Act 3. Scene 2.
Gentleman and Gentlewoman to them.
Gar.
O here they are going.
The sparagus garden a comedie. Acted in the yeare 1635. by the then Company of Revels, at Salisbury Court. The author Richard Brome.
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- The sparagus garden a comedie. Acted in the yeare 1635. by the then Company of Revels, at Salisbury Court. The author Richard Brome.
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- Brome, Richard, d. 1652?
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- London :: Printed by I. Okes, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop in Kings-street at the signe of the Goat, and in Westminster-hall,
- 1640.
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Gent.
I protest Mr. Gardner your wife is too deare: Sixteene shillings for a dish of Sparagus, two bottles of wine, and a little Sugar, I wonder how you can reckon it.
Mat.
That was your rec•…•…oning in all sir; wee make no ac∣count of particulars, but all to Mall, as they doe in the Nether∣lands.
Gent.
Your Dutch account Mrs. is too high for us to trouble you any more.
Mat.
That's as you please sir, a faire day after you:
Ex. Gen.
Who would be troubled with such pinching guests?
Gar.
I, tis good to misreckon such to be rid of 'hem.
Mat.
They are ee'n as welcome as the Knight that comes hither alone alwayes, and walkes about the garden here halfe a day together, to feed upon Ladyes lookes, as they passe to and fro; the peeping Knight, whát doe you call him?
Gar.
O Sir Arnold Cautiou•…•….
Mat.
You may call him Cautious, I never saw five shillings of his money yet.
Gar.
No, he comes but to feed his eye, as you say, with leering at good faces, and peeping at pretty insteps.
Mat.
Sir Hugh-Money-lacke, our gather-guest as we call him, sends us no such dull customers: O that good Gentleman I never did any •…•…averne, Inne, or new Ordinary give tribute to a more deserving gentleman—oh here come gallants.