There was one Ladie a man might see her hart Readie to start out of her eyes to follow you D'ol. But Monseuer Mustapha there kept state When I accosted him s'light the Brasen head lookt to be Worshipt I thinke No I le commit no Idolatrie for the proudest Image of 'am all I Rho. Your Lordship has the right garbe of an excellent Courtier respects a Clowne supple ioynted courtesies a verie peagoose t is stiffe ham'd audacity that carries it get once within their distance and you are in their bosoms instantly D'ol. S'hart doe they looke I should stande aloofe like a Scholares make leggs at their greatnes No I le none of that come vp close to him giue him a clap a' th shoulder shall make him crie oh againe it 's a tender place to deale withal and say Well encounterd noble Brutus Rho. That 's the onely way indeed to be familiar D'ol. S'foot I le make leggs to none vnlesse it be to a Iustice of peace when he speakes in 's Chaire or to a Cunstable when he leanes on 's Staffe that 's flat softnes and modestie sauors of the Cart t is boldnes boldnes does the deed in the Court and as your Camelion varries all cullours a' th Rainebow both white and red so must your true Courtier be able to varrie his countenance through all humors State Strangnes Scorne Mirth Melanchollie Flatterie and so foorth some cullours likewise his face may change vpon occasion Blacke or Blew it may Tawnie it may but Redd and White at no hand auoyde that like a Sergeant keepe your cullour stiffe vnguiltie of passion or disgrace not changing White at sight of your Mercer nor Red at sight of your Surgeon aboue all sinnes heauen sheild mee from the sinne of blushing it does ill in a young Waighting-woman but monstrous monstrous in an old Courtier Rho. Well all this while your Lordship forgets your Ambassage you haue giuen out you will be gone within this moneth and yet nothing is readie D'ol. It s no matter let the Moone keepe her course and yet to say trueth t' were more then time I were gone for by heauen I am so haunted with Followers euerie day new offers of Followers But heauen shield me from any more Followers How now what 's the newes Enter Muge and two others Mug. My Lord heere 's two of my speciall Friends whom I would gladly commend to follow you in the honorable action D'ol. S'foote my eares are double lockt against Followers you know my number 's full all places vnder mee are bestowde I le out of towne this night tha't 's infallible I le no more Followers a mine honour Mug. S'light Lord you must entertaine them they haue paid me their income and I haue vndertaken your Lordshippe shall grace them D'ol. Well my Maisters you might haue come at a time when your entertainement would haue proou'd better then now it is like but such as it is vpon the commendation of my Steward here Mug. A pox a your Lor Steward D'ol. Y' are welcome in a word deserue and spie out Ambo Wee humbly thanke your Lordship D'ol. Mugeron let 'am be enterd Mug. In what rancke my Lord Gentlemen or Yomen D'ol. Gentlemen Their bearing berayes no lesse it goes not alwayes by apparrell I do alow you to suite your selues anew in my Cullours at your owne charges Amb. Thanke your good Lordship D'ol. Thy name first I pray thee Cor. Cornelius My Lord D'ol. What profession Cor. A Surgeon an 't please your Lordship D'ol. I had rather th'hadst been a Barber for I thinke there wil be little blood-shed amongst my Followers vnlesse it be of thy letting I le see their nailes parde before they goe And yet now I bethinke my selfe our Ambassage is into Fraunce there may be employment for thee hast thou a Tubbe Cor. I would be loth my Lord to be dislocated or vnfurnisht of any of my properties D'ol. Thou speak'st like thy selfe Cornelius booke him downe Gentleman Mug. Verie well Sir D'ol. Now your profession I pray Frip. Fripperie my Lord or as some tearme it Petty Prokery D'ol. An honest man I le warrant thee I neuer knew other of thy trade Frip. Trulie a richer your Lordship might haue An honester I hope not D'ol. I beleeue thee Pettie Broker canst burne Gold-lace Frip. I can do anie thing my Lord belonging to my trade D'ol. Booke him downe Gentleman hee le do good vpon the voyage I warrant him prouide thee a Nagge Pettie Broker thou 'l finde employment for him doubt not keepe thy selfe an honest man and by our returne I doe not doubt but to see thee a rich Knaue Farewel Pettie Broker prepare your selues against the day this Gentleman shall acquaint you with my Cullours Farewell Fripper Farewell Pettie Broker Deserue and spie out is my Motto Exeunt Amb. God continue your Lordship Rho. A verie seasonable praier For vnknowne to him it lies now vpon his death-bedd D'ol. And how like you my Chamber good Witts Rho. Excellent well Sir D'ol. Nay beleeue it it shall do well as you will say when you see 't set foorth sutable to my proiect Here shall stand my Court Cupbord with it furniture of Plate Heere shall runne a Wind Instrument Heere shall hang my base Viall Heere my Theorbo and heere will I hang my selfe Amb. T will do admirable well D'ol. But how will I hange my selfe good witts Not in person but in Picture I will be drawne Rho. What hangd and drawne too D'ol. Good againe I say I wil be drawne all in compleat Satten of some Courtly cullour like a Knight of Cupids band On this side shal be ranckt Chaires and Stooles and other such complements of a Chamber This corner will be a conuenient roome for my Close stoole I acquaint you with all my priuities you see Mug. I Sir we smell your meaning D'ol. Heere shal be a Peartch for my Parrat while I remaine vnmarried I shall haue the lesse misse of my Wife Heere a Hoope for my Munckie when I am married my wife will haue the lesse misse of mee Heere will I haue the statue of some excellent Poet and I will haue his Nose goe with a Vice as I haue seene the experience And that as if t 'had taken cold i' th head Rho. For want of a guilt Nightcap D'ol. Bitter still shall like a Spout runne pure Witt all day long and it shal be fedd with a Pipe brought at my charge from Helicon ouer the Alpes and vnder the Sea by the braine of some great Enginer and I thinke t will do excellent Mug. No question of that my Lord D'ol. Well now Witts about your seueral charges touching my Ambassage Rhoderique is my Speach put out to making Rho. It s almost done D'ol. T is well tell him he shall haue fourtie Crownes promisse promisse want for no promising And well remembred haue I ere a Gentleman Vsher yet a strange thing amongst all my followers not one has witt
support a State this face to looke bigg this bodie to beare a presence these feete were borne to be reuellers and these Calues were borne to be Courtiers In a word I was borne Noble and I will die Noblie neither shall my Nobilitie perish with death after ages shall resounde the memorie thereof while the Sunne sets in the East or the Moone in the West Pac. Or the Seuen Starres in the North D'ol. The Siege of Bullaine shall be no more a landmarke for Times Agencourt Battaile S. Iames his Fielde the losse of Calice the winning of Cales shal grow out of vse Men shal reckon their yeares Women their mariages from the day of our Ambassage As I was borne or married two three or foure yeares before the great Ambassage Farmers shall count their Leases from this day Gentlemen their Morgages from this day Saint Dennis shall be rac't out of the Kallender and the day of our Enstalment enterd in redd letters And as St. Ualentines day is fortunate to choose Louers St. Lukes to choose Husbandes So shall this day be to the choosing of Lordes It shall be a Critticall day a day of Note In that day it shall be good to quarrell but not to sight They that Marrie on that day shall not repent marie the morrow after perhappes they may It shall be holsome to beat a Sergeant on that day Hee that eates Garlicke on that morning shall be a rancke Knaue till night Diq. What a day will this be if it hold D'ol. Hold S'foote it shall hold and shall be helde sacred to immortalitie let all the Chroniclers Ballet makers and Almanackmungers do what they dare Enter Rhoderique Rhod. S'foote my Lord al 's dasht your voyage is ouerthrowne D'ol. What ayles the franticke Tro Rhod. The Lady is entoombde that was the Subiect of your Ambassage and your Ambassage is beraid Pac. Dido is dead and wrapt in lead Di. O heauy herse Pac. Your Lordships honor must waite vpon her Dig. O scuruy verse Your Lordship 's welcome home pray let 's walke your horse my Lord D'ol. A prettie gullery Why my little wits doe you beleeue this to be true Pac. For my part my Lord I am of opinion you are guld Dig. And I am of opinion that I am partly guiltie of the same Enter Muge. Muge. Where 's this Lord foole here S'light you haue made a prettie peece of seruice an 't raised vp all the countrey in gold lace and feathers and now with your long stay there 's no employment for them D'ol. Good still Mug. S'light I euer tooke thee to be a hammer of the right feather but I durst haue layed my life no man could euer haue cramd such a Gudgeon as this downe the throate of thee To create thee a Christmas Lord and make thee laughter for the whole Court I am ashamde of my selfe that euer I chusde such a Grosseblocke to whet my wits on D'ol. Good wit yfaith I know all this is but a gullery now But since you haue presumde to go thus farre with me come what can come to the State sincke or swimme I le be no more a father to it nor the Duke nor for the world wade one halfe steppe further in the action Pac. But now your Lordship is gone what shall become of your followers D'ol. Followers let them follow the Court as I haue done there let them raise their fortunes if not they know the way to the pettie Brokers there let them shift and hang Exit cum suit Rhod. Here we may strike the Plaudite to our Play my Lord foole 's gone all our audience will forsake vs Mug. Page after and call him againe Rho. Let him go I le take vp some other foole for the Duke to employ euery Ordinary affoords fooles enow and didst not see a paire of Gallants sit not far hence like a couple of Bough-pots to make the roome smell Mug. Yes they are gone But what of them Rhod. I le presse them to the Court or if neede be our Muse is not so barren but she is able to deuise one tricke or other to retire D'oliue to Court againe Mug. Indeed thou toldst me how gloriously he apprehended the fauour of a great Lady i th Presence whose hart he said stood a tipto in her eye to looke at him Rhod. T is well remembred Mug. O a Loue-letter from that Ladie would retriue him as sure as death Rhod. It would of mine honor Wee le faine one from her instantly Page fetch pen and inke here Exit Pag. Mug. Now do you your Muse engender my barren skonce shall prompt something Rhod. Soft then The Lady Ieronime who I said viewed him so in the Presence is the Venus that must enamour him Wee le go no further for that But in what likenesse must he come to the Court to her now As a Lord he may not in any other shape he will not Mug. Then let him come in his owne shape like a gull Rhod. Well disguisde he shall be That shall be his mistrisses direction this shall be my Helicon and from this quiuer will I draw the shaft that shall wound him Mug. Come on how wilt thou begin Rhod. Faith thus Dearely Beloued Mug. Ware ho that 's prophane Rhod. Go to then Diuine D'oliue I am sure that 's not prophane Mug. Well forward Rhod. I see in the powre of thy beauties Mug. Breake of your period and say T was with a sigh Rhod. Content here 's a full pricke stands for a teare too Mug. So now take my braine Rhod. Poure it on Mug. I talke like a foole but alas thou art wise and silent Rhod. Excellent And the more wise the more silent Mug. That 's something common Rhod. So should his mistris be Mug. That 's true indeed Who breakes way next Rhod. That will I sir But alas why art not thou noble that thou mightst match me in Blood Mug. I le answer that for her Rhod. Come on Mug. But thou art noble though not by birth yet by creation Rhod. That 's not amisse forth now Thy wit proues thee to be a Lord thy presence showes it O that word Presence has cost me deare Mug. Well said because she saw him i th Presence Rhod. O do but say thou lou'st me Mug. Soft there 's too many Os Rhod. Not a whit O's but the next doore to P. And his mistris may vse her O with with modestie or if thou wilt I le stop it with another brachish teare Mug. No no let it runne on Rhod. O do but say thou lou'st me and yet do not neither and yet do Mug. Well said let that last stand let him doe in any case now say thus do not appeare at Court Rhod. So Mug. At least in my companie Rhod. Well Mug. At lest before folkes Rhod. Why so Mug. For the flame will breake forth Rhod. Go on thou doest well Mug. Where there is fire i th harth Rhod. What then Mug. There will be
smoke i th chimney Rhod. Forth Mug. Warme but burne me not there 's reason in all things Rhod. Well said now doe I vie it Come to my chamber betwixt two and three Mug. A very good number Rho. But walk not vnder my window if thou doest come disguisde in any case we are not thy tuft taffeta cloke if thou doest thou killest me Mug. Well said now to the L'envoye Rhod. Thine if I were worth ought and yet such as it skils not whose I am if I be thine Ieronime Now for a fit Pandar to transport it and haue at him Exeunt Finis Actus quarti ACTVS QVINTI Scaena prima Enter Vaumont and Vandome Vand. COme my good Lord now will I trie my Braine If it can forge another golden chaine To draw the poore Recluse my honord mistris From her darke Cell and superstitious vow I oft haue heard there is a kind of cure To fright a lingring Feuer from a man By an imaginous feare which may be true For one heate all know doth driue out another One passion doth expell another still And therefore I will vse a fainde deuice To kindle furie in her frozen Breast That rage may fire out griefe and so restore her To her most sociable selfe againe Uau. Iuno Lucina fer opem And ease my labouring house of such a care Vand. Marke but my Midwifery the day is now Some three houres old and now her night begins Stand close my Lord if she and her sad meany Be toward sleepe or sleeping I will wake them With orderly alarmes Page Boy sister All toong-tied all asleepe page sister Uau. Alas Vandome do not disturbe their rest For pittie sake t is yong night yet with them Uand. My Lord your onely way to deale with women And Parrets is to keepe them waking still Page who 's aboue are you all dead here Dig. S'light is hell broke loose who 's there He looks out with a light Vand. A friend Dig. Then know this Castle is the house of wo Here harbor none but two distressed Ladies Condemn'd to darknesse and this is their iayle And I the Giant set to guard the same My name is Dildo Retrahitse Vand. Sirra leaue your rogerie and hearken to me what Page I say Dig. Tempt not disasters take thy life Be gone Redit cum lumine Uau. An excellent villanie Vand. Sirra I haue businesse of waight to impart to your Ladie Dig. If your businesse be of waight let it waite till the after noone for by that time my Ladie will be deliuered of her first sleepe Be gone for feare of watery meteors Vand. Go to sir leaue your villany and dispatch this newes to your Ladie Dig. Is your businesse from your selfe or from some body besides Vand. From no body besides my selfe Dig. Very good then I le tel her here 's one besides himselfe has businesse to her from no body Retrahitse Vau. A perfect yong hempstring Van. Peace least he ouer heare you Redit Dig. Dig. You are not the Constable sir are you Vand. Will you dispatch sir you know me well enough I am Vandome Eury. What 's the matter who 's there Brother Vandome Vand. Sister Eury. What tempest driues you hither at such an hower Vand. VVhy I hope you are not going to bed I see you are not yet vnready if euer you will deserue my loue let it be now by calling forth my mistris I haue newes for her that touch her nearely Eur. VVhat i st good brother Van. The worst of ils would any tongue but mine had bene the messenger Mar. VVhat 's that seruant Van. O Mistris come downe with all speed possible and leaue that mournfull cell of yours I le shew you another place worthy of your mourning Mar. Speake man my heart is armed with a mourning habit of such proofe that there is none greater without it to pierce it Vand. If you please to come downe I le impart what I know if not I le leaue you Eury. VVhy stand you so at gaze sister go downe to him Stay bother she comes to you Vand. T will take I doubt not though her selse be ice There 's one with her all fire and to her spirit I must apply my counterfeit deuice Stand close my Lord Uau. I warrant you proceed Vand. Come silly mistris where 's your worthy Lord I know you know not but too well I know Mar. Now heauen graunt all be well Vand. How can it be VVhile you poore Turtle sit and mourne at home Mewd in your cage your mate he flies abroade O heauens who would haue thought him such a man Eury. Why what man brother I beleeue my speeches will proue true of him Uand. To wrong such a beautie to prophane such vertue and to proue disloyall Eury. Disloyall nay nero gilde him ore with fine termes Brother he is a filthy Lord and euer was I did euer say so I neuer knew any good at h haire I do but wonder how you made shift to loue him or what you saw in him to entertaine but so much as a peece of a good thought on him Mar. Good sister forbeare Eury. Tush sister bid me not forbeare a woman may beare and beare and be neuer the better thought on neither I would you had neuer seene the eyes of him for I know he neuer lou'd you in 's life Mar. You wrong him sister I am sure he lou'd me As I lou'd him and happie I had bene Had I then dide and shund this haplesse life Eury. Nay let him die and all such as as he is he lay a catter-walling not long since O if it had bene the will of heauen what a deare blessing had the world had in his riddance Vand. But had the lecher none to single out For obiect of his light lasciuious blood But my poore cosin that attends the Dutchesse Lady Ieronime Eury. What that blaberlipt blouse Uand. Nay no blouse sister though I must confesse She comes farre short of your perfection Eury. Yes by my troth if she were your cosin a thousand times shee s but a sallow freckld face peece when she is at the best Uand. Yet spare my cosin sister for my sake She merits milder censure at your hands And euer held your worth in noblest termes Eury. Faith the Gentlewoman is a sweete Gentlewoman of her selfe I must needs giue her her due Vand. But for my Lord your husband honor'd mistris He made your beauties and your vertues too But foyles to grace my cosins had you seene His amorous letters But my cosin presently will tell you all for she reiects his sute yet I aduisde her to make a shew she did not But point to meet him when you might surprise him and this is iust the houre Eury. Gods my life sister loose not this aduantage it wil be a good Trumpe to lay in his way vpon any quarrell Come you shall got S'bodie will you suffer him to disgrace you in this sort dispraise your beautie And I do
MONSIEVR D'OLIVE A Comedie as it vvas sundrie times acted by her Maiesties children at the Blacke-Friers By Geo. Chapmon VERITAS VIRESSIT VULNERE LONDON Printed by T. C. for William Holmes and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dun-Stons Church-yard in Fleete streete 1606 MONSIEVR D'OLIVE ACTVS PRIMI Scaena Prima VANDOME with seruants and saylors laden VAVMONT another way walking Vand. COnuey your carriage to my brother in Lawes Th' Earle of Saint Anne to whome and to my Sister Commend my humble seruice tell them both Of my arriuall and intent t' attend them When in my way I haue performd fit duties To Count Vaumont and his most honoured Countesse Ser. We will Syr this way follow honest Saylors Exeunt Seruants Uand. Our first obseruance after any absence Must be presented euer to our Mistresse As at our parting she should still be last Hinc Amor vt circulus from hence t is said That loue is like a circle being th' efficient And end of all our actions which excited By no worse abiect then my matchlesse mistresse Were worthy to employ vs to that likenesse And be the onely Ring our powers should beate Noble she is by birth made good by vertue Exceeding faire and her behauiour to it Is like a singular Musitian To a sweete Instrument or else as doctrine Is to the soule that puts it into Act And prints it full of admirable formes Without which t were an emptie idle flame Her eminent iudgement to dispose these parts Sits on her browe and holds a siluer Scepter with which she keepes time to the seuerall musiques Plac't in the sacred consort of her beauties Loues compleat armorie is manadgd in her To stirre affection and the discipline To checke and to affright it from attempting Any attaint might disproportion her Or make her graces lesse then circular Yet her euen carriage is as farre from coynesse As from Immodestie in play in dancing In suffering court-ship in requiting kindnesse In vse of places houres and companies Free as the Sunne and nothing more corrupted As circumspect as Cynthia in her vowes And constant as the Center to obserue them Ruthfull and bountious neuer fierce nor dull In all her courses euer at the full These three yeares I haue trauaild and so long Have beene in trauaile with her dearest sight Which now shall beautifie the enamour'd light This is her house what the gates shut and cleere Of all attendants Why the house was wont To hold the vsuall concourse of a Court And see me thinks through the encourtaind windowes In this high time of day I see light Tapers This is exceeding strange Behold the Farle Walking in as strange sort before the dore I le know this wonder sure My honoured Lord Vau. Keepe of Sir and beware whom you embrace Uand. Why flyes your Lordship back Uau. You should be sure To knowe a man your friend ere you embrac't him Uand. I hope my knowledge cannot be more sure Then of your Lordships friendship Uau. No mans knowledge Can make him sure of any thing without him Or not within his power to keepe or order Vand. I comprehend not this and wonder much To see my most lou'd Lord so much estrang'd Vau. The truth is I haue done your knowne deserts More wrong then with your right should let you greet me And in your absence which makes worse the wrong And in your honour which still makes it worse Vand. If this be all my Lord the discontent You seeme to entertaine is meerly causlesse Your free confession and the manner of it Doth liberally excuse what wrong soeuer Your mis-conceit could make you lay on me And therefore good my Lord discouer it That we may take the spleene and corsey from it Vau. Then heare a strange report and reason why I did you this repented iniurie You know my wife is by the rights of courtship Your chosen Mistresse and she not disposde As other Ladies are to entertaine Peculiar termes with common acts of kindnesse But knowing in her more then womens iudgement That she should nothing wrong her husbands right To vse a friend onely for vertue chosen With all the right of friendship tooke such care After the solemne parting to your trauaile And spake of you with such exceeding passion That I grew iealous and with rage excepted Against her kindnesse vtterly forgetting I should haue waied so rare a womans words As duties of a free and friendly iustice Not as the head-strong and incontinent vapors Of other Ladies bloods enflamed with lust Wherein I iniured both your innocencies Which I approue not out of flexible dotage By any cunning flatteries of my wife But in impartiall equitie made apparant Both by mine owne well-waid comparison Of all her other manifest perfections With this one onely doubtfull leuitie And likewise by her violent apprehension Of her deepe wrong and yours for she hath vowde Neuer to let the common Pandresse light Or any doome as vulgar censure her In any action she leaues subiect to them Neuer to fit the day with her attire Nor grace it with her presence Nourish in it Vnlesse with sleepe nor stir out of her chamber And so hath muffled and mewd vp her beauties In neuer-ceasing darkenesse Neuer sleeping But in the day transform'd by her to night With all Sunne banisht from her smootherd graces And thus my deare and most vnmatched wife That was a comfort and a grace to me In euery iudgement euery companie I by false Iealousie haue no lesse then lost Murtherd her liuing and emtoomd her quicke Vand. Conceit it not so deepely good my Lord Your wrong to me or her was no fit ground To beare so waightie and resolu'd a vowe From her incensed and abused vertues Uau. There could not be a more important cause To fill her with a ceaslesse hate of light To see it grace grose lightnesse with full beames And frowne on continence with her oblique glances As nothing equalls right to vertue done So is her wrong past all comparison Vand. Vertue is not malitious wrong done her Is righted euer when men grant they Erre But doth my princely mistresse so contemne The glorie of her beauties and the applause Giuen to the worth of her societie To let a voluntarie vowe obscure them Uau. See all her windowes and her doores made fast And in her Chamber lights for night enflam'd Now others rise she takes her to her bed Uand. This newes is strange heauen grant I be encounterd With better tyding of my other friendes Let me be bold my Lord t' enquire the state Of my deare sister in whose selfe and me Surviues the whole hope of our familie Together with her deare and princely husband Th' Earle of Saint Anne Uau. Vnhappie that I am I would to heauen your most welcome steppes Had brought you first vpon some other friend To be the sad Relator of the changes Chanc't your three yeares most lamented absence Your worthy sister worthier farre of heauen
of the Muses had the priuiledge to liue onlie by their wits but times are altered Monopolies are nowe calld in wits become a free trade for all sorts to liue by Lawyers liue by wit and they liue worshipfully Souldiers liue by wit and they liue honourably Panders liue by wit and they liue honestlie In a word there are fewe trades but liue by wit onely bawdes and Midwifes liue by Womens labours as Fooles and Fidlers do by making myrth Pages and Parasits by making legges Paynters and Players by making mouthes and faces ha doest well wits Rho. Faith thou followest a figure in thy iests as countrey Gentlemen followe fashions when they bee worne threed-bare D'ol. Well well le ts leaue these wit skirmishes and say when shall we meete Mug. How thinke you are we not met now D'ol. Tush man I meane at my chamber where we may take free vse of our selues that is drinke Sacke and talke Satyre and let our wits runne the wilde Goose chase ouer Court and Countrey I will haue my chamber the Rende-vous of all good wits the shoppe of good wordes the Mint of good Iestes an Ordinary of fine discourse Critickes Essayists Linguists Poets and other professors of that facultie of wit shall at certaine houres i th day resort thither it shall be a second Sorbonne where all doubts or differences of Learning Honour Duellisme Criticisme and Poetrie shall be disputed and how wits do ye follow the Court still Rhod. Close at heeles sir and I can tell you you haue much to aunswere for your starres that you doe not so too D'ol. As why wits as why Rhod. VVhy sir the Court 's as t were the stage and they that haue a good suite of parts and qualities ought to presse thither to grace them and receiue their due merite Dol. Tush let the Court follow me he that soares too neare the sunne melts his wings many times as I am I possesse my selfe I enjoy my libertie my learning my wit as for wealth and honor let am go I le not loose my learning to be a Lord nor my wit to be an Alderman Mug. Admirable D'oliue Dol. And what you stand gazing at this Comet here and admire it I dare say Rhod. And do not you D'ol. Not I I admire nothing but wit Rhod. But I wonder how she entertaines time in that solitarie Cell does she not take Tabacco thinke you D'ol. She does she does others make it their Physicke she makes it her foode her sister and she take it my turne first one then the other and Vandome ministers to them both Mug. How sayest thou by that Helene of Greece the Countesses sister there were a Paragon Monsieur D'oliue to admire and marrie too D'ol. Not for me Rhod. No what acceptions lies against the choise D'ol. Tush tell me not of choise if I stood affected that way I would chuse my wife as men do Valentines blindfold or draw cuts for them for so I shall be sure not to be deceiued in choosing for take this of me there 's ten times more deceipt in women then in Horse-flesh and I say still that a prettie well pac'd Chambermaid is the only fashion if she grow full or ful some giue her but six pence to buy her a handbasket and send her the way of all flesh there 's no more but so Mug. Indeed that 's the sauingst way D'ol. O me what a hell t is for a man to be tied to the continuall charge of a Coach with the appurtenances horse men and so forth and then to haue a mans house pestered with a whole countrey of Guests Groomes Panders wayting maides c. I carefull to please my wife she carelesse to displease me shrewish if she be honest intolerable if shee be wise imperious as an Emperesse all she does must be law all shee sayes Gospell O what a pennance t is to endure her I glad to forbeare still all to keepe her loyall and yet perhappes when all 's done my heyre shall be like my Horse-keeper Fie on 't the very thought of marriage were able to coole the hottest liuer in France Rhod. VVell I durst venture twice the price of your guilt Connies wooll we shall haue you change your coppy ere a twelue moneths day Mug. We must haue you dubd at h order ther 's no remedie you that haue vnmarryed done such honourable seruice in the common-wealth must needes receyue the honour due t'oot in marriage Rho. That hee may doe and neuer marrie D'ol. As how wits yfaith as how Rho. For if hee can prooue his father was free at h order and that hee was his fathers sonne then by the laudable custome of the Cittie hee may bee a cuckold by his fathers coppie and neuer serue for t D'ol. Euer good yfaith Mug. Nay howe can hee pleade that when it t' is as well knowne his father dyed a batcheler D'ol. Bitter in verity bitter But good still in it kinde Rho. Goe too we must haue you follow the lanthorne of your forefathers Mug. His forefathers S'body had hee more fathers then one D'ol. Why this is right heer 's wit canuast out ans coate into 's Iacket the string sounds euer well that rubs not too much at h frets I must loue your Wits I must take pleasure in you Farewell good wits you know my lodging make an Errand thether now and than and saue your ordinarie doe wits doe Mug. Wee shall be troublesome too D'ol. O God Syr you wrong mee to thinke I can bee troubled with wit I loue a good wit as I loue my selfe if you neede a brace or two of Crownes at any time Addresse but your Sonnet it shall bee as sufficient as your bonde at all times I carrie halfe a score byrdes in a cage shall euer remaine at your call Farewell wits farewell good wits Exits Rho. Farewell the true mappe of a gull by Heauen hee shall too'th Court t' is the perfect model of an impudent vpstart the compound of a Poet and a Lawyer hee shall sure too'th Court Mug. Naye for Gods sake let ts haue no fooles at Court Rho. Hee shall too 't that 's certaine the Duke had a purpose to dispatch some one or other to the French King to entreat him to send for the bodie of his Neece which the melancoly Earle of Saint Anne her husband hath kept so long vnburied as meaning one graue should entombe himselfe and her together Mug. A very worthy subiect for an Ambassage as D'oliue is for an Ambassador Agent and t' is as sutable to his braine as his parcell guilt Beuer to his fooles head Rho. Well it shall goe hard but hee shall bee employd O t is a most accomplisht asse the mugrill of a Gull and a villaine the very essence of his soule is pure villany The substance of his braine-foolery one that beleeues nothing from the starres vpward A Pagan in beleefe an Epicure beyond beleefe Prodigious in lust Prodigall in wastfull expence in necessary most
Mons Doliue Pa que RHO. Heere is the gentleman Your highnes doth desire to doe you honor In the presenting of your princely parson And going Lord Ambassador to 'th French King PHIL: Is this the gentleman whose worth so highly You recommend to our election AMBO This is the man my Lord PHIL: Wee vnderstand Sir We haue beene wrongd by being kept so long From notice of your honorable parts Wherein your country claimes a deeper intrest Then your meere priuate selfe what makes wise Nature Fashion in men thiese excellent perfections Of haughty courage great wit wisedome incredible DOLI It pleaseth your good excellence to say so PHI: But that she aymes therein at publique good And you in duty thereto of your selfe Ought to haue made vs render of your parts And nor entombe them tirant-like aliue RHO: We for our parts my Lord are not in fault For we haue spurnd him forward euermore Letting him know how fit an instrument He was to play vpon in stately Musique MVG, And if he had bin ought else but an Asse Your Grace ere this time long had made him great Did not we tell you this DOLI Often times But sure my honord Lord the times before Were not as now they be thankes to our fortune That we inioy so sweet and wise a prince As is your gratious selfe for then it was pollicie To keepe all with of hope still vnder hatches Farre from the Court least their exceeding parts Should ouer shine those that were then in place And t' was our happines that we might liue so For in that freely choos'd obscuritie Wee found our safetie which men most of Note Many times lost and I ahlas for my part Shrunk my despised head in my poore shell For your learn'd excellence I â—oâ—ow knows well Qui bene saturi bene vixit still PHI, T was much you could containe your selfe that had So great meanes to haue liu'd in greater place DOL: Faith Sir I had a poore roofe or a paint house To shade me from the Sunne and three or foure tyles To shrow'd me from the Rayne and thought my selfe As private as I had King Giris Ring And could haue gone invisible yet saw all That past our states rough be a born neere and farre There saw I our great Galeasses tost Vpon the wallowing waues vp with one billow And then downe with another Our great men Like to a Masse of clowds that now seeme like An Elephant and straight wayes like an Oxe And then a Mouse or like those changeable creatures That liue in the Burdello now in Satten Tomorrow next in Stammell When I sate all this while in my poore cell Secure of lightning or the sodaine Thunder Conuerst with the poore Muses gaue a scholler Forty or fiftie crownes a yeare to teach me And prate to me about the predicables When indeede my thoughts flew a higher pitch Then Genus and Species as by this tast I hope your highnes happyly perceiues And shall hereafter more at large approue If any worthy oportunitie Make but her fore topp subiect to my hold And so I leaue your Grace to the tuition Of him that made you RHO: Soft good Sir I pray What sayes your Excellence to this gentleman Haue I not made my word good to your highnes PHI: Well Sir how euer Enuious policie Hath rob'd my predicessors of your seruice You must not scape my hands that haue design'd present employment for you and t is this T' is not vnknowne vnto you with what griefe Wee take the sorrow of the Earle Saint Anne For his deceased wife with whose dead sight Hee feeds his passion keeping her from right Of christian buriall to make his eyes Doe pennance by their euerlasting teares For loosing the deare sight of her quick bewties DOL: Well spoke y-faith your grace must giue me leaue To praise your witt for faith t is rarely spoken PHIL: The better for your good commendation But Sir your Ambassy to the French King Shall be to this effect thus you shall say DOL: Not so your Excellence shall pardon me I will not haue my tale put in my mouth If you 'le deliuer me your mind in grose Why so I shall expresse it as I can I warrant you t'wilbe sufficient PHIL: T' is very good then Sir my will in grose Is that in pitty of the sad Countes case The King would aske the body of his Neece To giue it Funerall fitting her high blood Which as your selfe requires and reason wills I leaue to be enforst and amplyfied With all the Ornaments of Arte and Nature Which flowes I see in your sharp intellect DOL: Ahlas you cannot see 't in this short time Bur there be some not far hence that haue seene And heard me too ere now I could haue wisht Your highnes presence in a priuat Conuenticle At what time the high point of state was handled PHIL: What was the point DOL: It was my happ to make a number there My selfe as euery other Gentleman Beeing interested in that graue affayre Where I deliner'd my opinion how well DOL: What was the matter pray The matter Sir Was of an antient subiect and yet newly Cald into question And t' was this in breefe We sate as I remember all in rowe All sorts of men together A Squier and a Carpenter a Lawier and a Sawier A Marchant and a Broker a Iustice and a peasant and so forth without all difference PHIL: But what was the matter DOL. Faith a stale argument though newly handled And I am fearefull I shall shame my selfe The subiect is so thred bare PHIL: T is no matter be as it wil go to y point I pray DOL: Then thus it is the question of estate Or the state of the question was in briefe whether in an Aristocrasie Or in a Democriticall estate Tobacco might be brought to lawfull vse But had you heard the excellent speches there Touching this part MVG: RHO: Pray thee to the point DOL: First to the point then Vpstart a weauer blowne vp b' inspiration That had borne office in the congregation A little fellow and yet great in spirit I neuer shall forget him for he was A most hot liuer'd enemie to Tobacco His face was like the ten of Diamonds Pointed each where with pushes and his Nose Was like the Ase of clubs which I must tell you Was it that set him and Tobacco first at such hot Enmitie for that nose of his according to the Puritannick cut hauing a narrow bridge and this Tobacco being in drink durst not passe by and finding stopt his narrow passage fled backe as it came and went away in Pett MVG: Iust cause of quarrell PHI: But pray thee briefely say what said the weauer DOL: The weauer Sir much like a virginal iack Start nimbly vp the culler of his beard I scarse remember but purblind he was With the GENEVA print and wore one eare Shorter then tother for a difference PHI: A man of very
open note it seemes DOL: He was so Sir and hotly he envaid Against Tobacco with a most strong breath For he had eaten garlicke the same morning As t' was his vse partly against ill ayres Partly to make his speeches sauorie Said t' was a pagan plant a prophane weede And a most sinful smoke that had no warrant Out of the word inuented sure by Sathan In theise our latter dayes to cast a mist Before mens eyes that they might not behold The grosenes of olde superstition Which is as t' were deriu'd into the church From the fowle sincke of Romish popery And that it was a iudgement on our land That the svbstantiall commodities And mighty blessings of this Realme of France Bells Rattles hobby horses and such like Which had brought so much wealth into the Land Should now be changd into the smoke of vanitie The smoke of superstition for his owne part He held a Garlick cloue being sanctifyed Did edifie more the body of a man Then a whole tin of this prophane Tobacco Being tane without thankes-giuing in a word He said it was a ragge of Popery And none that were truely regenerate would Prophane his Nosthrils with the smoke thereof And speaking of your grace behind your back He chargd and coniur'd you to see the vse Of vaine Tobacco banisht from the land For feare least for the great abuse thereof Or candle were put out and there with all Taking his handker-chiefe to wipe his mouth As he had told a lie he tun'd his noise To the olde straine as if he were preparing For a new exercise But I my selfe Angry to heare this generous Tabacco The Gentlemans Saint and the souldiers idoll So ignorantly poluted stood me vp Tooke some Tabacco for a complement Brake fleame some twice or thrice then shooke mine eares And lickt my lipps as if I begg'd attention and so directing me to your sweet Grace Thus I replyed RHO: MVG Rome for a speach there Silence DOL. I am amused or I am in a quandarie gentlemen for in good faith I remember not well whether of them was my words PHI: T is no matter either of them will serue the turne DOL: Whether I should as the Poet sayes eloquar an siliam whether by answering a foole I should my selfe seeme no lesse or by giving way to his winde for words are but winde I might betray the cause to the maintaynance whereof all true Troyans from whose race we claime our decent owe all their patrimonies and if neede be their dearest blood and their sweetest breath I would not be tedious to your highnes PHI: You are not Sir Proceede DOL: TABACCO that excellent plant the vse whereof as of fift Element the world cannot want is that little shop of Nature wherein her whole workeman-ship is abridg'd where you may see Earth-kindled into fier the fire breath out an exhalation which entring in at the mouth walkes through the Regions of a mans brayne driues out all ill Vapours but it selfe downe all bad Humors by the mouth which in time might breed a Scabbe ouer the whole body if already they haue not a plant of singular vse for on the one side Nature being an Enemie to Vacuitie and emptines and on the other there beeing so many empty braines in the World as there are how shall Natures course be continued How shall thiese empty braines be filled but with ayre Natures immediate instrument to that purpose If with ayre what so proper as your fume what fume so healthfull as your perfume what perfume so soueraigne as Tabacco Besides the excellent edge it giues a mans wit as they can best iudge that haue beene present at a feast of Tobacco where commonly all good witts are consorted what varietie of discourse it begetts What sparkes of wit it yeelds it is a world to heare as likewise to the courage of a man for if it be true that Iohannes de sauo et sauo et writes that hee that drinkes Veriuice pisseth vinegere Then it must needs follow to be as true that hoe that eates smoke farts fire for Garlicke I will not say because it is a plant of our owne country but it may cure the diseases of the country but for the diseases of the Court they are out of the Element of Garlick to medicine to conclude as there is no enemy to Tabacco but Garlick so there is no friend to Garlick but a sheeps head and so I conclude PHIL: Well Sir Yf this be but your Naturall vaine I must confesse I knew you not indeede When I made offer to instruct your brayne For the Ambassage and will trust you now If t' were to send you foorth to the great Turke With an Ambassage DOL: But Sir in conclusion T' was orderd for my speach that since Tobacco Had so long bin in vse it should thence foorth Be brought to lawfull vse but limitted thus That none should dare to take it but a gentleman Or he that had some gentlemanly humor The Murr the Head-ach the Cattar the bone ach Or other branches of the sharpe salt Rhewme Fitting a gentleman RHO: Your grace has made choise Of a most simple Lo Ambassador PHI: Well Sir you neede not looke for a commission My hand shall well dispatch you for this busines Take now the place and state of an Ambassador Present our parson and performe our charge And so farewell good Lord Ambassador DOL: Farewell good Duke and GVEAQVIN to thee GVE How now you foole out you presumptious gull D'OL: How now you baggage Sfoote are you so coy To the Dukes parson to his second selfe are you to good dame to enlarge yourselfe Vnto your proper obiect slight t were a good deede GVE What meanes your grace to suffer me abus'd thus PHI: Sweet Loue be pleas'd you do not know this Lord Giue me thy hand my Lord DOL: And giue me thine PHIL: Farewell againe D'OL: Farewell againe to thee PHI: Now go thy ways for an ambassador Exiunt PHIL Gueaque Iero DOL: Now goe thy wayes for a Duke MVG: RHO: Most excellent Lord RHO. Why this was well performd and like a Duke Whose parson you most naturally present D'OL: I told you I would doo 't now I le begin To make the world take notice I am noble The first thing I will doe I le sweare to pay No debts vpon my honor MVG: A good cheape proofe of your Nobilitie D'ol. But if I knew where I might pawne mine honor For some odd thousand Crownes it shal be layd I le pay 't againe when I haue done withall Then t will be expected I shal be of some Religion I must thinke of some for fashion or for faction sake As it becomes great personages to doe I le thinke vpon 't betwixt this and the day Rho. Well sayd my Lord this Lordship of yours wil worke a mighty alteration in you do you not feele it begins to worke alreadie D'ol. Fayth onely in this it makes mee thinke how they
that were my Companions before shall now be my fauorites They that were my Friends before shall now be my followers They that were my Seruants before shall now be my knaues But they that were my Creditors before shall remaine my Creditors still Mug. Excellent Lord Come will you shew your Lordship in the Presence now D'ol. Faith I do not care if I go and make a face or two there or a few gracefull legges speake a little Italian and away there 's all a Presence doth require FINIS ACTVS SECVNDI ACTVS TERTII Saena prima Enter Uandome and St. Anne St. Anne YOu haue enclinde me more to leaue this life Then I supposde it possible for an Angell Nor is your iudgement to suppresse your passion For so deare lou'd a Sister being as well Your blood and flesh as mine the least enforcement Of your disswasiue arguments And besides Your true resemblance of her much supplies Her want in my affections with all which I feele in these deepe griefes to which I yeeld A kind of falce sluggish and rotting sweetnes Mixt with an humour where all things in life Lie drownd in sower wretched and horred thoughts The way to cowardly desperation opened And whatsoeuer vrgeth soules accurst To their destruction and sometimes their plague So violently gripes me that I lie Whole dayes and nightes bound at his tirranous feete So that my dayes are not like life or light But bitterest death and a continuall night Uand. The ground of all is vnsuffised Loue Which would be best casd with some other obiect The generall rule of Naso being autentique Quod successore nouo vincitur omnis Amor For the affections of the minde drawne foorth In many currents are not so impulsiue In anie one And so the Persian King Made the great Riuer Ganges runn distinctly In an innumerable sort of Channels By which meanes of a fierce and dangerous Flood He turnd it into many pleasing Riuers So likewise is an Armie disarayd Made penetrable for the assaulting foe So huge Fiers being deffused grow asswadgd Lastly as all force being vnite increaseth So being dispearst it growes lesse sharpe and ceaseth S. Anne Ahlas I know I cannot loue another My hart accustomd to loue onely her My eyes accustomd to view onely her Will tell me whatsoeuer is not her is foule and hatefull Uand. Yet forbeare to keepe her Still in your sight force not her breathles body Thus against Nature to suruiue being dead Let it consume that it may reassume A forme incorruptible and refraine The places where you vsde to ioy in her Heu fuge dilectas terras fuge littus Amatum For how can you be euer sound or safe Where in so many red steps of your wounds Gaspe in your eyes with change of place be sure Like sicke men mending you shall find recure Enter the Duke D'oliue Gueaquin Ieronime Muge Rhod. to see the dead Countesse that is kept in her attire vnburied D'ol. Fayth Madam my companie may well be spard at so mournefull a visitation For by my soule to see Pigmalion dote vpon a Marble Picture a senceles Statue I should laugh and spoyle the Tragedie Gur. Oh t is an obiect full of pittie my Lord D'ol. T is pittie in deed that any man should loue a woman so constantly Duke Bitterly turnd my Lord we must still admire you D'ol. Tush my Lord true Manhood can neither mourne nor admire It 's fitt for Women they can weepe at pleasure euen to admiration Gur. But men vse to admire rare things my Lord D'ol. But this is nothing rare T is a vertue common for men to loue their Wiues after death The value of a good Wife as all good things else are better knowne by their want then by their fruition for no man loues his Wife so well while she lines but he loues her ten times better when shee 's dead Rho. This is sound Philosophie my Lord D'ol. Faith my Lord I speake my thoughts and for mine owne part I should so ill indure the losse of a Wife alwayes prouided I lou'd her that if I lost her this weeke I 'de haue another by the beginning a' th next And thus resolu'd I leaue your Highnes to deale with Atropos for cutting my Ladyes threed I am for France all my care is for Followers to Imp out my Traine I feare I must come to your Grace for a Presse for I will be followd as becomes an honorable Lord and that is like an honest Squire for with our great Lords followers abrod and Hospitalitie at home are out of date The world 's now growne thriftie He that fils a whole Page in folio with his Stile thinkes it veriest Noble to be mand with one bare Page and a Pandare and yet Pandare in auntient time was the name of an honest Courtier what t is now Viderit vtilitas Come Witts let 's to my Chamber Exeunt Manent Vando S. An. Uando. Well now my Lord remember all the reasons And arguments I vsde at first to you To draw you from your hurtfull passions And there withall admit one further cause Drawne from my loue and all the powers I haue Euryone vow'd sister to my sister Whose vertues beauties and perfections Adorne our Countrie and do neerest match With her rich graces that your loue adores Hath wounded my affections and to her I would intreat your Lordships gracefull word S. Anne But is it true Loues my deare brother now It much delights me for your choyce is Noble Yet need you not vrge me to come abrode Your owne worth will suffize for your wisht speed Uand. I know my Lord no man aliue can winn Her resolu'd iudgment from virginitie Vnlesse you speake for him whose word of all Dames Is held most sweet and worthie to perswade them S. Anne The world will thinke mee too phantasticall To ope so sodenly my vow'd obscurenes Uand. My Lord my loue is suddaine and requires A suddaine remedie If I be delayed Consider Loues delay breedes desperation By waighing how strongly Loue workes in your selfe S. Anne Deare Brother nothing vnderneath the Starres Makes mee so willing to pertake the ayre And vndergo the burden of the world As your most worthy selfe and your wisht good And glad I am that by this meanes I may See your descent continued and therein Behold some new borne Image of my wife Deare life take knowledge that thy Brothers loue Makes me dispaire with my true zeale to thee And if for his sake I admit the Earth To hide this treasure of thy pretious beauties And that thy part suruiuing be not pleasd Let it appeare to mee ye iust assisters Of all intentions bent to soueraigne iustice And I will follow it into the Graue Or dying with it or preserue it thus As long as any life is left betwixt vs Exeunt Enter Monseuer D'oliue Rhoderique D'ol. But didst note what a presence I came of with-all Rho. Sfoot you drew the eyes of the whole presence vpon you
your owne The same that euer my deare Sister was And heauen blesse both your loues as I release All my faind loue and interest to you S. Anne How Noblie hath your loue deluded mee How iustlie haue you beene vniust to mee Let mee embrace the Oracle of my good The Aucthor and the Patron of my life Uand. Tush betwixt vs my Lord what need these tearmes As if we knew not one another yet Make speed my Lord and make your Nuptials short As they are sodaine blest in your desires S Anne Oh I wish nothing more then lightning hast Uan. Stay one word first my Lord You are a sweet brother To put in trust and woo loue for another S. Anne Pray thee no more of that Vand. Well then be gone my Lord her brother comes Exit S. Anne Enter Vaum. Vaum. Most happie Friend How hath our plot succeeded Uand. Hee 's our owne His blood was framde for euerie shade of vertue To rauish into true inamourate fire The Funerall of my Sister must be held With all solemnitie and then his Nuptialls With no lesse speed and pompe be celebrate Vaum. What wonders hath your fortunate spirrite vertues Wrought to our comforts Could you crowne th' enchantments Of your diuine Witte with another Spell Of powre to bring my Wife out of her Cell You should be our quicke Hermes our Alcides Uand. That 's my next lobour come my Lord your selfe Shall stand vnseene and see by next morns light Which is her Beddtime how my Braines-bould valoure Will rouse her from her vowes seueritie No Will nor Powre can withstand Pollicie Exit Enter D'oliue Pacque Dique D'ol. Welcome little Witts are you hee my Page Pacque here Makes choice of to be his fellow Coch-horse Diq. I am my Lord D'ol. What Countrie man Diq. Borne i' th Cittie Pac. But begot i' th Court I can tell your Lordship he hath had as good Court breeding as anie Impe in a Countrie If your Lordship please to examine him in anie part of the Court Accidence from a Noune to an Interiection I le vndertake you shall finde him sufficient D'ol. Saist thou so little Witt Why then Sir How manie Pronounes be there Diq. Faith my Lord there are more but I haue learned but three sorts the Goade the Fulham and the Stop-kater-tre which are all demonstratiues for heere they be There are Relatiues too but they are nothing without their Antecedents D'ol. Well said little Witt I'faith How manie Antecedents are there Diq. Faith my Lord their number is vncertaine but they that are are either Squires or Gentlemen vshers D'ol. Verie well said when all is done the Court is the onely Schoole of good education especially for Pages and Waighting women Paris or Padua or the famous Schoole of England called Winchester famous I meane for the Goose Where Schollers weare Petticoates so long till their Penn and Inckhorns knocke against their knees All these I say are but Belfries to the Bodie or Schoole of the Court Hee that would haue his Sonne proceed Doctor in three dayes let him sende him thither there 's the Porge to fashion all the parts of them There they shall learne the true vse of their good Partes indeed Pac. Well my Lord you haue said well for the Court What sayes your Lordshippe now to vs Courtiers Shall we goe the voyage D'ol. My little Hermophrodites I entertaine you heere into my Chamber and if need be nearer your seruice you know I will not promise Mountaines nor assure you Annuities of fourtie or fiftie Crownes in a word I will promise nothing but I will be your good Lord do you not doubt Diq. We do not my Lord but are sure you will shew your selfe Noble and as you promise vs nothing so you will Honorably keepe promise with vs and giue vs nothing D'ol. Prettie little Witt y'faith Can he verse Pac. I and sett too my Lord Hee 's both a Setter and a Verser D'ol. Prettie in faith but I meane has he a vaine Naturall Pac. O my Lord it comes from him as easelie Diq. As Suites from a Courtier without money or money from a Cittizen without securitie my Lord D'o. Wel I perceiue nature has suited your Witts I le suite you in Guarded coates answerable to your Witts for Witt 's as sutable to guarded Coates as Wisedome is to welted Gownes My other Followers Horse themselues my selfe will horse you And now tell me for I will take you into my bosome What 's the opinion of the many headed Best touching my new adition of Honour Diq. Some thinke my Lord it hath giuen you adition of pride and outer euidance D'ol. They are deceaued that thinke so I must confesse it would make a Foole proude but for me I am semper idem Pac. We beleeue your Lordship D'ol. I finde no alteration in my selfe in the world for I am sure I am no wiser then I was when I was no Lord nor no more bountifull nor no more honest onely in respect of my state I assume a kinde of State to receiue Suters now with the Nodd of Nobilitie not as before with the Cappe of courtesie the knee of Knighthood And why knee of Knighthood little Witte there 's another Question for your Court Accidence Diq. Because Gentlemen or Yoemen or Pessantes or so receiue Knighthood on their knees Pac. The signification of the Knee of Knighthood in Heraldie an 't please your Lordship is that Knights are tyed in honour to fight vp to the knees in blood for the defence of faire Ladyes D'ol. Verie good but if it be so what honour doe they deserue that purchase their Knighthood Diq. Purchase their Knighthood my Lord Mary I thinke they come truely by 't for they pay well for 't D'ol. You cut mee off by the knees little Witte but I say if you will heare mee that if they deserue to be Knighted that purchase their Knighthood with fighting vp to the knee What doe they deserue that purchase their Knighthood with fighting aboue the knee Pac. Mary my Lord I say the purchase is good if the conueyance will hold water D'ol. VVhy this is excellent by heauen twentie poundes annuitie shal not purchase you from my heeles But foorth now VVhat is the opinion of the world touching this new Honour of mine Doe not Fooles enuie it Diq. No my Lord but wise men wonder at it you hauing so buried your wisedome heretofore in Tauerns and Vaultinghouses that the world could neuer discouer you to be capable of Honour D'ol. As though Achilles could hide himselfe vnder a Womans clothes was he not discouered at first This Honor is like a Woman or a Crocadile chuse you whether it flies them that follow it and followes them that flie it For my selfe how euer my worth for the time kept his bedd yet did I euer prophecie to my selfe that it would rise before the Sun-set of my dayes I did euer dreame that this head was borne to beare a breadth this shoulder to