your horses are stabled your seruants shall be merry and their Master not malcontent returne you must not till you heare from your Mistrisse for such was her commaund and therefore I pray you haue patience my mistrisse apparelled like a young man but with a Periwigge and a false Bearde comes vppon the soddaine as wee were entering into the greate Chamber and presentes mee with a Letter from my Mistrisse the superscription in this manner To my trusty seruant my louing Master and approoued friend Tidero with speede pardon mee to perswade you to that may perhappes displease you to lacke my presence for your better benefite for I leaue you a hearte that deerelie loues you and a hand of honour I saie that in her fauoure maie grace you shee is another and not my selfe beleeue her trust her and Loue her and I will thanke you for her for her seruant is my friend consider of these contents and in her command make my contentment so till I see you which shall be I know not when in hope of your kindnes to my friend I will rest euer Your very louing friend Lamia This Letter when I had read and knew it to bee her hand what tricke soeuer was in her head I presently tooke a pen and inke and returned the messenger with this answer To my gratious Mistris my louing seruant and faithfull friend the Lady Lamia with speede LAdy is it the part of a friend to perswade falshood in Loue your presence is the Sun of my daylight your absence the darknes of delight I seeke no benefite but your loue nor can loue other then your only selfe disgrace be all worlds grace but in your eies nor will I honour a heart but in your hands your self vvithout an other I serue and you only and no other can I loue and therefore hovvsoeuer you account of a friend I vvill neuer be false to my affection so till I see you vvhich if it be neuer yet vvhile you liue vvill I loue you euer and so rest Your faithfull friend Tidero This letter sealed deliuered avvay goes the messenger vvhispering vvith the yong Lady a vvord or two to entertain me with a little talke till shee were gotten in and new attired which was not long a dooing for by the time that we had heard a little musique of a prettie lad that did plaie vpon a base violl and sing to it the song was scarce ended but in comes my loue my Mistrisse attired like a horse woman that had bin new dismounted and with a prety smile after shee had saluted many at last comes to me with what Friend in truth you are welcom did you not receiue a letter from me yes good friend quoth I a couple In deed friend quoth she you are beholding to me for had it not bin discurtesie to bid a friende to dinner and not giue him entertainment I had not come againe so soone but if I had not com you should haue had no great cause to mislike of your company but I hope it is wel in trueth you are welcom you shall stay with me to night to morrow go as soon as you wil good friend quoth I I thank you you shall command a greater matter in my seruice So after a few complimēts we sate down to dinner where there wanted no part of comfort that might be found in Table kindnes as welcome caruing and drinking and so forth But after dinner was done Ar. Yea now you com to the matter that I long to heare of Tid I will tell you after the cloath was taken away my Mistris began to entertain the company vvith these vvords In generall hoh you are all vvelcome you that come from a feast can better beare vvith a lesse pittāce but vvhat lacks in meat let vs fill out in mirth and first quoth she to her Page Sirra take your viole and plaie and sing the song that was taught you of Loue which commanded was soon obeied and thus performed the Boy taking his instrument fell to play sing this ditty which I will recite vnto you for I got it out of his book Of all Conceites which is the best Loue. Yet what is that is thought a iest Loue. What thought is that giues smallest rest Loue. Yet in the end makes reason blest Loue. What wound is that is hardly healed Loue. What deed is that is surest sealed Loue. What thought is sweetest best concealed Loue. What comfort kindest best reuealed Loue. What word is sweetest to be heard Loue. What soundly made can not be mard Loue. What seruice merits most reward Loue. What grace is worthy most regard Loue. What Loue most constant in a friend Where Loue is louely without end Well said Boie quoth she now goe your waies to dinner Let vs alone and now my masters quoth she doe but imagine ye are at a Bridall and let vs bee as merrie as we were there let vs fall to some sport or other play maie be costlie musique we shall haue enough anon therefore let vs spend a little time in some pleasing exercise I will begin to you whereto euery one giuing a willing consent she began thus we haue been at yeas and noes griefes and ioies let vs now goe to Buts one propound another answer the Third giue the reason Beautie is a blessed hue 2 But 3 it workes manie cursed actions then another monie is a good thing 2 But 3 it brings many to miserie Again vertue is honourable 2 But 3 somtime she wants mony Againe Loue is pretious 2 But 3 if it be right Againe kindnesse is the ioye of loue 2 But 3 in constancy then qd I loue is the ioy of life 2 But quoth the second in a true friend quoth my Mistris Again patience is a vertue 2 But 3 a poor one another hope is comfortable 2 But 3 when it is happy Content is a kingdome 2 But 3 in conceite As we were going on with our Buts comes in a gallant youth wel accompanied and attended who as it afterwards fell out was a Suter to the young Lady that to trie my constancie came about me with a trick of loue or rather wit indeed to find out the trueth or falshood of a louer wherupon the company rose and after al obseruances of due compliments he with his yong Lady and I with my Mistris fell to such parlee as we thought best for our purpose he in the Parlour and wee in the garden where what followed you shall heare Ar. Good I doubt not Tid Good indeed and better to for after that we had walked a turne or two shee reuealing of her deuise to try the constancy of my affection tooke all thinges so well and requited them so kindly as honour could desire that Loue might enioye but by the waie among other talke I praie thee friend quoth Shee do me this kindnesse for to lend me your little Table book in your poeket for I did a little ouerlooke
be a beast on the land to learne a note of their nature and yet there comes much good by them Ar. As how I pray thee Tid Why when a Whale is wounded he will runne to the shore and then the fishermen make much mony of his oyle when a Marlin killeth a Partridge the faulconer fares the better and when the dog pulls downe the Beare it makes sport for the master of the game Ar. Thou saist true but let them alone with their sports tell me what els sawest thou at the sea Tid I saw how woodden horses went with the wind which carried men and Merchandize ouer the water from one land to another but sometimes with a sodaine tempest man horse ouerthrown vpon a Rock and the goods all flote or drownd somtime man horse and ware through a leake sink all into the sea somtime swallowed in a sand and sometime vpon a sodaine one fall vpon another and by fire and sword one or both fall to destruction these horses were called Shippes Pinnaces Hoyes and such like and let me tell you as Dauid the Prophet said he that passeth the deepe seeth the wonders of the Lord for if I should tell thee what dangers I haue escaped both by sea and land thou woldest say I were bound to praise God Ar. Thou saist well I haue heard so much of the daungers of the sea that I care not if I keepe one foot of Land but I pray thee tell me a little further of thy trauaile Tid I will tell you at sea I saw none of those toyes that I haue heard fooles talke of as Mermaides and Sirenes for they are in deede but fictions but I saw in a cleer day a great depth vnder one ship vpon a calm in a still water the tops of steeples and old stone walles which the Sea had swallowed by som great breache ouer the banks of that country and as I heard afterward in my trauaile in the drowning of those townes there perished a worlde of people and no small masse of wealth Arnofilo A pittifull Spectacle and yet we see when wealth breedeth pride GOD will send vs a sore plague but I pray thee proceede and tell me of thy further Trauaile Tid I will when I first arriued on shore with some other of the Shippe wherein I made my passage I beheld the Soile which was as this is replenished with grasse herbs flowers and trees and so forth and for the Fowles they did fly the Beastes did feede and men and woemen did walke and talke as we doe onely they did vary in their attire and in theyr language from vs the poore did for the most part drinke water and the ritch wine the poore fedde most vpon herbes rootes course bread and little flesh the riche vpon such Cates as the country will yeelde their cities were faire to the eie but slight for the substance their wealth great but in few mens hands their lawes stricte and well obserued the Men neither Pigmeies nor monsters their women some fair some foule but one thing I noted chiefly in the country that in euery house the inhabitants had a priuate law in their owne houses and one neighbour with an other besides the common lavves of the country Arnofilo For those in that they may bee tedious to thee to recite I will deferre them till another time but I pray thee tell mee something of the priuate lawes among them Tid Betvvixt neighbours it vvas one Lavv that euery man shoulde pay his ovvne house rent and not to trust vnto his neighbour Another Law that euery man should prouide for his owne houshold all things necessary and not to borrow of his neighbour another Lawe that no man should owe his neihbour any thing but compliments an other was that no man should be bould with his neighbours wife further then she wold let him howsoeuer the common Law woulde direct him No man should slander his neighbours wife for feare of hurting him and doing her no good No man should tell tales though true betwixt partie and partie that might mooue strife for breaking of peace No man should denie a kindnesse promised vnto his neighbour or his wife least he should grow angry and shee take thought No man mighte make hornes at his neighbour though hee knewe him to bee a cuckolde for feare of breeding of bate betwixte a Man and his wife these with many other priuate Lawes were verie straightly and carefully obserued betwixt neighbour and neighbour besides there is one other that I had forgotten and that is this that no man might father his neighbours childe how soeuer hee had talked with the mother of it for feare to breede the Fathers vnkindenesse and the Mothers vndooing Ar. Prety Lawes and well noted I see there was some good fellowshippe among them and that they had a care of their businesse it was well for without these lawes knaues and fools might haue done much hurt what was the punishment to bee layde vppon the offendors in any of these items or priuate Lawes Tid No open matter of shame but among themselues he that did offend according to the nature of his offence was censured if he wanted wealth held a poor man if he wanted wit a foole if honesty a knaue if kindnesse a dog and so though suffered to bee a dweller yet not esteemed as a neighbour Ar Truely good so it should be as the world goes neighbours should be kind one to another or els there were no neighbourhood but tell me I pray thee a little of the priuate lawes in eache house Tid If a man were maried to a scold let her work for her liuing and pray for patience If a woman were maried to a foole let him walke to wind yarne or pick nuts If a man had a whore to his wife to think of his own case and so to conceale his sorrowe or to bee rid of his mischiefe If a woman be maried to an Eunuche to do somthing to saue his shame from knowledge No man must goe to market without money nor to dinner without meate No man must go to bed till he be sleepy nor rise till he be awake No man must looke for money till he haue earned it nor pay money till he haue it Many other such lawes or Items there are agreed vpon among them which were but tedious to recite som of which I haue forgotten but these I can well remember Ar. Prety noted I thanke thee for them with all my hart but what punishment is there appointed for the offenders in any of these agreements Tid I will tel you he that will liue with a scoulde must be laught at for his labour Shee that is wife to a fool liues in suspition of God forbid Hee that will liue with a whore must wear a greate cap Shee that is married to an Eunuch muste goe to phisick for the greene sicknes He that goes to market without mony must come home without meate Hee that dines
you to remoue your melancholy for it is not agreeable to your complexion sir quoth she it may bee you haue made me blush to think what you would say to me but if my mind be not in perfect state I can not take you for a Phisician yet for your good counsaile I thanke you and that is all the fee you must looke for Ar. The wench had some wit I perceiue by her answer Tid Wit yes at will for this was but the first blowe but see what followed Lady quoth I your fee is too greate for such a small peece of Phisicke but indeede if that I did but knowe the Nature of your disease I woulde studye for your cure and deserue a fee before I woulde take it but the mynde of sickenesse is vpon so many causes that the griefe is hard to gesse without som light from the agrieued but that known he is either vnlearned or vnlucky that can minister no coÌ„fort you say well quoth she but what if it be known to be cureles what then is any counsaile without comfort Ar. Perilous Ape I feare it will proue an Vrchin Tid Oh no t is a prety creature as you will confesse when you heare more but let me tell you my replie It may quoth I seem cureles that may haue helpe and therefore good words may do good in the nature of a good wil words quoth she are good when they are wel spoken better when they are well meant good when they are well taken and better when they are well returned but for good will it is a kind of riddle that simple wits vnderstaÌ„d not for fine wits can so equiuocate that plain meaning is much abused where the misbeliefe of good words makes the ouerthrovv of a good mind Ar. Why how now man was this a wenche Tid It was a woman at least of woman kind as fayr a damsell as I thinke liues in the world but let me tell you how I went about with my witts to meete a little with her good will Lady quoth I good will grounded vpon good cause may out of a good meaning bring forth good words which working good effect in agood mind may vpon a good consideration worke a good conclusion Beauty is a good thing to the Eie vertue to the mind these work a loue in desart which is good in reason Novv loue in reason hauing a great povver in nature may make the riddle easy to be red wher knowledge vvill not dissemble ignorance Ar. Well said wag it was well put to Tid No such matter my fortune vvas yet too far from such a figure for let me tell you her ansvver and then giue your iudgment Ar. I pray thee do Tid Why Sir quoth she I perceiue you go from one Riddle to another knovvledge to dissemble ignorance is for vvisedom to bee hid in folly vvhich is a strange construction for a weak capacity if the cause of good will be misconceiued the good words may then be displaced and so the matter mistaken the time may be but mispent Beauty is but a shadow that hath no substaÌ„ce where reason may be blinded with illusion and vertue is so far from nature that it is not seen but with the eye of grace and for Loue it is grown such a lest that it is rather laughed at then beleeued in the world therfore where you find beauty do not flatter it with vertue till you see it and for vertue do not amisse conceiue it least you wrong your self in it but where in deed you find it I can not blame you to loue it Ar. Oh vnhappy theâ—fe able to rob reason of his vnderstanding but I hope thou wouldest not leaue her so Tid I think not for thus I fell vpon a replie to blame loue were a blot in kindnes and to yeelde to reason is a bond in wit to find folly in wisedom is the searche of a deep wit and to wey words in their true worth is the proofe of good vnderstaÌ„ding but to laugh at loue is no proof of good wil If therefore the vertue of your spirit in the beauty of your eies hath drawn my hart to loue will you not be as good as your word not to blame me for dooïng well for if reason faile not my conceipte let me not mooue patience in speaking truth let not truth seeme flattery where vertue hath but her due honoure so shall the riddle be soone read whose substance is but your selfe and the passion best cured wher my humble seruice may be graced Sir quoth she I hope you wil pardon my weaknes to entertain your patience with idlenes for to answere your ArgumeÌ„ts would require a better Scholar then my learning you may iudge amisse and meane well Complexions and conditions may differ and I maie beleeue and be deceiued when wordes may want their weighte in good will Loue is a dangerous spirit and where hee is snared by any subtilty doth much hurt where he is taken If I were so well acquainted with him as you woulde seeme to bee it maye be I shoulde employe him as you woulde but to leaue ridling in reason let me tell you this as I woulde not bee vuthankfull to a straunger so would I not bee straunge to my selfe as I can commend your wit I must haue care of my will til I be able to be a frieÌ„d not to admit the entertainmeÌ„t of a seruaÌ„t therfore wheÌ„ you know my disease hoping you wil be my PhisitiaÌ„ I wil follow your counsail to be as merry as I maie hauing no better fee onely I thank you for your kindnes Lady quoth I I am sory Time admits me not with your fauour to deliuer you further my minde Let it suffice you that I am youres more then I can saye thoughe I can saie no more then that I am yours if occasion in your commaundement may make triall of my trust I will attend my desart in the hope of your regarde and so hoping that loue will bee without daunger where words carry the true weight if affection may helpe a passion let me intreat you to applye my faith to your fancy and I hope my phisick will doe you good but since neither time nor place doth fitte our further conference I praie you let me intreat you thus fâ—re to honour my fortune as to wear this ring for my sake a littie hoope of gold in which was ingraued Sic fides so is faith pure and without end which with a blushinge deniall vpon such importunity shee tooke and gaue me for a fauour to weare for her sake a little Cupid of Bugle finely wroght and written ouer his eyes in black letters Caecus sictus Amor vpon the mutuall receipte of these tokens with some little shorte congey wee parted leauing her to her old passion that I knew not or to this newe passion that I had mooued but yet founde not or to smile at my folly which I doubted not and so
vs leaue this fiddle faddle and nowe fall to some prettie sport or other contente quoth shee withall my heart when making of a little rounde sate ther downe vnder a greate baye windowe in the parlor some fiue coople of vs and no sewe madde laddes and wenches at our backes to heare and note our pastimes which was as I will tell you neither purposes tales nor Rideles but a merry iest that I neuer hearde of before callen Decorums and Absurdums euerie one muste shewe his witte till either the braines were wearie or the dinner were readie and thus they beganne The sharpe witted wenche whome I often spake of before was the firste who thus fell to her businesse To speake good words to a good vnderstanding is a decorum in iudgement to which the next replied To speake wisely to a foole is an absurdum in Reason then followed another with this speech To answer loue with kindnes is a decorum in Nature to which the next replied To bestow loue vnworthily is an absurdum in wit then followes another To hope on desart is a decorum in reason to whome the next replyed To be afraide of fortune is an absurdum in iudgement then came it to my Mistris who thus deliuered her opinion To honour wisedom is a decorum in Loue and then it came to me who thus made my reply and not to loue vertue were an absurdum in humanity then comes it to our foole who thus brought out the treasure of his casket To gather wealth is a decorum in thrift to which was sodenly replied To dig in a dunghill is an absurdum in honor then comes it about again to the first who thus began againe To keep promise in kindnesse is a decorum in loue to which was replied To performe an ill vow is an absurdum in Grace then followed the next in this manner To play the foole wisely is a decorum in conceit to which was replied To play the wag vnkindly is an absurdum in good manner then comes it againe to my Mistresse who thus deliuered her mind To be constant in loue is a decorum in honor to which I replied To be false to honour is an absurdum in Loue then comes it to the gull who thus fell to plaine English To be kind to her seruant were a decorum in my Mistresse to which a mad wenche replyed A seruant to be too saucy with his Mistrisse wer an absurdum in duty Now as it vvas comming about againe comes in the seruice for dinner whereupon we brake off our talke for that time but after we had dined and passed away a little time vvith idle prattle wee gat our selues togither againe all sauing the Asse who for feare of more coales then he could carry gat himselfe out of doors vvhere vve neuer looked after him but fell to a new sport to answer many words in one one must propound and an other answer Ar. As how I pray thee tell me Tid You shall heare the first began thus If a man labour all the daies of his life and get nothing till his death vvhat shal he be thought Awn Vnhappy Pro. If a vvoman bee kind but vnconstant vvhat shall she be accounted Awn Vnwise Pro. If a man deserue vvell of his Mistrisse and she requite him ill vvhat shal she be thought Awn Vnkind Pro. If a virgin be faithfull to her Louer and he proue a Traitor to her trust vvhat shall he be called Awn Vngratious Pro. What is the fairest thing in the vvorld Aw Trueth Pro. What is the svveetest thought in the mind A. Loue Pro. What is the most sure in the vvorld Awn Death Pro. What the greatest offence in the world A. Treasō Pro. What is the noblest thing in the vvorld Aw Valor Pro. What is most dangerous Awn Trust Pro. What is most fearful Aw Warre Pro. What most ioyful Aw Peace Pro. What is most rare Aw Honesty Pro. What most common Aw Beggery Pro. What most subtill Aw Wit Pro. What most kind Aw Will if it be pleased oh you are out quoth all the company for talking of pleasing and so with a pleasing laughter the company brake off and euery one with his Mistris fell to walking abroad when my Mistris making one I had no reason to staye behind and therefore to be short singling our selues from the company I fell thus into discourse with hir Mistris is there any thing more pretious in the mind then the Loue of the heart I beseech you answer me in a word No quoth she I thinke nor But quoth I would you loue that heart where you found that spirit yea I think I should but would you beleeue that tongue that did speak from such a heart yes I think I should quoth she and will you esteem of that loue that such a tongue speaks out of such a heart yes I haue reason for it then good Mistris let your eies in my heart see the trueth of that loue that can not liue but in your grace well Seruant quoth she I see you would speak well if you could hit on it oh Mistrisse quoth I I had rather hit wel then speake of it wel quoth she I perceiue you haue learned to turne the point vpon a quarrell oh but quoth I I had rather ioine hands vpon a friendship but when ioyning of hands may cause the breaking of hearts the conceit quoth she is ill caried yea but quoth I when the want of hands breeds the woe of hearts content is much hindered oh but patience quoth she is an excellent trial of trueth yea but quoth I delay is the death of delight yea but quoth she loue is euer constant so long quoth I as kindnes is comfortable oh seruant quoth shee loue sees in absence nothing qd I but sorow oh sir who wil not watch his hauk shall neuer reclaim her but quoth I if she be flying she is better on the fist then on the mew wel he that wil not pluck for a card is not worthie of a prime but qd I he that can be flush may better carrie the rest wel seruant I will consider of your discretion where honor may be kind reason wil not be vngrateful you are a stranger in this coūtry yet I heare well of your estate but giue me leaue to be my selfe as I find you wise continu my good opiniō which being more then I will speake of I wil leaue to you to thinke and so once more let me intreat your silent patience to put off one sutor more who speaks so by rule that I can hardly answer him by roat Mistris let he cariage of my discretion so continue your good opiniō that the hope of my fortune be in the honor of your fauor in which let me be whollie yours or els not be mine own with this vve brake off our talk for that time going in my Mistris was saluted by a spruse cōpanion that loookt like a letter in print who
the name of musitians bid call in the fidlers and my maisters euery one to his wench oh when I was a young mā I could haue beene nimble at this geare Sonne take your Bride and call in your frinds and aboute the house bestirre your stumpes a little come on when The wags and the wenches with the groome and his bride fell to take hands and scarce had begun a steppe or two in foure square I would haue said a quadrant pauen but in comes a poste for puddings a messenger from a maske that deliuered such a speech of the aduenturs of an asse vpon the but of a rams horn the dangerous passage oner a puddle of water that but for the honor of that knight trouble of his house they wold not vndertake for a bushel of wheate with a deal of trash as was not worth remembrance somewhat absurdly ere the tale was told with a drū bagpipe came such a morice daūce a maske I would say ther but they made fools merry and themselues sporte I could saye little in their Commendation but that for their cost and their cariage bred and cheese and a cup of ale had ben a sufficient banquet for such a company who hauing daunced which they did very ilfauouredly fel to dicing being both Maskers and mummers when after the rate of nine shillings among eighteene of them they fell to plaie and hauing gotten some ten groates struck vp the drumm with no little mirth for though they cared not for their mony yet theire gaines would pay for their vizards and for theire clothes they were but borrowed of their neighboures but thus after they had masked and mummed away they went and lefte it by this time aboute the hower of sleepe when euery one taking leaue o◠the other my mistris gaue me a kinde good night which made mee sleepe neuer the worse Ar. I beleeue thee but I pray thee tell mee what followed the next morning T. I wil tel you after some kind of visiō fancie or dream I know not whether troubled with I knowe not what remembring a lesson that a Lady of worth once gaue mee that I shoulde not obserue dreames for that they are but illusions forbidden in the worde of the most wise I did what I could to put them out of my mind and getting vp something early went abroad into the garden wishing rather in the daie to behold the liuing Substaunce of my loue then in the night to be illuded with the shadow of my delight whereafter a diuine exercise in the humble cōtemplation of my spirit I met with wide heauen the ioye of my heart in a worde my mistris who whether according to the custome of her good houswifery in rising early or whether she vsed the prime of the morning for the time of her deuotion or that she chose that time for the preicruation of her health I know not but there I met her at the corner of a walke with her waiting gentlewoman who knowing her duty and loath to displease fell a little behinde her nowe my Mistrisse had a booke in her hand which shutting vppe with a modest smile shee did thus salute me Seruante good morrow what abroade so earlie I had thought no bodie had been so earlie a stirrer as my selfe but I see I am deceiued mistris quoth I shall the setuant bee in bed after his Mis that wer to much sluggardise but for your good morrow many thousand requite you A fayre morning a faire garden and a faire Lady fair befall these fair meetings why how now seruant quoth she A faire minde faire thoughts and faire wordes you should doe well to goe to the faire with such faire wakes So I doe mistris quoth he you are the faire that haue boughte me and mine yea Seruant haue I all what then haue you leaft for your self enough quoth I Grace and duty the one to serue and the other to please and what quoth shee mistris quoth I in loue and honour and how quoth shee in obedience patience As how quoth shee I answered to doe your will and attend your will is it possible seruant quoth shee that I haue such a power ouer you why mistris quoth I is it so strange that you shoulde haue power ouer your owne Ales quoth she I pitty thy fortune in thy affecting of vnworthines and quoth I I ioie in my happines to haue sauour in so much honour oh but my good seruant if your estate want meane to answer the noblenesse of your mind a greeuous ioy wil make a miserable passion yea but Mistrisse if the content of the minde bee a kingdome in conceite patience that knowes no pride makes loue the happinesse of life but how is reason satisfied where necessitie is not supplied patience in hope finds the comfort of grace but where time is grieuous how is loue comfortable why though the winter be cold is not the spring pleasing yes but a thin haruest makes a poore farmer oh Mistris liues not the Shepheard somtime merier then the Master of the sheepe and the wench with the milk paile then the lady of much riches Indeed qd she I haue heard much of the shepheardes their loues but whether they be fictions or figures I know not but giue me leaue shall I leaue Lady for Mistris wealth for want a court for a cottage command for obedience all for the hope of loue no Mistris loue makes a cottage a court where content is a kingdom and what greater wealth then in the riches of the mind for obedience in kindnesse it is the worke of Loue and to be a worthy mistris is better then an vnworthy Lady and therefore let hope bee an assurāce in the perswasion of loue but who is the worthy Mistris she that hath power ouer her selfe and who the most worthy seruant he whom such a Mistris hath entertained good seruant hurt not thy self in doing me good good Mistris doe mee good in not wishing my hurt If I should loue not liue with you where is the contēt of your conceit if I can liue without your loue let no conceit content me if I shold fauor you ouerthrow my fortune what shal be the reward of my folly If your vertue grace my loue howe much should my seruice honour you If the world frowne on mee who wil helpe me If the Heauēs blesse you who can hurt you nowe fie vpon thee seruant I knowe not what to say to thee and for that there are company comming let this in brief suffice thee so farre as I maie I doe affect thee in honor I wil grace thee haue patience for a time it shall be happy for thee sor though my estate be not much yet it is in mine owne disposing and my parents in the Earth I am at the heauens direction for my resolution and therefore feare not the fruit of thy faith in the hope of my fauoure for I am thine but I