Volume Xi Part 55 (2/2)

BUB. That's no matter: what I have lost, I have lost; nor can I choose but smile at the foolishness of the dice.

STAINES. I am but your steward, gentlemen; for after dinner I may restore it again.

BUB. Master Scattergood, will you walk in?

SCAT. I'll wait upon you, sir. Come, gentlemen, will you follow?

[_Exeunt._

_Manent_ SPENDALL _and_ STAINES.

STAINES. Yes, sir, I'll follow you.

SPEND. Hear you, sir, a word.

STAINES. Ten, if you please.

SPEND. I have lost fifteen pounds.

STAINES. And I have found it.

SPEND. You say right; found it you have, indeed, But never won it. Do you know this die?

STAINES. Not I, sir.

SPEND. You seem a gentleman, and you may perceive I have some respect unto your credit To take you thus aside. Will you restore What you have drawn from me unlawfully?

STAINES. Sirrah, by your outside you seem a citizen, Whose c.o.c.k's-comb I were apt enough to break, But for the law. Go, y' are a prating jack: Nor is't your hopes of crying out for clubs Can save you from my chastis.e.m.e.nt, if once You shall but dare to utter this again.

SPEND. You lie; you dare not.

STAINES. Lie! nay, villain, now Thou tempt'st me to thy death.

SPEND. Soft, you must buy it dearer; The best blood flows within you is the price.

STAINES. Dar'st thou resist? thou art no citizen.

SPEND. I am a citizen.

STAINES. Say thou art a gentleman, and I am satisfied; For then I know thou'lt answer me in field.

SPEND. I'll say directly what I am, a citizen; And I will meet thee in the field as fairly As the best gentleman that wears a sword.[181]

STAINES. I accept it: the meeting-place?

SPEND. Beyond the Maze in Tuttle.[182]

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