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A03195
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The English traueller As it hath beene publikely acted at the Cock-pit in Drury-lane: by Her Maiesties seruants. Written by Thomas Heyvvood.
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Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
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1633
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his wit and vnderstanding make Almanackes Clo. Not so sir you being more iudicious then I I le giue you the preeminence in that because I see by proofe you haue such iudgement in times and seasons Dal. And why in times and seasons Clo. Because you haue so seasonably made choise to come so iust at dinner time you are welcome Gentlemen I le goe tell my Master of your comming Exit Clowne Dal. A pleasant knaue Y. Ger. This fellow I perceiue Is well acquainted with his Masters mind Oh t is a good old man Dal. And shee a Lady For Beauty and for Vertue vnparraleld Nor can you name that thing to grace a woman Shee has not in a full perfection Though in their yeeres might seeme disparity And therefore at the first a match vnfit Imagine but his age and gouernement Withall her modesty and chaste respect Betwixt them there 's so sweet a simpathie As crownes a noble marriage Y. Ger. T is acknowledged But to the worthy gentleman himselfe I am so bound in many courtesies That not the least by all th' expression My Labour or my Industry can shew I will know how to cancell Dal. Oh you are modest Y. Ger. Hee studies to engrosse mee to himself And is so wedded to my company Hee makes mee stranger to my Fathers house Although so neere a neighbour Dal. This approues you To be most nobly propertied that from one So exquisite in Iudgement can Attract So affectionate an eye Y. Ger. Your Carracter I must bestow on his vnmerrited Ioue As one that know I haue it and yet ignorant Which way I should deserue it Heere both come Enter old Mr. Wincott Wife Prudentilla the sister and the Clowne Winc. Gentlemen welcome but what neede I vse A word so common vnto such to whom My house was neuer priuate I expect You should not looke for such a needles phrase Especially you Master Geraldine Your Father is my neighbour and I know you Euen from the Cradle then I loued your Infancy And since your riper growth better'd by trauell My wife and you in youth were play-fellowes And nor now be strangers as I take it Not aboue two yeeres different in your Age Wife So much hee hath out stript mee Winc. I would haue you Thinke this your home free as your Fathers house And to command it as the Master on 't Call bouldly heere and entertaine your friends As in your owne possessions when I see 't I le say you loue me truely not till then Oh what a happinesse your Father hath Farre aboue mee one to inherit after him Where I Heauen knowes am childlesse Y. Ger. That defect Heauen hath supplied in this your vertuous Wife Both faire and full of all accomplishments My Father is a Widower and heerein Your happinesse transcends him Wife Oh Master Geraldine Flattery in Men's an adiunct of their sex This Countrie breeds it and for that so farre You needed not to haue trauell'd Y. Ger. Trueth 's a word That should in euery language relish well Nor haue I that exceeded Wife Sir my Husband Hath tooke much pleasure in your strange discourse About Ierusalem and the Holy Land How the new Citie differs from the old What ruines of the Temple yet remayne And whether Sion and those hills about With these Adiacent Townes and Villages Keepe that proportioned distance as wee read And then in Rome of that great Piramis Reared in the Front on foure Lyons Mounted How many of those Idoll Temples stand First dedicated to their Heathen gods Which ruined which to better vse repayred Of their Panthaeon and their Capitoll What Structures are demolish't what remaine Winc. And what more pleasure to an old mans eare That neuer drew saue his owne Countries aire Then heare such things related I doe exceed him In yeeres I must confesse Yet he much older Then I in his experience Prud. Master Geraldine May I bee bould to aske you but one question The which I 'de be resolued in Y. Ger. Any thing that lies within my knowledge Winc. Put him too 't Doe Sister you shall finde him make no doubt Most pregnant in his answere Prud. In your trauells Through France through Sauoye and through Italy Spaine and the Empire Greece and Palestine Which breedes the choycest beauties Y. Ger. Introath Lady I neuer cast on any in those parts A curious eye of censure since my Trauell Was onely aymed at Language and to know These past me but as common objects did Seene but not much regarded Prud. Oh you striue To expresse a most vnheard of modestie And seldome found in any Traueller Especially of our Countrey thereby seeking To make your selfe peculiar Y. Ger. I should be loath Professe in outward shew to be one Man And prooue my selfe another Prud. One thing more Were you to marry You that know these clymes Their states and their conditions out of which Of all these countries would you chuse your wife Y. Ger. I le answere you in briefe as I obserue Each seuerall clime for obiect fare or vse Affords within it selfe for all of these What is most pleasing to the man there borne Spaine that yeelds scant of food affords the Nation A parsimonious stomach where our appetites Are not content but with the large excesse Of a full table where the pleasing'st fruits Are found most frequent there they best content Where plenty flowes it askes abundant Feasts For so hath prouident Nature dealt with all So in the choyce of Women the Greeke wantons Comple'd beneath the Turkish slauery Vassaile themselues to all men and such best Please the voluptious that delight in change The French is of one humor Spaine another The hot Italian hee 's a straine from both All pleased with their owne nations euen the Moore Hee thinks the blackest the most beautifull And Lady since you so farre taxe my choyce I le thus resolue you Being an English man Mong'st all these Nations I haue seene or tri'd To please me best heere would I chuse my bride Pru. And happy were that Lady in my thoughts Whom you would deine that grace too Wife How now Sister This is a fashion that 's but late come vp For maids to court their husbands Winc. I would wife It were no worse vpon condition They had my helping hand and purse to boote With both in ample measure oh this Gentleman I loue nay almost doate on Wife Ya 'ue my leaue To giue it full expression Winc. In these armes then Oh had my youth bin blest with such a sonne To haue made my estate to my name hereditary I should haue gone contented to my graue As to my bed to death as to my sleepe But Heauen hath will in all things once more welcome And you sir for your friends sake Dal. Would I had in mee That which he hath to haue clam'd it for mine owne How euer I much thanke you Enter Clowne Winc. Now sir the newes with you Clo. Dancing newes sir For the meat stands piping