t for our needs, turne fooles vp, and plough _Ladies_
Sometimes, to try what glebe they are: and this
Is no
vnfruitefull
piece.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
hes_.
WIT. I know her, Sir.
And her Gentleman _hui?her_.
MER. M^r _Ambler_?
WIT. Yes, Sir.
MER. Sir, It ?hall be no ?hame to mee, to confe??e
To you, that wee poore Gentlemen, that want acres, 45
Mu?
t for our needs, turne fooles vp, and plough _Ladies_
Sometimes, to try what glebe they are: and this
Is no
vnfruitefull
piece.
She, and I now,
Are on a proiect, for the fact, and venting
Of a new kinde of _fucus_ (paint, for _Ladies_) 50
To ?erue the kingdome: wherein ?hee her ?elfe
Hath trauell'd, ?pecially, by way of ?eruice
Vnto her ?exe, and hopes to get the _Monopoly_,
As the reward of her inuention. [138]
WIT. What is her end, in this?
EV. Merely ambition, 55
Sir, to grow great, and court it with the ?ecret:
Though ?hee pretend ?ome other. For, ?
