Ladies not there Ia. I haue a vaunt-Curriing deuise shall make them digest it most healthfully Exeunt SCAeNA QVARTA Enter Clarence Musicians Cla. VVorke on sweet loue I am not yet resolud T' exhaust this troubled spring of vanities And nurse of perturbations my poore life And therefore since in euery man that holds This being deare there must be some desire VVhose power to' enioy his obiect may so maske The Iudging part that in her radyant eyes His estimation of the world may seeme Vpright and worthy I haue chosen loue To blind my Reason with his mistie handes And make my estimatiue power beleiue I haue a proiect worthy to imploy VVhat worth so euer my whole man affordes Then sit at rest my Soule thou now hast found The ende of thy infusion in the eyes Of thy diuine Eugenia looke for heauen Cla. Thanks gentle friends is your good Lord and mine gon vp to bedd yet A song to the Uiolls Enter Momford Mom. I do assure ye not Sir not yet nor yet my deep and studious friend not yet musicall Clarence Cla. My Lord Mom Nor yet thou sole deuider of my Lordshippe Cla. That were a most vnfit diuision And farre aboue the pitche of my lowe plumes I am your bold and constant guest my Lord Mom. Far far from bold for thou hast known me long Almost theis twentie yeares and halfe those yeares Hast bin my bedfellow long time before This vnseene thing this thing of nought indeed Or Atome cald my Lordshippe shinde in me And yet thou makst thy selfe as little bould To take such kindnes as becomes the Age And truth of our indissolable loue As our acquaintance sprong but yesterday Such is thy gentle and too tender Spirit Cla. My Lord my want of Courtship makes me feare I should be rude and this my meane estate Meetes with such enuie and detraction Such misconstructions and resolud misdoomes Of my poore worth that should I be aduaunc'd Beyond my vnseene lowenes but one haire I should be torne in peeces with the Spirits That flye in ill-lungd tempests through the world Tearing the head of vertue from her shoulders If she but looke out of the ground of glorie Twixt whome and me and euery worldlie fortune There fights such sowre and Curst Antipathy So waspishe and so petulant a Starre That all things tending to my grace or good Are rauisht from their obiect as I were A thing created for a wildernes And must not thinke of any place with men Mom. O harke you Sir this waiwarde moode of yours must syfted be or rather rooted out you le no more musick Sir Cla. Not now my Lord Mom. Begon my masters then to bedd to bedd Cla. I thanke you honest friends Exeunt Musicians Mo. Hence with this book now Mounsieur Clarence methinks plaine prose friendship would do excellent well betwixt vs come thus Sir or rather thus come Sir t is time I trowe that we both liu'd like one bodie thus and that both our sides were slit and Concorporat with Organs fit to effect an indiuiduall passage euen for out very thoughts suppose wee were one bodie now and I charge you beleeue it where of I am the hart and you the liuer Cla. Your Lordship might well make that diuision if you knew the plaine song Mom. O Sir and why so I pray Cla. First because the heart is the more worthy entraile being the first that is borne and moues and the last that moues and dies and then being the fountaine of heate too for wheresoeuer our heate does not flowe directly from the hart to the other Organs there their action must of necessitie cease and so without you I nether would nor could liue Mom. VVel Sir for these reasons I may be the heart why may you be the liuer now Cla. I am more then ashamde to tell you that my Lord Mom. Nay nay be not too suspitious of my iudgemēt in you I beseech you asham'd friend if your loue ouercome not that shame a shame take that loue I saie Come sir why may you be the liuer Cla. The plaine and short truth is my Lord because I am all liuer and tournd louer Mom. Louer Cla Louer y faith my Lord Mom. Now I prethee let me leape out of my skin for ioy why thou wilt not now reviue the sociable mirth of thy sweete disposition wilt thou shine in the world a new and make those that haue sleighted thy loue with the Austeritie of thy knowledge doate on the againe with thy commaunding shaft of their humors Cla. A las my Lord they are all farre out of my aimes and onely to fit my selfe a little better to your friendshippe haue I giuen these wilfull raygnes to my affections Mom. And y faith is my sower friend to all worldlie desires ouertaken with the hart of the world Loue I shall be monstrous proud now to heare shee s euerie way a most rare woman that I know thy spirit iudgement hath chosen is she wise is she noble is she capable of thy vertues will she kisse this forehead with iudiciall lipps where somuch iudgement vertue deserues it Come brother Twinn be short I charge you name me the woman Cla. Since your Lordship will shorten the length of my follies relation the woman that I so passionatelie loue is no worse Ladie then your owne Neece the too worthie Countesse Eugenia Mom. VVhy so so so you are a worthie friend are you not to conceale this loue-mine in your head and would not open it to your hart now beshrow my hart if my hart dance not for ioy tho my heeles do not they doe not because I will not set that at my heeles that my friends set at his heart what friende and Nephew both nephew is a far inferior title to friend I confesse but I wil preferre the backwards as many friends doe leaue their friends woorse then they found them Cla. But my noble Lo. it is almost a prodegie that I being onely a poore Gentleman and farre short of that state and wealth that a Ladie of her greatnesses in both will expect in her husband Mom. Hold thy doubt friend neuer feare any woman vnlesse thy selfe be made of strawe or some such drie matter and she of lightning Audacitie prospers aboue probabilitie in all worldlie matters dost not thou knowe that Fortune gouernes them without order and therefore reason the mother of order is none of her counsaile why should a man desiring to aspire an vnreasonable creature which is a woman seeke her fruition by reasonable meanes because thy selfe bindes vppon reason wilt thou looke for congruitie in a woman why there is not one woman amongst one thousand but will speake false Latine and breake Priscians head attempt nothing that you may with great reason doubt of and out of doubt you shall obtaine nothing I tell thee friend the enminent confidence of strong spirits is the onely wich-craft of this world Spirits wrastling with spirits
as bodies with bodies this were enough to make the hope well if she were one of these painted communities that are rauisht with Coaches and vpper hands and braue men of durt but thou knowest friend shee s a good scholler and like enough to bite at the rightest reason and reason euermore Ad optima hortetur to like that which is best not that which is brauest or rightest or greatest and so consequently worst But proue what she can we will turne her and winde her and make her so plyant that we will drawe her through a wedding ring y faith Cla. Would to god we might my Lord Mom. I le warrant thee friend Enter Messenger Mes. VVhere is mistris Winnyfred for my Lady Eugenia desires to speake with your Lordshippe Mom. Marrie enter mistris Winnifred euen here I pray thee from the Ladie Eugenia doe you heare friend Cla. Very easilie on that side my Lord Mom. Let me feele does not thy heart pant apace by my hart well labor'd Cupid the field is yours sir God and vppon a verie honourable composition I am sent for now I am sure and must euen trusse and to her Enter Winnyfred wittie mistris Winnifred nay come neere woman I am sure this Gentleman thinkes his chamber the sweeter for your deare presence Win, My absence shall thanke him my Lord Mom. VVhat rude Mistris Winnifred nay faith you shall come to him and kisse him for his kindenesse Win. Nay good my Lord I le neuer goe to the market for that ware I can haue it brought hōe to my dore Mom. O Winnifred a man may know by the market folkes how the market goes Win. So you may my Lord but I knowe fewe Lords that thinke scorne to go to that market thēselues Mom. To goe to it Winnifred nay to ride to it y faith Win. That 's more then I knowe my Lord Mom. You le not belieue it till you are then a horsebacke will ye Win. Come come I am sent of a message to you wil you heare it Mom. Stoppe stoppe faire Winnifred would you haue audience so soone there were no state in that y faith this faire gentlewoman sir Win. Now we shall haue a fiction I beleiue Mom. Had three Suiters at once Win. You le leaue out none my Lord Mom. No more did you Winnifred you enterferde with them all in truth Win. O Monstrous Lord by this light Mom. Now Sir to make my tale short I will doe that which she did not vz. leaue out the two first the third comming the third night for his turne Win. My Lord my Lord my Ladie does that that no bodie else does desires your companie and so fare you well Mom. O stay a little sweet Winnifred helpe me but to trusse my pointes againe and haue with you Win. Not I by my truth my Lord I had rather see your hose about your heeles then I would helpe you to trusse a point Mom. O wittie Winnifred for that left take thy pasport and tell thy Ladies thou leftst me with my hose about my heeles Win. Well well my Lord you shall sit till the mosse grow a bout your he les ere I come at you againe exit Mom. She cannot abide to heare of her three Suiters but is not this verie fit my sweete Clarence Thou seest my rare Neece cannot sleep without me but forthy company sake she shall to night and in the morning I will visit her earely when doe thou but stand in that place and thou maiest chance heare but art sure to see in what subtill and farre-fetcht manner I le solicite her about thee Cla Thanks worthie Lord exeunt Finis Actus Primis ACTVS SECVNDI SAeNA PRIMA Clarence Solus Cla. I That haue studied with world skorning thoughts the waie of heauen and how trew heauen is reacht To know how mightie and how many are The strange affections of inchaunted number How to distinguish all the motions Of the Celestiall bodies and what powre doth seperate in such forme this massie Rownd VVhat is his Essence Efficacies Beames Footesteps and Shadowes what Eternesses is The world and Time and Generation VVhat Soule the worldes Soule is what the blacke Springes And vnreueald Originall of Things VVhat their perseuerance what is life and death And what our Certaine Restauration Am with the staid-heads of this Time imployd To watch with all my Nerues a Female shade Enter Wynnefred Anabell with their sowing workes and sing After their song Enter Lord Momford Mom. VVitty Mistrisse Wynnefred where is your Countesse I pray Wyn. Faith your Lordship is bould enough to seeke her out if she were at her vrinall Mom. Then Sh 'as done it seemes for here she comes to saue mee that labour away wenches get you hence wenches Exeunt Eu. VVhat can you not abide my maides vnkle Mom. I neuer cood abide a maid in my life Neece but either I draw away the maid or the maidenhead with a wet finger Eu. You loue to make your selfe worse then you are stil Mom. I know fewe mend in this world Madam For the worse the better thought on the better the worse spoken on euer amongst women Eu. I wonder where you haue binne all this while with your sentences Mom Faith where I must be again presently I cannot stay long with you my deere Neece Eu. By my faith but you shall my Lorde Gods pittie what wil become of you shortly that you driue maids afore you offer to leaue widowes behind you as mankindelie as if you had taken a surfet of our Sex lately and our very sight turnd your stomacke Mom. Gods my life She abuses her best vnkle neuer trust mee if it were not a good reuenge to helpe her to the losse of her widowhead Eu. That were a reuenge and a halfe indeed Mom. Nay t were but a whole reuenge Neece but such a reuenge as woulde more then obserue the true rule of a reuenge Eu. I know your rule before you vtter it Vlciscere Inimico sed sine tuo incommodo Mom. O rare Neece you may see what t is to bee a a scholler now Learning in a woman is like waight in gold or Luster in Diamants which in no other Stone is so rich or refulgent Eug. But say deere Vnckle how could you finde in your heart to stay so long from me Mom. VVhy alas Neece y' are so smeard with this willfull-widdowes three-yeeres blacke weede that I neuer come to you but I dreame of Courses and Sepulchres and Epitaths all the night after and therefore adew deere Neece Eug. Beshrew my hearte my Lorde if you goe theis three houres Mom. Three houres nay Neece if I daunce attendance three houres alone in her chamber with an Lady so neere alide to me I am verie idle ifaith marie with such an other I woulde daunce one two three foure and fiue tho it cost me tenne shillings and now I am in haue at it my head must deuise something while my feet are pidling thus that may bring her to some fit
Lord Mom. What needs that madam you remember it I am sure Eug. Well if it want sence in the Composition let my secretarie be blam'd for 't their 's my hand Mom. Thanks gentle Neece now I le reade it Eug. VVhy now more then before I pray Mom. That you shall see straite I cannot but suffer you to loue if you doe loue and wil requite your loue Eug. Remember that requitall was of your own putning it but it shal be after my fashion I warrant ye Mom. Interrupt me no more your loue being mentoll needs no bodely requitall but in hart I embrace repay it my hand shall alwaies signe the way to felicitie and my selfe knit with you in the bandes of marriage euer walke with you in it and so God prosper our iourney Eugenia Eug. Gods me life t is not thus I hope Mom. By my life but it is Neece Eug. By my life but t is none of my deed then Mom. Doe you vse to set your hand to that which is not your deed your hand is at it Neece and if there be any law in England you shall performe it too Eug. Why this is plaine dishonoured deceit Does all your truest kindnes end in lawe Mom. Haue patience Neece for what so ere I say Onely the lawes of faith and thy free loue Shall ioyne my friend and thee or naught at al By my friends loue and by this kisse it shall Eug. VVhy thus did false Accontius snare Cydippe Mom. Indeed deere loue his wile was something like And then t is no vnheard-of That was enacted in a goddes Eye Accontius worthie loue feard not Diana Before whome he contriu'de this sweete deceite Eug. VVel there you haue my hand but I le be sworne I neuer did thing so against my will Mom T' will proue the better madam doubt it not And to allay the billows of your blood Rais'de with my motion bold and opposite Deere neece suppe with me and refresh your spirites I haue inuited your companions VVith the two guests that dinde with you to daie And will send for the old Lord Furnifall The Captaine and his mates and tho at night VVe will be merrie as the morning Larke Eug. No no my Lord you will haue Clarence there Mom. A las poore gentleman I must tell you now Hee s extreame sicke and was so when he writt Tho he did charge me not to tell you so And for the world he cannot come abroade Eug. Is this the man that without passion loues Mom. I doe not tell you he is sicke with loue Or if he be t is wilfull passion VVhich he doth choose to suffer for your sake And cood restraine his sufferance with a thought Vppon my life he will not trouble you And therefore worthie neece faile not to come Eug. I will on that condition Mom. T is perform'd for were my friend well and cood comfort me I wood not now intreate your companie but one of you I must haue or I die oh such a friend is worth a monarchie Exeunt Enter Lord Furnifall Rudsbie Goosecappe Fowlweather Bullaker Fur. Nay my gallants I will tell you more All Forth good my Lord Fur. The euening came and then our waxen stars Sparkled about the heauenly court of Fraunce VVhen I then young and readiant as the sunne Giue luster to those lampes and curling thus My golden foretoppe stept into the presence Where set with other princely dames I found The Countesse of Lancalier and her neece VVho as I told you cast so fix'd an eye On my behauiours talking with the king All True my good Lord Fur. They rose when I came in and all the lights Burnd dim for shame when I stood vp and shind Foul O most passionate description Sir Cutt Rud. True of a candles end Goos. The passingst description of a candle that euer liu'd Sir Cutt Fur. Yet aymd I not at them nor seemd to note VVhat grace they did me but found courtly cause To talke with an accomplisht gentleman New come from Italie in quest of newes I spake Italian with him Rud. What so young Fur. O rarissime volte cadono nel parlar nostro familiare Foul. Slidd a cood speake it knight at three yeare old Fur. Nay gentle Captaine doe not set me forth I loue it not in truth I loue it not Foul. Slight my Lord but truth is truth you know Goos. I dare ensure your Lordship Truth is truth I haue heard in Fraunce they speake French as well as their mother tongue my Lord Fur. VVhy t is their mother tonge my noble knight But as I tell you I seem'd not to note The Ladies notes of me but held my talke with that Italionate Frenchman and tooke time Still as our conference seru'd to shew my Courtship In the three quarter legge and setled looke The quick kisse of the toppe of the forefinger And other such exploytes of good Accost All which the Ladies tooke into their eyes VVith such attention that their fauours swarm'de About my bosome in my hatt mine eares In skarffes about my thighes vpon mine armes Thicke on my wrystes and thicker on my hands And still the lesse I sought the more I found All this I tell to this notorious end That you may vse your Courtship with lesse care To your coy mistresses As when we strike A goodly Sammon with a little line VVe doe not tugge to hale her vp by force For then our line wood breake and our hooke lost But let her carelesse play alongst the streame As you had left her and shee le drowne her selfe Foul A my life a most rich comparison Goos. Neuer stirre if it bee not a richer Caparison then my Lorde my Cosine wore at tilt for that was brodred with nothing but mooneshine i th the water and this has Sāmons in 't by heauen a most edible Caparisō Ru. Odious thou woodst say for Cōparisōs are odious Foul. So they are indeede sir Cutt all but my Lords Goos. Bee Caparisons odious Sir Cutt what like flowers Rud. O asse they be odorous Goos. A botts ath at stincking worde odorous I can neuer hitt on 't Fur. And how like you my Court-counsaile gallāts ha Foul. Out of all proportion excellent my Lord beleeue it for Emphaticall Courtship your Lordship puts downe all the Lords of the Court Fur. No good Captaine no Foul. By Fraunce you doe my Lord for Emphaticall Courtship Fur. For Emphaticall Courtship indeed I can doe somewhat Foul. Then does your merrie entertainment become you so festifally that you haue all the brauerie of a Saint Georges day about ye when you vse it Fur. Nay that 's too much in sadnes Captaine Goos. O good my Lord let him prayse you what so ere it costs your Lordshippe Foul. I assure your Lordshippe your merrie behauiour does so festifally showe vpon you that euery high holliday when Ladies wood bee most bewtifull euery one wishes to God shee were turnd into such a little Lord as you when y'
Goos: Marrie madam I can take tobacco now and I haue bought glow-wormes to kindle it withall better then all the burning glasses i th world Eug. Glowe-wormes sir Giles will they make it burne Goos. O od madam I feed am with nothing but fire a purpose I le be sworne they eat me fiue faggots a weeke in charcoale Tal Nay he has the strangest deuices Ladies that euer you heard I warrant ye Fur: That 's a strange deuice in deed my Lord Hip: But your sowing sir Gyles is a more gentlewoman-like qualitie I assure you Pen: O farr away for now seruant you neede neuer marrie you are both husband and wife your selfe Goos: Nay indeede mistris I wood faine marrie for all that and I le tell you my reason if you will Pen: Let 's heare it good seruant Goos: VVhy madam we haue a great match at foot-ball towards married men against batchellers the married men be al my friends so I wood faine marrie to take the married mens parts in truth Hip: The best reason for marriage that euer I heard sir Gyles Goos: I pray will you keepe my worke a little mistris I must needes straine a little courtsie in truth Exit Sir Gyles Hip: Gods my life I thought he was a little to blame Rud: Come come you heare not me dame Fur: VVell said sir Cut to her now we shall heare fresh courting Hip: A las sir Cut you are not worth the hearing euery bodie saies you cannot loue how soeuer you talke on 't Rud: Not loue dame slydd what argument woodst haue of my loue tro lett me looke as redde as scarlet a fore I see thee and when thou comst in sight if the sunne of thy bewtie doe not white me like a sheppards holland I am a Iewe to my Creator Hip. O excellent Rud. Let mee burst like a Tode if a frowne of thy browe has not turnd the verie heart in my bellie and made mee readie to bee hangd by the heeles for a fortnight to bring it to the right againe Hip. You shood haue hangd longer Sir Cut t is not right yet Rud. Zonnes bid me cut off the best lymme of my bodie for thy loue and I le lai 't in thy hand to proue it doost thinke I am no Christian haue I not a Soule to saue Hip. Yes t is to saue yet I warrant it and wil be while t is a soule if you vse this Fur. Excellent Courtship of all hands only my Captaines Courtshippe is not heard yet good madam giue him fauour to court you with his voyce Eug. What shood he Court me with all else my Lord Mom. VVhy I hope madam there be other things to Court Ladies withall besides voyces Fur. I meane with an audible sweete song madam Eug. VVith all my heart my Lorde if I shall bee so much in debted to him Foul. Nay I will be indebted to your eares Ladie for hearing me sound musicke Fur. VVell done Captaine proue as it wil now Enter Messenger Me. My Lord Doctor Versey the Physitian is come to see master Clarence Mom. Light and attend him to him presently Fur. To master Clarence what is your friend sicke Mom. Exceeding sicke Ta. I am exceeding sorrie King Neuer was sorrow worthier bestowed Then for the ill state of so good a man Pen. Alas poore gentleman good my Lord le ts see him Mom. Thankes gentle Ladie but my friend is loth To trouble Ladies since he cannot quitt them With any thing he hath that they respect Hip. Respect my Lord I wood hold such a man In more respect then any Emperor For he cood make me Empresse of my selfe And in mine owne rule comprehend the world Mom. How now young dame what so inspird This speech hath siluer haires and reuerence asks And soner shall haue dutie done of me Then any pompe in temperall Emperie Hip. Good madam get my Lord to let vs greet him Eug. Alas we shall but wrong and trouble him His Contemplations greet him with most welcome Fur. I neuer knew a man of so sweet a temper So soft and humble of so high a Spirit Mom. Alas my noble Lord he is not rich Nor titles hath nor in his tender cheekes The standing lake of Impudence corrupts Hath nought in all the world nor nought wood haue To grace him in the prostituted light But if a man wood consort with a Soule VVhere all mans Sea of gall and bitternes Is quite evaporate with hir holy flames And in whose powers a Doue-like Innocence Fosters her owne deserts and life and death Runnes hand in hand before them All the Skies Cleere and transparent to her piercing eyes Then wood my friend be something but till then A Cipher nothing or the worst of men Foul. Sweet Lord le ts goe visit him Enter Gooscappe Goos. Pray good my Lord what 's that you talke on Mom. Are you come from your necessarie busines Sir Gyles we talke of the visiting of my sicke friend Clarence Goos. O good my Lord le ts visit him cause I knowe his brother Hip. Know his brother nay then Count doe not denie him Goos. Pray my Lord whether was eldest he or his elder brother Mom. O! the younger brother eldest while you liue Sir Gyles Goos. I say so still my Lord but I am so borne down with truth as neuer any knight i th world was I thinke Ta. A man wood thinke he speakes simplie now but indeed it is in the will of the parents to make which child they will youngest or eldest For often we see the younger inherite wherein he is eldest Eug. Your Logicall wit my Lorde is able to make any thing good Mom. VVell come sweet Lords Ladies let vs spend The time till supper-time with some such sights As my poore house is furnished withall Pictures and Iewels of which implements It may be I haue some wil please you much Goos. Sweet Lord le ts see them Exeunt Enter Clarence and Doctor Do. I thinke your disease Sir be rather of the mind then the bodie Cla. Be there diseases of the mind Doctor Do. No question Sir euen as there be of the bodie Cla. And cures for them too Do. And cures for them too but not by Phisick Cla. You will haue their deseases greifes wil ye not Do. Yes oftentimes Cla. And doe not greifes euer rise out of passions Do. Euermore Cla. And doe not passions proceed from corporall distempers Do. Not the passions of the mind for the mind many times is sicke when the bodie is healthfull Cla. But is not the mindes-sicknes of power to make the bodie sicke Do. In time certaine Cla. And the bodies ill affections able to infect the mind Do. No question Cla. Then if there bee such a naturall commerce of Powers betwixt them that the ill estate of the one offends the other why shood not the medicines for one cure the other Do. Yet it will not you see Heimihi quod nullus amor est medicabilis herbis
to one end like it And thirdly the contentment I enioy As we are ioynd that I shall worke that good In such a noble spirit as your neece VVhich in my selfe I feele for absolute Each good minde dowbles his owne free content VVhen in an others vse they giue it vent Mom. Said like my friend and that I may not wrong Thy full perfections with an emptier grace Then that which showe presents to thy conceits In working thee a wife worse then she seemes I le tell thee plaine a secret which I knowe My neece doth vse to paint herselfe with white VVhose cheekes are naturally mixt with redd Either because she thinks pale-lookes moues most Or of an answereable nice affect To other of her modest qualities Because she wood not with the outward blaze Of tempting bewtie tangle wanton eies And so be troubled with their tromperies VVhich construe as thou wilt I make it knowne That thy free comment may examine it As willinger to tell truth of my neece Then in the least degree to wrong my friend Cla. A ielous part of friendshippe you vnfold For was it euer seene that any dame Wood chainge of choice a well mixt white and redd For bloodles palenes if she striu'd to moue Her painting then is to shunn motion But if she mended some defect with it Breedes it more hate then other ornaments Which to supplie bare nature Ladies weare What an absurd thing is it to suppose If Nature made vs either lame or sick VVe wood not seeke for sound lymmes or for health By Art the Rector of confused Nature So in a face if Nature be made lamer Then Art can make it is it more offence To helpe her want there then in other limmes Who can giue instance where dames faces lost The priuiledge their other parts may boast Mom. But our most Court receiued Poets saies That painting is pure chastities abator Cla. That was to make vp a poore rime to Nature And farre from any Iudgment it confered For lightnes comes from harts and not from lookes And if inchastitie possesse the hart Not painting doth not race it nor being cleare Doth painting spot it Omne bonum naturaliter pulchrum For outward fairenes beares the diuine forme And moues beholders to the Act of loue And that which moues to loue is to be wisht And eche thing simplie to be wisht is good So I conclude mere painting of the face A lawfull and a commendable grace Mom. VVhat paradox dost thou defend in this And yet through thy cleare arguments I see Thy speach is farr exempt from flatterie And how illiterate custome groslie erres Almost in all traditions she preferres Since then the doubt I put thee of my neece Checks not thy doubtlesse loue forth my deare friend And to all force to those impressions That now haue caru'd her phantasie with loue I haue invited her to supper heere And told her thou art most extreamelie sick VVhich thou shalt counterfeit with all thy skill Cla VVhich is exceeding smale to counterfeit Mom. Practise a little loue will teach it thee And then shall doctor Versey the phisitian Come to thee while her selfe is in my house VVith whome as thou confer'st of thy disease I le bring my neece with all the Lords and Ladies VVithin your hearing vnder fain'd pretext To shew the pictures that hang neere thy chamber VVhere when thou hearst my voyce know she is there And therefore speake that which may stir her thoughts And make her flie into thy opened armes Ladies whome true worth cannot moue to ruth Trew louers must deceue to shew their truth Exeunt Finis Actus Quarti ACTVS QVINTI SCAeNA PRIMA Enter Momford Furnifall Tales Kingcob Rudesbie Goosecap Foulweather Eugenia Hippolita Penelope Winnifred Mom. VVhere is Sir Gyles Goosecappe here Goos. Here my Lord Mom. Come forward knight t' is you that the Ladies admire at working a mine honor Goos: A little at once my Lorde for Idlenes sake Fur: Sir Cut I say to her captaine Penel Come good seruant let 's see what you worke Goos: VVhy looke you mistris I am makeing a fine drie sea full of fishe playing in the bottome here I le let in the water so liuely that you shall heare it rore Eug Not heare it Sir Giles Goos. Yes in sooth madam with your eyes Tal I Ladie for when a thing is done so exceedeingly to the life as my knightlie cosen does it the eye oftentimes takes so strong a heede of it that it cannot containe it alone and therefore the eare seemes to take part with it Hip: That 's a verie good reason my Lord Mom. VVhat a Iest it is to heare how seriouslie he striues to make his foolish kinsmans answeres wise ones Pen: VVhat shall this be seruant Goos: This shall be a great whale mistris at all his bignesse spouting huge hils of salt-water afore him like a little water squirt but you shall not neede to feare him mistris for he shal be silke and gould he shall doe you noe harme and he be nere so liuely Pen. Thanke you good seruant Tal Doe not thinke Ladie but he had need tell you this a forehand for a mine honor he wrought me the monster Caucasus so liuely that at the first sight I started at it Mom. The monster Caucasus my Lord Caucasus is a mountaine Cacus you meane Tal Cacus indeede my Lorde crie you mercie Goos: Heere I le take out your eye and you wil mistris Pen: No by my faith Seruant t' is better in Goos. VVhy Ladie I le but take it out in iest in earnest Pen. No something else there good seruant Goos. VVhy then here shall be a Camell and he shall haue hornes and he shall looke for al the world like a maide without a husband Hip. O bitter sir Giles Tal. Nay he has a drie wit Ladie I can tell ye Pen. He bobd me there indeede my Lord Fur. Marry him sweet Lady to answere his bitter bob King So she maie answere him with hornes indeed Eug. See what a pretie worke he weares in his boote hose Hip. Did you worke them your selfe sir Gyles or buy them Goos. I bought am for nothing madam in th' exange Eug. Bought am for nothing Tal. Indeed madam in th' exchange they so honor him for his worke that they will take nothing for anie thing he buies on am but where 's the rich night-cappe you wroght cosen if it had not byn too little for you it was the best peece of worke that euer I sawe Goos. VVhy my Lord t' was bigg enough when I wrought it for I wore pantables then you knowe Tal. Indeede the warmer a man keepes his feete the lesse he needes weare vppon his head Eug. You speake for your kinsman the best that euer I heard my Lord Goos. But I beleeue madam my Lord my cosen has not told you all my good parts Tal I told him so I warrant you cosen Hip: VVhat doe you thinke he left out Sir Giles