Part 10 (2/2)

_Roch_. She'll change her mind.

My agent, Master Walter, is her guardian.

_Tin_. How can you keep that Hunchback in his office?

He mocks you.

_Roch_. He is useful. Never heed him.

My offer now do I present through him.

He has the t.i.tle-deeds of my estates, She'll listen to their wooing. I must have her.

Not that I love her, but that all allow She's fairest of the fair.

_Tin_. Distinguished well!

'Twere most unseemly for a lord to love!-- Leave that to commoners! 'Tis vulgar--she's Betrothed, you tell me, to Sir Thomas Clifford?

_Roch_. Yes.

_Tin_. That a commoner should thwart a lord!

Yet not a commoner. A baronet Is fish and flesh. Nine parts plebeian, and Patrician in the tenth. Sir Thomas Clifford!

A man, they say, of brains! I abhor brains As I do tools: they're things mechanical.

So far are we above our forefathers They to their brains did owe their t.i.tles, as Do lawyers, doctors. We to nothing owe them, Which makes us far the n.o.bler.

_Roch_. Is it so?

_Tin_. Believe me. You shall profit by my training; You grow a lord apace. I saw you meet A bevy of your former friends, who fain Had shaken hands with you. You gave them fingers!

You're now another man. Your house is changed-- Your table changed--your retinue--your horse-- Where once you rode a hack, you now back blood;-- Befits it, then, you also change your friends!

[Enter WILLIAMS.]

_Will_. A gentleman would see your lords.h.i.+p.

_Tin_. Sir!

What's that?

_Will_. A gentleman would see his lords.h.i.+p.

_Tin_. How know you, sir, his lords.h.i.+p is at home?

Is he at home because he goes not out?

He's not at home, though there you see him, sir; Unless he certify that he's at home!

Bring up the name of the gentleman, and then Your lord will know if he's at home or not.

[WILLIAMS goes out.]

Your man was porter to some merchant's door, Who never taught him better breeding Than to speak the vulgar truth! Well, sir?

[WILLIAMS having re-entered.]

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