hall not be worth thirty (thats gain'd)
And this is to make you a Gentleman!
And this is to make you a Gentleman!
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
_Poul Either-?
ide_, but to haue ?
o much Law
To keepe your owne? Be? ides, he is a _Iu? tice_,
Here i' the Towne; and dwelling, Sonne, with him, 5
You ? hal learne that in a yeere, ? hall be worth twenty
Of hauing ? tay'd you at _Oxford_, or at _Cambridge_,
Or ? ending you to the _Innes_ of _Court_, or _France_.
I am call'd for now in ha? te, by Ma? ter _Meere-craft_
To tru? t Ma? ter _Fitz-dottrel_, a good man: 10
I'haue inquir'd him, eighteene hundred a yeere,
(His name is currant) for a diamant ring
Of forty, ?
hall not be worth thirty (thats gain'd)
And this is to make you a Gentleman!
PLV. O, but good father, you tru? t too much!
GVI. Boy, boy, 15
We liue, by finding fooles out, to be tru? ted.
Our ? hop-bookes are our pa? tures, our corn-grounds,
We lay 'hem op'n for them to come into:
And when wee haue 'hem there, wee driue 'hem vp
In t'one of our two Pounds, the _Compters_, ? treight, 20
And this is to make you a Gentleman!
Wee Citizens neuer tru? t, but wee doe coozen:
For, if our debtors pay, wee coozen them;
And if they doe not, then we coozen our ? elues.
But that's a hazard euery one mu? t runne, 25
That hopes to make his Sonne a Gentleman!
To keepe your owne? Be? ides, he is a _Iu? tice_,
Here i' the Towne; and dwelling, Sonne, with him, 5
You ? hal learne that in a yeere, ? hall be worth twenty
Of hauing ? tay'd you at _Oxford_, or at _Cambridge_,
Or ? ending you to the _Innes_ of _Court_, or _France_.
I am call'd for now in ha? te, by Ma? ter _Meere-craft_
To tru? t Ma? ter _Fitz-dottrel_, a good man: 10
I'haue inquir'd him, eighteene hundred a yeere,
(His name is currant) for a diamant ring
Of forty, ?
hall not be worth thirty (thats gain'd)
And this is to make you a Gentleman!
PLV. O, but good father, you tru? t too much!
GVI. Boy, boy, 15
We liue, by finding fooles out, to be tru? ted.
Our ? hop-bookes are our pa? tures, our corn-grounds,
We lay 'hem op'n for them to come into:
And when wee haue 'hem there, wee driue 'hem vp
In t'one of our two Pounds, the _Compters_, ? treight, 20
And this is to make you a Gentleman!
Wee Citizens neuer tru? t, but wee doe coozen:
For, if our debtors pay, wee coozen them;
And if they doe not, then we coozen our ? elues.
But that's a hazard euery one mu? t runne, 25
That hopes to make his Sonne a Gentleman!
