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A19975 Humour out of breath A comedie diuers times latelie acted, by the Children of the Kings Reuells. Written by Iohn Day. Day, John, 1574-1640? 1608 (1608) STC 6411; ESTC S109423 31,124 60

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and I will teach you how to chuse them Elect not mongst whole troupes of Courtly dames For amongst many some must needs be ill The seld seene Phoenix euer sits alone Ioue courted Danae when she was alone Alone my boyes that is the onely way Ladies yeeld that alone they els say nay Flo. An expert souldier how shall they choose them Father Oct. If her bright eye dim not the Diamond Say it is bright but brighter iems delight you Jf that her breath do not perfume the ayre Say it is sweet but sweeter sweets content you Jf that her cheeke compared to the Lilly Make not the Lilly black with whiter whitenesse Say it is Lilly white but black to white When your choise white must haue such high exceeds Flo. Father you do exceed things possible Faith say how many Ladyes haue you seene Much fayrer then my selfe in all your trauayle Oct. Should the Crow teach me then no Lady fayrer If iudgement tell me then a many fayrer Thou art myne owne J must thinke well of thee Yet Florimella many doe excell thee Flo. Should the Crow teache I am not all Crowblacke Though iudgement J not all perfection black Though you haue seene Ladyes that dim the day Yet will J thinke my selfe as fayre as they Oct. Doe Florimella and I le one day get A husband for thee that shall thinke thee fayre Flo. And tyme ifaith that prety sport would be Wiue it for them you shall not husband me Oct. Yet you will take my counsell in your choise Flo. Yes if I had not yeares ynough to choose Would you direct me as you doe your sonnes With daughter take a man with such a nose With such an eye with such a colour beard Thus big thus tall with all his teeth afore Thus lipt thus legd thus handsome thus apparrelld Were not this pittifull o pittifull Now by the soule of soule-commanding loue I will not stoope to such obedience I must be bid to blush when I am kist Bid my loue welcome and I thanke you sir With no indeed I know not what loue is I neuer heard so much of loue before I pray take heede nay fie you goe too far With such a rabble of prescriptions As neuer mayd of a Conceiuing spirit Will follow them yet brothers goe you on Take you good counsell Florimell will none Exit Oct. I daughter are you so experienced An elder woman might haue spoken lesse Yet by your leaue mynion I le watch you so Your I shall still be gouernd by my no But come my sonnes take patterne of great Ioue Early i th' morning suit your selues for loue Exeunt Enter Anthonio Duke of Mantua Hermia and Lucida his daughters they with angels and he with a net Ant. Go daughters with your Angels to the brooke And see if any siluer-coated fish Will nibble at your worme-emboweld hooks Deceiue the watry subiects yet the name Of foule deceit me thinks should fray them from you Alack alack I cannot blame the world That in the world there is so much deceipt When this poore simple trade must vse deceipt But with what conscience can J make this net Within whose meshes all are caught that come They cousen one at once this cousens many I will vndoo 't it shall not cousen any But daughters go practise that little sinne I le mend this great fault ere the fault begin O cousening fortune how hast thou deceiu'd me Turning me out a doores to banishment And made another Lord of Mantua I that was Lord now slaue to misery Her Take comfort yet deare father Ant Comfort no My brest 's turnd prison my proude iaylor woe Locks out all comfort wher 's your valiant brother Her All discontent like to a wounded lyon He forrages the woods daring proude fortune At her best weapon he accounts this smart As a slight hurt but far off from the hart Anth. How holds his humour Luc. The same fashion still But somwhat sadder-colourd death may end But neuer change him see our words haue raisd him Enter Aspero Anth. Fitly applide for a walks like a ghost Why how now sonne Asp. Peace Her Brother Asp. Good now peace VVake me not as you loue me Luc. VVhat a sleepe Asp. I in a most sweet sleepe blisters o' your tongues for waking me Anth. Thou forgettest thy selfe Asp. J should not be a Courtier els mee thought J was at a strange wedding Anth. Prithee what wedding Asp. Of a young Lawyer and old Madam Conscience Anth. I scarce beleeue that Asp. Nor J neither because it was a dreame but mee thought the yong man doted on the old woman exceedingly Anth. That was miraculous did they liue together Asp. In the country they did and agreed passing well all the long vacation and but for two things he would haue carried her vp to the terme with him Ant. VVhat things were those Asp. One was because her gowne was of the old fashion the other was cause he would not haue her by when he tooke fees Ant. His reason for that Asp. For feare if a bribe had bin offered she being by he shold haue had the bad conscience to take it Anth. His wife and he liued together Asp. Conscience and the Lawyer as louingly as men and their wiues do one flesh but neither medle nor make one with another Ant. Man and wife part that 's strange Asp. O lord sit profit can part the soule and the body and why not man and wife now you haue had my dreame father let me vnderstand yours Anth. How can he dreame that neuer sleeps my sonne Asp. O best of all why your whole world doth nothing but dreame your machiauell he dreames of state deposing kings grounding new monarchies the louer hee dreames of kisses amorous embraces the newe-married wife dreames that rid of her young husband she hugs her old loue and likes her dreame well ynough too the Country gentle woman dreams that when her first husband 's dead she marries a knight and the name of Lady sticks so in her mind that shee s neuer at hearts-ease till she get her husband dub'd the Captaine he dreames of oppressing the souldiers deuising stratagēs to keep his dreame and that dreame wakes in the pate of Octauio your Arch-enemy who is not content to hurle vs into the whirlepoole of banishment but binds waights at our heeles leaden pouerty to sinke vs to the very depth that we should neuer rise againe Her Then since all dreame let vs dreame of reuenge Asp. I marry sister that were a dreame worth dreaming and I le sleepe out my braines but I le compasse it Anth. Pretty content we kill our foes in dreames Asp. Vds foot I le doe it waking then Anth. Aspero Asp. At Counsell table Anth. Heare me Asp. In his Dutches armes t were base to go disguisd No my reuenge shall weare an open brow J will not play the coward kill him first And send my challenge after I le make knowne My name and cause of comming
I am in loue to be in loue Hip. And I desire to liue in fond desire And yet I doubt to touch blind fancies fier Oct. T is good to doubt but t is not good to feare Yet still to doubt will at the lest proue feare Doubt loue t is good but t is not good to feare it Loue hurts them most that least of all come neere it Fr. Then to doubt loue is the next way to loue Oct. Doubtles it is if you misdoubt not loue Hip. Doubt and misdoubt what difference is there here Oct. Yes much when men misdoubt t is sayd they feare Fra. But is it good in loue to be in doubt Oct. No not in loue doubt then is iealousie T is good to doubt before you be in loue Doubt counsells how to shun loues misery Fra. Your doubtfull counsell counsells vs to loue Oct. To equall loue I like experience speake Hip. Experiencd louer you haue spoken well Oct. Experience wanting louers truth I tell Yong wits be wife in loue liue constant still You need nor doubt good hap not misdoubt ill Enter Lucida and Hermonia with Angles And see your discourse has coniurd vp beauty in the likenesse of two countrimaides but you shall not come in the circles of their armes if J can keepe you out Fra. These are too meane for loue brother le ts leaue them Oct. What speechles will you make dumbe virgins of them Hip. Oh we are sonnes of a great father Oct. So is the sun of heauen yet hee smiles on the bramble aswell as the Lilly kisses the checke of a beggar as louingly as a gentlewoman and t is good to imitate him t is good Her Say sister had we not fine sport to day Luc. VVe had if death may be accounted play Her VVhy t is accounted pleasure to kill fish Luc. A pleasure nothing pleasant to the fish Her Yet fishes were created to be kild Luc. Cruell creation then to haue liues spild Her Their bodies being food maintaine our breath Luc. What bodies then haue we to liue by death Her Come come you vainely argue it is good Luc. What is it good to kill oh god oh god Her If it be sin then you your self 's a sinner Luc. I thank proud fortune for t my woes beginner Oct. Foot are yee not ashamd to stand by like idle ciphers such places of account voyde and they had bin rich offices and you poore Courtiers you would haue bin in them in halfe the time Fra. Though against stomack Oct. Nothing against stomack and you loue me Hip. Faire maids if so you be you are well met Her Shepheards or be what els you are well met Fra. T is well if that well met we be to you Luc. If not to vs you are vnto your selues Hip. We did not meet you saw vs come togither Her VVhat ere we saw you yet ere you came hither Fr. VVe did we met in kindred we are brothers Luc. So shepheards we did meet for we are sisters Hip. Then sisters let vs brothers husbands be Her So brothers without our leaues you well may be Fr. Say we desire to husband it with you Luc. Know we desire no husbands such as you Hip. A shepheard is an honest trade of life Her Yet honest shepheard has with honest trade some strife Hip. He seldome sweares but by his honesty Her So honest men do too aswell as he Fr. But will you trust a shepheard when he vowes Luc. No neuer if his oath be that he loues Hip. Yet if I sweare that needs must be mine oath Her Sweare not for we are misbeleeuers both Fr. Let vs perswade you to beleeue we loue you Luc. First we intreat you giue vs time to proue you Hip. Take time meane time wee le praise yee to our powers Her Oh time sometime shepheards haue idle howers Fra. I le say thy cheek no naturall beauty lacks Luc. Good if it had bin spoke behind our backs Hip. I le say this is the heauen of heauenly graces Her O heauen how they can flatters to our faces Exeunt Fr. Brother the last is fayrest in my eie Hip. I but the first brother is first in beauty Fr. First in your choice but not in beauty sir Oct. Come yee so neere as choice then t is time for mee to stop for feare the musick run too far out of tune how now gallants in dumps Fr. No but in loue Oct. That 's a dumpe loues nothing but an Jtalian dumpe or a French brawle Hip. Me thinkes t is sweeter musicke Oct. And t were in tune I confesse it but you take your parts too low you are trebble Courtiers and will neuer agree with these Country Mynnikins the musicke 's too base neuer meddle in 't Fra. Peace doatard peace thy sight of loue is done Thou canst not see the glory of loues sunne Spent age with frosty clowds thy sight doth dim That thou art blind to see and apt to sin Oct. Is it accounted sin to speake the truth Hip. And worse when age spits poyson against youth Oct. They do not fit your callings let them go Fr. Yet they are faire we loue thou art loues foe Oct. J am your friend and wish you from this loue Hip. Canst thou heaue hills then thou my thoughts maist moue but neuer els Oct. Neuer Fr. No neuer Oct. Stay Hip. We are bound for loue Oct. Hate Fra. Hinder not our way Exeunt brothers Oct. J boyes will Eagles Eglets turne to bastards Then must J change my vaine and once more proue To teach you how to hate as well as loue Exit Finis actus Secundi ACTVS TERTIVS Enter Page and Florimell Pa. SWeet hony candy madam if it be no forfeit to tell tales out of Cupids free schoole tell what proficient your louer Aspero proues Flo. Now so loue helpe me lot a passing weake one and verye vnready Pag. The better for women would haue their louers vnreadye to choose Flo. Now ready you are to play the knaue but to Aspero Pa. I do not thinke but ther 's good musick in him your tongue harps so much vpon his name Flo. J shall neuer forget him Pa. I faith Lady then I know what J know Flo. What do you know I prey Pa. Marry that if you neuer forget him you shall euer remember him was he neuer in your chamber Fio. Yes but he shewed himselfe the strangest foole And by my troth loe J am sorry for 't to J had as good an appetite to maintaine discourse but here a comes if euer I choose a man by the fulnesse of his Calfe or a cock by the crowing looke and the bashfull foole do not blush already Pa. You may do well to kisse him and make him bold Madam Pa Boy go know what strange gentleman that is Asp. Slid what a strange Lady 's this madam though I seeme a stranger to you J lay with one last night that 's well acquainted with you Flo Acquainted with me Asp. And knowes you
It shall be done my Lord Oct. Nay you sir too shall taste of the same sauce away with both Flamineo Come my sonnes Le ts leauy present armes gaynst Mantua Being scarce come home we must abroad againe The Common good 's a carefull Princes payne Exeunt Enter Anthonio Lucida Hermia and Lords Anth. You that in all my banisht pilgrimage Would neuer alienate your naturall loues But in desire to see me reinstalld Haue thrust out proude Octauioes substitute And seated me in antient dignity I am yours and ready at your best dispose Lord Your owne my liege we like inferiour lights Take life from your reflection for like stars Vnto the sunne are Counsellours to Kings He feeds their orbes with fier and their shine Contend to make his glory more diuine And such are we to great Anthonio Anth. The veynes and arteries of Anthonio Through which the bloud of greatnesse flows in vs Our life and cause efficient of our state And these our prety partners in exile Lord We ha yet performd but the least part of duetie Your reinstalment it rests that with our bloud VVe keepe out innouative violence Ant. You new-create me and breath second life Into my dying bosome knew my soone Of this vnlookt-for Fortune but ill Fate Has playd the Traytor and giuen vp his life To coward treason A shout within Enter Aspero and Florimell with their Pages Asp. Vdsfoot what offence haue I committed against the state that these yron-handed Plebeians so applaud me for Flo. T is a signe they loue you Asp. I had rather thy should hate me it makes mee suspect my bosome for they loue none but the masters of factions treasons and innouasions Flo. Then you doe not loue the Commons Asp. Yes as wise men doe their flattering wiues only for show the popular voyce is like a crie of bauling hounds and they get the foote of a fantasticke and popular-affecting statesman they neuer leaue him till they haue chac'd him into disgrace then like hounds are at a losse and with their losse see I haue found my father safety attend you Anth. Welcome thou hope of Mantua and of vs VVe now are honors new beginners boy And may we better thriue then heretofore Asp. Neuer doubt it father I haue attractiue stuffe that will draw customers Anth. VVhat Lady 's that Flo. One that has playd the part of a Constable brought you home a Runaway Asp. A friend of mine Father but daughter to your Arch-enemy Anth. Octauioes daughter Asp. Yes faith you are out with the Father and I le see if I can fall in with the daughter Flo. And am I not a good child to leaue my fathers loue at sixe and seauen and hazard my honor vpon your sonnes naked promise and your hopefull acceptance Asp. She has followed me through much danger Anth. The better welcome I loue her for 't Asp. Like her and you please I d'e haue no body loue her but my selfe Anth. And Lady though your Father be our foe The vertuous loue betwixt our sonne and you May nerethelesse retaine his simpathie Flo. Shall nerethelesse retaine his simpathy Anthonio know I am loues resolute Confirmd and grounded in affection I lou'd your sonne not for he was a Prince But one no better then his present fortunes I le loue him still since first I lou'd him so Let Father friends and all the world say no Asp. There 's mettle Father how can wee choose but get cocking children when father and mother too are both of the game Enter Messenger Mess. To armes my Lord Octauio comes in armes To giue a proud assault vnto the Citty Asp. Proud his assault as proud be our resist Vye shot for shot and stake downe life for life Our brest 's as bold as theirs our bloud as deepe All that wee 'l loose or this our gettings keepe Her Come brother talke not of deuouring war Say messenger comes not Octauioes sonnes Mess. They do as proudly as the morning Sunne Beating the azurd pauement of the heauen Her Then feare not father my sister and my selfe Will be your champions and defend the Citty Flo. Why Ladies haue you such large interest in our brothers Fr. Princesse we haue within there reach our shields When beauty fights the God of battaile yeelds Exeunt Enter Francisco Hippolito Flamineo Iulio Enter Anthonio Aspero Florimell two Pages Lords and Messenger aboue Flo. They offer parlee let mee answer them Brothers how now who made you souldiers Faith een my father as he made you louers What hath he chang'd your shepheards hooks to swords Of Amoradoes made you armed knights O seld-seene metamorphosis J haue knowne Souldiers turne louers but for amorous louers To re-assume their valour t is a change Like winter-thunder and a thing as strange Fr. Our sister prisoner Hip. Tell me Florimell Dost thou liue there enforc'd or of free-will Flo. Free will brothers mine owne free will all free in Mantua here 's free will yfaith speake am I not a free-woman Pa. As if you had seru'd for 't any man may set vp vnder hir copy without a protection Fr. J wag are you there too Pa. Yes faith my Lord my Lady has had my attendaunce to a hayre Flo. You lie boy Pa. If not mine some bodies els there 's one has done Asp. What haue I done sirra Pa. Nay nothing but what my Lady was very well content with Fr. VVhy sister shame you not to set your loue On one that is our Fathers enemie Flo. Shame not a whit but come your wenches brothers I make no question I haue won my wager Are they as faire as I Hip. Leaue that to triall Aspero make surrender of our sister Asp. And haue her in quiet possession what do you thinke me Fr. We thinke thee a proud villain and our foe Flo. By heauen th' are villains all that thinke him so Hip. Why doe you loue him Flo. I should curse my selfe if I should hate him Fr. Bring the ladders forth Brauely assault to separate their liues As they are sealing the walls the Ladies come forth Her Stand proud Francisco Pa. Sand O excellent word in a woman Luc. Hold Hippolito Pa. Hold vp with that word and t is as good as the other Fr. VVhat nymphe or goddesse in my Hermiaes shape Stands to debar my entrance to the towne Pa. Madam I wonder they enter not Flo. Why boy it seemes they dare not Pa. O cowards and haue two such fayre breaches already Fr. Immortall Pallas that art more diuine In my loues beautie that thou cloth'st thee in With drawe thy selfe and giue our fury limits Her I will but first Francisco take my shielde Luc. And mine as challenge to a single combat Her Read the conditions and returne your answers Flo. VVell done yfaith wenches O that the olde gray-beard my Father were here I de haue about with him as I am honourable Fr. VVhat 's here A shepheard wooing of a Country maide As she sits angling by a Riuers side By them an aged man making a net The Motto Sic this Emblems morrall is The former loue I had with Lucida And this hope tells me that 's faire Lucida Hip. Brother my shield the like presents to me But holds far more familiar reference Here doth the amorous shepheard kisse the Nymph Which she with a chast blush consents vnto And see a gloomy man clad like a pilgrim Comes in and seperates their sweete delights The Motto Sic I so my Father came and banisht me from beautious Hermia and this hope tells me is faire Hermia Fr. The more I looke the more me thinkes t is she Hip. The more I think the more I find t is she Fr. VVhat should I thinke to proue it is not she Flo. Looke thinke find proue doe what you can These are the wenches that you courted than Then hony bees lay by your smarting stings and buz sweet loue into your Ladies eares Tell them of kisses and such prety things These drumming dub adubs loues pleasure feares Fr. O heauen oh fortune and most happie stars Do I find loue where I expected wars Hip. I that but now was all for war and death am made all loue wars humour 's out of breath Enter Octauio Iulio and others Oct. How my sonnes loue the daughters of my foe it cannot be Iul. Then question them your selfe Oct. VVhy how now sonnes is this your worth in armes Fr. VVhy are we not in armes father Hip. Yes and in such armes as no Coward but woulde venture life to march in Oct. Then boies you loue the daughters of Anthonio Fr. VVe lik'd them first Hip. VVE keepe that liking still Oct. And you will loue them Flo. Father infaith they will Oct. I run away are you there whome has your Ladyship got to your husband Flo. One that I stumbled on at Blindman buffe a proper man a man euery ynch of him and you would say so and you knewe but as much as I meane to know ere I haue done with him Oct. Is he not sonne vnto Anthonio Asp. Great Duke I am and prostrate on my knee I beg a peace which if your spleene deny I proudlie stand where erst I mildly kneel'd and east downe bold defiance from theis walls Oct. No more your loues make my proud hart asham'd Your consort 's sweet and I le not be a meane To make it iar what my sonnes like shall stand By my consent allowed and perfected all hate is banisht and reuenge lies dead Asp. Then stead of speares let Hymens torches flame VVith hallowed incence and the God of spright Swell vp your vaines with amorous delight and so that vp our single Comedy VVith Plautus phrase Si placet plaudite Exeunt Omnes FINIS
if I thought Griefe like a painter had so spoyl'd my visage He could not know me on my breast I de write How ere I am disfigured through woe J am the thing was made for Aspero Speake not I am as constant as the Center Some fortune good or bad doth beckon me And I will run bitter reuenge tasts sweete Jf here on earth farewell in heauen wee le meete Attendance sirra your low Commedie Craues but few Actors wee le breake company Anth. As many blessings as the sea hath sands Exit cum Puero Attend thee in thine honorable iourney Come pretty maides we haue not wrought to day Or fish or fast our neede must needs obey Exeunt Enter Hippolito Francisco Florimell and Page meeting them Fr. Now sirra what haue you been about Page About my liuing sit Hip. What 's that feeding Pa. No sir looking into the vnderofficers about the Court Hip. Canst get any liuing out of them Pa. I sir my betters get good liuings out of officers and why not I but to be plaine I haue bin seeking your good Lordship Fr. But your boyship hath so sought vs that wee haue found you Page VVill you sell your findings my Lord Hip. They are scarce worth giuing Flo. Yes a boxe to keepe them in for feare you loose them againe Pa. And I were a man as I am no woman I d'e pepper your box for that ieast Flo. You ieast Pa. In earnest law I would Madam Fr. VVell sir no more here comes our royall Father Enter Octauio Hortensio Flamineo c. Oct. How now my boyes prouided for your iourney Beauty conduct you what attyrd like shepheards I thought t' haue seene you mounted on your steeds Whose fiery stomackes from their nostrills breath The smoke of courage and whose wanton mouthes Do proudely play vpon their yron bits And you in stead of these poore weeds in robes Richer then that which Ariadne wroughte Or Cytharaes aery-mouing vestment Thus should you seeme like louers suited thus y 'oude draw faire Ladies harts into their eies And strike the world dead with astonishment Fr. Father such cost doth passe your sons reuenues We take example from immortall Ioue Who like a shepheard would repaire to loue Oct. And gentle loue conduct you both my sonnes Daughter go bring them onward in their way Were not we cald back by important busines We would not leaue you thus Hortensio Is my disguise prepard for J vnknowne VVill see how they behaue themselues in loue Hort. T is done my Lord Oct. Once more my boyes adieu He sends you forth that meanes to follow you Exit Flo Now brothers you must amongst these wenches Faith for a wager which shall get the fairest Fr. I le gage a 100. crownes mine proues the fairest Hip. A match I le venter twice so much of mine Flo. And I le lay gainst you both that both your loues Get them when you can where you can or how you can shall not be able to compare with me in beauty Fran. That wager I le take for t is surely won Hip. Las thou art but a star to beauties sun Flo. Star me no stars go you and stare for loue I le stay at home and with my homely beauty Purchase a loue shall thinke my looks as faire As those faire loues that you shall fetch so far But take your course fate send you both faire lucke Fr. How if 't be fowle Flo. Nay i ft be forked you must beare it off with head and shoulders Fr. Oh stale that ieast runs o th' lees Flo. You must consider t is drawne out of the bottome of my witte Fr. O shallow wit at the bottome so soone Flo. Deepe ynough to lay you in the mire Page Or els t is shallow indeede for they are foundred already but I must play dun and draw them all out o' th mire What 's a clock my Lord Flo. Which of them dost aske thou seest they are two Pag. VVhat two are they Madam Flo. VVhy two fooles Fr. Is it not past two doth it not come somewhat neere three sister Page Shew perryall and tak 't but come my Lord you haue stood fooling long ynough will you about your busines in good earnest Fra. Indeed we will Flo. And they are deeds you must trust too for women will respect your words but slitely without deeds Page VVhy are women called Angells but because they delight in good deeds and loue heauen but that it will not be won without them Fr. They shall haue deeds Flo. Brother and good deeds too They are tongues that men must speake with when they woo Hip. That tongue wee l practise sister to loue we leaue you Exeunt brothers Flo. Louers take heed least cunning loue deceiue you Exit with Page Finis actus primi ACTVS SECVNDVS Enter Octauio disguised Hortensio Flamineo Oct. NO more thus suted I le attend my sonnes Impute it not to any ruffian vaine But to a fathers wakefull prouidence Louers like bees are priuiledgd to tast All buds of beauty should they chance to light Vpon some worthles weed I le hinder it The eies of youth will now and then dwell there Whereas they should not glance this doubt I feare Fla. And well aduisd my liege should they incline To loue not fitting their estates and births You with your present counsell may preuent them Oct. That 's my intent and further in my absence I leaue my land and daughter to thy charge The girle is wanton if she gad abroad Restraine her bound her in hir chamber dore My word 's thy warrant let her know so much Farewell at home I leaue my feare with thee And follow doubt abroad Hor. I le carefull be Exeunt Oct. Now to my busines I haue a strange habit and I must cut out an humour sutable to it and humours are pickt so neere the bone a man can scarce get humour ynough to giue a flea his breakfast but I am a stale ruffian my habit is braue and so shall my humor be and here comes one to giue me earnest of it Enter Aspero and his boy Asp. Send him a letter that I come to kill him Boy T were great valor but little pollicy my Lord Asp. How long haue you bin a matchiauilian boy Boy Euer since I practisd to play the knaue my Lord Asp. Then policy and knauery are somewhat a kin Boy As neere as penury and gentry a degree and half remou'de no more Asp. How came in the kindred twixt gentry and penury Oct. Shall I tell you sir Asp. First tell me what thou art Oct. Lyme and haire playster of Paris kneaded together with rye dowe and goats milke I am of a hot constitution wonnot freeze Asp. Thy profession Oct. A foole or a knaue choose you which Boy Then thou art fit for any gentlemans company Oct. True boye for your sweete foole and your fine knaue are like a paire of vpright shooes that gentlemen weare so long now of one foote then of another