as bodies with bodies this were enough to make the hope well if she were one of these painted communities that are rauisht with Coaches and vpper hands and braue men of durt but thou knowest friend shee s a good scholler and like enough to bite at the rightest reason and reason euermore Ad optima hortetur to like that which is best not that which is brauest or rightest or greatest and so consequently worst But proue what she can we will turne her and winde her and make her so plyant that we will drawe her through a wedding ring y faith Cla. Would to god we might my Lord Mom. I le warrant thee friend Enter Messenger Mes. VVhere is mistris Winnyfred for my Lady Eugenia desires to speake with your Lordshippe Mom. Marrie enter mistris Winnifred euen here I pray thee from the Ladie Eugenia doe you heare friend Cla. Very easilie on that side my Lord Mom. Let me feele does not thy heart pant apace by my hart well labor'd Cupid the field is yours sir God and vppon a verie honourable composition I am sent for now I am sure and must euen trusse and to her Enter Winnyfred wittie mistris Winnifred nay come neere woman I am sure this Gentleman thinkes his chamber the sweeter for your deare presence Win, My absence shall thanke him my Lord Mom. VVhat rude Mistris Winnifred nay faith you shall come to him and kisse him for his kindenesse Win. Nay good my Lord I le neuer goe to the market for that ware I can haue it brought hōe to my dore Mom. O Winnifred a man may know by the market folkes how the market goes Win. So you may my Lord but I knowe fewe Lords that thinke scorne to go to that market thēselues Mom. To goe to it Winnifred nay to ride to it y faith Win. That 's more then I knowe my Lord Mom. You le not belieue it till you are then a horsebacke will ye Win. Come come I am sent of a message to you wil you heare it Mom. Stoppe stoppe faire Winnifred would you haue audience so soone there were no state in that y faith this faire gentlewoman sir Win. Now we shall haue a fiction I beleiue Mom. Had three Suiters at once Win. You le leaue out none my Lord Mom. No more did you Winnifred you enterferde with them all in truth Win. O Monstrous Lord by this light Mom. Now Sir to make my tale short I will doe that which she did not vz. leaue out the two first the third comming the third night for his turne Win. My Lord my Lord my Ladie does that that no bodie else does desires your companie and so fare you well Mom. O stay a little sweet Winnifred helpe me but to trusse my pointes againe and haue with you Win. Not I by my truth my Lord I had rather see your hose about your heeles then I would helpe you to trusse a point Mom. O wittie Winnifred for that left take thy pasport and tell thy Ladies thou leftst me with my hose about my heeles Win. Well well my Lord you shall sit till the mosse grow a bout your he les ere I come at you againe exit Mom. She cannot abide to heare of her three Suiters but is not this verie fit my sweete Clarence Thou seest my rare Neece cannot sleep without me but forthy company sake she shall to night and in the morning I will visit her earely when doe thou but stand in that place and thou maiest chance heare but art sure to see in what subtill and farre-fetcht manner I le solicite her about thee Cla Thanks worthie Lord exeunt Finis Actus Primis ACTVS SECVNDI SAeNA PRIMA Clarence Solus Cla. I That haue studied with world skorning thoughts the waie of heauen and how trew heauen is reacht To know how mightie and how many are The strange affections of inchaunted number How to distinguish all the motions Of the Celestiall bodies and what powre doth seperate in such forme this massie Rownd VVhat is his Essence Efficacies Beames Footesteps and Shadowes what Eternesses is The world and Time and Generation VVhat Soule the worldes Soule is what the blacke Springes And vnreueald Originall of Things VVhat their perseuerance what is life and death And what our Certaine Restauration Am with the staid-heads of this Time imployd To watch with all my Nerues a Female shade Enter Wynnefred Anabell with their sowing workes and sing After their song Enter Lord Momford Mom. VVitty Mistrisse Wynnefred where is your Countesse I pray Wyn. Faith your Lordship is bould enough to seeke her out if she were at her vrinall Mom. Then Sh 'as done it seemes for here she comes to saue mee that labour away wenches get you hence wenches Exeunt Eu. VVhat can you not abide my maides vnkle Mom. I neuer cood abide a maid in my life Neece but either I draw away the maid or the maidenhead with a wet finger Eu. You loue to make your selfe worse then you are stil Mom. I know fewe mend in this world Madam For the worse the better thought on the better the worse spoken on euer amongst women Eu. I wonder where you haue binne all this while with your sentences Mom Faith where I must be again presently I cannot stay long with you my deere Neece Eu. By my faith but you shall my Lorde Gods pittie what wil become of you shortly that you driue maids afore you offer to leaue widowes behind you as mankindelie as if you had taken a surfet of our Sex lately and our very sight turnd your stomacke Mom. Gods my life She abuses her best vnkle neuer trust mee if it were not a good reuenge to helpe her to the losse of her widowhead Eu. That were a reuenge and a halfe indeed Mom. Nay t were but a whole reuenge Neece but such a reuenge as woulde more then obserue the true rule of a reuenge Eu. I know your rule before you vtter it Vlciscere Inimico sed sine tuo incommodo Mom. O rare Neece you may see what t is to bee a a scholler now Learning in a woman is like waight in gold or Luster in Diamants which in no other Stone is so rich or refulgent Eug. But say deere Vnckle how could you finde in your heart to stay so long from me Mom. VVhy alas Neece y' are so smeard with this willfull-widdowes three-yeeres blacke weede that I neuer come to you but I dreame of Courses and Sepulchres and Epitaths all the night after and therefore adew deere Neece Eug. Beshrew my hearte my Lorde if you goe theis three houres Mom. Three houres nay Neece if I daunce attendance three houres alone in her chamber with an Lady so neere alide to me I am verie idle ifaith marie with such an other I woulde daunce one two three foure and fiue tho it cost me tenne shillings and now I am in haue at it my head must deuise something while my feet are pidling thus that may bring her to some fit
Goos: Marrie madam I can take tobacco now and I haue bought glow-wormes to kindle it withall better then all the burning glasses i th world Eug. Glowe-wormes sir Giles will they make it burne Goos. O od madam I feed am with nothing but fire a purpose I le be sworne they eat me fiue faggots a weeke in charcoale Tal Nay he has the strangest deuices Ladies that euer you heard I warrant ye Fur: That 's a strange deuice in deed my Lord Hip: But your sowing sir Gyles is a more gentlewoman-like qualitie I assure you Pen: O farr away for now seruant you neede neuer marrie you are both husband and wife your selfe Goos: Nay indeede mistris I wood faine marrie for all that and I le tell you my reason if you will Pen: Let 's heare it good seruant Goos: VVhy madam we haue a great match at foot-ball towards married men against batchellers the married men be al my friends so I wood faine marrie to take the married mens parts in truth Hip: The best reason for marriage that euer I heard sir Gyles Goos: I pray will you keepe my worke a little mistris I must needes straine a little courtsie in truth Exit Sir Gyles Hip: Gods my life I thought he was a little to blame Rud: Come come you heare not me dame Fur: VVell said sir Cut to her now we shall heare fresh courting Hip: A las sir Cut you are not worth the hearing euery bodie saies you cannot loue how soeuer you talke on 't Rud: Not loue dame slydd what argument woodst haue of my loue tro lett me looke as redde as scarlet a fore I see thee and when thou comst in sight if the sunne of thy bewtie doe not white me like a sheppards holland I am a Iewe to my Creator Hip. O excellent Rud. Let mee burst like a Tode if a frowne of thy browe has not turnd the verie heart in my bellie and made mee readie to bee hangd by the heeles for a fortnight to bring it to the right againe Hip. You shood haue hangd longer Sir Cut t is not right yet Rud. Zonnes bid me cut off the best lymme of my bodie for thy loue and I le lai 't in thy hand to proue it doost thinke I am no Christian haue I not a Soule to saue Hip. Yes t is to saue yet I warrant it and wil be while t is a soule if you vse this Fur. Excellent Courtship of all hands only my Captaines Courtshippe is not heard yet good madam giue him fauour to court you with his voyce Eug. What shood he Court me with all else my Lord Mom. VVhy I hope madam there be other things to Court Ladies withall besides voyces Fur. I meane with an audible sweete song madam Eug. VVith all my heart my Lorde if I shall bee so much in debted to him Foul. Nay I will be indebted to your eares Ladie for hearing me sound musicke Fur. VVell done Captaine proue as it wil now Enter Messenger Me. My Lord Doctor Versey the Physitian is come to see master Clarence Mom. Light and attend him to him presently Fur. To master Clarence what is your friend sicke Mom. Exceeding sicke Ta. I am exceeding sorrie King Neuer was sorrow worthier bestowed Then for the ill state of so good a man Pen. Alas poore gentleman good my Lord le ts see him Mom. Thankes gentle Ladie but my friend is loth To trouble Ladies since he cannot quitt them With any thing he hath that they respect Hip. Respect my Lord I wood hold such a man In more respect then any Emperor For he cood make me Empresse of my selfe And in mine owne rule comprehend the world Mom. How now young dame what so inspird This speech hath siluer haires and reuerence asks And soner shall haue dutie done of me Then any pompe in temperall Emperie Hip. Good madam get my Lord to let vs greet him Eug. Alas we shall but wrong and trouble him His Contemplations greet him with most welcome Fur. I neuer knew a man of so sweet a temper So soft and humble of so high a Spirit Mom. Alas my noble Lord he is not rich Nor titles hath nor in his tender cheekes The standing lake of Impudence corrupts Hath nought in all the world nor nought wood haue To grace him in the prostituted light But if a man wood consort with a Soule VVhere all mans Sea of gall and bitternes Is quite evaporate with hir holy flames And in whose powers a Doue-like Innocence Fosters her owne deserts and life and death Runnes hand in hand before them All the Skies Cleere and transparent to her piercing eyes Then wood my friend be something but till then A Cipher nothing or the worst of men Foul. Sweet Lord le ts goe visit him Enter Gooscappe Goos. Pray good my Lord what 's that you talke on Mom. Are you come from your necessarie busines Sir Gyles we talke of the visiting of my sicke friend Clarence Goos. O good my Lord le ts visit him cause I knowe his brother Hip. Know his brother nay then Count doe not denie him Goos. Pray my Lord whether was eldest he or his elder brother Mom. O! the younger brother eldest while you liue Sir Gyles Goos. I say so still my Lord but I am so borne down with truth as neuer any knight i th world was I thinke Ta. A man wood thinke he speakes simplie now but indeed it is in the will of the parents to make which child they will youngest or eldest For often we see the younger inherite wherein he is eldest Eug. Your Logicall wit my Lorde is able to make any thing good Mom. VVell come sweet Lords Ladies let vs spend The time till supper-time with some such sights As my poore house is furnished withall Pictures and Iewels of which implements It may be I haue some wil please you much Goos. Sweet Lord le ts see them Exeunt Enter Clarence and Doctor Do. I thinke your disease Sir be rather of the mind then the bodie Cla. Be there diseases of the mind Doctor Do. No question Sir euen as there be of the bodie Cla. And cures for them too Do. And cures for them too but not by Phisick Cla. You will haue their deseases greifes wil ye not Do. Yes oftentimes Cla. And doe not greifes euer rise out of passions Do. Euermore Cla. And doe not passions proceed from corporall distempers Do. Not the passions of the mind for the mind many times is sicke when the bodie is healthfull Cla. But is not the mindes-sicknes of power to make the bodie sicke Do. In time certaine Cla. And the bodies ill affections able to infect the mind Do. No question Cla. Then if there bee such a naturall commerce of Powers betwixt them that the ill estate of the one offends the other why shood not the medicines for one cure the other Do. Yet it will not you see Heimihi quod nullus amor est medicabilis herbis