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With me gentlemen?
Onely a few neighbourly and friendly words sir.
Oh you are most friendly welcome good Mr. Gilbert G•…•…lawire, and Mr. Walter Chamlet I take yee to be.
The same sir at your service.
Your fathers both were my good neighbours indeed; worthy and well reputed members of the City while they lived: but that may be read upon the Hospitall walls, and gates; it is enough for me to say they lov'd me: Sanson Touchwood! and I were a wretch if I should not honour their memory in their hap∣py succession: Agen gentlemen you are welcome.
Yet you may be pleas'd sir to remember, though our fathers were both loving friends to you, yet they were sometimes at odds one with another.
True, true, ever at odds: They were the common talke of the towne for a paire of wranglers; still at strife for one trifle or other: they were at law logger-heads together, in one match that held 'em tugging tone the tother by the purse-strings a matter of nine yeares, and all for a matter of nothing. They cours'd one another from Court to Court, and through every Court Tempo∣rall and Spirituall; and held one an other play till they lost a thousand pound a man to the Lawyers, and till it was very suffici∣ently ad judged that your father was one foole, and your father was another foole. And so againe gentlemen you are welcome: now your businesse.
You may now be pleas'd sir to remember that our fathers grew friends at last.
Heaven forbid else.
And note the cause, the ground of their reconciliation, which was upon the love, betwixt me and this gentlemans sister. My fathers Sonne married his fathers Daughter, and our two fa∣thers grew friends, and wise men agen.
To the poynt good gentlemen, yet you are welcome.
Troth sir the poynt is this: You know (and the towne has tane sufficient notice of it) that there has been a long con∣tention betwixt you and old Mr. Striker your neighbour—
Ha?
And the cause or ground of your quarrell (for ought any