PHILIP, his eldest son, married to SUSAN FORREST. MRS. ANNE HARDING, second wife to OLD HARDING. SUSAN, daughter of old FORREST, wife of PHILIP HARDING. The SCENE, London, [and on the Sea.] FORTUNE BY LAND AND SEA. ACT I. SCENE I. Old FORREST'S House. Enter RAINSFORD, old FORREST, FRANK FORREST, SUSAN FORREST, GOODWIN, and FOSTER. Rains. I prithee, Frank, let's have thy company to supper. Frank. With all my heart: if I can but give my father here the slip by six o'clock, I will not fail. Rains. I'll talk with him. I prithee, old man, lend us thy son to-night. We'll borrow him but for some two hours, and send him home again to thee presently. Good. Faith, do, Mr. Forrest; he cannot spend his time in better company. Old For. Oh, gentlemen, this too much liberty Breeds many strange outrageous ills in youth, And fashions them to vice. Rains. Nay, school us not, old man. Some of us are too If not, I prithee old to learn; and being past whipping too, there's no hope of profiting. If we shall have him, say so. keep him still, and God give thee good of him! Frank. Nay, will you be gone? I'll be at the heels of you, as I live. Fos. 'Tis enough. Nay, come; and if we shall go, let us go. Old For. Nay, gentlemen, do not mistake me, pray. I love my son, but do not doat on him ; Nor is he such a darling in my eye, That I am loath to have him from my sight. As practise of known weapons, or to back I could have spared him to you half his age; I hold that much-us'd practise the most ill. Frank. I told him you would still be urging him, and see what comes on't? I præ, sequar. Rains. Sir, what we do's in love, and let you know, We do not need his purse nor his acquaintance, Nor, if you should mistake, can we be sorry, Nor wound to ask your pardon. Fare ye well! Come, gentlemen. Frank. Will [Exeunt RAINSFORD, GOODWIN, and FOSTER. Old For. Oh, son! that thou wilt follow rioting, Where I, Heav'n knows, the world still frowning on me, |