Mer. O good Sr. do you thinke So courſely of our manners, that we would, For any need of ours, be preſt to take it: Though you be pleas’d to offer it.
Fit. Why, by heauen, I meane it!
Mer. I can neuer beleeue leſſe. 95 But wee, Sir, muſt preſerue our dignity, As you doe publiſh yours. By your faire leaue, Sir.
Hee offers to be gone.
Fit. As I am a Gentleman, if you doe offer To leaue mee now, or if you doe refuſe mee, 99 I will not thinke you loue mee.
Mer. Sir, I honour you. And with iuſt reaſon, for theſe noble notes, Of the nobility, you pretend too! But, Sir— I would know, why? a motiue (he a ſtranger) You ſhould doe this?
(Eve. You’ll mar all with your fineneſſe)
Fit. Why, that’s all one, if ’twere, Sir, but my fancy. 105 But I haue a Buſineſſe, that perhaps I’d haue Brought to his office.
Mer. O, Sir! I haue done, then; If hee can be made profitable, to you. [134]
Fit. Yes, and it ſhall be one of my ambitions To haue it the firſt Buſineſſe? May I not? 110