4. Intrat Insatiato Infaelicto Sirra haue you found Parvagracâ—â— when will he come Infâ—. To tell you the naked truth Sir I haue beene asleep till I heard you call for your golasshes for I was so hungrie that if I had not slept I had committed Burglary somewhere to get victuals Now I le finde him out â—ee steps forwards and turnes againe saying but I pray you Sir remember to giue mee my two shillings you promised mee for bringing newes of your dinner Now you shall haue monie I speake before it bee gone Insa. Yes and before it be come why dost thou tarrie the Scrivener will thinke vs long and a worse matter perhaps wee shall giue them too much time to enquire of our states Infae. I can soone haue him if all other things were readie you know where you left him at the Ladies where you both dined He said he would follow you I marvaile hee is so long But I warrant they are vp to the noses in the new booke de flatibus It is best for me to know if the bonds bee readie before I fetch him lest he be angrie to leaue the Ladies companie before neede require Intrat Parvagracio But looke where he is come alone without carying Sir you sau'd me a labour I was sent for you Can you smell out good bargaines you come without calling When thrift is in the market you are ever in the way Par. What good bargaine cracke is toward me Infae. My Master shall haue monie and you must bee bound with him Par. Is that a good bargaine wagge well I haue such an other a-bruing for your Master to bee bound with mee but where is he Infae. Heere at hand Now to the scrivener and broker goe I Exit Par. I am glad to heare of your good furniture toward and I come to prostrate my seale and service at your worthy feete Insati. Sir with all complements for such kinde loue I receiue your readines And doe reciprocally promise to be euer at your becke Intrat Infaelicto Infae. Sir the bonds be readie for the seale I haue seene the commoditie of ragges and I like them well They never dustie you except they be stirr'd But they are foule and heavy I wood we had sold them by gold smiths weight for so much in silver I did see a fellow lift a bundle of them vp to a carre and he grunted hard he made me remember my Ladies booke de flatibus For I look'd euer when hee would haue let flye Insa. Well le ts goe seale the bonds and lose no time ACT. 7. SCEN. I. Intrat Levitia cum Pedisequa her periwigs of dogges hairâ— white and a yellow band about her necke a glasse and powder of an old post in a boxe or paper And is very busie in trimming her selfe and casting dust vpon her head vntill her time come to speake Insatiato goes on staring But what haue wee heere I le see this sight for all the haste Par. Why t is a woman Dost not see what it is Insa. A woman t is not a woman The head is a dog t is a maremaide halfe a dog halfe a woman Par. No t is but the haire of a dog in fashion pul'd from these Island dogges Insa. In fashion there 's a fashion for a foole What 's that she casts vpon her head Par. That 's the powder of a rotten post Insa. A tale of a tub the powder of a pudding will you make me beleeue that Par. Doest thou thinke it so strange vpon my credite I know some are spoken to for providing such powder by Ladies I am in earnest I assure you t is verie common Insa. I thinke they be common indeed that bee dress'd with dust he goes prying on both sides of her saying not â— dog say you the head is a dog The chiefest part is a dog well say what you will you shall never make mee beleeue but it is either a dog or a dogged woman Par. Be she what she will in conditions I warrant thee t is a woman in sexe or never trust my iudgement againe Insa. What 's that about her neck a pancake or a tanzie Par. T is a band yellow starch'd how canst thou thinke it to be a tanzie Insa. Because it lookes so yellow Marie it is not so wel I wish it were for then I would eat it vp for I haue not halfe din'd Par. No t were pitie to devoure her me thinks t is a very pretie creature Insa. Dost thou like her so well I le goe wooe her shee has no impediment but I may marie her may I not Par. Not that I knowe except she be honest Insa. Is that an impediment nay the honester the better I le to her instantlie I see no reason but I may fall in loue with her on the suddaine And happie is that wooing that is not long in doing but stay are you sure she is a woman I am in some doubt And I would be verie loath to mary her except she proue a woman Par. I warrant thee shee is a woman why shouldst thou feare it Insâ—. Haue I not cause to feare it for if I should be maried to a beast or a iade I were vtterly vndone is it not good to be sure Par. Mistrust not that thou maist knowe by her speech and voice whether she be a woman or no Insa. Cannot her tongue deceaue me Par. Yes like enough but not in this case And if the worst fall you may easily knowe the first night you I le together Insa. I thanke you for nothing when it is too late Par. VVhy too late thou maist be rid of her presently and be parted the next day Insa. I could like that well enough so that I had her portion but is there such a course to be taken that they cannot be tied so fast but they may easilie be vndone Par. No question but the mariage is void Insa. That 's an excellent tricke I wish I had a grant vnder the great seale to vnmarrie all those that would faine be parted I would purchase Lordships Townes Countries Par. If you had yet must you vse discretion in it and devide none but such as are indeed no marriages at first but had impediments not dispensable Otherwise you might be cause of great sinne and inconvenience You must examine the reasons and proceed iudiciallie before you sever them rashly Insa. Never tell me let them looke to that at their own perill It would take vp too much time if there came to mee but 100 in a daie to examine them all No no if they were willing to be sundred I would vncouple them let them range afterward which waie they will for me Well vpon thy word that I may be divorced from her if she proue not a certaine woman I le vpon her whatsoever she be And I le catch her vpon a suddaine for feare least it be a dog bite me he goes stealing towards her with his hands forward Par. A
Did you not heare him say it is reported you haue no good title Well in hope you will doe me true service I will helpe you out of these bryers Tell mee true What should he haue given for your land Simp. Indeed Sir he should haue pay'd me 150l And if you helpe me not I am vndone Anto. It had beene worth 150l if it had not beene thus disgrac'd but now 't is worth litle Well if I giue you 100l for it what will you say Simp. If you will giue me 100l for it I shall thinke my selfe much bound to you while I live And so I doubt not but you will keepe the land safe For the title was as good as could be vntill you had my writings It may be they took wet in the last great raine and so they did shrinke Anto. I will giue thee 100l And no raine will shrinke the mony the Sunne will doe it most hurt for it will melt very fast Simp. You know how to keepe it from melting better then I Let me intreat you to order it as your owne Anto. I will giue thee my credit for that Exeunt Anto. Secu. It is much to be fear'd that this greedie griper will vtterly spoile this poore man both of money and land his minde is altogether vpon deceit and ruine of others T is pitie any honest bodie should haue to do with him that studieth nothing but mischiefe Her I am sorry to see so much wickednesse in one man as appeares in him hee is able to infect a whole countrie And it were a happie thing if hee were banished the commerce of all Christians ACT. III SCENA I. Enter Sperato with hanke and spaniels Spurco with hounds and Gulato Of all the musicke in the world there is none like to that which is found in hauking For the questing of Spaniels the spring of partridges the gingling of Haukes bels and thundring of horse heeles is the best consort and pleaseth me aboue all delights Spur Your Comparison is too generall Had you excepted hunting I might haue join'd hands with you against all others but now I am become your adversary For it is confessed of all sorts that the musicke in hunting both for continuance of the sport for a delightfull exercise contenting the eare and gentle-men-like pastime the world cannot compare with vs and so we hunters cary the Bell away Sper Indeed you hunter carie the Bell but not for any good doing no more then you doe by carying the horne to very mans house What time and order your hounds obserue with their naturall harmonie I will not dispute they and their keepers being seldome in order but of this I am sure that there are few kennells of hounds in England but while some are in chase after Hare or Fox others are killing sheep in full crie of the poore harmelesse beast wherevpon is growne that proverbe The Fox kills the lambs and the hounds the old sheep But I cannot indure you should challenge hunting to 〈◊〉 better with a gentlemaÌ„ then hauking Everie Clowne can keepe a dog and the more carion he eateth the more egregiouslie he smelleth but the hauke adorneth a kings fist besides the admirable conquest the faulkner maketh in a haukes nature bringing the wild Haggard hauing all the earth seas to scowre over vncontrollable to attend and obeie her keeper so that at his verie voice she turnes towards and stoupes to his gloue Hounds are so prejudiciall to the common-wealth that I dare vndertake to proue that next vnto drunkards they are the greatest spoilers of poore mens bread Gula. I like all well enough but the last words of yours Sperto for mee thinkes it is as good sport to heare the Falconer and the Hunter fall out as for theeues to appeache one an other Good fellowes take their liquor quietly without any of these faults and helpe to hold vp tillage by the swift vtterance of the surmounting graine Spe. The immoderate and excessiue disorder in drinking and more then swinish swallowing that neither bellie nor head can containe but must recoile by the way it entred in is the most pernicious inconvenience that this kingdome suffereth Gula. Your invective against good companions for so I must needes call them that loue drinke is to bee refelled rather with a Cudgill then with reason When had you any gallant Captaine or man of resolution but would drinke health after health vntill themselfe were past health and helpe Who was more valiant then Captaine Shinke Yet moore then he who loued drinke Spe. Like matter like patron was his valor in his drinke or was he best able to performe a noble exploite when his legges failed his giddie head No he was euer like a Swine When strength of drinkâ— clos'd his â—yen Exeunt omnes ACT. III SCEN. II. Enter Insatiato with his page Infaelicto Boy a pipe of Tobaccho What is it a Clocke Infae. It is almost eleuen Insati. I doubt it be no more indeed I am so sleepie still goe see if Monsieur Parvagracio be stirring Exit Infâ—l I am verie melancholicke this morning whatsoeuer I aile I care not if I send for my Physician or whether the cause be that I lost all my monie yesternight and now know not where to get more vntill I haue conferred with my Agent for discommodities nor where to dine scot-free in the meane time Enter Infaelicto Infael. Sir hee was asleepe when I came to his chamber but his page wak'd him He remembers his loue and desires you to beat his chamber an houre hence then his Barber comes as he does everie sonday in steed of praiers Hee charg'd mee to tell you that hee hath an ounce of the most transcendeÌ„t Tobaccho that ever cross'd the salts sent him by a Ladie of his secret knowledge and yours with whom you both must dine this day The propertie of this Tobaccho is to yeeld a porringer full of Rheume everie pipefull and procure ventositie conveniently to descend verie odoriferous and secure from audibility She reserues store of it for her owne speciall vse in times of necessitie as of attendance in Court hearing of Plaies sitting at Cards and the like Further that a little of it taken pill-fashion will diffuse and disperse mixion so that a Ladie may abide in companie fortie eight houres not disposed to evaporation Besides he will'd me to tell you that this Ladie yesterday hath receiued a booke from a friend of hers that went ouer with Sir Robert Sherley into Persia entitled de flatibus separandis ac dividendis cosque emittendis not forward at the face as gamers vse to doe in warres but arere as Iacke-an-apes deliuers squibs written by a learned Physician doctorated by the magnificent order of the Mountebankes there she will anon at diner intreate you two to lay your heads together for translating this booke into English And where you finde any sent worth the nothing you will make stoppes vpon it and deliuer your opinion by way of comment for the better
for me What no lesse then 30 shillings in caudles taken out of my rent at a clap who did euer heare of the like And the price too is monstrous groates apeece why it were enough for a supper at my chamber Indeed they were very sweet and good but what of that a man may buy gould too deare Tell him from me I will not allow him a penie for caudles and yet I will haue my rent Simp. Sir there stands a poore gentlewoman called Mistris Richardson at the doore and desires to speak with you Anto. A poore woman what haue I to doe with poore folkes bid her come in she shalbe neuer the richer for me Exit Simplâ— Intrat Susanna Richardson makes cursie with a paper in her hand and a seale to it saith Sir a kinsman of yours and mine a knight when he went to travaile had no money to spare but bestowed on me 10l which you owe him by this your bill I beseech you to pay me for now I am in want Anto. Let me see the bill If it be mine I will discharge it She giues him the bill and after well viewing he teares off the seale and saith I owe him nothing nor will pay thee any thing Susan Why doe you teare the bill â— if you will not pay it Anto. Did not you say it was my bill if it be mine why may not I doe with it as I list my selfe Susan But you promised to discharge it and doing so it is at your pleasure to teare or burne it Anto. Haue I not discharg'd it thinkst thou I warrant thee t is sure enough for euer charging me agaiâ—e Susa. O heauens was there euer such a monster hatch'd what age but this could haue fostered so degenerous so shamelesse so frontlesse a beast as thou â—â—t It had beene happie for manie that haue had to do with thee if that Skinâ—râ— this had beene flead from that impudent face of thine Anto. Be gone Thy tongue is left thee to raile at large but thy meanes be short to revenge thy selfe by law Therefore feede vpon thy woes and teares money thou gettest none of me Exit Anto. Exit Susanna a contrary way wringing her hands ACT. VI. SCEN. I. Enter Furioso the souldier with his company Gorraso the Intelligencer and Phantastico the Musician Courage my companions Plucke vp your hearts mee thinkes I heare the sound of trumpets and drummes within my brest Whether I wake or sleepe nothing but Alarums beset my thoughts warres cannot be farre off Euerie thing prognosticates stirres and broiles The verie children muster in the streetes We haue liu'd a great while like metamorphised men It is such a sight for souldiers to walke in Pawles with long cloakes and graue attire as if they were turn'd Civilians Whie should we alter our proper habits being ensignes of honour Hath not the whole need of vs by turnes and fits And to one place or other we are still invited VVe succour the besieged and relieue the distressed VVe restore kingdomes and set captiues at freedome VVe tosse and tennis Crownes and Monarchies bestow them at pleasure Finallie we make the earth tremble and discolour the running streames Some few faults we haue but not worthie to be so generallie condemned Corra. The life of a souldier as now adaies it is vsed is of all occupations the worst and in a word is the high way to Hell Furio. You need not bend your selfe so stifly against anie sorts of people be they never so wicked being your selfe one of the basest and most vnnecessarie fruitspillers that ever made themselues mercenarie An Intelligencer a spie an Euesdropper is hated and shunned of all the world Corra. As true as I liue it were a good deed to apprehend you I le laie my life you are an enemie to the state Furio. Yes to your state doe you kicke alreadie nay I le gale you better yet with thy borrowed braverie thou perkest and insinuatest thy selfe into the best companie vnderminest their thoughts with thy lavish and warranted impeaching of states proceedings And if anie perhaps second thee in thy fained murmuring him thou pursuest and becomest first his animater and then his accuser such a one was D. Pary vntill the snare hee laid for others compassed his owne necke Corra. Sir you doe vs vnsufferable iniurie we are busied onlie in our Countries service and certifie all things offensiue to it Furio. That 's the intent of your mission and cause of your entertainement But you to seeme diligent attend maâ—â—e times to bables and toies and the better to packe awaâ—e paper you send your owne surmises when waightier affaires either happen not or escape you And so least you seeme to neglect your service you returne triâ—â—es Pâ—an. For anie thing I see you are both pernicious meÌ„bers and never to bee nourished but in cases of necessitie We Musitians are fortunate who hurt none and covet to please none We driue away melancholie We recreate the mind and reviue the benummed spirits and are welcome to all sorts Such souldiers as you are Segnieur Furioso I make no more account of then of so manie fowle thistles in a medowe at Midsommer whose heads everie child will whipp off with a wand And I will haue a still plaine temperate lad shall breake thy bones with his blow when such ayre beaters will scarce peirce the skinne I will my selfe bee one of the six Musitians that with the helpe of a few vnarmed sillie folkes shall kill 100 such souldiers in an houre and yet we Musitians will haue no weapons but instruments of musick Furio. How shall this come to passe I desire to heare for my learning Phan. Thus I will assemble a few falre women as honest as I would haue them and wine enough You shall haue your bellies full of all your desires They shall daunce you faint and kisse you wearie And when you cannot feele a needle thrust through your noses they shal cut your throats with ease And we musicall mates will celebrate your Infernalls with bells vpon our fiddles Now with you Sir necke nipper or M. Corraso if so you be stiled I will be briefe While you doe your prince and countrie good service I wish you rewarded but the first time you be trecherous you should be well guarded Furio. What now foolish fidler dost thou thinke freely to carie awaie these exorbitant and opprobrious tearmes I le haue thee banisht all howses of my acquaintance It is not long since you were teaching the lute to a pretie wench and wittie and were fingring her frets vnfit for your dirtie Its best for you to be quiet least I tel the rest which I know Secâ— Sir Hermito If you bee not I am wearie with hearing such varietie of vice The souldier that was wont to bee the honour of everie countrie he came in and a glorie of his owne is now become odious abroad and intollerable at home The intelligencer might doe good service if you could devise
your caue to the countrie Are you as weary of private liuing as I am of too much company The newes must needes be great and strange which brings you hither Her No such matter as that my intended course of dwelling with my selfe sequestred from all resort should haue an end so long as my abode in this world endureth Farre be it from my thought euer to wish the change of my estate As now I am I trouble not others nor any man offendeth me And where no mistake is who can thinke of alteration my resolution hath bred my contentment the peace which I enjoy counter-valueth all maner of wants And my spiritual excercises take away tediousnes The cause of my comming hither Sir Securus is a Proclamation lately set forth by the king that all his subject being men of 21 yeares vpwards living within 50 miles of the Court shall appeare there within 14 days after notice given them And about three dayes past a pilgrim passing by my cell told me of this Edict and that it was vpon alleageance So I being his subject thogh seruing him to no other purpose but praying for him thought it my dutie to make my appearance and to depart without delay Secu. Sir I am right to haue intercepted you whether you be travailing to or fro the Court because this day is appointed for hearing and determining many controversies and censuring sundrie sorts of people And some of these differences beyond my learning You therefore come very fitly to aide me And this whole affaire being principally for peace making and ending debates without suite of Law you may not refuse to ioyne with me in a worke of so great charitie Her In very deed Sir euery ought to yeeld his best helpe to such workes And although I haue alreadie recorded my appearance at Court and licenced to returne to my poore home and would willingly spend some houres with you to so good a purpose yet Alas Sir I am like to prevaile very little with any body wanting both acquiantance and authoritie among them whosoever they be therefore I entreate my fruitlesse presence may bee spared but I will not be wanting to you with my prayers for your successe Secu. Sir for your authoritie and acquaintance it shall not skill All that I haue both those wayes shalbe conferred vpon you equally with my selfe If they despise you they shall contemne mee also Onely I entreate your companie this day and then I cease troubling you further whatsoeuer neede require hereafter Her Sir I expect no intreatie neither will I wrong you so much as to make further request to my poore selfe I stay willingly and am at your service in all things Secu. No seruant of mine Sir but my friend vpon equall tearmes They both sit downe in chaires some distance each from other ACT. II. SCENA I. Enter Rustico Hortano Acuto and Vulcano Neighbour Hortano I haue considered of the great coile we had the last Sabouth after evening praier in the verstrie about putting downe the Holy-dayes It hinders our businesse much And mee thinkes this praying in a Church among those of high degree is nothing pleasantable and blushing takes away my devotion I can pray a great deale better and with a more comelie grace when I whistle at plow And me thinkes't were a goodly matter if euery man in 's calling might follow his focation and there doe such devotion as his stomacke stands to Hor. Faith neighbour Rustico I am euen of your mind For I le bide by it I ha more weeds growes in one Holyday then in three workie dayes Rust. O you are a Gardner it becomes you wel to agree with the Husband man if we two hold together we shal be too hard for twentie fooles Hor. Indeed 't wer a gay thing if wee could put downe these Holy-dayes as you say Me thinks 't wer an easie matter as well as we ha put downe the Fasting-dayes pell mell hand ouer head An wee wood hang together 't wer soone done but when some are so arseward 't will neuer be Acu. You talke you know not what There were no reason in it for that were the way to breake all order and giue our mindes altogether to toyle and neuer serue God For you would not stay there neither if you had your will but the Sondayes should shortly goe downe for company You will leaue nothing standing Rust. O you are a Tayler you speake for your profit For an 't were not for Holy-dayes which require fine cloathes and much change you might begge your bread Vul. You hit the naile on the head neighbour Rustico Wee le put them downe an you 'll keepe stroke with me Acu. Nay Sirra if any man hit the naile on the head it should be you because you are a Smith but soft you are so hot with your rip rapping that you misse the nayle and Anvyle also For my part although I doe boldly worke on Holy dayes as other taylers vse Christmasse day and all yet would I not misse the Holy-dayes for any good nor would I breake the order without necessity But is it so easie a matter to put downe the Holy-dayes thinke you And will you doe it with the furious fire-forke And you Master Gardner that will rake vp Holy-dayes and Fasting-dayes like weedes and bury them all in a trench you are both both fowly deceiued For neither haue you put downe the Fasting-dayes because still they are bidden in Churches nor is the case alike for Fasting is private and cannot so well be punished but if you come not to Church vp you go not to Church vp you goe for a Recusant an you were my father Rust. Why for all that shud we be troubled with so many holydaies wood not fewer serue the turne as well I doe not thinke our auncetrums were so pestred Acu. Yea and with many more and kept the eues halfe holy Rust. How didne a then for doing their businesse sure a were all beggers And yet t wood anger me that my graundsir should be a begger I it wood Acu. Not so neither They liued very well and had not the twentith begger that we haue and were great housekeepers every man almost They built all the Townes Colledges and Religious houses Rust. Didne a so indeed I cha hard my grandsir grannam tauke much of those things Sure but I thinke they went to plow and cart on the workydaies and built those things you tauke on vpon the holydaies or else it cood neuer be Acu. No no They suffered no kind of lighter workes to be done in those daies much lesse such painefull labours as they were Rust. Why were the Saints daies kept holy at all Tell me some reason for it Acu. They did in those daies giue great honour to such as suffered death for Christian religion although the men were as poore as Christs fishermen And therefore the daies of their martyrdome they kept holy and came to Church to glorifie and praise that God for whom
those Saints died there were people exhorted to doe the like Rust. But I mislike the very ground and cause of those holydaies which you say is suffring death willingly Doe not we die fast enough thinke you against our wils but we must set vp a trade of dying with a good will Acu. Thou speakest against reason For if thou must needs dye first or last wert not better to die for a glorious cause so to be sure of heauen willingly in perfect memory then against thy will wrestling with death overcome in the end with great paine and perhaps past thy sences Rust. Reason me no reasons I speake as I thinke I protest from my heart I had rather doe any worke in the world then dye What never come home againe to my wife and my pretie barnes Why I haue a boy his name is Iacke hee has a face as welfavor'd as any great turnippe root with a cracke in the mid'st which is the very proportion of his mouth I will not willingly leaue that boy for all the deaths in the world No I will not But if I must needs dye whether I will or no I wood haue death take mee asleepe that I may not see his face for if I did I would run away as hard as ever I could for my life Hor. Mr Acuto talke with me hee speakes like a foole I haue more wit then twentie such loggerheads Rust. Nay then I haue more wit then thou canst get for I can make my horses turne vp the ground and thou must doe it with thy hands and feet else thou canst earne no mony Come neighbour Vulcano we two wise men will leaue these two to play the fooles here vntill our â—urne come againe Exeunt Rust. Vul. Hor. Now Acuto let vs two conclude what shall become of these holydaies and as we agree I warrant it shall goe And thou hast almost perswaded me to let them stand But let vs goe and read a booke I haue at home of the liues of Saints to furnish vs with stronger reasons against our next encounter with these Dunces and then wee will end this controversie Exeunt Secu. How thinke you by this S. Hermito would you haue imagined that such plaine fellowes as these be should call a businesse of this nature in question By this you may may gesse what stirring heads we haue to deale withall and how easie a matter to keepe them in order Her It is somewhat strange And the more vnlearned the men are the harder to be satisfied But he hope is that as mad men doe best service when some of their like are most vnruly so these men being alike vnskilfull will soone confound each other and so giue over the businesse ACT. II. SCEN. II. Enter Antonio at one dore Proberio and Simplo at another It is not vnknowne to mee that very many doe censure my deeds as wicked and not beseeming a Christian But this is the iniquitie of the time because they doe not distinguish between persons and seasons For my actions being not ordinary are not to be iudged by ordinary but refined wits For now your downe right dealing is exploded as too subiect to every meane capacitie Pro. Yonder is thy master that shal be Simplo thou shalt lose no time wee le to him sodainely Segnieur Antonio All haile to your person Here is a man desires to serue you to be your pupill to imitate your actions so neere as his vessell can hold the print And he will doe well For hee is made all of wax very pliant emptie of all thing but a little mony and a tenement or two of land lying next your freehold on the south side worth 10l per annum Ant. He is welcome Haue you giuen him any principles such as you knowe are necessarie and is he docible Pro. He is ready for your hand Sir I will not commit such an errour knowing you as I doe but lay the foundation You may worke vpon him as you list I warrant you Simp. Sir I hope you shall finde me diligent and according to your heart Ant. Thou hast a good sterne countenance I like thee well if thy minde be as vntoward it will be sutable Simp. I warrant you Sir no man shall get any thing of me but I will knowe how he comes by it except your selfe whom I will trust withall I haue Deale with mee as you please Ant. I thanke you Nay if I deale not well with you I wish no man should deale ill with me I heare you haue land lying neere me I would haue you bee a good husband and keepe it Let me lay vp your writings safe least some deceaue you of them Simp. That you shall Sir here they be They shall be in pawne to you for my good behaviour for I thinke no man will giue his word for me Ant. Thou art the fittest man for mee that ever I met withall nor any man I thinke will vndertake I shall bee a good master to thee Simp. T is no matter sir I will stand to your gentlenesse Ant. Well said and I le even deale with thee thereafter Exeunt Ant. and Simp. Pro. Thou hast a seruice a dog would not haue it except his taile were already so short cut to his breech that no more could be spared I warrant thou turne seene the last of thy writings They will pull thy land after them And that 's but law Transit terra cum onere Exit Pro. Enter Hortano and Acuto Is it true that you told me Acuto at our last parle here that there were such valiant people in times past that willingly and cheerefully went to their death when they might haue inioyed life longer Acu. There is no question of it except wee should discredit all Historiographers who make honorable mention of them iâ— all ages before vs And in our owne time and memory there haue beene many such men Hort. I protest it is a wonderfull courage these people haue and in mine opinion farre beyond the stoutnes of the souldiers For they goe to kill and contend not meaning to dye which only they strive against and avoid by all meanes they can and provide aboue all things to bee well arm'd for safetie of life But the martyr with not resisting conquers death and feares not that which is feared and shunned of all others Therefore I thinke them worthie of great honour and perpetuall memorie But who are they say you that giue testimonie of them me thoght it was a very fine word Acu. They be Historiographers Hor. O Histornoggerfers a braue word I le make a knot of these letters Acu. No Historiographers man Hor. Now I haue it Histriagerfers Acu. Not so neither you must marke wel pronouÌ„ce it iust as I doe Hor. That I will be sure to doe Acu. Thus then Hi-sto-ri Hor. Stay there Now gape he gapes Hortano looks in his mouth le ts tell how many teeth ha you 22. hough whoo 's within there