, which he gives for the Vanity of being the reputed Master of it.

Yet

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if

Laertes

did this, he would, perhaps, be easier in his own Fortune; but then

Irus

, a Fellow of Yesterday, who has but twelve hundred a Year, would be his Equal. Rather than this shall be,

Laertes

goes on to bring well-born Beggars into the World, and every Twelvemonth charges, his Estate with at least one Year's Rent more by the Birth of a Child.