Jasp . Now must I go conjure.
[ Exit into a Closet .
Enter VENTUREWELL.
Vent . Boy, boy!
Boy . Your servant, sir.
Vent . Do me this kindness, boy; (hold, here’s a crown;)
Before thou bury the body of this fellow,
Carry it
to his old merry father, and salute him
From me, and bid him sing; he hath cause.
Boy . I will, sir.
Vent . And then bring me word what tune he is in,
And have another crown; but do it truly.
I have fitted
him a bargain now will vex him.
Boy . God bless your worship’s health, sir!
Vent . Farewell, boy !
[ Exeunt severally .
SCENE V.— A Street before Merrythought’s House .
Enter MERRYTHOUGHT .
[ Wife . Ah, old Merrythought, art thou there again? let’s
hear some of thy songs.]
Mer . [ Sings .]
Than he that cannot change a groat?
[ Sings .
To carry the cloak-bag still,
Nor would I be a falconer
The greedy hawks to fill;
But I would be in a good house,
And have a good master too;
But I would eat and drink of the best,
And no work would I do
is the philosopher’s stone that they write so much on,
that keeps a man ever young.
Boy . Sir, they say they know all your money is gone, and
they will trust you for no more drink.
Mer . Will they not? let ’em choose! The best is, I have
mirth at home, and need not send abroad for
that; let
them keep their drink to themselves.
[ Sings .
And she hath good beer and ale to sell,
And of good fellows she thinks no ill;
And thither will we go now, now, now,
And thither will we go now.
And when you have made a
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