Cousin Stephen !
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hat news with you, that you are here so early? Step. Nothing, but e’en come to see how you do,uncle. Kno. That’s kindly done, you are welcome, coz. Step. Ay, I know that, sir, I would not ha’ comeelse. How doth my cousin Edward, uncle? Kno. O, well, coz, go in and see: I doubt he bescarce stirring yet. Step. Uncle, afore I go in, can you tell me an’ hehave e’er a book of the sciences of hawking and hunt-ing? I would fain borrow it. Kno. Why, I hope you will not a hawking now',will you? Step. No worse, but I’ll practise against the nextyear, uncle. 1 have bought me a hawk, and a hood,and bells and all ; I lack nothing but a book to keepit by. Kno. O, most ridiculous! Step. Nay, look you now, yon are angrv, uncle.Why, you know, an’ a man have not skill in thehawking and hunting languages now-a-days, I’ll notgive a rush for him. They are more studied than theGreek, or the Latin. He is for no gallant’s companywithout ’em. And bv Gad’s lid I scorn it, I, so Ido, to be a consort for every hum-drum, hang-emscroyls, there’s nothing in ’em, i’ the world. Whatdo vou talk on it? Because I dwell at Hogsden, Ishall keep company with none but the archers ofFinsbury ! or the citizens that come a ducking to Is-lington ponds! A fine jest i’faith ! slid, a gentlemanmun show himself like a gentleman. Uncle, I pray
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