Bartholmew fayre : a comedie, acted in the yeare, 1614 by the Lady Elizabeths seruants, and then dedicated to King Iames, of most blessed memorie ; The diuell is an asse : a comedie acted in the yeare, 1616, by His Maiesties seruants ; The staple of newes : a comedie acted in the yeare, 1625, by His Maiesties seruants by the author, Beniamin Iohnson.

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Bartholmew fayre : a comedie, acted in the yeare, 1614 by the Lady Elizabeths seruants, and then dedicated to King Iames, of most blessed memorie ; The diuell is an asse : a comedie acted in the yeare, 1616, by His Maiesties seruants ; The staple of newes : a comedie acted in the yeare, 1625, by His Maiesties seruants by the author, Beniamin Iohnson.
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
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1631.
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ACT. I. SCENE. V.

VVITTIPOL. MANLY.

INgine, you hope o'your halfe piece? 'Tis there, Sir.

Wittipol knocks his friend o'the brest.
Be gone. Friend Manly, who's within here? fixed?

MAN.

I am directly in a fit of wonder

What'll be the issue of this conference!

WIT.

For that, ne'r vex your selfe, till the euent.

How like yo'him?

MAN.

I would faine see more of him.

WIT.

What thinke you of this?

MAN.

I am past degrees of thinking.

Old Africk, and the new America,

With all their fruite of Monsters cannot shew

So iust a prodigie.

WIT.

Could you haue beleeu'd,

Without your sight, a minde so sordide inward,

Should be so specious, and layd forth abroad,

To all the shew, that euer shop, or ware was?

MAN.

I beleeue any thing now, though I confesse

His Vices are the most extremities

I euer knew in nature. But, why loues hee

The Diuell so?

WIT.

O Sr! for hidden treasure,

Hee hopes to finde: and has propos'd himselfe

So infinite a Masse, as to recouer,

He cares not what he parts with, of the present,

To his men of Art, who are the race, may coyne him.

Promise gold-mountaines, and the couetous

Are still most prodigall.

MAN.

But ha' you faith,

That he will hold his bargaine?

WIT.

O deare, Sir!

He will not off on't. Feare him not. I know him▪

One basenesse still accompanies another.

See! he is heere already, and his wife too.

MAN.

A wondrous handsome creature, as I liue!

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