow they do tho

Varl.
if to one offs tis no matter wc h, I looke the liker a Tyrant
of the Two, but go admit em youle
be too mild give me yor crowne Agen,

Enter all Barrons in shirts night caps & Halters
Pro.
Olimpus sunck old Atlas on his knees

Varl.
a plot a plot, [tis one of]/[I smell old] Archibalds.

Pro
why how now Lords? what is yor warlik march
turnd to a chamber maske, wt new web of tresonn
isith lombe now. troe.

Varl.
[quick shutle monger, the conceit come I know thy workmanship]
[& dee here se that it Be a good one: or.—]

Arch
Do not mistake me Lords, old Tom Cannot Desemble, thinke it
nether cowardize, nor desperate madnes, but resolvd
Vallor & well advizd Iugment, for haveing tryed & found
yor nature rather disposd to mercy then Tyrannye, to avoyd a
generall ruyne I have by pollicy Brought in thes Rebells.

Pro.
a pr.ty change, both strange & vnexpected

Varl.
How can it chose ist not Tom Archibalds: he has a quiver full of em,

Conon.
Humbly Intreateing that our trespass cause not
our cuntryes [ruyne]/[bondage], nor the poore comon's Ruyne

Deuon
[And for our selves, so we admire thy Valour]
[in thy fre pardon of our fformer treason,]
out
[make vs thy bondmens drudges slaves thy horse boyes drudges.]
[Any thing Servile]

Varl.
[thow shalt be my page, rosyn my sticks & string my fidles, a squirs place I can tell the]

Pro.
Rise trew harted Britaines
men of yor corage Dare not Desemble rise

Conon.
most gratious conqueror, both our hands & harts
are at yor service

Pro.
& my sword at yours
& for an ernest all taxationns
save Cesars Tribut we take off, yor Lawes
customes & antient Charters we Restore

ōes
Britaine is Blest in such a conqueror

Pro.
but Rome more Honourd in such fe«o»daryes.
as dare check vice, sat in Cesars throne

Varl.
They red a musick lecture vpon me

Pro
didt not show well twas one of Archibald

Varl
[trew] why so I say had it come from Any man but hym
now to my suite my Lord

Pro.
& well remembred
it fitts the Tyme. Now reconciled Lords
in signe all antient grevances are cancelld
some pen & Inke, altho we might comannd
& Be obayd: yet we request yor hands
to new condicionns & to Assertaine yw.
theres no deceit, or fraudulent purpose in e'm
theres our hand first

Varl.
Ile be yor deske my Lord.

Conon.
Nay now the vnicorne has dipt his horne in the Brook, the heard
may drink frely & never fere poisen. thers myne

Deu:
& myne

Elid
& myne

Pro.
Tom Archibald the last

Archb.
In place my Lord, but first in Love & Dutye, give me the Penn.

Varl.
quickly old Tom tis for my private good

Arch.
Ist so sr. nay then—I am afraid tis for the publique [good]/[Hurte]. yow
know me I am plaine Tom & cannot Desemble,

Varl.
nay nay we know that, already come quickly thy hand, the desk will go
nere to crack else—

Pro.
I I thy hand—

Arch.
my hand? I have a coople my Lord. but they are both blinde—pray
out
therefore give myne Ey Leave to see, & tell em wt they subscribe,
they may aswell out of blinde Ignorance, in stead of fredome,
signe to the whole kingdomes slaverye

Pro.
do yow suspect our Love then?

Arch.
no my Leige nor to be plaine giue too much Credit toote, the rather
cause it, concernes his privat good.

Varl.
why dost not thou Love

Arch
to abvse yow wt h all my hart, I am old Tom and canot Desemble

Varl
a very prety one

Conon.
How cann it chose it is old Archibalds

Varl.
but[nd] one of the worst that ever I hard come from him

Arch
& since Has Lent me eyes I wood weare em in there Right plaes
my head, & not like the Lamie in my pocket. & make myne ere
my eye to follow other by the noise

Pro.
Are yow so coning?

Varl.
[a smoake dryed Mackerill, seeres & derides yow to yor face]

Conon.
[Set downe] to thy hand old Tom the kings displeasd

Arch.
Let him be pleasd againe then, set my hand to Blancks & Blinde
charters. not I: tho yow Like spaniells fawne for a litle fredome,
I scornt, Infants vnborne shall never cry out & curse, old Toms
hart for setting his hand to the Generall Ruyne, [torture me,]
[teare me, rack me, roast me, boile me in scalding Lead bake]
[me in Brimston Ixions whele, Sisiphus Stone, Prometheus]
[vulture, Phalleris bull]

Varl
[& Miloes ox stop thy throat]

Pro.
Are yow resolute: for his contempt
we heare disrobe him of all atributes
Honors & titles of gentility
& charge yow vpon paine of our displeasure
yow be not seene wt hin ten Miles of Court
he that writes, sends our but confers wt h the
shares in thy sentence se our will per formde

Arch.
I thank yow gratious sr:. thes 60 winters
Iu'e worne golden fetters, rowd and tugd
An oare ithe state gally. now I am ffree
I [a] humbly thank yr highnes & wt h the scole boy Say
gratias great sr. yave given me Leave to playe.

Varl.
so Phalleris Bull go chew the cud go—& now may it please
yor highnes: shew thes my Honorable freinds wt they subscribd—

Pro.
wt h all my hart, and yet twere far more honor
to hav't confirmd in a full [parlament]/[Senate] first

Varl.
And so twere too, but I ha not the virtue of Abstinence in me.

Pro.
Read then my Lords, had old Tom Archibald
knowne the contents he would ha ben the first

Conon
troth that he wood. but is yor highnes in Ernest

Varl.
do yow not see his hand toot, it cost me some Labour I confes
& much art to work him toot. but Exitus acta probat the end ***s all—how do yow like it Lords

amb. [Deu]
Exceeding well

Varl
troth Ime bownd vnto yow, pray my Lords read it

Conon
It is fully decreed & absolutely concluded by the Prorex of
Britaine & Lord Barrons of the same, that signior Varletti
shall forth wt h be—be—

Varl.
Maryed to the kings sister Honoria. nay out wt h it, there
wilbe work for Bells & Boonefyers I can tell yw.

Conon.
That there will in trothe, that Varletti be forthwt h banisht
the court & dureing the Prorex pleasure confynd

Varl.
Mery mistake in troth my Lords, but I canot blame yow
pray let me read it

Pro.
on thy Life touch it not, go se it proclaimde

Elid
Ile put on Wings & fly & this make not work for bells &
boone fyres Blame me.—

Ext
Varl.
stay art thow mad, sure yow mistooke the paper sr.

Pro.
I thinck I did too, but willingly mistooke it.
why thow [base]/[high] mynded, but Low merited pesant
hast thow a wife, noble & virtuous
I but one sister & she trewly chast
& darst thow tympanied wt h a litle Honor
once motion Mariage

Varl.
my most gratious Lord

Pro.
out fawneing parasite & graceles varlet
Empty Impertinent, one of fortunes fooles
[[seest]/[canst] thow not [se]/[yet] how she has flattered the]
[wt h gawds & golden apples full of smoake]
[vp to the very Zenith of her whele]
[how she has fed & dandled the wt h ffavours]
[given the thy fill of Honor Title office]
[& all the various delicacyes on Earth]
[& now thow scornst the gods in thy Excesse]
[she hurles the Headlong to the Antipodes.]
thow knowst thy sentence, come not nere the court
thy life we lend the.

Varl.
[Ile]/[scorne not] thank the fort
but tis a Maxim. such as like me aspier
to tread on starrs, wt h Phaeton ride in fier

Ext
Conon.
patience great sr. twas one of Archibalds, but Exitus acta probat the end crowns all.—
Ware that old lad, but here to laugh a litle

Pro.
he was to rashe, he wood not giue his blessings
Enter. Gerald
season to growe & Ripen In, but pluck e'm
in the grene Bud, whose that yong [Geraldine]. Claridon?
wellcome to court, we are sorry for yor loss
how does yor mother law the noble countess

Ger.
Like a good bowle ill turnd, she ronns quite from the Byass of
her Sexe, and as the fooleishe girle that got a rizeing in the Kydneys
wt h eating of Lamb stone forswore all mutton for a twelf month & a
daye, so she for the death of my father, have for sworne all mankinde
for Terme of life, & has maryed her self to Vesta's monastary

Pro.
A noble course & a Religious

Ger.
do, but se how she has disposd of her transitoryes & yowle swere it

Pro.
she has conferd her whole estate on yow.
wt hout condicion, gift nor legacy to be Ducted

Conon.
a good mother law.

Ger
Is she not my Lord? wood yor son & heire had [one]/[half a dozen] no worse,

Pro:
ffor her sake & yor owne, & his thats dead, wole giue yow Honor.

Ger
As much honor as yow please, but no office & yow Love me, for I
Being a wild yong heire, [& none of the wisest, nether, «w»oold] be
haveing more wealth than ether heale or wit to manage it

wold be

(Marginal note)

Imagind I bought it, And some of the Court wits would ex officio
beg me & the fooles paradice myne office over myne eres. fut
I remember my fathers case concerneing the Champeon &

Pro.
we do not meane to trouble yow wt h any

ther fere no office I be sech yr mt e

(Marginal note)

yor first Imployment shalbe to observe
Varletti newly Banisht from the Court

Ger.
Varletti? is that Alamyre, [&] solfade out of the Court gamoth
I owe him a good turne for a Cort curtesy he did my father,

Pro.
pay him home now then, hees in suspect for treasonn,
bait hookes to cach hym vrge his Bannishment
point at revenge, & if yow chance to scatter
in draweing of em on, som thing like treason,
yow have comission fort, but Be not too bolde,

Ger
I warne yow my Lord, I have had a monstrous mynd to speake
treason of a litle one, I have whisperd & whistled it to my shadow
in private, & now I have comi«s»ion to speke it Viva voce,
a fore company yor highnes could not have done me an honr
like it, never a noble Britaine her Loves me

ōes
we all love & Honor yw.

Ger.
no the king I thank him has honord me Inough: onely if yow Love me
do me one curtesy

Conon.
It must Be a strange one

Ger.
no no, a very comō one since the Romans came in, onely to beg my
Lands & liveings while I am in the state of a trew [man]/[subiect]

Conō
[yar no traitor yet]/[why do yow intend to be a trayter]

Ger.
I am Inioynd [& do fully pur pose] to speake treason & then som roman will begy«l» my
Lands & my life too, [&] whether I [do] speake treason or no, if they do but
say I did, theyle ha my life & be but fer Love off my Lands,

& I wold once
(cheat a bagarly Romane & I had but the
wit toot

(Marginal note)

Pro
So we conceive yw get a pardon drawne
so yor offence be onely verball &
growe not by act of treason we will signe it

Ger.

theres som signe of Love in that yet; the plowman may whistle
the shepherd hoope & the Huntsma Hollow there harts out, but if [OMITTED]
teache em not all to speake treason, hang me wt h my pardon
about my neck, [when it] Ile go & get it drawne prsently—

Ext.
Pro.
Thow needst noe tutor, now my Honourd lords
we have in our Iust sentence on Varletti
& tryall of old Archibalds Alleageance
troubled yor expectacōns, but Tyme
shall make all clere, & teach me so much Art
hence forthe to throw our favours one Desert

Conon
yave Drawne the fforme of a rare prsident
but for old Archibald

Pro.
no more of him
to save the head we [may well wound]/[hazard but] a limb.

[sc. iii]

fflorish
Enter Howlet in som od disguise
[Howl.
[my yong Lord playes the old devill a mongst vs: has stript]
[my lady stak naked of her Inheritance, & Hooted poore howlet]
[out of his Ivy bush too, has warants against me bout the box]
[of Iewells too, but Ile warrant my self of them, And to blinde]
[Iustice that is too Blinde allready. I am flowne into a new]
[fashion, tho but a scurvy one, I have sene some scarce soe]
[handsome, they say mad grig sells knocking downe ale here]
[abouts, Ile spend one halfe dozen to [spend]/[showe] my new sute &]
[recreate my selfe a litle. byr' leave ho. grig of grig hall wt hin]

[Enter grig:
[yor freind & mr grig Brandwell is wt hin—a mile of a]
[knave at any tyme. yor Busyness wt h me. [yor]/[yow seme a man of] education &]
[one that can accomidate—your Business)—]

[Howl.
[a poore cuntry Artist, a kind of hanger on a yor dangling]
[proffession: now yor name Being so famous amongst vs]
[in the countrye, has drawn me vp to the City onely to tender]
[homage to thy Aplesquireship.]

[grig.
[Art thow a Brother of the cord? [but thy accomodations show it] most hardly wellcome,]
[theres not a ropeman Nozemonger, wt hin the pale of America]
[but grig will vouch safe to [take]/[accomidate] halfe a dozen of ale &]
[Tobacco on for the function sake, Indeed my Anuall tribute]
[wt cuntry man, Accomodate me that now]

[Howl
[Cumberland by birth. Hempshire gave me education]
[fflintshire Infucd my nature, & break neck shire a trade]

[Grig.
[I am thy country man in that kinde once a moneth, I shold]
[be sory else, [here] all this [I accomodate] to old turne over the ferman of the Iury a]
[good substantiall fre holder & yeoma of my wardrop, pledg him]
[& now where is thy residence—]

[Howl.
[my [lay] dwelling [is]/[was] at Mayd stone in Kent I am at this tyme a non resident]

[grig.
[And thats has bene a good thriveing seat, yave rich pippins brother]

Howl
[And so many poore Iohns & cuntry Russettings theyre scarce]
[worth the pareing. I assure yowsr. I have not had to my]
[vailes, a whol{e} shirt or a conducible smock, I sell em to]
[ragmen & for my wollen wardrop I ha made that over by]
[Lease parroll, to a marchant map maker in kent strete.]

grig
[By this can I both Credit & pittie the, for I my self who am write]
[most exquisit, for hang, drawe, & picth vnder poale Againe,]
[haveing my Lunary Tribute, from the triple tree nere padinton]
[The maine traffick & whole venter of Hazards bridge waping]
[Croyden & kingston wt h other By blows & {cro}ss capering]
[Accomodations can hardly live like]
[a man of any good Credit, yet now & then I eat a swann py wt h a]
[bold yeoman. & accomodate a dishe of Tripes wt h a [greazy]/[fatt] seriant,]

[Howl.
[Hears A health to the swan py; I love the yeomo well; but]
[for Trillebub the Seriant twas disputed last day who had]
[the more charitable trade, the Sariant or the Hangma]
[but the Iudgement went of our side, for twas decreed the]
[Sariant brings men Into trouble, & the Hangma putts em out]

grig
By the thomb ring of Iames my Deare Benefactor

accomodate

(Marginal note)

[Truly the Iudge was iust in his censure,]
enter. dampit Huntit, Kenwell.
[but whome ha we here my very good freinds]
[Dampit, Kenwell & Huntit, by the thomb ring of Iames.]
[& penny pot companions wellcome here is a very Loveing brother]
[of the nooze, come vp a purpose to [see me]/[afflict or visit me], pray Accomodat]

Ken
[very ob sequiously wellcome]

Damp.
[most auspitiously I grete yow]

grig.
[I thank yow gentleme, som A gran Iury of freshe canns who accomodats the table,]
[& now Being so hapely drawne to gither let all, vs all hang on the]
[same string of fraternity—]

Howl.
[Like a rope of Onynes by the necks so I may have the cutting of yw downe «or» pilling of yow]

grig.
[& accom̄odate a litle of the Antiquity & estimation of our severall]
[callings, & my Brother of Breakneack, shall wast spend & consume his]
[ripe ripe Iudgmt. wc h of vs 4. is the most necessary & accom̄date member]
[forin a comō wealth]

Damp.
[but will not yor brother be a partiall man]

Howl.
[A martialls man no sr. I belong to the shreve, & will hang]
[my owne mr vpon the file of Execution—]

grig
[If the Law accomodate at Least he may or I ether]

Damp.

[first then for the reputac̄on of Lombards. we derive our antiquity]
[from the Iews, in memory of whome we canot indure]
[to live like good christians, yet for formality sake we go like em]
[& are somtymes taken to be of them, too, by wc h meanes we]
[rise to offices as church wardens & collectors, when indeed]
[we are mere out-side men, & absolute neglectors of the poore]
[[I meane,] & so in tyme we growe to be Mr s. or rather marrers]
[of our parish, Deputyes nay absolute despicers of our ward.]

grig:
[very good accomodation and a proper, moisten yor quaile pipe]

Damp.
[If the rich call vs to accownt, we have a trick to stop there]
[mowt hes wt h a Hartichoake py at a dynner in the guest howse]
[if the poore gromble, or complaine, whip away wt h em, we]
[kepe blew coats in paye for the same purpose]

Howl.
[Yow lashe it out I se then, but indeed Mr Dampit I did not thinke]
[yow had bene so charitable. but sure I am perswaded. that]
[Honest men & fooles are yor best Customers, for the proverb]
[sayes a crafty knave needs no Broaker: now Mr. Decoye.]

Kenw.

damp:
[Wt. are they like [mr]/[brother] Kenwell]

Kenw
[mary they are very like to breake any mans neck at the gallous]
[that vse em, I scapt it hardly my self [next]/[last] Sessionns]

Howl.
[Theres som hope on the next then, a my word a most Int«ri»cate]
[proffession & Ingenerous. now for the honor of deformers.]

Hunt
[know then we are wind Instruments yr country lawyer practises]
[much vpon, our best concord is grownded vpon discords, vpon]
[wc h roning descant, we beget voluntary devision, quarrells]
[causes suits & actions, our faith is wholy Included in the penall]
[statutes & our Relligion grownded vpon writts of Error, we sell or]
[conscyences to purchase our places, & if we chance to vndo, two or]
[thre Lords of the soile, yw must not think it envy but want of good]
[mannor s: one trick we borow too frô the knights oth poast]
[to have our heareings when our ears are lost.]

Howl.
[I mary sr thes are lofty virtues indeed; a com̄o capacity]
[cannot reache e'm. now Brother grig for our function]

grig.
[I shall accomodat in Brefe, first we have the trew virtue]
[off Hospitallitie, for we entertaine all that come to our office of wt. degre]
[age, sex or condicion so ever, next we go beyond all precept]
[counsell or roprhension, for if a thefe, grow so obstinate]
[as the whole bench cannot perswade him to Leave his trade]
[let me but talk wt h hym in to my office a litle, & Ile so accomodate]
[him wt h a trick that I have he shall nere have a mind toot while he Lives after, [we]]

to shut vp all, we

(Marginal note)

[are Mr s. of the Black bagg, into wc h some of all religions]
[& proffessionns drop, we are the period of controversies,]
[the vltmū vale of [contentions,] complements the finis catastrophe, And]
[conclusion, of treasons rapes muders ffellonyes & burglaryes]
[& to accomodat & end all, we are the but end of the lawe]

Howl.
[And that but, hast thow Broacht & drawne downe to the very]
[Lees made our trade, the top & top gallant of all trades

[we can giue the proudest mate of em all the chek. chek him vnder the chin]

(Interlined note)

thow]
[hast wonn the Hempen wreath from 'em all, & ther tis.]

grig
[no I love to accomodat my freinds were it thy self good brother.]

Kenw.
[even share it Betwixt yow, & now to matter of more consequenc[OMITTED]]
[there lives a lusty widow here at walltamstowe, faire rich]
[& Bounte full, now I knoweing my self a man well built]
[outwardly by nature & well to Borrow my Brothers grigs]
[word, accomodated Inwardly by art, am resolvd to woe &]
[confident to win her, if mr Dampit will but furnish me.]

grig.
[Accomodate brother accomodat had bene the more proper word]

Damp.
[I will both fit, furnish accowtre & accomodate the at all]
[points, & prices, & for thy more grace wele all Ride along [wt h the,]/[to countnance the]]

Ken:
[if a poore gentlema may stand so gratious wt h yow]

Damp.
[freindship forbid else, Ile furnish yw all]
[furnish—furnish a horse garnish a table but accomodate a man I saye a«v»ay«n»e]

grig.
[Accomodate me, like a sterne solyer, in a buff Ierkin [wt h]]
[* tercins Bilbo & a Bownceing-Bumbasket—my name alexander Han: dangerfield]
[—captyne of the garis«on» in gvnpowder Ally & bowtice for the rest]

Damp.
[

Da: that will make a bonny nose but

(Marginal note)

Ile fit yw all & my selfe too: in my damask coat. my Bulloigne]
[Breech. my chaine of gold, my thomping thomb ring, my] best
[Brooch by st. Martin set in my steple Crownd Bever]

Ken.
[& yor Brasill staff wt h the fooles head vpont, Limping a litle as]
[if yow had a spice of the gowt]

damp.
[spice quoth yw. my great toes pepperd wt h that a pax ont]

grig.
[very fit accomodation. Indeed tis the flesh brand the devill setts vpon his]
[howshold servants [servants] & vserers espetially—wlld colts]

Dampt.
[[then] has markt me for his owne then, I were his seale at]
[Armes of my great toe, [but come lets furnish for yr Iornye]]

Howl.
[Theres a scarfe to weare it in, & so yow Ioyne hemp & tow totigether]

grig
[very [fit] genuyne accomodation & [a] proper, but for the reckoning who accomdates yt n[OMITTED]]

Damp.
[[tis] twill prove but a Brabling matter in the end & cause we being ffreinds wold be]
[loth to ffall out [for a triffle,] Giue the stranger Leave to pay [it] all]
[Twilbe a meanes to make him know vs better an other tyme]

Howl.
[wt h all my hart gentlemē & thank yw to. & if I mete yow at the widows. I may]
[chance to accomodate yow in yor kindes for this. & so I leave]
[yow to yor good fortunes—adew good brother of the corde.]

grig
[farwell swete frater of the nooze thou showst thy generous educati]
[farwell & be hangd come gentl to horse]