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I but waited Below, till the clock struck. No, but your worship might have pleaded nonage, If you had God them on, ere I could make Just Affidavit of the time. Presently, Sir, I am bound unto your worship. Your wor psalm, Barbar is without. And Office, Sir, a brave young Office set up. I had forgotten to tell your worship. And vent it as occasion serves! A place Of huge commerce it will be! Nay, if you knew the brain that hatched it S r — He's my Customer, and a Wit Sir, too. But, he has brave wits under him— From all regions Where the best news are made. By way of exchange, or trade. My share S r . there's enough for both. Sir, they have ordinaries, And extraordinaries, as many changes, And variations, as there are points i'the compass. A Wit. I had thought M r . Burst the Merchant had had it. The Taylor leaps, and embraceth him. Oh Noble Master! No, no, not I, I am and Ass, old Aesop's Ass. As good, Right Spanish perfume, the Lady Estifania's, They cost twelve pound a pair. I scorn such helps. Believe it Sir, That clothes do much upon the wit, as weather Do's on the brain; and thence comes your proverb; The Taylor makes the man : I speak by experience Of my own Customers. I have had Gallants, Both Court and Country, would have fooled you up In a new suit, with the best wits, in being, And kept their speed, as long as their clothes lasted Han'some, and neat; but then as they grew out At the elbows again, or had a stain, or spot, They have sunk most wretchedly. It's true, Sir. And thence we say, that such a one plays at peepe-arme.
Plot summary
Plot — The Staple of News
. _ Pug the junior devil is keen to visit earth. Satan svarns him that his ideas of effective devilment are half a century out of date, but grants him leave to spend the day in London, made flesh and subject to all the frailties and limitations of the human body. A ready-made body is available, in the shape of a recently hanged cutpurse, but Pug will have to make his own arrangements for clothes. Another proviso is that he must serve the first man he meets. Unfortunately for Pug, he turns out to be a twit: Fabian Fitzdottrel. Fitzdottrel longs to see the devil, and agrees to accept Pug as an unpaid servant because he gives his mame as Devil. The same obsession makes Fitzdottrel eager to see a new play, The Devil is an Ass, but he needs some finery to show off as he sits on the stage. Wittipol is eager to sleep with Fitzdottrel’s wife, and offers him a suitable cloak in exchange for fifteen minutes’ uninterrupted conversation with the lady. He uses the time to proposition her, and engages her interest even though she has been forbidden to reply. Fitzdottrel is introduced to Merecraft, a purveyor of imaginative financial schemes, who offers to make him rich and a duke through land reclamation in the eastern fens. Fitzdottrel agrees to meet with him, leaving Pug to ensure that nobody attempts to visit his wife. Pug instead brings her a follow-up message from Wittipol, then makes advances to her on his own account, but is caught by Fitzdottrel and gets a beating. Wittipol’s friend Manly has a room which abuts Mistress Fitzdottrel’s gallery, which he uses to have a second meeting with her. This is much more intimate than the first, despite being conducted through the windows of adjacent buildings. Pug gets back into favour by tipping off Fitzdottrel, who puts a stop to the assignation and threatens to take up another woman to share his expectations and be his Duchess. Merecraft suggests that what Fitzdottrel’s wife needs is to be taught proper manners, and recommends a widow who knows the ways of the Spanish court, who might be persuaded to undertake the task if sent an expensive ring as a gift, and who is entirely fictitious. His accomplice Engine proposes hiring an actor to impersonate her, but Merecraft worries that his business methods might be leaked to a playwright and end up on stage; in the event, Engine finds a gentleman to take on the role instead, who happens to be Wittipol. Fitzdottrel cannot get his wife to part with a ring of her own, so…