Why, one Sir, that
proiects
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Wayes to enrich men, or to make 'hem great,
By ?
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
what's th'affaire? more cheats?
ING. No Sir, the Wit, the Braine, the great _Proiector_, 5
I told you of, is newly come to towne.
FIT. Where, _Ingine_?
ING. I ha' brought him (H'is without)
Ere hee pull'd off his boots, Sir, but ?o follow'd,
For bu?ine??es:
FIT. But what is a _Proiector_?
I would conceiue.
ING.
Why, one Sir, that
proiects
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Wayes to enrich men, or to make 'hem great,
By ?
uites, by marriages, by vndertakings:
According as he ?ees they humour it.
FIT. Can hee not coniure at all?
ING. I thinke he can, Sir.
(To tell you true) but, you doe know, of late, 15
The State hath tane ?uch note of 'hem, and compell'd 'hem,
To enter ?uch great bonds, they dare not practice.
FIT. 'Tis true, and I lie fallow for't, the while!