Act 4. 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.