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 Bar. Marry will I, Sir.

Off. Come, I have made a reasonable market, let's away.

Bar. Now let me know thy name, and therewithall Thy birth, condition, and profession.

Ithi. Faith, Sir, my birth is but meane, my name's Ithimer, My profession what you please.

Bar. Hast thou no Trade? then listen to my words, And I will teach that shall sticke by thee: First be thou voyd of these affections, Compassion, love, vaine hope, and heartlesse feare, Be mov'd at nothing, see thou pityy none, But to thy selfe smile when the Christians moane.

Ithi. Oh brave, master, I worship your nose for this.

Bar. As for my selfe, I walke abroad a nights And kill sicke people groaning under walls: Sometimes I goe about and poyson wells; And now and then, to cherish Christian theeves, I am content to lose some of my Crownes; That I may, walking in my Gallery, See 'em goe pinion'd along by my doore. Being young I studied Physicke, and began To practise first upon the Italian; There I enric'd the Priests with burials, And alwayes kept the Sextons' armes in ure With digging graves and ringing dead mens knells: And after that was I an Engineere, And in the wars 'twixt France and Germanie, Under pretence of helping Charles the fifth, Slew friend and enemy with my stratagems. Then after that was I an Usurer, And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto Brokery, I fill'd the Jailes with Bankrouts in a yeare, And with young Orphans planted Hospitals, And every Moone made some or other mad, And now and then one hang himselfe for griefe, Pinning upon his breast a long great Scrowle