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Y. Love. It shall be so; we'll have it all in drink:
Let meat and lodging go; they're transitory,
And show men merely mortal.

Then we'll have wenches, every one his wench, 120

And every week a fresh one,--we'll keep
No powder'd flesh. All these we have by warrant,
Under the title of "things necessary";
here upon this place I ground it, "the obedience of my
people and all necessaries." Your opinions, gentlemen? 125

Capt. 'Tis plain and evident that he meant wenches.

Sav. Good sir, let me expound it.

Capt. Here be as sound men as yourself, sir.

Poet. This do I hold to be the interpretation of it:

in this word "necessary" is concluded all that be helps 130

to man; woman was made the first, and therefore here
the chiefest.

Y. Love. Believe me, 'tis a learned one: and by these
words, "the obedience of my people," you, steward,

being one, are bound to fetch us wenches. 135

Capt. He is, he is.

Y. Love. Steward, attend us for instructions.

Sav. But will you keep no house, sir?

Y. Love. Nothing but drink; three hundred pounds
in drink.

Sav. Oh, miserable house, and miserable I 140

That live to see it! Good sir, keep some meat.

Y. Love. Get us good whores; and for your part, I'll
board you
In an ale-house! you shall have cheese and onions.

Sav. [Aside.] What shall become of me, no chimney
smoking?

Well, prodigal, your brother will come home. [Exit. 145

Y. Love. Come, lads, I'll warrant you for wenches.
Three hundred pounds in drink. [Exeunt omnes.

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122 powder'd flesh] i. e. salt meat, as opposed to fresh. William Basse
Tom o' Bedlam says the Man in the Moon "Eats powder'd beef, turnip and
carrot."
139 drink] QQ1, 2: the rest drink, Sir.
144 no chimney smoking] This suggest that the steward has been wont to
make a good thing in perquisites.
147 drink ]Exeunt omnes] The sixth and two subsequent quartos add,
after Loveless' last word, "Omnes. O brave Loveless!" and all the modern
editors except Dyce follow them : but the authority of Q6 is quite inadequate.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Maid's Tragedy; Philaster; A King and No King; The Scornful Lady; The Custom of the Country. Contributors: Francis Beaumont - author, John Fletcher - author. Publisher: George Bell and Sons & A. H. Bullen. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1904. Page Number: 380.
    
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