Duke. Save you, sir!
Ant. You are welcome, gentlemen.
Duke. I come, sir, a suitor to you. I hear you are possessed of many various and excellent antiquities; and though I am a stranger, I would entreat your gentleness a favour.
Ant. What's that, sir?
Duke. Only that you would vouchsafe me to be a spectator of their curiosity and worth, which courtesy shall engage me yours for ever.
Ant. For their worth I will not promise: 'tis as you please to esteem of them.
Leo. No doubt, sir, we shall ascribe what dignity belongs to them and to you their preserver.
Ant. You speak nobly; and thus much let me tell you, to your edifying: the foolish doating on these present novelties is the cause why so many rare inventions have already perished; and (which is pity) antiquity has not left so much as a foot-step behind her, more than of her vices.
Leo. 'Tis the more pity, sir.
Ant. Then, what raises such vanities amongst us, and sets fantastical fancies awork? What's the reason that so many fresh tricks and new inventions of fashions and diseases come daily over sea, and land upon a man that never durst adventure to taste salt water, but only the neglect of those useful instructions which antiquity has set down.