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Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson
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SOG. All this is my lordship you see here, and those farms you came by.

CAR. Good steps to gentility too, marry: but, Sogliardo, if you affect to
be a gentleman indeed, you must observe all the rare qualities, humours,
and compliments of a gentleman.

SOG. I know it, signior, and if you please to instruct, I am not too good
to learn, I'll assure you.

CAR. Enough, sir. -- I'll make admirable use in the projection of my
medicine upon this lump of copper here. [ASIDE] -- I'll bethink me for
you, sir.

SOG. Signior, I will both pay you, and pray you, and thank you, and think
on you.

COR. Is this not purely good?

MACI. S'blood, why should such a prick-ear'd hind as this
Be rich, ha? a fool! such a transparent gull
That may be seen through! wherefore should he have land,
Houses, and lordships? O, I could eat my entrails,
And sink my soul into the earth with sorrow.

CAR. First, to be an accomplished gentleman, that is, a gentleman of the
time, you must give over housekeeping in the country, and live altogether
in the city amongst gallants: where, at your first appearance, 'twere good
you turn'd four or five hundred acres of your best land into two or three
trunks of apparel -- you may do it without going to a conjurer -- and be
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