Name: The Case is Altered — Act V Scene IV
Author: Ben Jonson

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Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered — Act V Scene IV (1609)

“ Dost thou not mock me? O my dear Paulo, welcome.
Max. My lord Chamont!
Cha. My Gasper!
Chr. Rachel.
Jaq. My gold, Rachel, my gold.
Count. Somebody bid the beggar ceas his noise.
Chr. O signior Angelo, would you deceive
Your honest friend, that simply trusted you?
Well, Rachel, I am glad thou art here again.
Ang. I'faith she is not for you, steward.
Jaq. I beseech you, madam, urge your father.
Phœn. I will anon; good Jaques, be content.
Aur. Now god-a-mercy fortune, and sweet Venus.
Let Cupid do his part, and all is well.
Phœn. Methinks, my heart's in heaven with this comfort. ”

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Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered — Act V Scene IV (1609)

“ Count. Fair Rachel, sister to the lord Chamont!
Ang. Steward, your cake is dow, as well as mine.
Pau. I see that honour's flames cannot be hid,
No more than lightning in the blackest cloud.
Max. Then, sirrah, 'tis true, you have lost this gold.
Jaq. I, worthy signior, thirty thousand crowns.
Count. Mass, who was it told me, that a
couple of my men were become gallants of late?
Fran. Marry, 'twas I, my lord; my man told me. ”

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Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered — Act V Scene IV (1609)

“ Have all been partners with her in my spoil;
No less than thirty thousand.
Count. Jaques, Jaques,
This is impossible; how shouldst thou come
To the possession of so huge a heap,
Being always a known beggar? ”

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Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered — Act V Scene IV (1609)

“ Jaq. And that my gold,
Being so hid in earth, should be found out.
Max. O confusion of languages, and yet no tower of Babel!
Fran. Ladies, beshrew me, if you come not fit
To make a jangling consort; will you laugh
To see three constant passions.
Max. Stand by,
I will urge them; sweet count, will you be comforted?
Count. It cannot be
But he is handled the most cruelly
That ever any noble prisoner was.
Max. Steward, go chear my lord.
Chr. Well, if Rachel took her flight willingly.
Max. Sirrah, speak you touching your daughter's flight? ”

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Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered — Act V Scene IV (1609)

“ Urge him: didst thou lose gold?
Jaq. O no, I lost no gold.
Max. Said I not true?
Count. How! didst thou first lose thirty thousand crowns,
And no no gold? was Rachel first thy child,
And is she now no daughter? sirrah, Jaques,
You know how far our Milan laws extend
For punishing of lyars.
Jaq. I, my lord.
What shall I do? I have no starting-holes.
Monsieur Chamont, stand you, my honour'd lord.
Cha. For what, old man?
Jaq. Ill-gotten goods ne'er thrive ”

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Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered — Act V Scene IV (1609)

“ You are now no stranger; you must be
welcome; you have a fair, amiable, and
splendid lady: but signior Paulo, signior
Camillo, I know you valiant, be loving.
Lady, I must be better known to you.
Signiors, for you, I pass you not, though
I let you pass; for in truth I pass not of you.
Lovers to your nuptials, lordlings to your
dances; march fair all, for a fair march is
worth a king's ransome.
[Exeunt.]
This Comedy was sundry times acted by the Children of the Black-Friars. ”

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