User:RHaworth/Shakes/A Mad World My Masters

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I hope the reading thereof shall not prove distasteful unto any in particular, nor hurtful unto any in general; but I rather trust that the language and the plot which you shall find in each scene, shall rather be commended and applauded, than any way derided or scorned. In the action, which is the life of a comedy, and the glory of the author, it hath been sufficiently expressed, to the liking of the spectators, and commendations of the actors; who have set it forth in such lively colours, and to the meaning of the gentleman that true penned it, that I dare say few can excel them, though some may equal them. In the reading of one Act you guess the consequence, for here is no bombasted or fustian stuff; but every line weighed as with balance; and every sentence placed with judgement and deliberation. All that you can find in the perusal, I will give you notice of beforehand, to prevent a censure that may arise in thy reading of this comedy; as also for the excuse of the <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">author</SPAN> and that is this: here and there you shall find some lines that do answer in metre, which I hope will not prove so disdainful, whereby the book maybe so much slighted, as not to be read or the <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">author</SPAN><I>&rsquo;s</I> judgement undervalued as of no worth. Consider (gentle Reader) it is full twenty years since it was written, at which time metre was most in use, and showed well upon the conclusion of every Act &amp; Scene. My prevalent hope desires thy charitable censure, and thereby draws me to be Thy immutable friend J. S. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Introduction</B>. A Mad World, my Masters, licensed on 12th October 1608 and printed in the same year, is a pleasanter play than <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Your Five Gallants</SPAN></FONT></FONT>. The characters of Sir Bounteous Progress, the liberal knight who keeps open house for all comers, and Harebrain, the jealous husband, yoked to a demure light-o'-love, are very ably drawn; and the situations are worked out with the adroit briskness that we admired in A Trick to Catch the Old One. The deception practised by the counterfeit players recalls the similar incident in the Mayor of Queenborough. Middleton seems to have been tickled with the notion of converting wanton wagtails into wives. In A Trick to Catch the Old One, Witgood succeeded in marrying his mistress to his wife's uncle; in A Mad World the tables are turned, and Follywit finds himself united to his uncle's mistress. The victims in both cases submit with a good grace. A large part of Mrs. Behn's City Heiress, 1681, was conveyed from A Mad World. - <I>from introductory preface to Bullen&rsquo;s eight volume work,</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>The Actors in the Comedy.</B> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Sir Bounteous Progress </I>an old rich Knight. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Richard Folly-wit</I> Nephew to Sir Bounteous Progress. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Master Penitent Brothel</I>, a Country gentleman.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Maw-worm</I> a Lieutenant, - </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Hoboy</I> an Ancient, 	</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Master Inesse</I>, &amp; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Master Possibility</I> Two Brothers. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Master Harebrain</I> a Citizen. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Gumwater</I> Sir Bounteous man. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Jasper</I> Master Penitent&rsquo;s man. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Ralph</I> Master Harebrain&rsquo;s man. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=3><I>Semus, </I></FONT><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">One of Sir Bounteous&rsquo;s servants</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE=3><I> (in Bullard castlist but not 1640)-Alasdair</I></FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Two Knights</I>. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>One Constable</I>. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>A Succubus</I>. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Watch-men</I>. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>A Foot-man</I>. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>An old Gentlewoman</I> and mother to the Courtesan. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Mistress Harebrain</I>, the Citizen&rsquo;s wife. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Franke Gulman</I> the Courtesan, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Attendants.</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <BR> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=5 STYLE="font-size: 20pt"><B>A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=5 STYLE="font-size: 20pt">.</FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>ACT I</FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE I</FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>A Street.</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Follywit</B></I><I> and his consorts </I><I><B>Lieutenant Mawworm </B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">&amp; </SPAN></I><I><B>Ancient Hoboy</B></I><I>, and others his Comrades]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>Captain, Regent, Principal, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Hob. </B>What shall I call thee? the Noble spark of bounty; the life-blood of Society. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Call me your forecast, you whoresons, when you come drunk out of a tavern, &rsquo;tis I must cast your plots into form still; &rsquo;tis I must manage the prank, or I&rsquo;ll not give a louse for the proceeding: I must let fly my civil fortunes, turn wild-brain, lay my wits upo&rsquo; th Tenters, you rascals, to maintain a company of villains, whom I love in my very soul and conscience. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>A ha, our little forecast,</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Hang you, you have bewitched me among you, I was as well given till I fell to be wicked, my grandsire had hope of me, I went all in black, swore but a&rsquo; Sundays, never came home drunk, but upon fasting nights to cleanse my stomach; And now I&rsquo;m quite altered, blown into light colours, let out oaths by th&rsquo; minute, sit up late till it be early, drink drunk till I am sober, sink down dead in a tavern, and rise in a tobacco-shop: here&rsquo;s a transformation: I was wont yet to pity the simple, and leave &rsquo;em some money: &rsquo;slid, now I gull &rsquo;em without confidence; I go without order, swear without number, gull without mercy, and drink without measure.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B> I deny the last, for if you drink ne&rsquo;er so much, you drink within measure. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>How prove you that sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>Because the drawers never fill their pots </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Mass that was well found out! all drunkards may lawfully say, they drink within measure by that trick; and now I&rsquo;m put i&rsquo;th mind of a trick, you can keep your countenance villains? yet I am a fool to ask that, for how can they keep their countenance that have lost their credits? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Hob. </B>I warrant you for blushing Captain. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>I easily believe that <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">ancient</SPAN>, for thou hast lost thy colours once. Nay faith as for blushing, I think there&rsquo;s grace little enough among you all; 'tis Lent in your cheeks, the flag&rsquo;s down. Well, your blushing face I suspect not, nor indeed greatly your laughing face, unless you had more money in your purses. Then thus compendiously now you all know the possibilities of my hereafter fortunes and the humour of my frolic grandsire Sir Bounteous Progress; whose death makes all possible to me: I shall have all, when he has nothing; but now he has all, I shall have nothing: I think one mind runs through a million of &rsquo;em; they love to keep us sober all the while they&rsquo;re alive, that when they&rsquo;re dead we may drink to their healths; they cannot abide to see us merry all the while they&rsquo;re above ground; and that makes so many laugh at their fathers&rsquo; funerals; I know my Grandsire has his will in a box, and has bequeathed all to me, when he can carry nothing away; but stood I in needs of poor ten pounds now, by his will I should hang myself e&rsquo;er I should get it, there&rsquo;s no such word in his will I warrant you, nor no such thought in his mind. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B> You may build upon that Captain. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Then since he has no goodwill to do me good as long as he lives; by mine own will, I&rsquo;ll do myself good before he dies, and now I arrive at the purpose. You are not ignorant I&rsquo;m sure, you true and necessary implements of mischief; first, that my Grandsire Sir Bounteous Progress is a Knight of thousands and therefore no Knight since one thousand six hundred: {<FONT SIZE=2><I>the year 1600?-Alasdair, Bullen see note Vol I. p.135- Soon after his accession James I greatly increased numbers of knights</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">}</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><I> </I></FONT>next, that he keeps a house like his name Bounteous, open for all comers: thirdly and lastly, that he stands much upon the glory of his complement, variety of entertainment, together with the largeness of his kitchen, longitude of his buttery, and fecundity of his larder, and thinks himself never happier than when some stiff lord or great countess alights, to make light his dishes. These being well mixed together, may give my project better encouragement, and make my purpose spring forth more fortunate: to be short, and cut off a great deal of dirty way I&rsquo;ll down to my grandsire like a lord. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B> How Captain? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>A French ruff, a thin beard, and a strong perfume will do&rsquo;t: I can hire blue coats for you all by Westminster Clock, and that colour will be soonest believed. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B> But prithee captain &mdash;</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Push, I reach past your fathoms; you desire crowns? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B> From the Crown of our Head, to the sole of our foot bully. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Why carry your selves but probably, and carry away enough with your selves. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Penitent Brothel</B></I><I>.]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B> Why there spoke a Roman Captain! – Master <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Penitent Brothell!</SPAN>.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B.</B> Sweet Master Follywit [<I>Exeunt </I><I><B>Follywit, Mawworm, Hoboy,</B></I><I> etc.</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">]</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B> </B></SPAN>Here&rsquo;s a mad-brain a&rsquo;th first, whose pranks scorn to have precedents, to be second to any, or walk beneath any: madcap&rsquo;s inventions; h&rsquo;as played more tricks than the cards can allow a man, and of the last stamp too, hating imitation, a fellow whose only glory is to be prime of the company; to be sure of which, he maintains all the rest: he&rsquo;s the carrion, and they the kites that gore upon him. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> But why in others do I check wild passions. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And retain deadly follies in myself? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I tax his youth of common receiv&rsquo;d riot. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Time&rsquo;s comic flashes, and the fruits of blood; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And in my self sooth up adulterous motions. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And such an appetite that I know damns me; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Yet willingly embrace it, love to Harebrain&rsquo;s wife. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Over whose hours and pleasures her sick husband </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> With a fantastic but deserv&rsquo;d suspect, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Bestows his serious time in watch and ward; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And therefore I&rsquo;m constrain&rsquo;d to use the means </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Of one that knows no mean, a courtesan, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> One poison for another, whom her husband </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Without suspicion innocently admits </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Into her company, who with tried art </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Corrupts and loosens her most constant powers,. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Making his jealousy more than half a Wittall, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Before his face plotting his own abuse. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To which himself gives aim. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Whilst the broad arrow with the forked head </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Misses his brow but narrowly; see here she comes, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The close Courtesan, whose mother is her bawd. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Courtesan.]</B></I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Master Penitent Brothel! – </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>M. Pen.</B> My little pretty Lady Gullman, the news, the comfort?</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>You&rsquo;re the fortunate man sir, Knight a&rsquo; th holland shirt: there wants but opportunity and she&rsquo;s wax o&rsquo; your own fashioning. She had wrought herself into the form of your love before my art set finger to her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>P. Bro.</B> Did our affections meet? our thoughts keep time?</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>So it should seem by the music: the only jar is in the grumbling bass-viol her husband. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>P. Bro.</B> O, his waking suspicion! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Sigh not, master Penitent; trust the managing of the business with me, 'tis for my credit now to see't well finished: if I do you no good, sir, you shall give me no money, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>P. Bro.</B> I am arrived at the court of conscience; a courtesan! O admirable times! honesty is removed to the common-place. [<I>Aside</I>] Farewell, lady. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Mother.</B></I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>How now, daughter? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>What news, mother? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>A token from thy keeper. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>O, from Sir Bounteous Progress: he's my keeper indeed; but there's many a piece of venison stolen that my keeper wots not on. There's no park kept so warily but loses flesh one time or other; and no woman kept so privately but may watch advantage to make the best of her pleasure; and in common reason one keeper cannot be enough for so proud a park as a woman. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Hold thee there, girl. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Fear not me, mother. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Every part of the world shoots up daily into more subtlety; the very spider weaves her cauls with more art and cunning to entrap the fly. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The shallow ploughman can distinguish now </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 'Twixt simple truth and a dissembling brow; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Your base mechanic fellow can spy out </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> A weakness in a lord, and learns to flout. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> How does't behove us then that live by slight, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To have our wits wound up to their stretch'd height! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Fifteen times </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Thou knowest I have sold thy maidenhead</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To make up a dowry for thy marriage, and yet </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> There's maidenhead enough for old Sir Bounteous still: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> He'll be all his lifetime about it yet, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And be as far to seek when he has done. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The sums that I have told upon thy pillow! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I shall once see those golden days again: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Though fifteen, all thy maidenheads are not gone. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Th' Italian is not serv'd yet, nor the French: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The British men come for a dozen at once. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> They engross all the market: tut, my girl, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> &rsquo;Tis nothing but a politic conveyance, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> A sincere carriage, a religious eyebrow, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> That throws their charms over the worldling's senses; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And when thou spiest a fool that truly pities </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The false springs of thine eyes, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And honourably doats upon thy love, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> If he be rich, set him by for a husband. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Be wisely temper'd, and learn this, my wench, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Who gets th' opinion for a virtuous name </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> May sin at pleasure, and ne'er think of shame. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Mother, I am too deep a scholar grown </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To learn my first rules now. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>'Twill be thy own; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I say no more: peace, hark! remove thyself [<I>Exit </I><I><B>Courtesan.</B></I><I>]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> O, the two elder brothers! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Inesse </B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">and </SPAN></I><I><B>Possibility</B></I><I>.]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>A fair hour, sweet lady!</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Good morrow, gentlemen, master Inesse and master Possibility. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>Where's the little sweet lady your daughter? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Even at her book, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>So religious? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>'Tis no new motion, sir; sh'as took it from an infant. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>May we deserve a sight of her, lady? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Upon that condition you will promise me, gentlemen, to avoid all profane talk, wanton compliments, undecent phrases, and lascivious courtings (which I know my daughter will sooner die than endure), I am contented your suits shall be granted. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>Not a bawdy syllable, I protest. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>Syllable was well-placed there; for indeed your one syllables are your bawdiest words: prick that down. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt.] </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> SCENE II. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [B<I>efore </I><I><B>Harebrain</B></I><I>'s House. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Harebrain</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>She may make night-work on't; 'twas well recover'd; {<FONT SIZE=2><I>editor hints misprint for discovered}</I></FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> He-cats and courtesans stroll most 'i th' night: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Her friend may be receiv'd and convey'd forth nightly; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I'll be at charge </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> For watch and ward, for watch and ward, i'faith; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And here they come. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Watchmen.</B></I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>First W.</B> Give your worship good even. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Welcome, my friends; I must deserve your diligence </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> In an employment serious. The troth is, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> There's a cunning plot laid, but happily discover'd. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To rob my house; the night uncertain when, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> But fix'd within the circle of this month; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Nor does this villany consist in numbers. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Or many partners; only some one </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Shall, in the form of my familiar friend. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Be receiv'd privately into my house </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> By some perfidious servant of mine own, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Address'd fit for the practice. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>First W.</B> O abominable! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>If you be faithful watchmen, show your goodness, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And with these angels shore up your eyelids: 		[<I>Giving money.] </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Let me not be purloin'd &mdash; purloin'd indeed! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The merry Greeks conceive me &mdash; there's a gem </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I would not lose. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Kept by th' Italian under lock and key: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> We Englishmen are careless creatures: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">W</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ell, I have said enough. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sec. W.</B> And we will do enough, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Why, well said; watch me a good turn now; so, so, so. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt </I><I><B>Watchmen</B></I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Rise villany with the lark, why, 'tis prevented; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Or steal't by with the leather-winged bat, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The evening cannot save it &mdash; peace. &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Courtesan</B></I><I>.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> O, lady Gullman, my wife's only company, welcome! and how does the virtuous matron, that good old gentlewoman, thy mother? I persuade myself, if modesty be in the world, she has part on't; a woman of an excellent carriage all her lifetime, in court, city, and country. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Sh'as always carried it well in those places, sir; &mdash; witness three bastards a-piece. [<I>Aside.</I>] &mdash; How does your sweet bed-fellow, sir? you see I'm her boldest visitant. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>And welcome, sweet virgin; the only companion my soul wishes for her. I left her within at her lute; prithee, give her good counsel. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Alas, she needs none, sir! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Yet, yet, yet, a little of thy instructions will not come amiss to her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>I'll bestow my labour, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Do, labour her, prithee. I have conveyed away all her wanton pamphlets; as <I>Hero and Leander, Venus and Adonis;</I> O, two luscious marrow-bone pies for a young married wife! Here, here, prithee, take the <I>Resolution</I>, and read to her a little. [<I>Gives book</I>,] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Sh'as set up her resolution already, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>True, true, and this will confirm it the more: there's a chapter of hell; 'tis good to read this cold weather: terrify her, terrify her. Go, read to her the horrible punishments for itching wantonness, the pains allotted for adultery; tell her her thoughts, her very dreams are answerable, say so; rip up the life of a courtesan, and show how loathsome 'tis. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>The gentleman would persuade me in time to disgrace myself, and speak ill of mine own function. [<I>Aside and exit</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>This is the course I take; I'll teach the married man </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> A new-selected strain. I admit none </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> But this pure virgin to her company: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Pooh, that's enough; I'll keep her to her stint, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I'll put her to her pension; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> She gets but her allowance, that's [a] bare one: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Few women but have that beside their own: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Ha, ha, ha! nay, I will put her hard to't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Mistress Harebrain</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and</SPAN></I><I><B> Courtesan.</B></I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Fain would I meet the gentleman. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Push, fain would you meet him! why, you do not take the course. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>How earnestly she labours her, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Like a good wholesome sister of the Family!</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> She will prevail, I hope. [<I>Aside.</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Is that the means? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>What is the means? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I would as gladly, to enjoy his sight, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Embrace it as the &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Shall I have hearing? listen. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>She's round with her, i'faith. [<I>Aside.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>When husbands in their rank'st suspicions dwell, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Then 'tis our best art to dissemble well: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Put but these notes in use that I'll direct you, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> He'll curse himself that e'er he did suspect you. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Perhaps he will solicit you, as in trial. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To visit such and such; still give denial: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Let no persuasions sway you; they're but fetches </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Set to betray you, jealousies, slights, and reaches. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Seem in his sight t' endure the sight of no man; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Put by all kisses, till you kiss in common: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Neglect all entertain; if he bring in </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Strangers, keep you your chamber, be not seen. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> If he chance steal upon you, let him find </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Some book lie open 'gainst an unchaste mind, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And coted Scriptures; though for your own pleasure </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> You read some stirring pamphlet, and convey it </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Under your skirt, the fittest place to lay it. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> This is the course, my wench, t' enjoy thy wishes; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Here you perform best when you most neglect: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The way to daunt is to outvie suspect </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Manage these principles but with art and life, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Welcome all nations, thou'rt an honest wife. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>She puts it home, i'faith, even to the quick: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> From her elaborate action I reach that. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I must requite this maid; faith, I'm forgetful. [<I>Aside.</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Here, lady. Convey my heart unto him in this jewel. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Against you see me next, you shall perceive </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I've profited; in the mean season tell him </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I am a prisoner yet a' th' Master's side, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> My husband's jealousy, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> That masters him, as he doth master me; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And as a keeper that locks prisoners up </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Is himself prison'd under his own key, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Even so my husband, in restraining me, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> With the same ward bars his own liberty. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>I'll tell him how you wish it, and I'll wear </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> My wits to the third pile but all shall clear. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>I owe you more than thanks, but that I hope </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> My husband will requite you. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Think you so, lady? he has small reason for't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>What, done so soon? away, to't again, to't again, good wench, to't again; leave her not so: where left you? come. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Faith, I am weary, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I cannot draw her from her strict opinion , </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> With all the arguments that sense can frame. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>No? let me come. &mdash; Fie, wife, you must consent. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> &mdash; What opinion is't? let's hear.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Fondly and wilfully she retains that thought. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> That every sin is damn'd. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>O, fie, fie, wife! pea, pea, pea, pea, how have you lost your time! for shame, be converted. There's a diabolical opinion indeed! then you may think that usury were damned; you're a fine merchant, i'faith! or bribery; you know the law well! or sloth; would some of the clergy heard you, i'faith! or pride; you come at court! or gluttony; you're not worthy to dine at an alderman's table! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Your only deadly sin&rsquo;s adultery, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> That villanous ringworm, woman's worst requittal; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> &rsquo;Tis only lechery that's damn'd to th' pit-hole: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Ah, that's an arch offence, believe it, squall! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> All sins are venial but venereal. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>I've said enough to her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>And she will be rul'd by you. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Faugh! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>I'll pawn my credit on't. Come hither, lady, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I will not altogether rest ingrateful; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Here, wear this ruby for thy pains and counsel. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>It is not so much worth, sir; I am a very ill counsellor, truly. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Go to, I say. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>You're to blame, i'faith, sir; I shall ne'er deserve it. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Thou hast done't already: farewell, sweet virgin; prithee, let's see thee oftener. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Such gifts will soon entreat me. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Aside, and exit.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Wife, as thou lov'st the quiet of my breast. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Embrace her counsel, yield to her advices: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Thou wilt find comfort in 'em in the end; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Thou'lt feel an alteration: prithee, think on't: &#9571;</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Mine eyes can scarce refrain. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Keep in your dew, sir, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Lest when you would, you want it. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>I've pawn'd my credit on't: ah, didst thou know </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The sweet fruit once, thou'dst never let it go! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>'Tis that I strive to get. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>And still do so. [<I>Exeunt</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>ACT II. </FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE I.</FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Hall in </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous Progress</B></I><I>'s Country House. [</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous Progress</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and</SPAN></I><I><B> two Knight[s</B></I><I>.</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>First K</B>. You have been too much like your name, sir Bounteous. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O, not so, good knights, not so; you know my humour: most welcome, good sir Andrew Pollcut; sir Aquitain Colewort, most welcome. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Both.</B> Thanks, good sir Bounteous.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt at one door]. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[At the other door, enter in haste one of </I><I><B>Follywit</B></I><I>'s companions disguised as a </I><I><B>Footman</B></I><I>.[ </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>O, cry your worship heartily mercy, sir! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>How now, linen stockings and threescore mile a-day? whose footman art thou? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>Pray, can your worship tell me &mdash; ho, ho, ho! &mdash; if my lord be come in yet. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Thy lord! what lord?</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>My lord Owemuch, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>My lord Owemuch? I have heard much speech of that lord; has great acquaintance i' th' city; that lord has been much followed. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>And is still, sir; he wants no company when he's in London: he's free of the mercers, and there's none of 'em all dare cross him. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>And they did, he'd turn over a new leaf with 'em; he would make 'em all weary on't i' th' end. Much fine rumour have I heard of that lord, yet had I never the fortune to set eye upon him: art sure he will alight here, footman? I am afraid thou'rt mistook. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>Thinks your worship so, sir? by your leave, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Going</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Pooh, passion of me, footman! why, pumps, I say, come back! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>Does your worship call? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Come hither, I say. I am but afraid on't; would it might happen so well! How dost know? did he name the house with the great turret a' th' top? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>No, faith, did he not, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Going</I>.]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Come hither, I say. Did he speak of a cloth-a'-gold chamber? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>Not one word, by my troth, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Going.</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Come again, you lousy seven-mile-an-hour! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>I beseech your worship, detain me not. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Was there no talk of a fair pair of organs, a great gilt candlestick, and a pair of silver snuffers?</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>'Twere sin to belie my lord; I heard no such words, sir.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Going.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A pox confine thee! come again, pooh! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>Your worship will undo me, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Was there no speech of a long dining-room, a huge kitchen, large meat, and a broad dresser-board? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>I have a greater maw to that indeed, an't please your worship. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Whom did he name? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>Why, one sir Bounteous Progress. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ah, a, a! I am that sir Bounteous, you progressive round-about rascal. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>Pooh! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Laughs.]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>I knew I should have him i' th' end: there's not a lord will miss me, I thank their good honours; 'tis a fortune laid upon me; they can scent out their best entertainment. I have a kind of complimental gift given me above ordinary country knights; and how soon 'tis smelt out! I warrant ye, there's not one knight i' th' shire able to entertain a lord i' th' cue, or a lady i' th' nick, like me; &mdash; like me! there's a kind of grace belongs to't, a kind of art which naturally slips from me; I know not on't, I promise you, 'tis gone before I'm aware on't &mdash; cuds me, I forget myself &mdash; where &mdash;&mdash;</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Servants</B></I><I>.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>First S.</B> Does your worship call? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Run, sirrah! , call in my chief gentleman i' th' chain of gold; expedite. [<I>Exit </I><I><B>First Servant</B></I><I>.</I>] &mdash; And how does my good lord? I never saw him before in my life. &mdash; A cup of bastard for this footman! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>My lord has travelled this five year, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Travelled this five year? how many children has he? &mdash; Some bastard, I say! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>No bastard, an't please your worship. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A cup of sack to strengthen his wit! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit </I><I><B>Second Servant,</B></I><I> and returns with the wine</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The footman's a fool. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>]Enter </I><I><B>Gumwater</B></I><I>.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> O, come hither, master Gumwater, come hither: send presently to master Pheasant for one of his hens; there's partridge i' th' house? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>And wild-duck, an't please your worship. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>And woodcock, an't please thy worship. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>And woodcock, an't please your worship. &mdash; I had thought to have spoke before you. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Remember the pheasant, down with some plover, clap down six woodcocks; my lord's coming; now, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>An't please your worship, there's a lord and his followers newly alighted. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Despatch, I say, despatch: why, where's my music? he's come indeed. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit </I><I><B>Gumwater.]</B></I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[Enter </SPAN></I><I><B>Follywit </B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">dressed as a Lord, with </SPAN></I><I><B>Mawworm</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">, </SPAN></I><I><B>Hoboy</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">, and others in blue coats.]</SPAN></I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Footman! </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Foot. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">My lord? </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Run swiftly with my commendations to Sir Jasper Topaz: we'll ride and visit him i' th' morning, say. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Foot. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Your lordship's charge shall be effected.</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Exit.</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">That courtly, comely form should present to me Sir Bounteous Progress. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">You've found me out my lord; I cannot hide myself: Your honour is most spaciously welcome. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">In this forgive me, sir, </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">That being a stranger to your house and you, </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">I make my way so bold[ly]; and presume </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Rather upon your kindness than your knowledge; </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Only your bounteous disposition </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Fame hath divulg'd, and is to me well known. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Nay, and your lordship know my disposition, you know me better than they that know my person; your honour is so much the welcomer for that. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Thanks, good sir Bounteous. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Pray, pardon me; it has been often my ambition, my lord, both in respect of your honourable presence, and the prodigal fame that keeps even stroke with your unbounded worthiness, </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">To have wish'd your lordship where your lordship is, </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">A noble guest in this unworthy seat: </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Your lordship ne'er heard my organs? </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Heard of 'em, sir Bounteous, but never heard 'em. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">They're but double-gilt, my lord; some hundred and fifty pound will fit your lordship with such another pair. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Indeed, sir Bounteous! </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">O my lord, I have a present suit to you! </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">To me, sir Bounteous? and you could ne'er speak at fitter time, for I'm here present to grant you. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Your lordship has been a traveller? </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Some five year, sir. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">I have a grandchild, my lord; I love him; and when I die I'll do somewhat for him: I'll tell your honour the worst of him, a wild lad he has been. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">So we have been all, sir. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">So we have been all indeed, my lord; I thank your lordship's assistance. Some comic pranks he has been guilty of; but I'll pawn my credit for him, an honest, trusty bosom. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">And that's worth all, sir. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">And that's worth all indeed, my lord, for he's like to have all when I die; </SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">imberbis iuvenis</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">, his chin has no more prickles yet than a midwife's; there' great hope of his wit, his hair's so long a�coming. Shall I be bold with your honour, to prefer this aforesaid Ganymede to hold a plate under your lordship's cup?</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">You wrong both his worth and your bounty, and you call that boldness. Sir, I have heard much good of that young gentleman. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Nay, has a good wit, i'faith my lord. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Has carried himself always generously. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Are you advised of that, my lord? has carried many things cleanly. I'll show your lordship my will; I keep it above in an outlandish box; the whoreson boy must have all; I love him, yet he shall ne'er find it as long as I live. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Well, sir, for your sake, and his own deserving, I'll reserve a place for him nearest to my secrets. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">I understand your good lordship; you'll make him your secretary. &mdash; My music! give my -lord a taste of his welcome. [</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">A strain played by the consort: </SPAN></I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> makes a courtly honour to </SPAN></I><I><B>Follywit</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">, and seems to foot the tune.</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">] So. &mdash; How like you our airs, my lord? are they choice?</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">They're seldom matched, believe it. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">The consort of mine own household. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Yea, sir! </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">The musicians are in ordinary, yet no ordinary musicians. Your lordship shall hear my organs now. </SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">{footnote adds, it used to be a pair of organs like a pair of bellows}</SPAN></I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">O, I beseech you, sir Bounteous! </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">My organist! [ </SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">The organs play, and servants with covered dishes pass over the stage.</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">] &mdash; Come, my lord, how does your honour relish my organs? </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">A very proud air, i'faith, sir. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">O, how can't choose? a Walloon plays upon 'em, and a Welchman blows wind in their breech. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Exeun</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">t. ]</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">A song to the organs</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">.]</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">SCENE II.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[A Gallery. ]</SPAN></I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[Enter </SPAN></I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> with </SPAN></I><I><B>Follywit, Mawworm, Hoboy,</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and his consorts towards his lodging.]</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">You must pardon us, my lord, hasty cates; your honour has had even a hunting-meal on't; and now I am like to bring your lordship to as mean a lodging; a hard down bed, i'faith, my lord, poor cambric sheets, and a cloth a' tissue canopy; the curtains, indeed, were wrought in Venice, with the story of the Prodigal Child in silk and gold; only the swine are left out, my lord, for spoiling the curtains. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">'Twas well prevented, sir. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Silken rest, harmonious slumbers, and venereal dreams to your lordship! </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">The like to kind Sir Bounteous! </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Fie, not to me, my lord; I'm old, past dreaming of such vanities. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Old men should dream best. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">They're dreame[r]s indeed, my lord; you've gi'nt us. To-morrow your lordship shall see my cocks, my fish-ponds, my park, my champion grounds: I keep champers in my house can, show your lordship some pleasure. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Sir Bounteous, you even whelm me with delights. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Sir B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Once again, a musical night to your honour! I&rsquo;ll trouble your lordship no more. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Good rest, sir Bounteous. [</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Exit </SPAN></I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">.] &mdash; So, come, the vizards! where be the masking- suits? </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">In your lordship's portmantua. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Peace, lieutenant. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">I had rather have war, captain. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Pooh, the plot's ripe! come to your business, lad; </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Though guilt condemn, 'tis gilt must make us glad. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Nay, and you be at your distinctions, captain, I'll follow behind no longer. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Get you before, then, and whelm your nose with your vizard; go. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Exit </SPAN></I><I><B>Mawworm</B></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">.]</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Now, grandsire, you that hold me at hard meat, </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">And keep me out at the dag's end, I'll fit you: </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Under his lordship's leave, all must be mine </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">He and his will confesses; what I take, then. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Is but a borrowing of so much beforehand; </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">I'll pay him again when he dies in so many blacks; I'll have the church hung round with a noble a yard, or requite him in scutcheons: let him trap me in gold, and I'll lap him in lead; </SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">quid pro quo</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">. I must look none of his angels in the face, forsooth, until his face be not worth looking on. tut, lads, Let sires and grandsires keep us low, we must </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Live when they're flesh, as well as when they're dust. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Exeunt.]</SPAN></I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">SCENE III.</SPAN></I></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[A Room in the Courtesan's House.</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> ]</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[Enter </SPAN></I><I><B>Courtesan</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and </SPAN></I><I><B>Servant</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">.]</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Go, sirrah, run presently to master Penitent Brothel: you know his lodging; knock him up; I know he cannot sleep for sighing;</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Tell him, I've happily bethought a mean </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">To make his purpose prosper in each limb, </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Which only rests to be approv&rsquo;d by him: </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Make haste, I know he thirsts for't. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Exeunt severally. ]</SPAN></I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">SCENE IV.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[A Gallery.] </SPAN></I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[Enter </SPAN></I><I><B>Follywit</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> in a masking suit with a vizard in his hand</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">. ]</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Within</B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">.] Oh! {</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Oxford says &ldquo;Within&rdquo; is Gunwater- see comment chain of gold</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">}</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Hark! they're at their business. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Within</B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">.] Thieves, thieves! </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Gag that gaping rascal! though he be my grandsire's chief gentleman i' th' chain of gold, I'll have no pity of him. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">[Enter </SPAN></I><I><B>Mawworm, Hoboy,</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and others, vizarded.</SPAN></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">]</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">How now, lads? </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">All's sure and safe; on with your vizard, sir; the servants are all bound. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">There's one care past then: come, follow me, lads; I'll lead you now to the point and top of all your fortunes: yon lodging is my grandsire's. </SPAN></SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>So, so; lead on, on! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Hob. </B>Here's a captain worth the following, and a wit worth a man's love and admiring! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE V</FONT>. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Room opening into </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><I>'s Bed-chamber, from which enter </I><I><B>Follywit, Mawworm, Hoboy</B></I><I>, and others, dragging in </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><I> in his night-gown. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O gentlemen, and you be kind gentlemen, what countrymen are you? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Lincolnshire men, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>I am glad of that, i'faith. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>And why should you be glad of that? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O, the honestest thieves of all come out of Lincolnshire, the kindest-natured gentlemen; they'll rob a man with conscience; they have a feeling of what they go about and will steal with tears in their eyes: ah, pitiful gentlemen! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Push, money, money! we come for money. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Is that all you come for? Ah, what a beast was I to put out my money t'other day! Alas, good gentlemen, what shift shall I make for you? pray, come again another time. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Tut, tut, sir, money! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O not so loud, sir! you're too shrill a gentleman: I have a lord lies in my house; I would not for the world his honour should be disquieted. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Who, my lord Owemuch? <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">W</SPAN></FONT></FONT>e have took order with him beforehand; he lies bound in his bed, and all his followers. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Who, my lord?<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">B</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ound my lord? Alas, what did you mean to bind my lord? <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">H</SPAN></FONT></FONT>e could keep his bed well enough without binding. You've undone me in't already, you need rob me no farther. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Which is the key? <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">C</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ome! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ah, I perceive now you're no true Lincolnshire spirits! <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Y</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ou come rather out of Bedfordshire; we cannot lie quiet in our beds for you. So, take enough, my masters [<I>they rifle his cabinets</I>]: spur a free horse, my name's sir Bounteous; a merry world, i'faith; what knight but I keep open house at midnight? Well, there should be a conscience, if one could hit upon't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Away now; seize upon him, bind him. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Is this your court of equity? <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">W</SPAN></FONT></FONT>hy should I be bound for mine own money? <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">B</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ut come, come, bind me, I have need on't; I have been too liberal to-night, keep in my hands [<I>they bind him</I>]: nay, as hard as you list; I am too good to bear my lord company. You have watched your time, my masters; I was knighted at Westminster, but many of these nights will make me a knight of Windsor. You've deserved so well, my masters, I bid you all to dinner to-morrow: I would I might have your companies, i'faith; I desire no more. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>O, ho, sir! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Pray, meddle not with my organs, to put 'em out of tune. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>O no, here's better music, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ah, pox feast you! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Despatch with him, away! [<I>Exeunt </I><I><B>Hoboy</B></I><I> and others, carrying </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><I> into the bed�chamber</I>.] &mdash; So, thank you, good grandsire! This was bounteously done of him, i'faith: it came somewhat hard from him at first; for, indeed, nothing comes stiff from an old man but money: and he may well stand upon that, when he has nothing else to stand upon. Where's our portmantua? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>Here, bully captain. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>In with the purchase, 'twill lie safe enough there under 's nose, I warrant you. &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Hoboy </B></I><I>and others.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> What, is all sure? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Hob. </B>All's sure, captain. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>You know what follows now, one villain binds his fellows; go, we must be all bound for our own securities, rascals. There's no dallying upo' th' point; you conceit me: there is a lord to be found bound in the morning, and all his followers; can you pick out that lord now? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>O admirable spirit! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>You ne'er plot for your safeties, so your wants be satisfied. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Hob. </B>But if we bind one another, how shall the last man be bound? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Pox on't, I'll have the footman 'scape. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>That's I; I thank you, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>The footman, of all other, will be supposed to 'scape, for he comes in no bed all night, but lies in 's clothes, to be first ready i' the morning; the horse and he lies in litter together, that's the right fashion of your bonny footman; and his freedom will make the better for our purpose, for we must have one i' the morning to unbind the knight, that we may have our sport within ourselves. We now arrive at the most ticklish point, to rob, and take our ease, to be thieves, and lie by't: look to't, lads, it concerns every man's gullet; I'll not have the jest spoiled, that's certain, though it hazard a windpipe. I'll either go like a lord as I came, or be hanged like a thief as I am; and that's my resolution. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>Troth, a match, captain, of all hands! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE VI. </FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Room in the </I><I><B>Courtesan'</B></I><I>s House. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Courtesan</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> meeting </SPAN></I><I><B>Penitent Brothel</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>O master Penitent Brothel! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>What is't, sweet lady Gullman, that so seizes on thee with rapture and admiration? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN>A thought, a trick, to make you, sir, especially happy, and yet I myself a saver by it. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>I would embrace that, lady, with such courage, I would not leave you on the losing hand. <B>Cour. </B>I will give trust to you, sir. The cause, then, why I raised you from your bed so soon, wherein I know sighs would not let you sleep, thus understand it: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> You love that woman, master Harebrain's wife. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Which no invented means can crown with freedom </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> For your desires and her own wish but this, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Which in my slumbers did present itself. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>I'm covetous, lady. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>You know her husband, lingering in suspect, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Locks her from all society but mine. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Most true. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>I only am admitted; yet hitherto that has done you no real happiness; by my admittance I cannot perform that deed that should please you, you know: where- fore thus I've conveyed it, I'll counterfeit a fit of violent sickness. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Good.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Nay, 'tis not so good, by my faith, but to do you good. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>And in that sense I called it: but take me with you, lady; would it be probable enough to have a sickness so suddenly violent? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Pooh, all the world knows women are soon down: we can be sick when we have a mind to't, catch an ague with the wind of our fans, surfeit upon the rump of a lark, and bestow ten pound in physic upon't: we're likest ourselves when we're down; 'tis the easiest art and. cunning for our sect to counterfeit sick, that are always full of fits when we are well; for since we were made for a weak, imperfect creature, we can fit that best that we are made for. I thus translated, and yourself slipt into the form of a physician </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>I a physician, lady? talk not on't, I beseech you; I shall shame the whole college. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Tut, man, any quacksalving terms will serve for this purpose; for I am pitifully haunted with a brace of elder brothers, new perfumed in the first of their fortunes, and I shall see how forward their purses will be to the pleasing of my palate and restoring of my health. Lay on load enough upon 'em, and spare 'em not, for they're good plump fleshly asses, and may well enough bear it; let gold, amber, and dissolved pearl, be common ingrediences, and that you cannot compose a cullice without 'em. Put but this cunningly in practice, it shall be both a sufficient recompense for all my pains in your love, and the ready means to make mistress Harebrain way, by the visiting of me, to your mutual desired company. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>I applaud thee, kiss thee, and will constantly embrace it. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt severally. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE VII</FONT>. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Bed-chamber: </I><I><B>Follywit</B></I><I>, bound, in bed. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>[<I>within</I>.] Ho, Gumwater! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Singlestone! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Within.</I>] Jenkin, wa, ha, ho! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Within.</I>] Ewen! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Within.</I>] Simcod! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Footman! whew! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>[w<I>ithin.</I>] O good your worship, let me help your good old worship! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><I>, with a cord half unbound, and </I><I><B>Footman,</B></I><I> assisting to loose him.</I>]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ah, poor honest footman! how did'st thou 'scape this massacre? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>E'en by miracle, and lying in my clothes, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>I think so; I would I had lain in my clothes too, footman, so I had 'scaped 'em: I could have but risse like a beggar then, and so I do now, till more money come in; but nothing afflicts me so much, my poor geometrical footman, as that the barbarous villains should lay violence upon my lord. Ah, the binding of my lord cuts my heart in two pieces! So, so, 'tis well; I thank thee: run to thy fellows; undo 'em, undo 'em, undo 'em! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Foot. </B>Alas, if my lord should miscarry, they're unbound already, sir; they have no occupation but sleep, feed, and fart. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>If I be not ashamed to look my lord i' th' face, I&rsquo;m a Saracen. &mdash; My lord! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Who's that? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>One may see he has been scared: a pox on 'em for their labours! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Singlestone! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Singlestone? I'll ne'er answer to that, i'faith. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Suchman! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Suchman? nor that neither, i'faith; I am not brought so low, though I be old. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Who's that i' th' chamber? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Good morrow, my lord; 'tis I. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Sir Bounteous, good morrow; I would give you my hand, sir, but I cannot come at it. Is this the courtesy a' th' country, sir Bounteous? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Your lordship grieves me more than all my loss; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 'Tis the unnatural'st sight that can be found, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To see a noble gentleman hard bound. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Trust me, I thought you had been better beloved, sir Bounteous; but I see you have enemies, sir, and your friends fare the worse for 'em. I like your talk better than your lodging; I ne'er lay harder in a bed of down; I have had a mad night's rest on't. Can you not guess what they should be, sir Bounteous? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Faith, Lincolnshire men, my lord. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>How? fie, fie, believe it not, sir; these lie not far off, I warrant you. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Think you so, my lord? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>I'll be burnt and they do; some that use to your house, sir, and are familiar with all the conveyances. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>This is the commodity of keeping open house, my lord; that makes so many shut their doors about dinner-time. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>They were resolute villains: I made myself known to 'em, told 'em what I was, gave 'em my honourable word not to disclose 'em &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O saucy, unmannerly villains! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>And think you the slaves would trust me upon my word? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>They would not? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Forsooth, no; I must pardon 'em: they told me. lords' promises were mortal, and commonly die within half an hour after they are spoken; they were but gristles, and not one amongst a hundred come to any full growth or perfection; and therefore, though I were a lord, I must enter into bond.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Insupportable rascals! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Troth, I'm of that mind. Sir Bounteous, you fared the worse for my coming hither. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ah, good my lord, but I'm sure your lordship fared the worse! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Pray, pity not me, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Is not your honour sore about the brawn of the arm? a murrain meet 'em, I feel it! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>About this place, sir Bounteous? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>You feel as it were a twinge, my lord? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Ay, e'en a twinge, you say right. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A pox discover 'em, that twinge I feel too! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>But that which disturbs me most, sir Bounteous, lies here. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>True; about the wrist, a kind of tumid numbness. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>You say true, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>The reason of that, my lord, is, the pulses had no play. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Mass, so I guessed it. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A mischief swell 'em, for I feel that too! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Mawworm</B></I><I>.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>'Slid, here's a house haunted indeed! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A word with you, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>How now, Singlestone? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>I'm sorry, my lord, your worship has lost &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Pup, pup, pup, pup, pup! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>What have I lost? speak. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A good night's sleep, say. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Speak, what have I lost, I say? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>A good night's sleep, my lord, nothing else, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>That's true; my clothes, come. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>My lord's clothes! his honour's rising. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Enter </I><I><B>Hoboy</B></I><I> and others with clothes: they retire to </I><I><B>Follywit</B></I><I>, behind the curtains, which are drawn.]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Hist, well said: come hither; what has my lord lost? tell me, speak softly. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>His lordship must know that, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Hush! prithee tell me. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>'Twill do you no pleasure to know't, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Yet again? I desire it, I say. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>Since your worship wi<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">ll</SPAN></FONT></FONT> needs know't, they have stolen away a jewel in a blue silk ribband of a hundred pound price, beside some hundred pounds in fair spur-royals. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>That's some two hundred i' th' total. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>Your worship's much about it, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Come, follow me; I'll make that whole again in so much money; let not my lord know on't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>O pardon me, sir Bounteous! that were a dis honour to my lord: should it come to his ear, I should hazard my undoing by it. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>How should it come to his ear? if you be my lord's chief man about him, I hope you do not use to speak unless you be paid for't; and I had rather give you a councillor's double fee to hold your peace. Come, go to; follow me, I say. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>There will be scarce time to tell it, sir; my lord will away instantly. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>His honour shall stay dinner, by his leave; I'll prevail with him so far: and now I remember a jest, I bade the whoreson thieves to dinner last night; I would I might have their companies; a pox poison em! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>Faith, and you are like to have no other guess, sir Bounteous, if you have none but us; I'll give you that gift, i'faith. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit.</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>ACT III. </FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE I. </FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Hall in </I><I><B>Harebrain</B></I><I>'s House. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Harebrain, Inesse, </B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">and</SPAN></I><I><B> Possibility</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>You see bold guests, master Harebrain. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>You're kindly welcome to my house, good master Inesse and master Possibility. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>That's our presumption, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Ralph! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Ralph.</B></I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ral. </B>Here, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Call down your mistress to welcome these two gentlemen, my friends. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ral. </B>I shall, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>I will observe her carriage, and watch </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The slippery revolutions of her eye; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I'll lie in wait for every glance she gives. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And poise her words i' th' balance of suspect: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> If she but swag, she's gone; either on this hand </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Over familiar, or this too neglectful: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> It does behove her carry herself even. [<I>Aside</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>But, master Harebrain &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>True, I hear you, sir; was't you said? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>I have not spoke it yet, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Right, so I say. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>Is it not strange, that in so short a time my little lady Gullman should be so violently handled?</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>O, sickness has no mercy, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> It neither pities lady's lip nor eye; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> It crops the rose out of the virgin's cheek. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And so deflowers her that was ne'er deflower'd. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Fools, then, are maids to lock from men that treasure </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Which death will pluck, and never yield 'em pleasure. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Ah, gentlemen, though I shadow it, that sweet virgin's sickness grieves me not lightly! she was my wife's only delight and company. Did you not hear her, gentlemen, i' th' midst of her extremest fit, still how she called upon my wife, remembered still my wife, sweet mistress Hare- brain? When she sent for me, a' one side of her bed stood the physician, the scrivener on the other: two horrible objects, but mere opposites in the course of their lives, for the scrivener binds folks, and the physician makes them loose. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>But not loose of their bonds, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><A NAME="__DdeLink__11492_3533564533"></A> <B>Har. </B>No, by my faith, sir, I say not so: if the physician could make 'em loose of their bonds, there's many a one would take physic, that dares not now for poisoning. But, as I was telling of you, her will was fashioning, wherein I found her best and richest jewel given as a legacy unto my wife: when I read that, I could not refrain weeping. Well, of all other my wife has most reason to visit her; if she have any good nature in her, she'll show it there. &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Ralph</B></I>. ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Now, sir, where's your mistress? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ral. </B>She desires you, and the gentlemen your friends, to hold her excused; she's a fit of an ague now upon her, which begins to shake her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Where does it shake her most? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ral. </B>All over her body, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Shake all her body? 'tis a saucy fit, I'm jealous of that ague. [<I>Aside</I>] &mdash; Pray, walk in gentlemen; I'll see you instantly. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt </I><I><B>Inesse </B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">and </SPAN></I><I><B>Possibility</B></I>.]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ral. </B>Now they are absent, sir, 'tis no such thing. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>What? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ral. </B>My mistress has her health, sir, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> But 'tis her suit she may confine herself </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> From sight of all men but your own dear self, sir; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> For since the sickness of that modest virgin, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Her only company, she delights in none. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>No? visit her again, commend me to her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Tell her they're gone, and only I myself </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Walk here t' exchange a word or two with her.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ral. </B>I'll tell her so, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Fool that I am, and madman, beast! what worse? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Suspicious o'er a creature that deserves </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The best opinion and the purest thought; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Watchful o'er her that is her watch herself; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To doubt her ways that looks too narrowly </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Into her own defects: I, foolish-fearful, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Have often rudely, out of giddy flames, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Barr'd her those objects which she shuns herself </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Thrice I've had proof of her most constant temper: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Come I at unawares by stealth upon her, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I find her circled in with divine writs </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Of heavenly meditations; here and there </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Chapters with leaves tuck'd up, which when I see, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> They either tax pride or adultery. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Ah, let me curse myself, that could be jealous </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Of her whose mind no sin can make rebellious! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And here the unmatch'd comes. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Mistress Harebrain</B></I><B>.</B> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Now wife, i'faith, they're gone; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Push, see how fearful 'tis! will you not credit me? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> They're gone, i'faith; why, think you I'll betray you? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Come, come; thy delight and mine, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Thy only virtuous friend, thy sweet instructress, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Is violently taken grievous sick. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And which is worse, she mends not. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Her friends are sorry for that, sir.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>She calls still upon thee, poor soul, remembers thee still, thy name whirls in her breath; where's mistress Harebrain? says she. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Alas, good soul! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>She made we weep thrice: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Sh'as put thee in a jewel in her will. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>E'en to th' last gasp a kind souL </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Take my man, go visit her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Pray pardon me, sir; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Alas, my visitation cannot help her! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>O, yet the kindness of a thing, wife! &mdash; Still she holds the same rare temper. [<I>Aside.</I>] &mdash; Take my man, I say. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>I would not take your man, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Though I did purpose going. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>No? thy reason. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>The world's condition is itself so vild, sir, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 'Tis apt to judge the worst of those deserve not; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 'Tis an ill-thinking age and does apply </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> All to the form of its own luxury </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> This censure flies from one, that from another; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> That man's her squire, says he; her pimp the tother; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> She's of the stamp, a third; fourth, I ha' known her: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I've heard this, not without a burning cheek. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Then our attires are tax'd; our very gait </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Is called in question; where a husband's presence </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Scatters such thoughts, or makes 'em sink for fear </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Into the hearts that breed 'em: nay, surely, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> If I went, sir, I would entreat your company. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Mine? prithee, wife; &mdash; I have been there already. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>That's all one; although you bring me but to th' door, sir, I would entreat no farther. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Thou'rt such a wife! why, I will bring thee thither then, but not go up, I swear. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>I'faith, you shall not; I do not desire it, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Why, then, content. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Give me your hand, you will do so, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Why, there's my lip I will. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Why, then I go, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>With me, or no man! incomparable such a woman! [<I>Aside.</I>] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE II. </FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[The </I><I><B>Courtesan</B></I><I>'s Bed-chamber. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[The </I><I><B>Courtesan</B></I><I> in bed for her counterfeit fit; phials, gallipots, plates, and an hour-glass by her. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Enter </I><I><B>Penitent Brothel</B></I><I>, disguised as a doctor of physic.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Lady! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Ha, what news? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>There's one sir Bounteous Progress newly alighted from his foot-cloth, and his mare waits at door, as the fashion is. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>'Slid, 'tis the knight that privately maintains me; a little, short, old, spiny gentleman in a great doublet? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>The same; I know 'm. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>He's my sole revenue, meat, drink, and raiment. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> My good physician, work upon him; I'm weak. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Enough. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous.</B></I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Why, where be these ladies? these plump, soft, delicate creatures? ha? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Who would you visit, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Visit, who? what are you, with the plague in your mouth? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>A physician, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Then you are a looser-liver, sir; I have put you to your purgation. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>But you need none, you're purged in a worse fashion. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Ah, sir Bounteous! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>How now? what art thou? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Sweet, sir Bounteous! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Passion of me, what an alteration's here! Rosamond sick, old Harry? here's a sight able to make an old man shrink! I was lusty when I came in, but I am down now i'faith: mortality! yea, this puts me in mind of a hole seven foot deep; my grave, my grave, my grave. Hist, master doctor, a word, sir; hark, 'tis not the plague, is't? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>The plague, sir? no. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Good. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>He ne'er asks whether it be the pox or no; and of the twain that had been more likely. [<I>Aside.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>How now, my wench? how dost? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Huh, &mdash; weak, knight, &mdash; huh. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>She says true, he's a weak knight indeed. [<I>Aside.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Where does it hold thee most, wench? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>All parts alike, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>She says true still, for it holds her in none. [<I>Aside</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Hark in thine ear, thou'rt breeding of young bones; I am afraid I have got thee with child, i'faith. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>I fear that much, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O, O, if it should! a young Progress when all's done! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>You have done your good will, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>I see by her 'tis nothing but a surfeit of Venus, i'faith; and though I be old, I have gi'n't her; &mdash; but since I had the power to make thee sick, I'll have the purse to make thee whole, that's certain. &mdash; Master doctor. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Let's hear, I pray, what is't you minister to her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Marry, sir, some precious cordial, some costly refocillation, a composure comfortable and restorative. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ay, ay, that, that, that. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>No poorer ingrediences than the liquor of coral, clear amber, or <I>succinum</I>; unicorn's horn, six grains; <I>magisterium perlarum</I>, one scruple &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ah, hah! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B><I>Ossis de corde cervi</I>, half a scruple; <I>aurum potabile</I>, <I>or</I> his tincture &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Very precious, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>All which being finely contunded, and mixed in a stone or glass mortar with the spirit of diamber &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Nay, pray, be patient, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>That's impossible; I cannot be patient and a physician too, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O, cry you mercy, that's true, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>All which aforesaid &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ay, there you left, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>When it is almost exsiccate or dry, I add thereto <I>olei succini, olei masi, et cinnaniomi. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>So, sir, <I>olei masi,</I> that same oil of mace is a great comfort to both the counters. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>And has been of a long time, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Well, be of good cheer, wench; there's gold for thee, huh. &mdash; Let her want for nothing, master doctor; a poor kinswoman of mine, nature binds me to have a care of her.&mdash; There I gulled you, master doctor. [<I>Aside.</I>] &mdash; Gather up a good spirit, wench! the fit will away; 'tis but a surfeit of gristles; &mdash; ha, ha, I have fitted her: an old knight and a cock a' th' game still: I have not spurs for nothing, I see. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B.</B> No, by my faith, they're hatched; they cost you an angel, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Look to her, good master doctor; let her want nothing: I've given her enough already, ha, ha, ha! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit.</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>So, is he gone? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>He's like himself, gone. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Here's somewhat to set up with. How soon he took occasion to slip into his own flattery, soothing his own defects! He only fears he has done that deed which I ne'er feared to come from him in my life. This purchase came unlo<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">o</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ked for. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Hist, the pair of sons and heirs. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>O, they're welcome! they bring money. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Enter </I><I><B>Inesse</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and </SPAN></I><I><B>Possibility.</B></I><I> </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>Master doctor. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>I come to you, gentlemen. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>How does she now? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Faith, much after one fashion, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>There's hope of life, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>I see no signs of death in her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>That's some comfort; will she take anything yet? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Yes, yes, yes, she'll take still; sh'as a kind of facility in taking. How comes your band bloody, sir? <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">{</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><I>1</I></FONT><SUP><FONT SIZE=2><I>st</I></FONT></SUP><FONT SIZE=2><I> ed band 2</I></FONT><SUP><FONT SIZE=2><I>nd</I></FONT></SUP><FONT SIZE=2><I> ed hand- Alasdair}</I></FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>You may see I met with a scab, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B><I>Diversa genera scabierum</I>, as Pliny reports, there are divers kind of scabs. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>Pray, let's hear 'em, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>An itching scab, that is your harlot; a sore scab, your usurer; a running scab, your promoter; a broad scab, your intelligencer; but a white scab, that's a scald knave and a pander: but, to speak truth, the only scabs we are now-a-days troubled withal are new officers and projectors. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>Why, now you come to mine, sir; for I'll be sworn one of them was very busy about my head this morning, and he should be a scab by that; for they are ambitious, and covet the head. 1</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Why, you saw I derived him, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>You physicians are mad gentlemen. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>We physicians see the most sights of any men living. Your astronomers look upward into th' air, we look downward into th' body; and, indeed, we have power upward and downward. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>That you have, i'faith, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>Lady, how cheer you now; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>The same woman still, &mdash; huh! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>That's not good. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Little alteration. Fie, fie, you have been too lavish, gentlemen. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>Puh, talk not of that, lady; thy health's worth a million. &mdash; Here, master doctor, spare for no cost. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Giving money,]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>Look what you find there, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>What do you mean, gentlemen? put up, put up. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> You see I'm down, and cannot strive with you, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I'd rule you else; you have me at advantage; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> But if e'er I live, I will requite it deeply. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>In. </B>Tut, an't come to that once, we'll requite ourselves well enough. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pos. </B>Mistress Harebrain, lady, is setting forth to visit you too. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Ha? &mdash; huh! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>There struck the minute that brings forth the birth </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Of all my joys and wishes; but see the jar now! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> How shall I rid these from her? [<I>Aside.]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Pray, gentlemen, </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Stay not above an hour from my sight. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>In. </B></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">'Sfoot, we are not going, lady! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Pen. B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Subtly brought about! yet t'will not do; they'll stick by't.&mdash; </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Aside.]</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">A word with you, gentlemen. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Both.</B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> What says master doctor? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Pen. B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">She wants but settling of her sense with rest; </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">One hour's sleep, gentlemen, would set all parts in tune. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Pos. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">He says true, i'faith. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>In. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Get her to sleep, master doctor; we'll both sit here and watch by her. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Pen. B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Hell's angels watch you! no art can prevail with 'em. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">What with the thought of joys, and sight of crosses, </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">My wits are at Hercules' Pillars; </SPAN><I>non plus ultra</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">. [</SPAN><I>Aside</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">. ]</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Master doctor, master doctor! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Pen. B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Here, lady. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Your physic works; lend me your hand. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Pos. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Farewell, sweet lady. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>In. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Adieu, master doctor. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exeunt </I><I><B>Possibility</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and </SPAN></I><I><B>Inesse.]</B></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">So. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Pen. B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Let me admire thee? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">The wit of man wanes and decreases soon, </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">But women's wit is ever at full moon. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Mistress Harebrain</B></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">. ]</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">There shot a star from heaven! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">I dare not yet behold my happiness, </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">The splendour is so glorious and so piercing. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Mistress Harebrain, give my wit thanks hereafter; your wishes are in sight, your opportunity spacious. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Mis. H.</B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> Will you but hear a word from me? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Whooh! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Mis. H. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">My husband himself brought me to th' door, walks below for my return; jealousy is prick�eared, and will hear the wagging of a hair. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Pish, you're a faint liver; trust yourself with your pleasure, and me with your security; go. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Pen. B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">The fulness of my wish! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Mis. H. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Of my desire! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Pen. B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Beyond this sphere I never will aspire! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exeunt </I><I><B>Penitent Brothel</B></I><I> and </I><I><B>Mistress Harebrain</B></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">. </SPAN><I><B>Harebrain</B></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> </SPAN><I>opens the door and listens; the </I><I><B>Courtesan</B></I><I> perceiving hi</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>m</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>.]</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">I'll listen: now the flesh draws nigh her end. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">At such a time women exchange their secrets </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">And ransack the close corners of their hearts: </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">What many years hath whelm'd, this hour imparts. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Aside.]</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Pray, sit down, there's a low stool. Good; mistress Harebrain, this was kindly done, &mdash; huh, &mdash; give me your hand, &mdash; huh, &mdash; alas, how cold you are! even so is your husband, that worthy, wise gentleman; as comfortable a man to woman in my case as ever trod &mdash; huh &mdash; shoe-leather. Love him, honour him, stick by him: he lets you want nothing that's fit for a woman; and, to be sure on't, he will see himself that you want it not. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">And so I do, i'faith; 'tis right my humour. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Aside.]</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">You live a lady's life with him; go where you will, ride when you will, and do what you will. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Not so, not so, neither; she's better looked to. [</SPAN><I>Aside.]</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">I know you do, you need not tell me that: 'twere e'en pity of your life, i'faith, if ever you should wrong such an innocent gentleman. Fie, Mrs. Harebrain, what do you mean? come you to discomfort me? nothing but weeping with you? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">She's weeping! t'as made her weep: my wife shows her good nature already. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Aside</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">.] </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Still, still weeping? huff, huff, huff; why, how now, woman? hey, hy, hy, for shame, leave; suh, suh, she cannot answer me for snobbing. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">All this does her good; beshrew my heart, and I pity her; let her shed tears till morning, I'll stay for her. She shall have enough on't, by my good will; I'll not be her hindrance. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Aside</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">.] </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">O no! lay your hand here, mistress Harebrain; ay, there: O there, there lies my pain, good gentlewoman! Sore? O ay, I can scarce endure your hand upon't! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Poor soul, how she's tormented! [</SPAN><I>Aside</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">.] </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Yes, yes; I eat a cullis an hour since. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">There's some comfort in that yet, she may 'scape it. </SPAN><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">[</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Aside</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">.] </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">O, it lies about my heart much! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">I'm sorry for that, i'faith; she'll hardly 'scape it. [</SPAN><I>Aside</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">.] </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Bound? no, no; I'd a very comfortable stool this morning. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">I'm glad of that, i'faith; that's a good sign; I smell she'll 'scape it now. [</SPAN><I>Aside</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">. ]</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Will you be going then? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Fall back, she's coming. [</SPAN><I>Aside</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">.] </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Thanks, good mistress Harebrain; welcome, sweet mistress Harebrai</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">n</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">; pray, commend me to the good gentleman your husband. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Har. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">I could do that myself now. [</SPAN><I>Aside</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">.] </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Cour. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">And to my uncle Winchcomb, and to my aunt Lipsalve, and to my cousin Falsetop, and to my cousin Lickit, and to my c</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">ou</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">sin Horseman, and to all my good cousins in Clerkenwell and St. John's. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Mistress Harebrain</B></I><I> and </I><I><B>Penitent Brothel</B></I><I>.</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> ]</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Mis. H.</B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> At three days' end my husband takes a journey. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Pen. B. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">O thence I derive a second meeting! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Mis. H. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">May it prosper still! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Till then I rest a captive to his will. &mdash; </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Once again, health, rest, and strength to thee, sweet</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> lady: farewell, you witty squall. &mdash; Good master doctor, have a care to her body; if you stand her friend, I know you can do her good. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Take pity of your waiter; go: farewell, sweet mistress Harebrain. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>[<I>coming forward</I>.] Welcome, sweet wife, alight upon my lip! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Never was hour spent better. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Why, were you </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Within the hearing, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Ay, that I was, i'faith. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To my great comfort; I deceiv'd you there, wife; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Ha, ha! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I do entreat thee, nay, conjure thee, wife. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Upon my love, or what can more be said, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Oftener to visit this sick virtuous maid. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Be not so fierce, your will shall be obey'd. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Why, then, I see thou lov'st me. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit with </I><I><B>Mistress Harebrain</B></I><I>.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Art of ladies! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> When plots are e'en past hope, and hang their head, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Set with a woman's hand, they thrive and spread. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit.]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">SCENE III. </SPAN></FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Room. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Follywit, Mawworm, Hoboy</B></I><I>, and others.] </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Was't not well managed, you necessary mischiefs? did the plot want either life or art? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">'Twas so well, captain, I would you could make such another muss at all adventures. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Dost call't a muss? I am sure my grandsire ne'er got his money worse in his life than I got it from him. If ever he did cozen the simple, why, I was born to revenge their quarrel; if ever oppress the widow, I, a fatherless child, have done as much for him. And so 'tis through the world, either in jest or earnest. Let the usurer look for't; for craft recoils in the end, like an overcharged musket, and maims the very hand that puts fire to't. There needs no more but a usurer's own blow to strike him from hence to hell; 'twill set him forward with a vengeance. But here lay the jest, whoresons; my grandsire, thinking in his conscience that we had not robbed him enough o'ernight, must needs pity me i' th' morning, and give me the rest </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Two hundred pounds in fair rose-nobles, I protest. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Push, I knew he could not sleep quietly till he had paid me for robbing of him too: 'tis his humour, and the humour of most of your rich men in the course of their lives; for, you know, they always feast those mouths that are least needy, and give them more that have too much already; and what call you that but robbing of themselves a courtlier way? &mdash; O!&mdash; </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Cuds me, how now, captain? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">A cold fit that comes over my memory, and has a shrewd pull at my fortunes. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">What's that, sir? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Is it for certain, lieutenant, that my grandsire keeps an uncertain creature, a quean? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Ay, that's too true, sir. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">So much the more preposterous for me; I shall hop shorter by that trick; she carries away the thirds at least: 'twill prove entailed land, I am afraid, when all's done, i'faith. Nay, </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">I've known a vicious old thought-acting father </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Damn'd only in his dreams, thirsting for game </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">(Whe</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">n</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> his best parts hung down their heads for shame), </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">For his blanch'd harlot dispossess his son, </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">And make the pox his heir; 'twas gravely done! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">How hadst thou first knowledge on't, lieutenant? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Faith, from discourse; yet all the policy </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">That I could use, I could not get her name. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Dull slave, that ne'er could'st spy it! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">But the manner of her coming was described to me. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">How is the manner, prithee? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Marry, sir, she comes most commonly coached. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Most commonly coached, indeed; for coaches are as common now-a-days as some that ride in 'em. She comes most commonly coached? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">True, there I left, sir; guarded with some leash of pimps. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Beside the coachman? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Right, sir; then alighting, she's privately received by master Gumwater. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">That's my grandsire's chief gentleman i' th' chain of gold: that he should live to be a pander, and yet look upon his chain and his velvet jacket! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Then is your grandsire rounded i' th' ear; the key given after the Italian fashion, backward; she closely conveyed into his closet; there remaining, till either opportunity smile upon his credit, or he send down some hot caudle to take order in his performance. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Peace, 'tis mine own, i'faith; I ha't! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">How now, sir? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Thanks, thanks to any spirit </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">That mingled it 'mongst my inventions </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Hob. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Why, master Fo</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">ll</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">ywit–– </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>The rest. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Captain––</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Give me scope, and hear me. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">I've begot that means, which will both furnish me, </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">And make that quean walk under his conceit. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">That were double happiness; to put thyself into money, and her out of favour. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">And all at one dealing. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Hob. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">'sfoot, I long to see that hand played! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">And thou shalt see't quickly, i'faith: nay, 'tis in grain; I warrant it hold colour. Lieutenant, step behind yon hanging: if I mistook not at my entrance, there hangs the lower part of a gentlewoman's gown, with a mask and a chinclout: bring all this way. Nay, but do't cunningly, now; 'tis a friend's house, and I'd use it so; there's a taste for you. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">[</SPAN><I>Exit </I><I><B>Mawworm</B></I><I>.]</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"> </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Hob. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">But, prithee, what wilt thou do with a gentlewoman's lower part? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Why, use it. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Hob. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">You've answered me, indeed, in that; I can demand no farther. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Well said. &mdash; Lieutenant&mdash;&mdash; </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Mawworm</B></I><I> with gown, </I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>etc</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">What will you do now, sir? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Come, come, thou shalt see, a woman quickly made up here. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">But that's against kind, captain; for they are always long a-making ready.</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">And is not most they do against kind, I prithee? To lie with their horse-keeper, is not that against kind? to wear half moons made of another's hair, is not that against kind? to drink down a man, she that should set him up, pray is not that monstrously against kind now? Nay, over with it, lieutenant, over with it; ever while you live put a woman's clothes over her head: Cupid plays best at blindman buff. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">You shall have your will, maintenance; I love mad tricks as well as you for your heart, sir: but what shift will you make for upper-bodies, captain? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">I see now thou'rt an ass; why, I'm ready. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Ready? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Why, the doublet serves as well as the best, and is most in fashion; we're all male to th' middle; mankind from the beaver to th' bum. 'Tis an Amazonian time; you shall have women shortly tread their husbands. I should have a couple of locks behind; prithee, lieutenant, find 'em out for me, and wind 'em about my hat-band: nay, you shall see, we'll be in fashion to a hair, and become all with probability: the most musty-visage critic shall not except against me. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Nay, I'll give thee thy due behind thy back; thou'rt as mad a piece of clay – </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Clay! dost call thy captain clay? Indeed, clay was made to stop holes; he says true. Did not I tell you, rascals, you should see a woman quickly made up? </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Hob. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">I'll swear for't, captain. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Come, come, my mask and my chinclout &mdash; come into th' court. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Nay, they were both i' th' court long ago, sir. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Let me see; where shall I choose two or three for pimps, now? but I cannot choose amiss amongst you all, that's the best. Well, as I am a quean, you were best have a care of me, and guard me sure. I give you warning beforehand; 'tis a monkey-tailed age. Life, you shall go nigh to have half a dozen blithe fellows surprise me cowardly, carry me away with a pair of oars, and put in at Putney! </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">We should laugh at that, i'faith. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Or shoot in upo' th' coast of Cue. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Two notable fit landing-places for lechers, P and C, Putney and Cue. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Well, say you have fair warning on't; the hair about the hat is as good as a flag upo' th' pole at a common play-house, to waft company; and a chin-clout is of that powerful attraction, I can tell you, 'twill draw more linen to't. </SPAN> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Maw. </B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Fear not us, captain; there's none here but can fight for a whore as well as some Inns-a'-court-man. '</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Why, then set forward; and as you scorn two�shilling brothel, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Twelvepenny panderism, and such base bribes, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Guard me from bonny scribs and bony scribes. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>Hang 'em, pensions and allowances! fourpence halfpenny a meal, hang 'em! [<I>Exeunt.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>ACT IV. </FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE I.</FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Chamber in </I><I><B>Penitent Brothel</B></I><I>'s House.] </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter out of his study </I><I><B>Penitent Brothel</B></I><I>, a </I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>b</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>ook in his hand. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Ha? read that place again &mdash; <I>Adultery </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Draws the divorce 'twixt heaven and the soul. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Accursed man, that stand'st divorc'd from heaven! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Thou wretched unthrift, that hast play'd away </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Thy eternal portion at a minute's game; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To please the flesh hast blotted out thy name! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Where were thy nobler meditations busied, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> That they durst trust this body with itself; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 'This natural drunkard, that undoes us all, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And makes our shame apparent in our fall?</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Then let my blood pay for't, and vex and boil! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> My soul, I know, would never grieve to th' death </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Th' eternal spirit, that feeds her with his breath: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Nay, I that knew the price of life and sin, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> What crown is kept for continence, what for lust, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The end of man, and glory of that end, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> As endless as the giver. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To doat on weakness, slime, corruption, woman! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> What is she, took asunder from her clothes? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Being ready, she consists of an hundred pieces, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Much like your German clock, and near ally'd; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Both are so nice, they cannot go for pride: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Besides a greater fault, but too well known, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> They'll strike to ten, when they should stop at one. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Within these three days the next meeting's fix'd; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> If I meet then, hell and my soul be mix'd! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> My lodging I know constantly, she not knows: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Sin's hate is the best gift that sin bestows: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I'll ne'er embrace her more; never, bear witness, never. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Succubus</B></I><I> in the shape of </I><I><B>Mistress Harebrain</B></I><I>, and claps him on the shoulder. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Suc. </B>What, at a stand? the fitter for my company. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Celestial soldiers guard me! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Suc. </B>How now, man? &rsquo;Las, did the quickness of my presence fright thee? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Shield <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">me</SPAN></FONT></FONT> you ministers of faith and grace! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Suc. </B>Leave, leave; are you not ashamed to use such words to a woman? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Thou'rt a devil! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Suc. </B>A devil? feel, feel, man; has a devil flesh and bone? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>I do conjure thee, by that dreadful power –– </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Suc. </B>The man has a delight to make me tremble &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Are these the fruits of thy adventurous love? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Was I enticed for this? so soon rejected! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Come, what has chang'd thee so, delight? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Away! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Suc. </B>Remember&mdash;</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Leave my sight! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Suc. </B>Have I this meeting wrought with cunning, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Which, when I come, I find thee shunning? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Rouse thy amorous thoughts, and twine me; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> All my interest I resign thee: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Shall we let slip this mutual hour, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Comes so seldom in our power? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Where's thy lip, thy clip, thy fa<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">d</SPAN></FONT></FONT>om? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Had women such loves, would't not mad 'em? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Art a man? or dost abuse one? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> A love, and know&rsquo;st not how to use one! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Come, I'll teach thee. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Do not follow&mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Suc. </B>Once so firm, and now so hollow! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> When was place and season sweeter? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Thy bliss in sight, and dar'st not meet her? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Where's thy courage, youth, and vigour? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Love's best pleas'd when't 's seiz'd with rigour: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Seize me, then, with veins most cheerful; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Women love no flesh that's fearful: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 'Tis but a fit come, drink't away. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And dance and sing, and kiss and play! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Fa le la, le la, fa le la, le la la; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Fa le la, fa la le, la le la! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Singing and dancing round him.] </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Torment me not? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Suc. </B>Fa le la, fa le la, fa la la lo! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Fury! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Suc. </B>Fa le la, fa le la, fa la la lo! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Devil, I do conjure thee once again, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> By that soul-quaking thunder, to depart. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And leave this chamber freed from thy damn'd art! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I><B>Su</B></I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>cc</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I><B>ubus</B></I><I> stamps, and exit</I>. ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> It has prevail'd &mdash; O my sin-shaking sinews! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> What should I think? &mdash; Jasper, why, Jasper! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Jasper.]</B></I><I> </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Jas. </B>Sir? how now? what has disturb'd you, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>A fit, a qualm. Is mistress Harebrain gone? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Jas. </B>Who, sir? mistress Harebrain? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Pen. B. </B></SPAN></FONT></FONT>Is she gone, I say? So </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Jas. </B>Gone? why, she was never here yet. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>No? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Jas. </B>Why, no, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Art sure on't? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Jas. </B>Sure on't? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> If I be sure I breathe, and am myself. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>I like it not. [<I>Aside</I>] &mdash; Where kep'st thou? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Jas. </B><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">I&rsquo;</SPAN></FONT></FONT> the next room, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Why, she struck by thee, man. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Jas. </B>You'd make one mad, sir; that a gentlewoman should steal by me, and I not hear her! 's foot, one may hear the ruffling of their bums almost an hour before we see 'em. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>I will be satisfied, although to hazard. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> What though her husband meet me? I am honest: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> When men's intents are wicked, their guilt haunts 'em; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> But when they're just, they're arm'd, and nothing daunts 'em; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Aside, and exit.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Jas. </B>What strange humour call you this? he dreams of women, and both his eyes broad open! <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit</I>.] <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE </FONT><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=4><SPAN LANG="en-GB">II</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE=4>.</FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Room in </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous's</B></I><I> House.] </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter at one door </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><I>, at another </I><I><B>Gumwater</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Why, how now, master Gumwater? what's the news with your haste? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>I have a thing to tell your worship–– </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Why, prithee, tell me; speak, man. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Your worship shall pardon me, I have better bringing-up than so. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>How, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>'Tis a thing made fit for your ear, sir </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O, O, O, cry you mercy; now I begin to taste you. Is she come? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>She's come, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Recover'd? well and sound again? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>That's to be feared, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Why, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>She wears a linen cloth about her jaw. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ha, ha, haw! why, that's the fashion, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> You whoreson Gumwater. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>The fashion, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Live I so long time to see that a fashion, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Which rather was an emblem of dispraise? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> It was suspected much in Monsieur's days. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ay, ay, in those days; that was a queasy time: our age is better hardened now, and put oftener in the fire; we are tried what we are. Tut, the pox is as natural now as an ague in the springtime; we seldom take physic without it. Here, take this key; you know what duties belong to't. Go, give order for a cu<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">ll</SPAN></FONT></FONT>is: let there be a good fire made i' th' matted chamber: do you hear, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>I know my office, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>An old man's venery is very chargeable, my m<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">as</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ters; there's much cookery belongs to't.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exi</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>t</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">.]</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE III. </FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Another Chamber in </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous'</B></I><I>s House. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Gumwater</B></I><I>, with </I><I><B>Follywit</B></I><I> disguised as the </I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Courtesan </SPAN></I><I>and masked. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Come, lady: you know where you are now? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Yes, good master Gumwater. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>This is the old closet, you know. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>I remember it well, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>There stands a casket: I would my yearly revenue were but worth the wealth that's locked in't, lady! yet I have fifty pound a-year, wench. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Beside your apparel, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Yes, faith, have I. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>But then you reckon your chain sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>No, by my troth, do I not, neither; faith, and you consider me rightly, sweet lady, you might admit a choice gentleman into your service. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>O pray away, sir! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Pusha, come, come; you do but hinder your fortunes, i'faith: I have the command of all the house, I can tell you: nothing comes into th' kitchen but comes through my hands. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Pray, do not handle me, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Faith, you're too nice, lady; and as for my secrecy, you know I have vowed it often to you. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Vowed it? no, no, you men are fickle. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Fickle? 'sfoot! bind me, lady </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Why, I bind you by virtue of this chain to meet me to-morrow at the Flower-de-luce yonder, between nine and ten. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>And if I do not, lady, let me lose it, thy love, and my best fortunes! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Why, now I'll try you; go to. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Farewell, sweet lady! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Kisses </I><I><B>Fo</B></I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>llywit</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I> and exit</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Welcome, sweet coxcomb: by my faith, a good induction: I perceive by his overworn phrase, and his action toward the middle region still, there has been some saucy nibbling motion; and no doubt the cunning quean waited but for her prey: and I think 'tis better bestowed upon me, for his soul's health and his body's too. I'll teach the slave to be so bold yet, as once to offer to vault into his master's saddle, i'faith. Now, casket, by your leave; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I've seen your outside oft, but that's no proof: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Some have fair outsides that are nothing worth. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Rifles the casket.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Ha! now, by my faith, a gentlewoman of very good parts; diamond, ruby, sapphire; <I>Onyx cum prole silexque</I>! if I do not wonder how the quean 'scaped tempting, I'm an hermaphrodite! sure she could lack nothing but the devil t<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">o</SPAN></FONT></FONT> point to't; and I wonder that he should be missing: well, 'tis better as it is. This is the fruit of old grunting venery; grandsire, you may thank your drab for this. O fie, in your crinkling days, grandsire, keep a courtesan, to hinder your grandchild! 'tis against nature, i'faith, and I hope you'll be weary on't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Now to my villains that lurk close below: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Who keeps a harlot, tell him this from me. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> He needs nor thief, disease, nor enemy. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Exit. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I>. ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ah, sirrah, methink I feel myself well toasted, bombasted, rubbed, and refreshed! but, i'faith, I cannot forget to think how soon sickness has altered her to my taste. I gave her a kiss at bottom o' th' stairs, and, by th' mass, methought her breath had much ado to be sweet; like a thing compounded, methought, of wine, beer, and tobacco; I smelt much pudding in't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> It may be but my fancy, or her physic: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> For this I know, her health gave such content. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The fault rests in her sickness, or my scent. &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> How dost thou now, sweet girl? what! well recover'd? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Sickness quite gone, ha? speak &mdash; ha? wench? Frank Gullman! &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Why, body of me, what's here? my casket wide open, broke open, my jewels stolen! &mdash; Why, Gumwater! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Gumwater. ]</B></I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Anon, anon, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Come hither, Gumwater. 70 </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>That were small manners, sir, i'faith: I'll find a time anon: your worship's busy yet. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Why, Gumwater! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Foh, nay then you'll make me blush, i'faith, sir </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Where's this creature? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>What creature is't you'd have, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>The worst that ever breathes. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>That's a wild boar, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>That's a vild whore, sir; &mdash; where did'st thou leave her, rascal? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Who, your recreation, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>My execration, sir! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>Where I was wont; in your worship's closet. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A pox engross her! it appears too true. See you this casket, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>My chain, my chain, my chain! my one and only chain! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit</I>. ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Thou runnest to much purpose now. Gumwater, yea! Is not a quean enough to answer for, but she must join a thief to't? a thieving quean! nay, I have done with her, i'faith. 'Tis a sign sh'as been sick a' late; for she's a great deal worse than she was: by my troth I would have pawned my life upon't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Did she want anything? was she not supplied? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Nay, and liberally; for that's an old man's sin: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> We'll feast our lechery, though we starve our kin. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Is not my name Sir Bounteous? am I not express'd there? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Ah, fie, fie, fie, fie, fie! but I perceive. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Though she have never so complete a friend, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> A strumpet's love will have a waft i' th' end. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And distaste the vessel. I can hardly bear this; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> But say, I should complain; perhaps she has pawn'd 'em &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 'Sfoot, the judges will but laugh at it and bid her borrow more money of 'em; make the old fellow pay for's lechery; that's all the mends I get. I have seen the same case tried at Newbury the last 'sizes. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Well, things must slip and sleep; I will dissemble it, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Because my credit shall not lose her lustre: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> But whilst I live, I'll neither love nor trust her, no </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I ha' done, I ha' done, I ha' done with her, i'faith! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE IV</FONT>. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Hall in </I><I><B>Harebrain</B></I><I>'s House.] </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Knocking within; enter a </I><I><B>Servant</B></I><I>.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ser. </B>Who's that knocks? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>[<I>wit</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>h</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>in.</I>] A friend. [<I><B>Servant</B></I><I> opens the door.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Penitent Brothel</B></I>. ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ser. </B>What's your will, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Is master Harebrain at home? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ser. </B>No, newly gone from it, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Where's the gentlewoman his wife? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ser. </B>My mistress is within, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>When came she in, I pray? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ser. </B>Who, my mistress? she was not out these two days, to my knowledge. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>No? trust me, I'd thought I'd seen her. I would request a word with her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ser. </B>I'll tell her, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>I thank you. <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>E</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>xit </I><I><B>Servant.</B></I>] It likes me worse and worse. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Mistress Harebrain</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Why, how now, sir? 'twas desperately adventured; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I little looked for you until the morrow. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>No? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Why what made you at my chamber then even now? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>I at your chamber? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Pooh, dissemble not; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Come, come, you were there. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>By my <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">li</SPAN></FONT></FONT>fe, you wrong me, sir! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>What? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>First, you're not ignorant what watch keeps o'er me; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And for your chamber, as I live, I know't not. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Burst into sorrow then, and grief's extremes. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Whilst I beat on this flesh! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>What is't disturbs you, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Then was the devil in your likeness there. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Ha! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>The very devil assum'd thee formally; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> That face, that voice, that gesture, that attire. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> E'en as it sits on thee, not a plait alter'd; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> That beaver band, the' colour of that periwig, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The farthingale above the navel; all </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> As if the fashion were his own invention. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>Mercy, defend me! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>To beguile me more. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The cunning Succubus told me that meeting </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Was wrought 'a purpose by much wit and art; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Wept to me; laid my vows before me; urg'd me; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Gave me the private marks of all our love; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Woo'd me in wanton and effeminate rhymes. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And sung and danc'd about me like a fairy: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And had not worthier cogitations blest me, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Thy form, and his enchantments, had possess'd me. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>What shall become of me? my own thoughts doom me. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Be honest, then the devil will ne'er assume thee: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> He has no pleasure in that shape t' abide </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Where these two sisters reign not, lust or pride; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> He as much trembles at a constant mind </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> As looser flesh at him: be not dismayed; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Spring, souls, for joy! his policies are betray'd! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Forgive me, mistress <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">H</SPAN></FONT></FONT>arebrain, on whose soul </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The guilt hangs double, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> My lust, and thy enticement! both I challenge; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And therefore of due vengeance it appear'd </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To none but me, to whom both sins inher'd. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> What knows the lecher, when he clips his whore, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Whether it be the devil his parts adore? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> They're both so like, that, in our natural sense, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I could discern no change nor difference. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> No marvel, then, times should so stretch and turn; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> None for religion, all for pleasure burn. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Hot zeal into hot lust is now transformed; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Grace into panting, 'c<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">har</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ity into <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">clo</SPAN></FONT></FONT>thes; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Faith into false hair, and put off as often. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> There's nothing but our virtue knows a mean: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> He that <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">k</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ept open house now keeps a quean. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> He will keep open still, that he commends; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And there he keeps a table for his friends: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And she consumes more than his sire could hoard, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Being more common than his house or board. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Harebrain</B></I><I> behind. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Live honest, and live happy, keep thy vows; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> She's part a virgin whom but one man knows: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Embrace thy husband, and beside him none; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Having but one heart, give it but to one. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mis. H. </B>I vow it on my knees, with tears true bred, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> No man shall ever wrong my husband's bed! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Rise; I'm thy friend for ever. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>[<I>coming forward</I>.] And I thine </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> For ever and ever! &mdash; Let me embrace thee, sir, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Whom I will love even next unto my soul, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And that's my wife. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Two dear rare gems this hour presents me with, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> A wife that's modest and a friend that's right: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Idle suspect and fear, now take your flight! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>A happy inward peace crown both your joys! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Thanks above utterance to you! &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Servant</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Now, the news? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ser. </B>Sir Bounteous Progress, sir, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Invites you and my mistress to a feast </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> On Tuesday next; his man attends without. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Return both with our willingness and thanks. &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit </I><I><B>Servant</B></I>. ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I will entreat you, sir, to be my guest. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Who, I, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Faith, you shall. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Well, I'll break strife. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>A friend's so rare, I'll sooner part from life. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE V.</FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Room in the </I><I><B>Courtesan</B></I><I>'s House. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Follywit</B></I><I>, and the</I><I><B> Courtesan</B></I><I> striving from him. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN></FONT></FONT>What, so coy, so strict? come, come! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Pray, change your opinion, sir; I am not for that use. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Will you but hear me? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>I shall hear that I would not. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit</I>.]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Fol. </B></SPAN></FONT></FONT>'Sfoot, this is strange! I've seldom seen a wench </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Stand upon stricter points: life, she will not </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Endure to be courted! does she e'er think to prosper? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I'll ne'er believe that tree can bring forth fruit </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> That never bears a blossom; courtship's a blossom, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And often brings forth fruit in forty weeks. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 'Twere a mad part in me now to turn over: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> If e'er there were any hope on't, 'tis at this instant. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Shall I be madder now than e'er I've been? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I'm in the way, i'faith. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Man's never at high height of madness full </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Until he love, and prove a woman's gull. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I do protest in earnest, I ne'er knew </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> At which end to begin t'affect a woman </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Till this bewitching minute; I ne'er saw </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Face worth my object till mine eye met hers; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I should laugh and I were caught, i'faith: I'll see her again, that's certain, whate'er comes on't, by your favour, ladies. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Mother</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>You're welcome, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Know you the young gentlewoman that went in lately? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>I have best cause to know her; I'm her mother, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>O, in good time. I like the gentlewoman well; a pretty contrived beauty. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Ay, nature has done her part, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>But she has one uncomely quality. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>What's that, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>'Sfoot, she's afraid of a man. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Alas! impute that to her bashful spirit, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> She's fearful of her honour. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Of her honour? 'slid, I'm sure I cannot get </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Her maidenhead with breathing upon her, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Nor can she lose her honour in her tongue. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>True; and I have often told her so; but what would you have a foolish virgin, sir, a wilful virgin? I tell you, sir, I need not have been in that solitary estate that I am, had she had grace and boldness to have put herself forward; always timorsome, always backward! Ah, that same peevish honour of hers has undone her and me both, good gentleman! the suitors, the jewels, the jointures, that has been offered her! we had been made women for ever: but what was her fashion? she could not endure the sight of a man, forsooth, but run and hole herself presently. So choice of her honour, I am persuaded, whene'er she has husband, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> She'll e'en be a precedent for all married wives </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> How to direct their actions and their lives. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol.</B> Have you not so much power with her to command her presence? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>You shall see straight what I can do, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Would I might be hanged, if my love do not stretch to her deeper and deeper! Those bashful maiden humours take me prisoner. When there comes a restraint upon flesh we are almost greedy upon't: and that makes your merchant's wife oftentimes pay so dear for a mouthful. Give me a woman as she was made at first; simple of herself, without sophistication, like this wench: I cannot bide them when they have tricks, set speeches, and artful entertainments. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> You shall have some so impudently aspected, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> They will outcry the forehead of a man, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Make him blush first, and talk him into silence; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And this is counted manly in a woman: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> It may hold so; sure, womanly it is not. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> No; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> If e'er I love, or anything move me, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 'Twill be a woman's simple modesty. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Mother</B></I><I>, bringing in strivingly the </I><I><B>Courtesan</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Pray let me go; why, mother, what do you mean? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I beseech you, mother! is this your conquest now? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Great glory 'tis to overcome a poor </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And silly virgin. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>The wonder of our time sits in that brow: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I ne'er beheld a perfect maid till now. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Thou childish thing, more bashful than thou'rt wise, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Why dost thou turn aside, and drown thine eyes? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Look, fearful fool, there's no temptation near thee; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Art not asham'd that any flesh should fear thee? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Why, I durst pawn my life the gentleman </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Means no other but honest and pure love to thee, &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> How say you, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>By my faith, not I, lady. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Hark you there? what think </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> You now, forsooth? what grieves your honour now? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Or what lascivious breath intends to. rear </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Against that maiden organ, your chaste ear? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Are you resolv'd now better of men's hearts, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Their faiths, and their affections? With you none, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Or at most few, whose tongues and minds are one. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Repent you now of your opinion past; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Men love as purely as you can be chaste. &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To her yourself,-sir; the way's broke before you; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> You have the easier passage. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Fear not. Come, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Erect thy happy graces in thy look; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I am no curious wooer, but, in faith, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I love thee honourably. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>How mean you that, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>'Sfoot, as one loves a woman for a wife. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Has the gentleman answered you, trow? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>I do confess it truly to you both, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> My estate is yet but sickly; but I've a grandsi<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">r</SPAN></FONT></FONT>e </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Will make me lord of thousands at his death. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>I know your grandsire well; she knows him better. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Why, then, you know no fiction: my state then </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Will be along day's journey 'bove the waste, wench. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Nay, daughter, he says true. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>And thou shalt often measure it in thy coach. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And with the wheel's track make a girdle for't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Ah, 'twill be a merry journey! no </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>What, is't a match? if t be, clap hands and lips. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Kisses </I><I><B>Courtesan</B></I><I>.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>'Tis done; there's witness on't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Why then, mother, I salute you. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Kisses </I><I><B>Mother.]</B></I><I> </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Thanks, sweet son. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Son Follywit, come hither; if I might counsel thee. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> We'll take her e'en while the good mood's upon her; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Send for a priest, and clap't up within this hour. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>By my troth, agreed, mother. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Nor does her wealth consist all in her flesh. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Though beauty be enough wealth for a woman; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> She brings a dowry of three hundred with her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>'Sfoot, that will serve [un]til my grandsire dies; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I warrant you he'll drop away at fall a' th' leaf; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> If e'er he reach to All Hollantide, I'll be hang'd. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>O yes, son, he's a lusty old gentleman. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Ah, pox, he's given to women! he keeps a quean at this present. , </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Fie! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Do not tell my wife on't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>That were needless, i'faith. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>He makes a great feast upon the eleventh of this month, Tuesday next, and you shall see players there &mdash; I have one trick more to put upon him. <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Aside</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">]</SPAN></FONT></FONT> &mdash; My wife and yourself shall go thither before as my guests, and prove his entertainment: I'll meet you there at night. The jest will be here; that feast which he makes will unknown to him serve fitly for our wedding-dinner; we shall be royally furnished, and get some charges by't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>An excellent course, i'faith, and a thrifty! why, son, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Methinks you begin to thrive before you're married. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>We shall thrive one day, wench, and clip enough: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Between our hopes there's but a grandsire's puff. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>So, girl, here was a bird well caught. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>If ever, here: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> But what for 's grandsire, 'twill scarce please him well. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Who covets fruit, ne'er cares from whence it fel<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">l:</SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Thou'st wedded youth and strength; and wealth will fall! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Last, thou'rt made honest. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>And that's worth 'em all. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeun</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>t.]</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>ACT V. </FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE I. </FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Room in </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><I>'s House. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">, </SPAN></I><I><B>Gumwater </B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">and </SPAN></I><I><B>Servants</B></I><I> pass over the stage. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Have a care, blue coats. Bestir yourself, master Gumwater; cast an eye into th' kitchen; o'erlook the knaves a little. Every Jack has his friend to-day; this cousin, and that cousin, puts in for a dish of meat: a man knows not, till he make a feast, how many varlets he feeds; acquaintances swarm in every corner, like flies at Bartholomew-tide, that come up with drovers; 'sfoot I think they smell my kitchen seven mile about. &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Harebrain, Mistress Harebrain, </B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">and</SPAN></I><I><B> Penitent Brothel</B></I><I>.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Master Harebrain, and his sweet bedfellow! you're very copiously welcome. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Sir, here's an especial dear friend of ours: we were bold to make his way to your table. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Thanks for that boldness ever, good master Harebrain: is this your friend, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Both my wife's friend and mine, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Why, then, compendiously, sir, you're welcome. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>In octavo I thank you, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Excellently retorted, i'faith! he's welcome for 's wit: I have my sorts of salutes, and know how to place 'em courtly. Walk in,'sweet gentlemen, walk in; there's a good fire i' th' hall; you shall have my sweet company instantly. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Ay, good Sir Bounteous. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>You shall indeed, gentlemen. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt </I><I><B>Harebrain, Mistress Harebrain,</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and </SPAN></I><I><B>Penitent Brothel.</B></I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>S</B></I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>ervant</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I><B>.] </B></I><FONT COLOR="#c9211e"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>{</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#c9211e"><I><B>Globe says Semus is misprint for Servus  ie servant}</B></I></FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> &mdash; How now? what news brings thee in stumbling now? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Se</B><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>r</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><B>. </B>There are certain players come to town, sir, and desire to interlude before your worship. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Players? by the mass, they are welcome; they'll grace my entertainment well. But for certain players, there thou liest, boy; they were never more uncertain in their lives; now up, and now down; they know not when to play, where to play, nor what to play: not when to play, for fearful fools; where to play, for puritan fools; nor what to play, for critical fools. Go, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> call 'em in. [<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>Exit</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I> </I><I><B>Se</B></I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>rvant</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT>.]&mdash; How fitly the whoresons come upo' th' feast! troth, I was e'en wishing for 'em. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Se</B></I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>rvant</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I><B> </B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">with </SPAN></I><I><B>Follywit, Mawworm, Hoboy,</B></I><I> and others, disguised as players. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> welcome, welcome, my friends! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>The month of May delights not in her flowers </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> More than we joy in that sweet sight of yours. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Well acted, a' my credit! I perceive he's your best actor. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Maw.</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><B> </B>He has greatest share, sir, and may live of himself, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>What, what? &mdash; Put on your hat, sir, pray, put on; go to, wealth must be respected: let those that have least feathers stand bare. And whose men are you, I pray? &mdash; nay, keep on your hat still. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>We serve my lord Owemuch, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>My lord Owemuch? by my troth, the welcomest men alive! give me all your hands at once! That honourable gentleman, he lay at my house in a robbery once, and took all quietly, went away cheerfully: 1 made a very good feast for him: I never saw a man of honour bear things bravelier away. Serve my lord Owemuch? welcome, i'faith! &mdash; Some bastard for my </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> lord's players! <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit </I><I><B>Se</B></I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>rvant</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>, and returns with wine</I>.] &mdash; Where be your boys? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>They come along with the wagon, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Good, good; and which is your politician amongst you? now, i'faith, he that works out restraints, makes best legs at court, and has a suit made of purpose for the company's business; which is he? come, be not afraid of him. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>I am he, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Art thou he? give me thy hand. Hark in thine ear: thou rollest too fast to gather so much moss as thy fellow there; champ upon that. Ah, and what play shall we have, my masters? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>A pleasant, witty comedy, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ay, ay, ay; a comedy in any case, that I and my guests may laugh a little: what's the name on't? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>'Tis called <I>The Slip</I>. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>T</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>he Slip</I> I by my troth a pretty name, and a glib one: go all and slip into't, as fast as you can. Cover a table for the players! First take heed of a lurcher; he cuts deep, he will eat up all from you. &mdash; Some sherry for my lord's players there! Sirrah, why this will be a true feast, a right Mitre supper, a play and all. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exeunt </I><I><B>Follywit, Mawworm, Hoboy</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">, and others, with </SPAN></I><I><B>Semus</B></I><I>.</I>] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> More <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">li</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ghts! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Mother </B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">and</SPAN></I><I><B> Courtesan.</B></I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I called for light; here come in two are light enough for a whole house, i'faith. Dare the thief look me i' th' face? O impudent times! Go to, dissemble it! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Bless you, Sir Bounteous! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O welcome, welcome thief, quean, and bawd! welcome all three! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Nay, here's but two on's, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>'A my troth, I took her for a couple; I'd have sworn there had been two faces there. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Not all under one hood, sir. go </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Yes, faith, would I, to see mine eyes bear double. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>I'll make it hold, sir; my daughter is a couple, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> She was married yesterday. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Buz! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Nay, to no buzzard neither; a right hawk, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Whene'er you know him. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Away! he cannot be but a rascal. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Walk in, walk in, bold guests, that come unsent for! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit </I><I><B>Mother</B></I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Pox, I perceive how my jewels went now. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> To grace her marriage. [<I>Aside</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Would you with me, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ay; <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">h</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ow hapt it, wench, you put the slip upon me, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Not three nights since? I name it gently to you; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I term it neither pilfer, cheat, nor shark. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>You're past my reach. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>I'm old, and past your reach, very good; but you will not deny this, I trust. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>With a safe conscience, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Yea? give me thy hand; fare thee ' well. &mdash; I have done with her. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Give me your hand, sir; you ne'er yet begun with me. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit</I>. ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>When, when! O audacious age! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> She denies me, and all, when on her fingers </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I spied the ruby sit, that does betray her, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And blushes for her fact! Well, there's a time for't, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> For all's too little now for entertainment. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Feast, mirth, ay, harmony, and the play to boot; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> A jovial season. &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Follywit.</B></I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> How now, are you ready? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Even upon readiness, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Keep you your hat on. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>I have a suit to your worship. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O, cry you mercy; then you must stand bare. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>We could do all to the life of action, sir, both for the credit of your worship's house, and the grace of our comedy–– </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Cuds me, what else, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>And for some defects, as the custom is, we would be bold to require your worship's assistance. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Why, with all my heart; what is't you want? speak. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>One's a chain for a justice's hat, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Why, here, here, here, here, whoreson; will this serve your turn? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Giving chain</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Excellent well, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>What else lack you? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol.:</B> We should use a ring with a stone in't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Nay, whoop, I have given too many rings already; talk no more of rings, I pray you: here, here, here, make this jewel serve for once. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Giving jewel.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>O this will serve, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>What, have you all now? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>All now, sir; only Time is brought i' th' middle of the play, and I would desire your worship's watchtime. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>My watch? with all my heart; only give Time a charge that he be not fiddling with it. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Giving watch.] </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>You shall ne'er see that, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Well, now you are furnish'd, sir, make haste; away. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Fol E'en as fast as I can, sir: I'll set my fellows going first; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> They must have time and leisure, or they're dull else. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exit </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><B>.]</B> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I'll stay and speak a prologue, yet o'ertake 'em: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I cannot have conscience, i'faith, to go away, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And ne'er ' a word to 'em. My grandsire has given me </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Three shares here; sure I'll do somewhat for 'em. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT SIZE=4>SCENE II. </FONT> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[A Hall in </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous</B></I><I>'s House. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Sir Bounteous, Harebrain, Mistress Harebrain, Penitent Brothel</B></I><I>, and other guests; </I><I><B>Courtesan</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and </SPAN></I><I><B>Mother; Gumwater</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and </SPAN></I><I><B>Servants</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>More lights, more stools! sit, sit: the play begins. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Have you players here, Sir Bounteous? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>We have 'em for you, sir; fine nimble comedians, proper actors most of them. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Whose men, I pray you, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O, there's their credit, sir! they serve an honourable popular gentleman, ycleped my Lord Owemuch. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>My Lord Owemuch? <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">H</SPAN></FONT></FONT>e was in Ireland lately. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O, you ne'er knew any of the name but were great travellers. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>How is the comedy called. Sir Bounteous? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Marry, sir, <I>The Slip</I>. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B><I>The Slip?</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter, for Prologue, </I><I><B>Follywit</B></I><I>.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ay, and here the prologue begins to slip in upon's. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>'Tis so indeed, Sir Bounteous. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>We sing of wandering knights, what them betide, </I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT FACE="Liberation Sans Narrow, serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>{</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Liberation Sans Narrow, serif"><I>while acting Follywit uses italics}</I></FONT></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Who nor in one place nor one shape abide; </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>They're here now, and anon no scouts can reach 'em. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Being every man well hors'd like a bold Beacham?- </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>The play which we present no fault shall meet </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>But one; yo</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>u&rsquo;</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>ll say 'tis short, we'll say 'tis sweet: </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>'Tis given much to dumb shows, which some praise; </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>And, like the term, delights much in delays. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>So to conclude, and give the name her due. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>The play being called </I><I>The Slip</I><I>, I vanish too.</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Excellently well acted, and a nimble conceit! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>The prologue's pretty, i'faith. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>And went off well. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ay, that's the grace of all, when they go away well, ah, hah! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>A' my troth, and I were not married, I could find in my heart to fall in love with that player now, and send for him to a supper.' I know some i' th' town that have done as much, and there took such a good conceit of their parts into th' two-penny room,'- that the actors have been found i' th' morning in a less compass than their stage, though 'twere ne'er so full of gentlemen.</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>But, passion of me, where be these knaves? will they not come away? methinks they stay very long. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>O, you must bear a little, sir; they have many shifts to run into. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Shifts call you 'em? they're horrible long things. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Follywit </B></I><I>in a fury. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>A pox of such fortune, the plot's betrayed! all will come out: yonder they come, taken upon suspicion, and brought back by a constable. I was accursed to hold society with such coxcombs! what's to be done? I shall be shamed for ever! My wife here, and all! ah, pox &mdash; by light, happily thought upon! the chain. Invention stick to me this once, and fail me ever hereafter! so, so&mdash;&mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Aside.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Life, I say, where be these players? &mdash; O, are you come? troth, it's time; I was e'en sending for you. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">H</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ow moodily he walks! what plays he, trow? ^ </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A justice, upon my credit; I know by the chain there. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>Unfortunate justice!</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ah &mdash; a &mdash; a &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>In thy kin unfortu</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>na</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>te! </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Here comes thy nephew now upon suspicion. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Brought by a constable before thee; his vild </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Associates with him; </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>But so disguis'd, none knows him but myself. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Twice have I set him free from officer's fangs, </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>And for his sake his fellows: let him look t</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>o&rsquo;</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>t; </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>My conscience will permit but one wink more. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Yea, shall we take justice winking? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>For this time </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>I have bethought a means to work thy freedom. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Though hazarding myself. Should the law seize him. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Being kin to me, 'twould blemish much my name: </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>No; I'd rather lean to danger than to shame.</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A very explete justice! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>within</I>.<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">]</SPAN></FONT></FONT> Thank you, good neighbours; let me alone with 'em now. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Enter </I><I><B>Constable</B></I><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> with </SPAN></I><I><B>Mawworm, Hoboy</B></I><I>, and the rest of </I><I><B>Follywit's companions</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>'Sfoot, who's yonder? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Hob. </B>Dare he sit there? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Third C.</B> Follywit! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fourth C.</B> Captain! pooh! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>Ho</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>w</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I> now, constable I what news with thee!</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>May it please your worship, sir, here are a company of suspicious fellows. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>To me? pooh, turn to th' justice, you whoreson hobby-horse! &mdash; This is some new player now; they put all their fools to the constable's part still. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>Wha</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>t&rsquo;</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>s the matter, constable? what's the matter? </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>I have nothing to say to your worship. &mdash; They were all riding a' horseback, an't please your worship. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Yet again? a pox of all asses still! they could not ride a' foot, unless 'twere in a bawdy-house. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>The ostler told me they were all unstable fellows, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>Why, sure the fello</I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>w&rsquo;</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>s drunk. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>We spied that weakness in him long ago, sir; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Your worship must bear with him, the man's much o'erseen; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Only in respect of his of<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">fi</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ce we obey'd him. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Both to appear conformable to law, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And clear of all offence; for I protest, sir, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> He found us but a' horseback. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>What, he did</I>? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>As I have a soul, that's all, and all he can lay to us. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">I&rsquo;</SPAN></FONT></FONT>faith, you were not riding away then? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>'Sfoot, being a' horseback, sir, that must needs follow. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>Why, true, sir. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Well said, justice! he helps his kinsman well. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>Why, sirrah, do you use to bring gentlemen before us for riding away? What, will you have 'em stand still when they're up, like Smug upo' ih' white horse yonder? are your wits steeped? I'll make you an example for all ditch constables, how they abuse justice. &mdash; Here, bind him to this chair. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>Ha, bind him? ho! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>If you want cords, use garters. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I><B>Mawworm, Hoboy,</B></I><I> </I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>etc</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>., bind the </I><I><B>Constable</B></I><I>. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>Help, help, gentlemen! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>As fast as we can, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>Thieves, thieves! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>A gag will help all this: keep less noise, you knave.</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>O help! rescue the constable; O, O! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>They gag him. ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ho, ho, ho, ho! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B><I>Why, la, you who lets you now? </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>You may ride quietly; </I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>I&rsquo;ll</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I> see you to </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>Take horse myself, I have nothing else to do. </I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt </I><I><B>Follywit, Mawworm, Hoboy</B></I><I>, and others.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">O,O,O</SPAN></FONT></FONT>! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ha, ha, ha! by my troth, the maddest piece </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> of justice, gentlemen, that ever was committed. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>I'll be sworn for the madness on't, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>I am deceived, if this prove not a merry comedy and a witty. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Alas, poor constable! his mouth's open, and ne'er a wise word. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Faith, he speaks now e'en as many as he has done; he seems wisest when he gapes and says nothing. Ha, ha! he turns and tells his tale to me like an ass. What have I to do with their riding away? They may ride for me, thou whoreson coxcomb, thou! nay, thou art well enough served, i'faith. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>But what follows all this while, sir? methinks some should pass by before this time, and pity the constable. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>By th' mass, and you say true, sir. &mdash; Go, sirrah, step in; I think they have forgot themselves; call the knaves away; they're in a wood, I believe. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>Exit </I><I><B>Servant</B></I>. ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>Ay, ay, ay! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Hark, the constable says ay, they're in a wood: ha, ha! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Gum. </B>He thinks long of the time, Sir Bounteous. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Servant.</B></I><I> ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>How now? when come they? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ser. </B>Alas, an't please your worship, there's not one of them to be found, sir! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B.</B> How? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>What says the fellow? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ser. </B>Neither horse nor man, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Body of me! thou liest. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Ser. </B>Not a hair of either, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>How now, Sir Bounteous? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Cheated and defeated! Ungag that rascal; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I'll hang him for 's fellows; I'll make him bring 'em out. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>They ungag </I><I><B>Constable</B></I>. ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>Did not I tell your worship this before? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Brought 'em before you for suspected persons? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Stay'd 'em at town's end upon warning given? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Made signs that my very jaw-bone aches? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Your worship would not hear me; called me ass. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Saving your worship's presence, laugh'd at me. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B.</B> Ha! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>I begin to taste it. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Give me leave, give me leave. Why, art not thou the constable i' th' comedy? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>I' th' comedy? why, I am the constable i' th' commonwealth, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">I&rsquo;</SPAN></FONT></FONT>m gull'd, i'faith, I'm gull'd! When wast thou chose? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Con. </B>On Thursday last, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A pox go with't! there't goes, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Pen. B. </B></SPAN></FONT></FONT>I seldom heard jest match it. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Nor I, i'faith? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Gentlemen, shall I entreat a courtesy? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>H</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><B>ar.</B> What is't, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Do not laugh at me seven year hence. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>We should betray and laugh at our own folly then, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> For, of my troth, none here but was deceiv'd in't. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Faith, that's some comfort yet; ha, ha! it was featly carried; troth, I commend their wits; before our faces make us asses, while we sit still and only laugh at ourselves! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>Faith, they were some counterfeit rogues, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Why, they confess so much themselves; they said they'd play <I>The Slip</I>; they should be men of their words. I hope the justice will have more conscience, i'faith, than to carry away a chain of a hundred mark of that fashion. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><B>Har. </B></SPAN></FONT></FONT>What, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ay, by my troth, sir; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Besides a jewel and a jewel's fellow, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> A good fair watch that hung about my neck, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>'Sfoot, what did you mean, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Methinks my lord Owemuch's players should not scorn me so, i'faith; they will come, and bring all again, I know; push, they will, i'faith; but a jest, certainly. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <I>[Re-enter </I><I><B>Follywit </B></I><I>in his own dress, with </I><I><B>Mawworm, Ho</B></I><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I><B>boy</B></I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>, and others</I>. ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Pray, grandsire, give me your blessing. [<I>Kneeling.]</I> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Who? son Follywit? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>This shows like kneeling after the play; I praying for my <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">L</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ord Owemuch and his good countess, our honourable lady and mistress. [<I>Aside</I>.] </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Rise richer by a blessing; thou art welcome. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Thanks, good grandsire; I was bold to bring </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Those gentlemen, my friends. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>They're all welcome! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Salute you that side, and I'll welcome this side. &mdash; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Sir, to begin with you. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Master Fo<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">ll</SPAN></FONT></FONT>ywit! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>I am glad 'tis our fortune so happily to meet, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Nay, then, you know me not, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Sweet mistress Harebrain! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>You cannot be too bold, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Our marriage known? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>Not a word yet. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>The better. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Faith, son, would you had come sooner with these gentlemen! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Why, grandsire? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>We had a play here. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>A play, sir? no? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Yes, faith! a pox a' th' author! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Bless us all! why, were they such vild ^ ones, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>I am sure villainous ones, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Some raw simple fools! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Nay, by th' mass, these were enough for thievish knaves. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>What, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Which way came you, gentlemen? you could not choose but meet 'em. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>We met a company with hampers after 'em. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>O, those were they, those were they! A pox hamper 'em! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Bless us all again! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>They have hampered me finely, sirrah. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>How, sir? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>How, sir? I lent the rascals properties to furnish out their play, a chain, a jewel, and a watch; and they watched their time, and rid quite away with 'em. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Are they such creatures? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Hark, hark, gentlemen! by this light, the watch rings alarum in his pocket! there's my watch come again, or the very cousin-german to't: whose is't, whose is't? by th' mass, 'tis he! Hast thou one, son? prithee, bestow it upon thy grandsire; I now look for mine again, i'faith: nay, come with a good will, or not at all; I'll give thee a better thing. &mdash; A prize, a prize, gentlemen! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">[</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB"><I>D</I></SPAN></FONT></FONT><I>raws chain, etc., out of </I><I><B>Follywit</B></I><I>'s pocket.</I> ]</P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Great or small? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>At once I've drawn chain, jewel, watch, and all. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Pen. B. </B>By my faith, you have a fortunate hand, sir! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Har. </B>Nay, all to come at once! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>A vengeance of this foolery! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Have I 'scaped the constable to be brought in by the watch? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>O destiny! have I married a thief, mother? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Mot. </B>Comfort thyself; thou art beforehand with him, daughter. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Why, son, why, gentlemen, how long have you been my lord Owemuch his servants, i'faith? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Faith, grandsire, shall I be true 1 to you? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>I think 'tis time; thou'st been a thief already. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>I, knowing the day of your feast, and the natural inclination you have to pleasure and pastime, presumed upon your patience for a jest, as well to prolong your days as–– </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Whoop! why, then, you took my chain along with you to prolong my days, did you? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Not so neither, sir; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And that you may be seriously assur'd </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Of my hereafter stableness of life, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I have took another course. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>What? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Took a wife. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>A wife! 'sfoot, what is she for a fool would marry thee, a madman? when was the wedding kept? in bedlam? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>She's both a gentlewoman and a virgin. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir. B.</B> Stop there, stop there: would I might see her! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>You have your wish; she's here. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Ah, ha, ha, ha! this makes amends for all. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>How now? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>Captain, do you hear? is she your wife in earnest? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>How then? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Maw. </B>Nothing, but pity you, sir. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>Speak, son; is't true? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Can you gull us, and let a quean gull you? </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Ha! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Cour. </B>What I have been is past; be that forgiven. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And have a soul true both to thee and heaven! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol. </B>Is't come about? tricks are repaid, I see. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir B. </B>The best is, sirrah, 'you pledge none but me; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And since I drink the top, take her &mdash; and, hark, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> I spice the bottom with a thousand mark. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Fol.</B> By my troth, she is as good a cup of nectar as any bachelor needs to sip at. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Tut, give me gold, it makes amends for vice; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Maids without coin are caudles without spice. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <B>Sir. B. </B>Come, gentlemen, to th' feast; let not time waste; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> We've pleas'd our ear, now let us please our taste. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Who lives by cunning, mark it, his fate's cast; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> When he has gu<FONT COLOR="#00000a"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">ll</SPAN></FONT></FONT>'d all, then is himself the last. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> [<I>Exeunt omnes ]</I></P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> The catch for the Fifth Act, sung by <B>Sir Bounteous Progress</B> to his guests. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <BR> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> O for a bowl of fat canary, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Rich Aristippus, sparkling sherry! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Some nectar else from Juno's dairy; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> O these draughts would make us merry! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <BR> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> O for a wench! I deal in faces. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> And in other daintier things: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Tickled am I with her embraces; </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Fine dancing in such fairy rings! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <BR> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> O for a plump, fat leg of mutton, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Veal, lamb, capon, pig, and cony! </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> None is happy but a glutton. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> None an ass but who wants money. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <BR> </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Wines, indeed, and girls are good, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> But brave victuals feast the blood: </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> 'For wenches, wine, and lusty cheer, </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> Jove would come down to surfeit here. </P> <P CLASS="western" ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"> <BR> </P> </BODY> </HTML>