Before you outrun honesty; for he,

Who lives we know not how, must live by plunder;
Either he picks a purse, or robs a house,

Or is accomplice with some knavish gang,

Or thrusts himself in crowds to play th' Informer,
And put his perjur'd evidence to sale:
This a well-order'd city will not suffer:
Such vermin we expel.-And you do wisely:
But what is this to me?-Why, this it is:
Here we behold you every day at work,
Living forsooth! not as your neighbours live,
But richly, royally, ye gods!-Why, man,
We cannot get a fish for love or money,
You swallow the whole produce of the sea:
You've driven our citizens to browze on cabbage:
A sprig of parsley sets them all a-fighting,
As at the Isthmian games: if hare, or partridge,
Or but a simple thrush comes to the market,
Quick, at the word you snap him: By the gods!
Hunt Athens through, you shall not find a feather
But in your kitchen; and for wine, 'tis gold-
Not to be purchas'd-We may drink the ditches.

CUMBERLAND.

Wee have in Corinth this good Law in use;
If wee see any person keepe great cheere,
We make inquirie, Whether he doe worke,
Or if he have Revenues coming in?

If either, then we say no more of him.

But if the Charge exceed his Gaine or Rents,
He is forbidden to run on his course :
If he continue it, he pays a fine:
If he want wherewithall, he is at last
Taken by Sergeants and in prison cast.
For to spend much, and never to get ought,

Is cause of much disorder in the world.
One in the night-time filcheth from the flocks;
Another breaks a house or else a shop;

A third man gets a share his mouth to stop.

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To beare a part in this good fellowship,
One feignes a suit his neighbor to molest,
DIPHILUS.]
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Another must false witnesse beare with him:

But such a crue we utterly detest

And banish from our citie like the pest.

APOLLODORUS.

I. (P. 176.)

How sweet were life, how placid and serene,
Were others but as gentle as ourselves':
But if we must consort with apes and monkies,
We must be brutes like them-O life of sorrow!

CUMBERLAND.

II. (P. 177.)

What do you trust to, Father? To your money?
Fortune indeed to those who have it not,

Will sometimes give it; but 'tis done in malice,
Merely that she may take it back again.

III. (P. 177.)

CUMBERLAND.

Go to! make fast your gates with bars and bolts;
But never chamber-door was shut so close,

But cats and cuckold-makers would creep through it.

IV. (P. 178.)

CUMBERLAND.

Youth and old age have their respective humours;
And son by privilege can say to father,

1 Aliter vertit Cumberlandius:

A life from cares and business free

Is of all lives the life for me.

DIPHILUS APOLLODORUS.

Were you not once as young as I am now?' Not so the father; he cannot demand,

'Were you not once as old as I am now?'

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CUMBERLAND.

V. (P. 178.)

There is a certain hospitable air

In a friend's house, that tells me I am welcome:
The porter opens to me with a smile;

The yard dog wags his tail, the servant runs,
Beats up the cushion, spreads the couch, and says-
'Sit down, good Sir!' e'er I can say I'm weary.

APOLLODORUS.]

CUMBERLAND.

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