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A18427	The ball A comedy, as it vvas presented by her Majesties Servants, at the private House in Drury Lane. Written by George Chapman, and Iames Shirly.	Shirley, James, 1596-1666.; Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.	1639 (1639)	STC 4995; ESTC S107725	38,476	74

whole army and finde one Souldier that hates a hansome woman we cannot march Without our bagge and baggages and is it possible When we come home where womens pride and all Temptation to wantonesse abounds We should lose our activitie Lu. You souldiers are brave fellowes Co. When we have our pay We vow no chastitie till we marry Lady T is out of fashion indeede with gentlemen To be honest and of age together t is sufficient We can provide to take our pleasures too Without infection a sound body is A treasure I can tell you yet if that Would satisfy you I should make no scruple To sweare but otherwise you must pardon us As we must pardon you Luc. Vs sir Co. Yes you as if you Ladies had not your fagaries And martiall discipline as well as we Your outworkes and redoubts your court of guard Your centries and perdues sallies retreates Pasties and stratagems women are all honest Yes yes exceeding honest let me aske you One question I le not put you to your oath I doe allow you Hide-Parke and Spring-Garden You have a recreation called the Ball A device transported hither by some Ladies That affect Tenice what d ee play a set There 's a foule racket kept under the line Strange words are bandied and strange revells Madam Luc. The world imagines so Co. Nay y' are all talk'd of Luc. But if men had no more wit and honesty They wod let fall their stings on something else This is discours'd but when Corantaes faile Or newes at ordinaries when the phlegmaticke Dutch Ha tane no Fisher-boates or our Cole-ships land Safe at New-Castle y' are fine gentlemen But to conclude of that we met for your honesty Not justified by an oath as I expected Is now suspended will you sweare yet Co. Why I thought you had beene a Christian widdow Have I not told you enough you may meete one Will forfeit his conscience and please you better Some Silke-worme o th' Cittie or the Court There be enough will sweare away their soule For your estate but I have no such purpose The warres will last I hope Luc. So so Scutilla Enter Scutilla You were present when I promis'd the Coronell To be his wife upon condition He could secure my opinion by his oath That he was honest I am bound in honour Not to goe backe y ave done it I am yours sir Be you a witnesse to this solemne contract Co. Are you in earnest Lady I ha not sworne Luc. You have given better truth He that can make this conscience of an oath Assures his honesty Co. In minde Luc. What 's past I question not if for the time to come Your love be vertuous to me Co. Most religious Or let me live the Souldiers dishonour And die the scorne of gentlemen I ha not Space enough in my heart to entertaine thee Luc. Is not this better than swearing Co. I confesse it Luc. Now I may call you husband Co. No title can more honour me Luc. If please you I le shew you then my children Co. How your children Luc. I ha sixe that call me mother Co. Hast faith Luc. The elder may want softnesse to acknowledge you But some are young enough and may be counsell'd To aske your blessing does this trouble you Co. Trouble me no but it is the first newes Lady Of any children Luc. Nay they are not like To be a burden to us they must trust To their owne portions left 'em by their father Co. Where Luc. But of my estate I cannot keepe Any thing from 'em and I know you are So honest you 'd not wish me wrong the Orphans T is but sixe thousand pound in money Coronell Among them all beside some trifling plate And jewels worth a thousand more Co. No more Luc. My Ioynture will be firme to us two hundred Per annum Co. Is it so and that will keepe A Country house some halfe a dozen Cowes We shall ha cheese and butter-milke one horse Will serve me and your man to ride to markets Luc. Canst be content to live i th' country Coronell Co. And watch the Pease looke to the Hay and talke Of Oates and Stubble I ha beene brought up too 't And for a need can thrash Luc. That will save somewhat Co. i th yeere beside my skill in farrowing pigs Oh t is a holsome thing to hold the plough And wade up to the calfe i th' dirty furrowes Worse than sleeping in a trench or quagmire You ha not heard me whistle yet Luc. No indeede Co. Why there 's it shee does counterfeit well Lady Be you in jeast or earnest this is my Resolution I le marry you and y 'ad forty children And not a foote of land to your Ioynture heaven Will provide for and we doe our endeavours Where be the children come how many boyes Luc. As many as can get sir Co. How Luc. No more Since y' are so noble know I tried your patience And now I am confirm'd my estate is yours Without the weight of children or of debts Love me and I repent not Co. Saist thou so I wod we had a Priest here Luc. There remaines to take away one scruple Co. Another gincracke Luc. I have none t is your doubt sir And ere we marry you shall be convinc'd Some mallice has corrupted your opinion Of that we call the Ball Co. Your dancing businesse Luc. I will intreate your company to night Where your owne eyes shall leade you to accuse Or vindicate our fames Co. With all my heart Scu. Madam Mr. Bostocke Expects within Luc. You shall be reconcil'd to him Co. With Bostocke willingly then toth Ball Which for your sake I dare not now suspect Where union of hearts such Empire brings Subjects methings are crown'd as we as Kings Exeunt Actus Quintus Enter Mounsieur and servants with perfume Moun. BOne for bone here a little dere a little more my Lord hire dis house of the citie Merchent begar It smell musty and he will have all sweete for de Ladies perfume perfume every corner presently For dere is purpose to make all smoke anon Begar Enter Lady Rosomond and Honoria Treshumble serviter Madam Ho. Where is my Lord Moun. Hee waite on you presently Mounsieur de Freshwater Fr. Mounsieur Le Friske these Ladies were pleas'd To command my attendance hither Moun. Welcome to de Ball par ma foy You pardon Mounsieur I have much trouble In my little head I can no stay to Complement a vostre service Exit Fre. In all my travells I have not seene a more Convenient Structure Ro. Now you talke of your travells Signior till my Lord Come you shall doe us a speciall favour to Discourse what passages you ha seene abroad Ho. Were you ever abroad before Signior Fre. I hardly ever was at home and yet All countries lost wiseman are his owne Did you never travell Ladies Ro. We are no Ladies errant t is enough For such as you that looke for

State employment Fre. Yet there be Ladies ha your languages And married to great men prove the better Statesmen Ro. We have heard talke of many countries Fre. And you may heare talke but give me the man That has measur'd 'em talkes but talke Ho. Have you seene a fairer Citie than London Fre. London is nothing Ro. How nothing Fre. To what it will be a hundred yeares hence Ro. I have heard much talke of Paris Ho. You have beene there I me sure Enter Lord Fre. I tell you Madame I tooke shipping at Gravesend and had no sooner past The Cantons and Grissons making some stay In the Valtoline but I came to Paris a pretty Hamlet and much in the scituation like Dunstable T is in the Province of Alcontora some three leagues Distant from Civill from whence we have our Oringes Lo. Is the fellow mad Ro. I have heard Civill is in Spaine Fre. You may heare many things The people are ciuill that live in Spaine or there May be one towne like another but if Civill Be not in France I was never at Civill in my life Ho. Proceede Sir Fre. Doe not I know Paris it was built by the yongest Son Of King Priam and was call'd by his name yet some Call it Lutetia because the gentlewomen there Play so well upon the Lute Lo. What a Rascall is this Fr. Here I observ'd many remarkeable buildings as the Vniversitie which some call the Loure where the Students made very much of me and carried me To the Beare-garden where I saw a play on the Banke-side a very pretty Comedy call'd Martheme In London Ro. I st possible Fre. But there be no such Comedians as we have here Yet the women are the best Actors they play Their owne parts a thing much desir'd in England By some Ladies Innes a Court Gentlemen and others But that by the way Ho. See Sir Fre. I had staid longer there but I was offended with a Villanous sent of Onions which the winde brought from St. Omers Ro. Onions wod make you sleepe well Fre. But the sent t is not to be endured I smelt On 'em when I came to Rome and hardly scap'd the Inquisition for t Ho. Were you at Rome too Signior Fre. T is in my way to Venice I le tell you Madam I was very Loth to leave their country Ro. Which Country Fre. Where was I last Ho. In France Fre. Right for I had a very good Inne where mine Host Was a notable good fellow and a Cardinall Ro. How a Cardinall oh impudence Fr. Oh the catches we sang and his wife a pretty woman And one that warmes a bed one o th' best in Europe Ho. Did you ever heare the like Ro. I did before suspect him Fr. But mine Host Ho. The Cardinall Fr. Right had a shrew'd pate and his eares were something O' th longest for one upon the oath of a w Walloune that from Spaine to the Low Countries and the other from Lapland into Germany Ro. Say you so Fr. A parlous head and yet loving to his guests As mine host Bankes as red in the gills and as merry A but anger him and hee sets all Christendome Together by the eares well shortly after I left France and sayling along the Alpes I came to Lombardy where I left my cloke for it was very Hot travelling and went a Pilgrim to Rome Where I saw the Tombs and a Play in Pompeys Theater here I was kindely entertain'd by an anchorite In whose chamber I lay and drinke Cider Lo. Nay now he is desperate Ho. Doe not interrupt him Fre. What should I trouble you with many stories from hence I went to Naples a soft kinde of people and cloth'd In silke from thence I went to Florence from whence we Have the art of working custards which we call Florentines Millan a rich state of Haberdashers Permount where I had excellent Venison And Padua famous for the pads or easie saddles Which our physitions ride upon and first brought from Thence when they commenst Doctor Ro. Very good Fr. I see little in Mantua beside dancing upon the ropes Onely their strong beere better than any I Ever drunke at the Trumpet but Venice of all The Champion Countries do not mistake they are the Valiantest gentlemen under the Sunne Ro. Is that it Fr. O the Catazaners we turn'd there Ho. Who was wee yee Fr. Two or three magnifico's grandees of the State We tickled 'em in the very Pialto by the same Token two or three English spies told us they had laine Leger three moneths to steale away the Piatzo and ship It for Covent Garden a pretty fabricke and building Vpon the but I was compell'd to make Short stay here by reason of the Dukes Concubines Fell in love wee me gave me a ring of his out of A solide Diamonde which afterwards I lost washing my Hands in the salt water Ho. You should ha fish'd for t and as good lucke as She that found her wedding ring in the Haddocks belly Fr. No there was no staying I tooke post presently For Genoa and from thence to Madrill and so to The Netherlands Ro. And how sped you among the Dutch Fr. Why we were drunk every day together they get their Living by it Ho. By drinking Fr. And making bargaines in their tippling The Iewes are innocent nay the devill himselfe Is but a Dunce to 'em of whose trade they are Ho. What 's that Fr. They fish they fish still who can helpe it they Have nets enough and may catch the Province In time then let the Kingdomes looke about 'em They can't be idle and they have one advantage Of all the world they le ha no conscience to trouble 'Em I heard in whispered they want butter they have A Designe to charme the Indies and remove their Darie but that as a secret shall goe no further I caught a surfet of Bore in Holland upon my Recovery I went to Flushing where I met with a hansome Froe with whom I went to Middleborough by the And lest her drunke at Roterdam there I tooke Shipping againe for France from thence to Dover From Dover to Gravesend from Gravesend to Queene Hive and from thence to what I am come to Lo. And noble Signior you are very welcome Fr. I hope he did not over-heare me Lo. I am much honor'd Ladies in your presence Fr. Absence had beene a sinne my Lord where you Were pleas'd to invite Enter Mounsieur Moun. Fie fie my Lord give me one eare He whispers with my Lord Lo. Interrupt me no more good Moursieur Fr. Mounsieur La Friske a word a word I beseech you No excuser moy Exit Fresh and Moun. Lo. Have you thought Ladies of your absent servant Within whose heart the civill warre of love Ro. May end in a soft peace Lo. Excellent Lady Ho. We had armies too my Lord of wounded thoughts Lo. And are you agreed to which I must devote My loving service and which is wisest