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And yet he steals one author from another. This Poet is that Poets Plagiary, And he a third's, till they end all in Homer. I thought these parts had lent and borrowed mutual. And I no less, were all the City thieves As cunning as thy self. Who is't? speak quickly. Thus to the hinderer Of my revenge. Fliest thou base coward? it's not thy heals can save thee. Never in fitter season could I find you. If you remember sir, before you went To Barbary, I lent you ten pound in gold. My name is Harpax, Your friend and neighbour, of your old acquaintance, What old Pandolfo? Yes, yes. STay Villain, stay, though safety't self defends thee Thou diest. Why two hours? SIgnior Antonio, welcome. Sir, as I live, ten twenty-shilling pieces. Why here's your own handwriting sealed and signed, In presence of your Cousin Julio. Well sir, Though my necessity would importune you For all, yet on your worships word, the rest I'll call for in the morning. Farewell Antonio. Nor Table-napkin The world's a Theater of Theft: great Rivers Rob smaller Brooks; and them the Ocean. Discover more new Stars, and unknown Planets: Vent them by dozens, style them by the names Of men that buy such beware. Take lawful courses, Rather then beg. Frame by your Azimut and Almicantarat, And engine Like a Mace, whose quality Of strange retractive virtue may recall Desperate debts, and with that undo Sergeants. But when they counter Upon one quarry, break that league as we do.
Plot summary
Plot — Albumazar
The neighbours Pandolfo and Antonio, both widowers, have arranged to marry each other’s daughters; but before they can do so, Antonio is lost and presumed dead on an overseas voyage, and the plan goes into abeyance because his son Lelio disapproves of Pandolfo as a potential brother-in-law. Albumazar’s accomplice Furbo has gained access to Pandolfo’s household, posing as his daughter’s tutor, and has learned of his .- amorous aspirations, and also his credulity about. magic and astrology. Albumazar plans to trick him, and sets about demonstrating his occult power. Ronca shows Pandolfo some of the astrologer’s amazing inventions: a telescope and an ‘otacousticon’ (actually a pair of ass’s ears) which allow him to see and hear things at a distance. Albumazar then predicts Pandolfo’s marriage, and also a stabbing which his associates then enact in a brawl. Pandolfo asks the astrologer to raise Antonio’s ghost, but instead Albumazar undertakes to transform the tenant farmer Trincalo into Antonio’s likeness for one day, so that he can give Flavia in marriage to Pandolfo. Trincalo agrees because this will give him access to Antonio’s household, and therefore to the maid Armellina, whom he loves. Pandolfo is required to prepare a room for the metamorphosis, laid out with valuable possessions. When he begins to have second thoughts about paying Albumazar, his servant Cricca suggests that he should pretend to have been robbed of his valuables; but when they are indeed stolen, Albumazar pretends in turn that the transformed Trincalo has just locked them away for safe keeping. After undergoing the fake metamorphosis, Trincalo is told he may not look at himself in a mirror for fear of breaking the spell. Ronca and Harpax greet him as Antonio, and pretend to be his debtor and creditor respectively, but Trincalo pays Harpax less than he was ===== PAGE 445 ===== 1615 given by Ronca, who has to steal back the balance. To buy time to spirit away Pandolfo’s goods, the tricksters divert him with Bevilona the courtesan, who pretends to be a gentlewoman in love with Antonio, and hides him from her husband. The real Antonio returns unexpectedly, and is taken for the transformed Trincalo: he does not understand when Pandolfo asks after his missing property, and his son and daughter, forewarned of the planned trick, beat him out of his own house. He meets Trincalo, who is still posing as him, and a duel is proposed. Lelio and Cricca realize the truth when they see the two men…