Act 3 — SCENE II.
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A Street.
Enter Easy and Boy.
Easy. Boy.
Boy. Anon, sir.
Easy. Where left you master Blastfield, your master, say you?
472Boy. An hour since I left him in Paul’s,[1067] sir:—but you’ll not find him the same man again next time you meet him. [Aside.
Easy. Methinks I have no being without his company; ’tis so full of kindness and delight: I hold him to be the only companion in earth.
Boy. Ay, as companions go now-a-days, that help to spend a man’s money. [Aside.
Easy. So full of nimble wit, various discourse, pregnant apprehension, and uncommon entertainment! he might keep company with any lord for his grace.
Boy. Ay, with any lord that were past it. [Aside.
Easy. And such a good, free-hearted, honest, affable kind of gentleman.—Come, boy, a heaviness will possess me till I see him. [Exit.
Boy. But you’ll find yourself heavier then, by a seven hundred pound weight. Alas, poor birds that cannot keep the sweet country, where they fly at pleasure, but must needs come to London to have their wings clipt, and are fain to go hopping home again! [Exit.