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Show ^ f t ^ ^ r u ' d - ^ h e M a ^ e r more fufpicious. Thebevi! Mb thee for an impertinent Cuckold. ^firfMa. p « i Well I muft go then. . b it _,_>„. ferve his turn 5 we'll y„l Kay, there was never the likeot m m , uu Cuckold him moft furioufly. rtr ,bad forgot one thing, tor Sweet-neart, go home qu.ckly, and over-rcc^ Bufit^ ««££%3%£S2£?1um it to me, I'll put „ rotarZ^ferice: W S j g - >-Opportunity: I'.lbeat home before you, and fup with you to Night. icr. You lhall be welcome; but- Fife. Three hundred Quadruples. Per. That's true; but- _Rj&. But Three hundred Quadruples. Per. The Devil take the Quadruples. Enter Beamont. _j.vf___.__i Beam There's m y Cuckold that muft be, and m y Fellow Swager-theDutch-f w k my Miftrifs; m y Nofe is wip d to day; I muft retire, for the Spa-man niard is jealous of me. Per. Oh, Mr. Beamont, I'm to ask a Favour of you. Beam This is unufual; pray command it, Senior. f^i'm going upon urgent Bufinefs ; pray fup with me to Night, and, in the mean time, bear my worthy Friend here Company. Beam. With all m y heart. -, . Per. So, now 1 am fecure; though I dare not truft her with one of em I may with both ; they'll hinder one another, and preferve m y Honour into the Bargain. Now for my Doubloons, V, Beam. Now, Mr. Fifeall, you are the happy Man with the Ladies and have cot the Precedence of Traffick here too; you've the Indies in your Arms, yet I hope a poor Englifhman may come in for a Third Part of the Merchandise. Fife. Oh, Sir, in thefe Commodities, here's enough for both, heresMaCe for you, and Nutmegs for me in the fame Fruit; and yet the Owner has to fpare for other Friends too. Julia. M y Husband's Plantation's like to thrive well betwixt you Beam. Horn him, he deferves not fo much Happinefs as he .enjoys in yon 5 he's jealous. g Julia. 'Tis no wonder if a Spaniord look yellow. Beam. Betwixt you and me, 'tis a little kind of Venture that we make in doing this Dons Drudgery for him; for the whole Nation of 'em is generally fo pocky, that 'tis no longer a Difeafe, but a fecond Nature in 'em. Fife. I have heard, indeed, that 'tis incorporated among 'em, as deeply as the Moors and Jews are, there's fcarce a Family, but 'tis crept into their Blood, like the new Chriftians. Jul. Come, I'll have no whifpering betwixt you; I know you were talking of my Husband, becaufe m y Nofe itches. Beam. Faith, Madam, I was fpeaking in Favour of your Nation: What pleafant Lives I have known Spaniards to live in England. Jul. Ifyou love me, let me hear a little. Beam. W e obferv'd 'em to have much ofthe Nature of our Flies, they buzz'd abroad a Month or two i'th' Summer; wou'd venture, about Dog-days, to take the Air in the Park, but all the Winter flept like Dormice; and if ever they appear'd, in publick, after Michaelmas, their Faces fhew'd the difference betwixt their Country and ours; for they look in Spain as if they were roafted, and in England as if they were fodden. Jul. I'll not believe yourDefcription. Fife. Yet our Obfervations of 'em in Holland, are not much unlike it*, I've known a great Don at the Hague, with the Gentleman of hi •_-. AMBOYNA J6J Bacon went through thc Family a Week together : For it was daily put into the Pot far Pottage; was ferv'd in the midft ofthe Diffi at Dinners, and taken out and weigh'd by the Steward, at the end of every Meal, to fee how much it loft; till at length, looking at it againft the Sun, it appear'd tranfparent, and then he wou'd have whipp'd it up, as his own Fees, at a Morfel; but that his Lord barr'd the Dice, and reckon'd it to him for a part of his Board Wages. n„*~ Tn f^vxr \A/r.tvk Madam, the general Notion we had of ,em, was. that Jul. ] fee, Gentlemen, you are in the way of Rallying; therefore let me be no hindrance to your Sport; do as much for one another, as you have done for our Nation. Pray, Min Heer Fifcal, what think youot the Englifh} Fife. Oh, 1 have an Honour for the Country. . j . Beam I befeech you, leave your Ceremony; we can hear of our faults without Choler, therefore fpeak of us with a true Amfterdam Spirit, and do not ^Kff Since you command me, Sir, 'tis faid of you, I know not how truly, that for your Fifhery at home, you're like Dogs in the Manger you will neither manLe it you/felves, nor permit your Neighbours; fo that for your So vereknty of the narrow Seas, if the Inhabitants of em the Herrings were ca-mbl? orbeing their Judges, they would certainly award it to the E » ^ A becaufe S ^ ^ c A ^ f u i e to live undifturb'd, and quiet under you. t^l^o^tm^ our timeof Need, but vou paid your 'J5£3Z£ ^k^£L£L££ Sheft£ Sy orTo up, wc can newr give f u f t W f h an Immortal ^^A moft gratefol ^*^f^tf£ic fo horribly ex- Fife. For your T r a d e ' - ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ d m i ^ d o a i : Foryon penfive, that you woud undo y o u r : T ^ i n s of the univerfal World would Wou'd fink under your very Profit, and theGams^°yh e h u™m t i t u d e of Mouths beggar you You devour a^Voyage * > * g ^ * $ it well, that the with which you M a n your Veflels. 1roviae diftribute its Lndies aremanag'dby us, a i j ^ ^ S ^ j f n £ t o be^onfum'd in England, Merchandicetothereft of Europe^ andjufter *nott ^ that the other Members might b e ^ 4 w ^ X o w bigger by it. call it, like a Rickety Head woulI only ^ ^ o t ^ r y eCum upo__ the Jul. I have heard enough of England, nave y Jul. Come, a Word however. Ambition, when you began to be Beam. In the firft place you (hew d your Airi , rf ^ ft F a State: For, not being G e n t l e m ^ 0 v o h u a ^ a d e bold with the firft of the Di, miliesof£^e; ^ ™ « W ^ ^ G H ^ M I G H T T : Thoujfc vine Attributes; and call d >o«rl^e s tn is ridiculous; tor HIGH let me tell you, that, befides the Blafphemy, tn for feven bt e raf. is i£ moreVoper for the ^Unds than M£ ^ • Thearn, tally Provinces, no bigger m all than Shi^i | laughing at our your Ingratitude, you ^ O ^ V ^ M • The beft is, we are us d by you Lfie Delivery of y o n ^ j S of Orange. W e and they have let as well as your own Princes ™lf and drcumvent our Trade. njc. nu 6 to your Religion, wnicn » j d abro:id> fill ** r„» «.»»«-- «"» for our Merchants live like NO |