Unc. Your honor bids you Nephew, on, and prosper.
On. But none will bear it from me, times are dangerous.
Cra. Carry it your self man.
On. Tutor, your counsel: [I'll] do nothing Sir
Without him.
Unc. This may rid thee, (valiant Cuz.)
Whom I have kept this forty year my Ward:
Fain would I have his state, and now of late
He did inquire at Ephesus for his age,
But the Church Book being burnt with Dian's Temple
He lost his ayme: I have try'd to famish him,
Marry he'll live o'th stones: and then for Poysons,
He is an Antidote 'gainst all of 'em;
He sprung from Mithridates; he is so dry and hot,
He will eat Spiders faster than a Monkey:
His Maw (unhurt) keeps Quicksilver like a bladder,
The largest dose of Camphire, Opium,
Harmes not his Brain; I think his Skul's as empty
As a suckt Egg; Vitriol and Oyle of Tartar
He will eat tosts of: Henbane I am sure
And Hemlock I have made his Pot-herbs often.
Cra. If he refuse you, yours is then the honor:
If he accept, he being so great, you may
Crave both to choose the Weapon, time, and place,
Which may be ten years hence, and Calicut,
Or underneath the line to avoid advantage.
On. I am resolved.
Tut. By your favor Pupill,
Whence shall this challenge rise? for you must ground it
On some such fundamental base, or matter
As now the Gentry set their lives upon.
Did you ere cheat him at some Ordinary,
And durst he say so, and be angry? if thus,
Then you must challenge him: hath he call'd your whore,
Whore; though she be (beside yours) twenty mens?
Your honor, reputation is touched then,
And you must challenge him: Has he deny'd
On thirty damme's to accommodate money,
Though he have broke threescore before to you?
Here you must challenge him: Durst he ever shun
To drink two pots of Ale wi'ye? or to wench
Though weighty business otherwise importun'd?
He is a proud Lord,
And you may challenge him: Has he familiarly
Dislik'd your yellow Starch, or said your Dublet
Was not exactly frenchifi'd? or that, that report
In fair terms was untrue? or drawn your Sword,
Cry'd 'twas ill mounted? Has he given the lye
In circle, or oblique, or semi-circle,
Or direct parrallel? you must challenge him.
On. He never gave my direct apparrel the lye in's life.
Tut. But for the crown of all, Has he refus'd
To pledge your Mistris health though he were sick?