Agad, he's a brave
fellow. Pauh, I am quite another thing when I am with him: I
don't fear the devil (bless us) almost if he be by. Ah! had he
been with me last night -
SHARP. If he had, sir, what then? he could have done no more, nor
perhaps have suffered so much. Had he a hundred pound to lose?
[Angrily]
SIR JO. O Lord, sir, by no means, but I might have saved a hundred
pound: I meant innocently, as I hope to be saved, sir (a damned
hot fellow), only, as I was saying, I let him have all my ready
money to redeem his great sword from limbo. But, sir, I have a
letter of credit to Alderman Fondlewife, as far as two hundred
pound, and this afternoon you shall see I am a person, such a one
as you would wish to have met with -
SHARP. That you are, I'll be sworn. [Aside.] Why, that's great
and like yourself.
SCENE II.
[To them] CAPTAIN BLUFFE.
SIR JO. Oh, here a' comes--Ay, my Hector of Troy, welcome, my
bully, my Back; agad, my heart has gone a pit pat for thee.
BLUFF. How now, my young knight? Not for fear, I hope; he that
knows me must be a stranger to fear.
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