the words in that you call'd me gull and Asse to my face resolue me by letter for I do not thinke fit we should meete first whether you spake any such words or no and secondly by whom you meant 'em And it by me as I thinke you durst not confesse you are sorry for 'hem and if I haue offended you I heartily aske you forgiuenesse And so farewell Quint. Afore heauen Ancient this would haue tickled you but good Leonoro and thou bee'st a right Clarissimo le ts make 'em friends and drinke to one another S'fut we haue no wine here me thinks where 's this Aperner Drawer Here Sir Quint. Haue you mended your hand sir Draw I Captaine and if this please not your taste either you or I cannot tast a cup of wine Quint. Sounds y' are very saucy sir here Lieftenant drink to thy Ancient and voide mutinies with your officer marshall law is dangerous Innoc. Is he content I should drinke to him Leo. He is I warrant thee Innoc. Why then Ancient good lucke t' ee Giou. Let come Lieftenant I pledge you Quint. Why so now my company is cur'de againe afore 't was wounded Come honorable Clarissimo le ts retire to our strength taste a fresh carouse or two and then march home with Musicke Tapster call vs in some Musicke Draw I will sir Finis Actus Tertij Actus Quartus Enter Quintiliano Leonoro Innocentio Lionello Fannio with Musicke Quint. Strike vp Scrapers honorable Clarissimo and thy sweet Adonis adieu remember our deuice at the show soone Leo. I will not faile Captaine farewell t' ee both come Lionel now let vs trie the truth of Madam Temperance and see if shee attend vs Innoc. I hope by this time shee remembers her promise sir Exeunt Leo and Lio. Quint. How now Lieftenant where 's my Ancient Innoc. Marry Captaine y 'aue left him casting the reckoning i th' chimney Quint. Why then his purse and his stomacke wil be empty together and so I cashier him let the scholler report at Padua that Venice has other manner of learning belongs to it what does his Continuum Contiguum here let 'em goe to the Inke pot and beware of the wine pot Fill red cheek't Bacchus let the Burdeux grape Skip like la voltos in their swelling vaines Te dan dan tidle te dan de dan tidle didle c. Innoc. O God Captaine that I could dance so Quint. He tooke her by strike vp fidlers the lilly white hand and he laid her vpon the bedde Oh what a spirit haue I now I long to meete a Sergeant in this humor I would but haue one whiffe at one of these same peuter button'd shoulder-clappers to trie whether this chopping knife or their pestels were the better weapons Here 's a blade Boy it was the old Dukes first predecessors I le tell thee what Lieftenant this sword has dubd more Knights then thy knife has opened Oysters Innoc. I st possible Captaine and me thinks it stands a little Quint. No matter for that your best mettald blades will stand soonest so now we haue attaind our Mansion house At which I le sing a verse shall breake the dores O noble Hercules let no Stygian lake Te dan dan tidle te dan de dan tidle didle c. Farewell scrapers your reward now shall be that I will not cut your strings nor breake your fidles via away Innoc. Come Captaine le ts enter I long to see my Mistris I warrant shee 's a heauy Gentlewoman for your absence Quint. S'fut she 's an Asse honour wooes me preferment cals me and I must lye pampred in a wenches lap because shee dotes on me Honour saies no Lieftenant Pugna pro patria we must too 't yfaith and seeke our portion amongst the scratcht faces Lorenzo within Mistris Mistris is he gone Quint. Whoe 's that cals there Innoc. I heard no body Quint. No there was one cald Mistris I say who cald Mistris s'blood I hope I am not drunke Fann. In truth sir I heard no body Quint. I tell thee I smelt a voice here in my entry s'fut I le make it smell worse and' cheare it againe Innoc. O me hee 'll draw vpon his owne shaddow in this humour if it take the wall of him Follow him Fannio looke he doe no harme for God sake Lor. Helpe helpe helpe Innoc. Name of God what 's there to doe Enter Quintil. and Lorenzo Lor. Good Captaine doe not hurt me Quint. Sounds is hell broke loose why Snaile though you can sing songs and doe things Snaile I must not allow yee to creepe into my wiues cole-house what Snaile into my withdrawing chamber Lor. I beseech your Worship heare me speake Quint. O Snaile this is a hard case no roome serue your turne but my wiues cole-house and her other house of office annext to it a priuy place for her selfe and me sometimes and will you vse it being a stranger s'light how comes this about vp sirha and call your Mistris Lor. A plague of all disguises Exit Fannio Innoc. Alas poore Snaile what didst thou make here Lor. I protest sir for no harme my Mistris cald me in to sweepe her chimney and because I did it not to her minde shee made me doe pennance in her cole-house Innoc. Search him Captaine and see if he haue stolen nothing Lor. Kill me hang me if I haue Quint. Yes Snaile and besides I heare complaints of you y' are an old luxurious hummerer about wenches Snaile does this become your grauity sir Lieftenant fetch me a cole-sacke I le put him in it and hang him vp for a signe Lor. I beseech your Worship be good to me Innoc. Good Captaine pardon him since he has done nothing but swept your chimney worse then my Mistris would haue it swept he will doe it better another time Quint. Well Snaile at this Gentlemans request to whom I can denie nothing I release you for this once but let me take you no more thus I aduise you Lor. Not while I liue good Captaine Quint. Hence trudge you drudge goe away Lor. A plague of all disguises Exit Lorenzo Enter Fannio Fann. I haue look't about all the house for my Mistris sir but I cannot finde her Quint. Goe then looke all about the towne for her too come in Lieftenant le ts repose a little after our liquor Exeunt Enter Aurelio and Aemilia aboue Aur. DEare life be resolute that no respect Heighted aboue the compasse of your loue Depresse the equall comforts it retaines For since it finds a firme consent in both And both our births and yeares agree so well If both our aged parents should refuse For any common obiect of the world To giue their hands to ours let vs resolue To liue together like our liues and soules Aem. I am resolu'd my loue and yet alas So much affection to my fathers will Consorts the true desires I beare to you That I would haue no sparke of our loue seene Till his
be impudent enough for that 's your chiefe vertue of society Innoc. Is that faith and I neede not learne that I haue that by nature I thanke God Quint. So much the better for nature is farre aboue Art or iudgement Now for your behauiour let it be free and negligent not clogg'd with ceremony or obseruance giue no man honour but vpon equall termes for looke how much thou giu'st any man aboue that so much thou tak'st from thy selfe he that will once giue the wall shall quickly be thrust into the kennell measure not thy carriage by any mans eye thy speech by no mans eare but be resolute and confident in doing and saying and this is the grace of a right Gentleman as thou art Innoc. Sfut that I am I hope I am sure my father has beene twise Warden on 's company Quint. That 's not a peare matter man ther 's no prescription for Gentility but good clothes and impudence for your place take it as it fals but so as you thinke no place to good for you fall too with ceremony whatsoeuer the company be and as neere as you can when they are in their Mutton be thou in thy Wood-cocke it showes resolution Talke any thing thou car'st not what so it be without offence and as neere as thou canst without sence Innoc. Let me alone for that Captaine I warrant you Quint. If you chance to tell a lye you must binde it with some oath as by this bread for breads a binder you know Innoc. True Quint. And yet take heede you sweare by no mans bread but your owne for that may breede a quarrell aboue all things you must carry no coales Innoc. By heauen not I I le freeze to death first Quint. Well Sir one point more I must remember you of After dinner there will be play and if you would be counted compleate you must venture amongst them for otherwise thei ll take you for a Scholler or a Poet and so fall into contempt of you for there is no vertue can scape the accompt of basenesse if it get money but gaming and law yet must you not loose much money at once for that argues little wit at all times Innoc. As gossaue me and that 's my fault for if I be in once I shall loose all I haue about me Quint. Is true Lieftenant birlady Sir I le be your moderator therefore let me see how much money haue you about you Innoc. Not much some twenty marke or twenty pound in gold Quint. 'T is too much to loose by my faith Lieftenant giue me your purse Sir hold yee heer 's two brace of Angels you shall venture that for fashion sake I le keepe the rest for you till you haue done play Innoc. That will be all one for when that 's lost I shall neuer leaue till I get the rest from you for I know thou wilt let me haue it if I aske it Quint. Not a penny by this gold Innoc. Prethee doe not then as gossaue me and you do Quint. And I doe hang me Come le ts to the Duke Exeunt Finis Actus Primi Actus Secundi Scaena prima Enter Lucretia and Temperance seuerall wayes Tem. NAy Mistris pray eene goe in againe for I haue some inward newes for you Lucr. What are those pray Tem. T is no matter Mistris till you come in but make much a time in the meane time good fortune thrusts her selfe vpon you in the likenesse of a fine yong Gentleman hold vp your apron and receiue him while you may a Gods name Lucr. How say by that y' are a very wise counsailer Tem. Well Mistris when I was a Maide and that 's a good while agoe I can tell you Lucr. I thinke very well Tem. You were but a little one then I wisse Lucr. Nor you neither I beleeue Tem. Faith it 's one of the furthest things I can remember Lucr. But what when you were a Maide Tem. Marry Mistris I tooke my time I warrant you And ther 's Signior Leonoro now the very flower of Venice and one that loues you deerely I ensure you Lucr. God forgiue him if he doe for I le be sworne I neuer deseru'd his loue nor neuer will while I liue Tem. Why then what say to Signior Collatine ther 's a dainty peece of Venzon for you and a feruent louer indeed Lucr. He I dare say he knowes not what wood loues shafts are made of his Signiory woud think it the deepest disparagement could be done to him to say that euer he spent sigh for any Dame in Italy Tem. Well you haue a whole browne dozen a suters at least I am sure take your choice amongst 'em all if you loue not all yet you may loue three or foure on 'em to be doing withall Lucr. To be doing withall loue three or foure Tem. Why not so you loue 'em moderately What must that strange made peece Theagines that you cry out vpon so often haue all from other and yet know not where he is Lucr. O my Theagine not Theagines thy loue hath turn'd me woman like thy selfe shall thy sight neuer turne me man againe Come le ts to the Minster God heare my prayers as I intend to stop mine eares against all my suters Tem. Well Mistris yet peraduenture they may make you open afore the Priest haue a penny for you Exeunt Enter Lodouico and Aemilia Lodo. HEer 's a coyle to make wit and women friends come hither wench let me haue thee single now sit thee downe and heare good counsaile next thy heart and God giue thee grace to lay it to thy heart Aem. Fie Cozen will this wilde tongue of yours neuer receiue the bridle Lod. Yes thou shalt now see me stroke my beard and speake sententiously thou tellest me thy little father is in hand with a great rich marriage for thee and would haue thee commit matrimony with old Gasparo art thou willing with it Aem. I rather wish my selfe marryed to a thousand deaths Lod. Then I perceiue thou know'st him not did he neuer wooe thee Aem. I protest I neuer chang'd three words with him in my life he hath once or twice woo'de my father for me but neuer me Lod. Why that 's the reason thou lou'st him not because thou tak'st in none of his valiant breath to enflame thee nor vouchsaf'st his knowledge I le tell thee what he is an old saplesse trunke fit to make touch-wood of hollow and bald like a blasted Oke on whose top Rauens sit and croke the portents of funerals one that noints his nose with clowced creame and Pomatum His breath smels like the butt end of a shoo-makers horne A leprous scaly hide like an Elephant The sonne of a Sow-gelder that came to towne as I haue heard thy father himselfe say in a tottred russet cote high shooes and yet his hose torne aboue 'em A long pike-staffe in his necke and a tord in his teeth and a wallet on his right shoulder and
now the cullion hath with Nouerint vniuersi eaten vp some hundred Gentlemen he must needs rise a Gentleman as 't were out of their Ashes or disparage a Gentlewoman to make himselfe a Gentleman at least by the wiues side Aem. The wurse my fortune to be entangled with such a winding bramble Lod. Entangl'd Nay if I thought t would euer come to that I 'de hire some shag-ragge or other for halfe a chickeene to cut 's throat only to saue thy hands from doing it for I know thou wouldst poison him within one moneth loue thee he will neuer and that must be thy happinesse for if he doe looke to be coop't vp like a prisoner condemn'd to execution scarce suffred to take the aire so much as at a window or waited on continually by an old beldame not to keepe thee company but to keepe thee from company thy pocket searcht thy cabinets ransackt for letters euer in opposition vnlesse like the Moone once a Moneth in coniunction wealth thou maist haue indeede but enioy it as in a dreame for when thou wak'st thou shalt finde nothing in thy hand Enter Gasparo and to keepe my tale in goodnesse see how all the ill that can be spoken of him is exprest in his presence Aem. O ougly and monstrous spectacle Lod. Now tell me whether thou wouldst make choice of him or a yong gallant in prime of his choicenesse one that for birth person and good parts might meritoriously marry a Countesse and one to whom his soule is not so deere as thy selfe Enter Aurelio For all the world such another as he that comes here now marke him well see whether Gasparo and he be not a little different Exit Aemilia How now Sownds Aurelio stay beast wilt thou make such a blest opportunity curse thee I le fetch her out to thee Exit Lod. Aure. Wretch that I am how shee lothes me if I abide her I shall consume in the lightnings of her anger Enter Lodouico with Aemilia Exit Aure. Lod. Here 's a life indeede what 's he gone passion of death what a babe 't is I could finde in my heart to ierke him but temper me friendship no remedy now now wit turne his defects to perfection Why Cuze hee 's quite out of sight By my life I commend him why this is done like thy selfe Aurelia were shee the Queene of loue and woude runne from thee flie thou from her why now I loue thee for I see th' art worthy of my loue thou carriest a respect to thine owne worth and wilt expresse it with spirit I dare say thou look'st to haue had him fall on his knees and ador'd thee or begge his life at thy hands or else turn'd Queene Dido and pierce his tender heart with sword full sharpe no faith wench the case is altered loue made Hercules spin but it made him rage after there must goe time to the bridling of euery passion I hope my friend will not loue a wench against her will if shee woude haue met his kindnesse halfe way so if shee skit and recoile he shootes her off warily and away he goes I marry Sir this was a Gentlemanly part indeede Farewell Cuze be thou free in thy choice too and take a better and thou canst a Gods name Exiturus Aem. Nay deere Cuze a word Lod. A word what 's the matter I must needs after him and clap him ath ' backe this spirit must be cherisht Aem. Alas what would you wish me to doe Lod. Why nothing Aem. Would you counsaile me to marry him against my fathers will Lod. Not for the world leaue him leaue him leaue him you see hee 's resolu'd hee 'll take no harme an you neuer feare to embrew your hands with his liuer I warrant you Aem. Come you are such an other Lod. This same riches with a husband is the only thing in the world I protest good Gasparo I am sorry I haue abused thee yfaith for my Cozens sake how prettily the wretch came crawling by with his crooked knees euen now I haue seene a yong Gentlewoman liue as merry a life with an old man as with the proudest yong vpstart on 'em all farewell Cuze I am glad th' art so wise yfaith Aem. If you goe I die fie on this affection it rageth with suppression Good Cuze I am no longer able to continue it I loue Aurelio better then it is possible for him to loue me Lod. Away away and could not this haue beene done at first without all these superfluous disgracings O this same vnhearty nicenesse of women is good for nothing but to keepe their huswife hands still occupied in this warp of dissembling Well wench redeeme thy fault and write a kinde letter to him presently before this resolution of his take too deept roote in him Aem. Nay sweet Cuze make me not so immodest to write so sodainly let me haue a little time to thinke vpon 't Lod. Thinke me on nothing till you write thinke as you write and then you shall be sure to write as you thinke Women doe best when they least thinke on 't Aem. But rather then write I will meete him at your pleasure Lod. Meete him dost thou thinke that I shall euer draw him againe to meete thee that rush't from thee euen now with so iust a displeasure Aem. Nay good Cuze vrge not my offence so bitterly our next meeting shall pay the forfeit of all faults Lod. Well th' art my pretty Cuze and I le doe my best to bring him to thee againe if I cannot I shall be sorry yfaith thou wr't so iniuriously strange to him But where shall this interview be now Aem. There is the mischiefe and we shall hardly auoide it my father plies my haunts so closely and vses meanes by our maide to entrap vs so that this Tarrasse at our backe gate is the only place we may safely meete at from whence I can stand and talke to you But sweet Cuze you shall sweare to keepe this my kindnesse from Aurelio and not intimate by any meanes that I am any thing acquainted with his comming Lod. Slife do'st thinke I am an Asse to what end should I tell him hee and I le come wandring that way to take the aire or so and I le discouer thee Aem. By meere chance as t' were Lod. By chance by chance and you shall at no hand see him at first when I bring him for all this kindnesse you beare him Aem. By no meanes Cuze Lod. Very good And if you endure any conference with him let it be very little and as neere as you can turne to your former strangenesse in any case Aem. If doe not Cuze trust me not Lod. Or if you thinke good you may flirt away againe as soone as you see him and neuer let your late fault be any warning t' ee Aem. I will doe all this I warrant thee Cuze Lod. Will you so Cozen foole canst thou be brought to that silly humour againe by
come then Lod. He which he s'fut name your man with a mischiefe to you I vnderstand you not Aem. Was there euer such a wild-braine Aurelio Lod. Aurelio Lord how loth you are to let any sound of him come out an you you hold him so deare within I le present her with a sight will startle her nicety a little better hold you fasten the end of this ladder I pray Aem. Now Iesus blesse vs why cosen are you mad Lod. Goe to you spirit of a feather be not so soft hearted leaue your nicety or by this hemp I le so hamper thy affections in the halter of thy louers absence making it vp in a gordian knot of forgetfulnesse that no Alexander of thy allurements with all the swordes of thy sweet words shall euer cut in peeces Aem. Lord how you roule in your rope-ripe termes Lod. Goe to tell me will you fasten the ladder or no Aem. I know not what I should say t' ee I will fasten it so only your selfe will come vp Lod. Only my selfe will come vp then Aem. Nay sweet Cuze sweare it Lod. If I should sweare thou wouldst curse me take my word in a halters name and make the ladder as fast to the Tarrasse as thou would'st be to Aurelio Aem. Nay see if he doe not make me giue ouer againe Lod. Was there euer such a blew kitling fasten it now or by heauen thou do'st loose me for euer Aem. Well sir remember your word I will fasten it but yfaith Cuze is not the Gentleman and his parting choller parted yet Lod. Yfaith with much adoe Aem. Nay nay choose him I shall liue if they be not and if I liue till his choller kill me I shall liue till he leaue louing me and that will be a good while first Lod. Lord Lord who has enform'd you of such amorous feruency in him are you so confident in his kindnesse Aem. Nay by my troth t is but a carelesse confidency neither which alwaies last longer then that which is timorous well Cuze here I haue fastned it for your pleasure but alas the feare of my fathers comming does so distract me that I scarce know what I doe or say Lod. Your father do'st thinke we would venture all this preparation and not make him safe Aem. But are you sure he is safe Lod. Am I sure this is Aurelio looke vpon him wench is it not thy loue thy life come sir mount Aem. O cosen Lodwicke doe you thus cosen and betray me Lod. Cuze Cuze thou hast acted thy dissembling part long enough in the most modest iudgement and passing naturally giue ouer with thy credit then vnmaske thy loue let her appeere in her natiue simplicity striue to conceale her no longer from thy loue for I must needs tell thee he knowes all Aem. What does he know Lod. Why all that thou told'st me that thou lou'st him more then he can loue thee that thou hast set vp thy resolution in despight of friends or foes weales or woes to let him possesse thee wholly and that thou didst wooe me to bring him hither to thee All this he knowes that it was thy deuice to prepare this ladder and in a word all the speech that past betwixt thee and me he knowes I told him euery word truly and faithfully God 's my Iudge Aem. Now was there euer such an immodest creature Lod. Via with all vaine modesty leaue this colouring and strip thy loue starke naked this time is too precious to spend vainly mount I say Aur. Modell of heauenly beauty Lod. Sownds wilt thou melt into rime a the tother side shall we haue lines change thy stile for a ladder this will bring thee to Parnassus vp I say Aur. Vnworthy I t' approach the furthest step to that felicity that shines in her Lod. O spurblinde affection I haue seene a fellow to a worse end ascend a ladder with a better will and yet this is in the way of marriage and they say marriage and hanging haue both one constellation To approue the which old saying see if a new ladder make 'em not agree Aem. Peace some bodie comes Lod. That you heard was but a mouse so boy I warrant thee Aur. O sacred goddesse what soe're thou art That in meere pitty to preserue a soule From vndeseru'd destruction hast vouchsaf't To take Aemiliaes shape Lod. What a poeticall sheepe is this S'life will you stand riming there vpon a stage to be an eye-marke to all that passe is there not a chamber by withdraw I say for shame haue you no shame in you heere will come some bodie presently I lay my life on 't Aur. Deare mistresse to auoid that likely danger Vouchsafe me onely priuate conference And 't is the fulnes of my present hopes Exeunt Lod. Aurelio Occasion is bald take her by the forelock so so In Hymens name get you together heere will I stand Sentinell This is the backe gate to Honorios house which shall be Aurelios if God giue him grace to weepe for his fathers death in time And in this garden if I could see the chaste Lucresse or the affable mistresse Temperance I might thus wrapt in my cloake steale a little courtship through the chinke of a pale But indeed I thinke it safer to sit closer and so to cloud the summe of my visnomy that no eye discerne it He sits downe and muffles himselfe in his cloake So be it that 's my resolution Now to my contemplation this is no Pandarisme is it No for there is neither money nor credit propos'd or expected and besides there is no vnlawfull act intended no not this same lasciua actio animi I thinke for his part much lesse hers go to let me do my kinswoman and her sex right sit at rest with me then reputation and conscience fall asleepe with the world but this same idle attendance is the spite of it Idlenesse is accounted with other men a sinne to me 't is a penance I was begot in a stirring season for now hath my soule a thousand fancies in an instant as what wench dreams on when she lies on her backe when one hen layes an egge and another sits it whether that hen shall mother that chicken If my bull leape your cow is not the calfe yours yes no doubt for Aedificium cedit solo saies the Lawyer and then to close all comes in a sentence Non omnia possumus omnes for some are borne to riches others to verses some to be bachelers others to be cuckolds some to get crownes and others to spend 'm some to get children and others to keepe 'em and all this is but idlenesse would to God I had some scuruy poeme about me to laugh at Enter Temperance but marke yonder 's a motion to be seene Temp. Yonder he sits yfaith well done true loue good Signior Leonoro he keepes promise the best he does not see me yet Lod. 'T is the stai'd Madam Temperance a pretty pinnace she has bene in
consent be ask'd and so your fathers Aur. So runnes the mutuall current of my wish And with such staid and circumspect respects We may so serue and gouerne our desires That till fit obseruation of our fathers Preferre the motion to them we may loue Without their knowledge and the skill of any Saue only of my true friend Lodowicke Aem. I wonder where he is Aur. Not farre I know For in some place he watcheth to preuent The feared danger of your fathers presence Enter Lorenzo and Angelo running Ang. SOunds stay for the loue of your honour sir Lor. A plague of all disguises Angelo Ang. What reason haue you to curse them has not one of them kept you safe from the shame of the world as much as a poore disguise might doe but when your ridiculous feares will cast it off euen while it is on so running through the streets that they rise all in an vprore after you alas what is the poore disguise to blame sir Lor. Well then fortune is to blame or some thing come as thou didst helpe to dawbe me helpe to cleanse me I prethee Ang. Let alone a while sir for Gods sake I le goe see whether the Captaine be gone from home or no Lor. Out vpon that course Angelo I am frighted out of it come enter my house enter Ang. What will you enter your house sir afore you know who is in it keepe your selfe close and let me first enter and discouer Lor. I know there is no body Ang. You cannot know it sir I heard euen now that diuers of the Senate were determin'd to come and sit in Counsell there Lor. A tale a very tale Angelo enter for the loue of heauen enter and vnsmother me Exit Ang. What shall I doe my poore Master is berai'd O that same faithlesse Lodowicke that could drowne the swaggering Captaine no better in his drunkennesse alas how should I salue this Exit Enter Lorenzo and after him Angelo Lor. How now whom doe I see my daughter and a yonker together passion of death hell and damnation what lecherous capricorne raignes this vnhappy day old and yong in a predicament O fie of filthy sinne and concupiscence I will conceale my rage a while that it may breake forth in fury I le shift me presently Angelo and goe fetch the Prouost Ang. O vnspeakable madnesse will you for euer dishonour your daughter and in her your selfe sir Lor. Talke not to me out vpon this abhominable concupiscence the pride of the flesh this witchcraft of the Diuell talke not to me iustice cries out an 't in the streets and I will see it punish't come good Angelo to helpe to shift me Ang. I le follow you Sir instantly Master Master Aur. Angelo what newes Ang. Miserable Master cast downe your ladder and come downe instantly Aem. Alas why Angelo is my father comming Ang. Let vs not talke but come downe I say Aur. Deere life farewell wee 'll shortly meete againe So parts the dying body from the soule As I depart from my Aemilia Aem. So enter frighted soules to the low world As my poore spirit vpon this soddaine doubt What may succeede this danger Ang. Come away you 'll be whipt anone for your amourosity hast for shame hast c. Aem. Once more and euer fare my deere life well Exit Aemil Ang. Leaue your amorous congeis get you in Dame sir you and I will talke as 't were betwixt the pales now get you and shift you of this sute presently Aur. Shift me Angelo why man Ang. Aske me no questions but goe home and shift you presently and when I haue done a little businesse here within I le come and tell you my deuice there hath more chanc't then you are aware of and then I can stand to tell you away therefore presently goe home and shift you Aur. Very good sir I will be ruld by you and after learne the misteries Exit Aurel. Ang. Now will I let the little squire shift and cleanse himselfe without me that he may be longer about fetching the Prouost and in the meane time will I take my Masters sute of which the little squire tooke note and put it on my sweet heart Francischina who shall presently come and supply my Masters place with his Mistris for the little squire amaz'd with his late affrights and this suddaine offencefull spectacle of his daughter tooke no certaine note who it was that accosted her for if he had he would haue blam'd me for my Master only the colour of his garment sticks in his fancie which when he shall still see where he left it he will still imagine the same person weares it and thus shall his daughters honour and my Masters be preseru'd with the finest sugar of inuention And when the little squire discouers my sweet heart shee shall sweare shee so disguised her selfe to follow him for her loue to him ha ha ha O the wit of man when it has the winde of a woman Exit Enter Lodouico and Lucretia with Rapiers fighting Lod. HOld hold I pre thee hold I yeeld my rapier Let my submission my presumption salue Lucr. Ignoble Lodwicke should I take thy life It were amends too little for the wrong Lod. O the precious heauens How was I gul'd haud hide thy selfe for shame And henceforth haue an eye before thy fingers Lucr. Well do not ieast it out for I protest If this disguise which my inhumane fate Puts on my proper sexe be by thy meanes Seene through by any other then thy selfe The quarrell twixt vs shall be more then mortall And thy dishonour to a friendlesse stranger Exild his natiue countrey to remaine Thrall to the mercy of such vnknowne maids As fortune makes the rulers of my life Shall spread it selfe beyond my misery Lod. Nay mixe not cause of mirth with passion Do me the grace t' vnfold thy name and state And tell me what my whole estate may doe To salue this wrong vnwittingly I did thee And set the plantife thoughts of thy hard fate In such peace as my friendship may procure And if I faile thee let Ioue fayle my soule When most this earth makes it need help of heauē Lucr. In the more then temper my late rage And show your vertues perfectly deriu'd From the Venetian noblesse for my name It is Lucretio which to fit this habit I turn'd Lucretia the rest that rests To be related of my true estate I le tell some other time least now your presence Might dumbly tell it if it should be seene To all the world or else make it suspect My femall life of lightnesse then with thanks And vow of all true friendship for th' amends Your kindnesse makes me take your sword againe And with it while I liue the power of mine In any honor'd vse shall commaund Then till we meete and may laugh at this error I le once more trie the free peace of my chamber Exit Lod. Do so sweet friend a plague of Gingerly