Ant. Go to, you have said enough; I'll have no more than the old rent. Name your man, and the indentures shall be drawn.
Lio. Before I propose that, sir, I thought good to acquaint you with a specialty I found among other writings which, having a seal to it and a name subscribed, does most properly belong to you.
Ant. Let me see it. What's here? Signior Giovanni Veterano di Monte Nigro! He was my great grandfather, and this is an old debt of his that remains yet uncancelled. You could never have pleased me better to my cost: this ought, in conscience, to be discharged, and I'll see it satisfied the first thing I do. Come along.
Pet. Will you afford your nephew no exhibition out of your estate, sir?
Ant. Not a sol; not a gazet.[343] I have articles to propose before the senate shall disinherit him.
Lio. Have you, sir? Not justly, I hope. Pray, what are they?
Ant. One of them is, he sent me letters beyond sea, dated Stilo Novo.[344]
Lio. That was a great oversight.
Ant. Then you remember, Petro, he took up commodities, new-fashioned stuffs, when he was under age, too, that he might cosen his creditors.
Pet. Yes, sir.