Mer. Why, then, he is i’ the right way.

Gvi. But, now, I had rather get him a good wife, And plant him i’ the countrey; there to vſe The bleſſing I ſhall leaue him:

Mer. Out vpon’t! 30 And loſe the laudable meanes, thou haſt at home, heere, T’aduance, and make him a young Alderman? Buy him a Captaines place, for ſhame; and let him Into the world, early, and with his plume, And Scarfes, march through Cheapſide, or along Cornehill, And by the vertue’of thoſe, draw downe a wife 36 There from a windo’, worth ten thouſand pound! Get him the poſture booke, and’s leaden men, To ſet vpon a table, ’gainst his Miſtreſſe Chance to come by, that hee may draw her in, 40 And ſhew her Finsbury battells.

Gvi. I haue plac’d him With Iustice Eytherſide, to get so much law—

Mer. As thou haſt conſcience. Come, come, thou doſt wrong Pretty Plutarchus, who had not his name, For nothing: but was borne to traine the youth 45 Of London, in the military truth— That way his Genius lies. My Couſin Euerill!

[449] SD. Act. ...] Enter Meercraft. G

[450] 7 ring. [Aside to Gilthead.

[451] 15 Tom G

[452] 20 ’s] is G

[453] 23 so in W, G