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SCENE i] LOVE FOR LOVE 221
send your son to sea again. I'll wed my daughter to an
Egyptian mummy, ere she shall incorporate with a contcmner
of sciences, and a defamer of virtue.
Sir Samp. [Aside.] Body o'me, I have gone too far;—I
must not provoke honest Albumazar. 8 —[Aloud.] An Egyptian
mummy is an illustrious creature, my trusty hieroglyphic;
and may have significations of futurity about him;
odsbud, I would my son were an Egyptian mummy for thy
sake. What, thou art not angry for a jest, my good Haly?—
I reverence the sun, moon, and stars with all my heart.
What, I'll make thce a present of a mummy: now I think
on't, body o'me, I have a shoulder of an Egyptian king,
that I purloined from one of the pyramids, powdered with
hieroglyphics; thou shalt have it brought home to thy house,
and make an entertainment for all the philomaths, and
students in physic and astrology, in and about London.
Fore. But what do you know of my wife, Sir Sampson?
Sir Samp. Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's
the moon, and thou art the man in the moon: nay, she
is more illustrious than the moon; for she has her chastity
without her inconstancy; 'sbud, I was but in jest.
Enter JEREMY.
Sir Samp. How now, who sent for you? haf what would
you have? [JEREMY whispers to Sir SAMPSON.
Fore. Nay, if you were but in jest—Who's that fellow?
I don't like his physiognomy.
Sir Samp. [To JEREMY.] My son, sir; what son, sir? my
son Benjamin, hoh?
Jer. No, sir; Mr. Valentine, my master.—Tis the first
time he has been abroad since his confinement, and he
comes to pay his duty to you.
Sir Samp. Well, sir.
Enter VALENTINE.
Jer. He is here, sir.
Val. Your blessing, sir.
Sir Samp. You've had it already, sir. I think I sent it
you to-day in a bill of four thousand pounds.—A great deal
of money, Brother Foresight.
Fore. Ay, indeed, Sir Sampson, a great deal of money
for a young man; I wonder what he can do with it.
0 A Persian astrologer who has given his name ID a play.