discredit my witt with their companies now I thinke on 't plague a god on them I le fall a beating on them presently Exit Enter Lorde Momford and Clarence Clarence Horatio Cla. Sing good Horatio while I sigh and write According to my master Platos minde The Soule is musick and doth therefore ioy In accents musicall which he that hates VVith points of discorde is togeather tyed And barkes at Reason Consonant in sence Diuine Eugenia beares the ocular forme Of musicke and of Reason and presents The Soule exempt from flesh in flesh inflam'd Who must not loue hir then that loues his soule To her I write my friend the starre of friends VVil needs haue my strange lines greet her strange eies And for his sake I le powre my poore Soule forth In floods of Inke but did not his kind hand Barre me with violent grace I wood consume In the white flames of her impassionate Loue Ere my harsh lipps shood vent the odorous blaze For I am desperate of all worldly Ioyes And there was neuer man so harsh to men VVhen I am fullest of digested life I seeme a liuelesse Embrion to all Each day rackt vp in nightlike Funerall Sing good Horatio whilst I sigh and write Canto The Letter Suffer him to loue that suffers not louing my loue is without passion and therefore free from alteration Prose is too harsh and verse is poetrie VVhy shood I write then merrit clad in Inke Is but a mourner and as good as naked I will not write my friend shall speake for me Sing one staue more my good Horatio Canto I must remember I knowe whom I loue A dame of learning and of life exemt From all the Idle fancies of her sex And this that to an other dame wood seeme Perplext and foulded in a rudelesse vaile Wil be more cleere then ballads to her eye I le write if but to satisfie my friend Your third stance sweet Horatio and no more Canto How vainely doe I offer my strange loue I marrie and bid states and entertaine Ladies with tales and iests and Lords with newes And keepe a house to feast Acteons hounds That eate their maister and let ydell guests Drawe me from serious search of things diuine To bid them sit and welcome and take care To sooth their palats with choyce kytchin-stuff As all must doe that marrie and keepe house And then looke on the left sid of my yoake Or on the right perhaps and see my wife Drawe in a quite repugnant course from me Busied to starch her french purles and her puffs When I am in my Anima refiexa quid sit faelicitas quae origo rerum And make these beings that are knowne to be The onely serious obiects of true men Seeme shadowes with substantiall stir she keepes About her shadowes which if husbands loue They must belieue and thus my other selfe Brings me another bodie to dispose That haue alreadie much too much of one And must not looke for any Soule of her To helpe two rule to bodies Mom. Fie for shame I neuer heard of such an antedame Doe women bring no helpe of soule to men VVhy friend they either are mens soules themselues Or the most wittie Imitatrixes of them Or prettiest sweet apes of humaine Soules That euer Nature fram'd as I will proue For first they be Substantiae lucidae And purer then mens bodies like their soules VVhich mens harsh haires both of their brest chinne Occasiond by their grose and ruder heate Plainely demonstrates Then like soules they doe Mouere corpora for no power on earth Moues a mans bodie as a woman does Then doe they Dare formas corpori Or adde faire formes to men as their soules doe For but for women who wood care for formes I vowe I neuer wood washe face nor hands Nor care how ragg'd or slouenlie I went VVer 't not for women who of all mens pompes Are the true finall causes Then they make Men in their Seedes imortall like their Soules That els wood perish in a spanne of time Oh they be Soulelike-Creatures and my Neece The Soule of twentie rare Soules stild in one Cla. That that it is my Lord that makes me loue Mom. Oh are ye come Sir welcome to my Neece As I may say at midnight gentle friend What haue you wrott I pray Cla. Strange stuffe my Lord Mom. Indeed the way to belieue is to loue And the right way to loue is to belieue This I will carry now with pen and Incke For her to vse in answere see sweet friend She shall not stay to call but while the steele Of her affection is made softe and hott I le strike and take occasion by the browe Blest is the wooing that 's not long a dooing Exit Cla. Had euer man so true and noble friend Or wood men thinke this sharpe worlds freezing Aire To all true honour and iudiciall loue VVood suffer such a florishing pyne in both To ouerlooke the boxe-trees of this time VVhen the learnd mind hath by impulsion wrought Her eyes cleere fire into a knowing flame No elementall smoke can darken it Nor Northen coldnes nyppe her Daphnean flower O sacred friendshippe thanks to thy kind power That being retir'd from all the faithles worlde Appearst to me in my vnworldly friend And for thine owne sake let his noble mind By mouing presedent to all his kind Like iust Deucalion of earths stonie bones Repaire the world with humane bloud and flesh And dying vertue with new life refresh Exit ACTVS QVARTVS Enter Tales Kingcob Eugenia Hippolita Penelope Winnifred King T is time to leaue your Chests Ladies t is too studious an exercise after dinner Tal. Why is it cal'd Chests Hip. Because they leane vppon their Chests that play at it Tal I wood haue it cald the strife of wittes for t is a game so wittie that with strife for maisterie wee hunt it eagerly Eug Specially where the wit of the Goosecaps are in chase my Lord Tal. I am a Goosecappe by the mothers side madam at least my mother was a Goosecappe Fen. And you were her white sonne I warrant my Lord Tal. I was the youngest Ladie and therefore must be her white sonne ye know the youngest of tenne I was Hip. And the wisest of Fifteene Tal. And sweet Ladie will ye cast a kind eye now vpon my Cosin Sir Gyles Goosecappe Pen. Pardon my Lord I haue neuer a spare eye to cast away I assure ye Tal. I wonder you shood Count it cast away Ladie vppon him doe you remember those fewe of his good partes I rehearst to you Pen. Verie perfectly my Lord amongst which one of them was that he is the best Sempster of any woman in England pray le ts see some of his worke Hip. Sweet Lord le ts see him sowe a little Tal. You shall a mine honour Ladie Eug. Hee s a goodly greate knight indeed and a little needle in his hand will become him prettelie King From the
Spanish pike to the Spanish needle he shall play with any knight in England Ladie Eug. But not e conuerso from the Spanish needle to the Spanish pike King I thinke he be too wise for that indeed madam for he has 20. miles length in land lies togeather and hee wood bee loath to bring it all to the length of a pike Hip. But no man commends my blount Seruant Sir Cutt Rudesby methinks King Hee is a kind gentleman Ladie though hee bee blunt and is of this humor the more you presume vppon him without Ceremonie the more he loues you if he knowe you thinke him kinde once and will say nothing but still vse him you may melt him into any kindenesse you will he is right like a woman and had rather you shood bluntlie take the greatest fauour you can of him then shamefastly intreat it Eug He saies wel to you Hippolita Hip I madam but they saie he will beat one in Iest and byte in kindenesse and teare ones ruffes in Courtshippe King Some that he makes sport withall perhappes but none that he respects I assure ye Hip. And wha't 's his liuing sir Cutbeard King Some two thousand a yeare Ladie Hip. I pray doe not tell him that I ask't for I stand not vpon liuing King O Good Ladie who can liue without liuing Enter Momford Mom Still heere Lordings good companions yfaith I see you come not for vittles Tal. Vittles my Lord I hope we haue vittles at home Mom. I but sweet Lord there is a principle in the Polititians phisicke that not your meat vpon other mens trenchers beware of surfits of your owne coste manie good companions cannot abide to eate meate at home ye know And how faires my noble Neece now and her faire Ladie Feeres Eug. VVhat winde blowes you hether troe Mom. Harke you madam the sweete gale of one Clarences breath with this his paper sayle blowes me hether Eug. Aye me stil in that humor beshrowe my hart it I take anie Papers from him Mom. Kinde bosome doe thou take it then Eug. Nay then neuer trust me Mom. Let it fall then or cast it awaie you were best that euerie bodie may discouer your loue suits doe there 's sombodie neare if you note it and how haue you spent the time since dinner nobles King At chests my Lords Mom. Read it neece Eug. Heere beare it backe I pray Mom. I beare you on my backe to heare you and how play the Ladies sir Cuthbert what men doe they play best withall with knights or rookes Tal. With knights my Lord Mom. T' is pitty their boord is no broader and that some men caled guls are not added to their game King Why my Lo it needs not they make the knights guls Mom That 's pretty sir Cuthbert you haue begon I know Neece forth I commaund you Eug. O y are a sweete vnckle Mom. I haue brought her a little Greeke to helpe me out withal and shee s so coy of her learning for sooth she makes it strange Lords and Ladies I inuite you al to supper to night and you shal not denie me Ad. VVe will attend your Lordshippe Tal. Come Ladies let 's into the gallerie a little exeunt Mom. And now what saies mine owne deare neece yfaith Eug. VVhat shood she saie to the backside of a paper Mom. Come come I knowe you haue byn a' the bellie side Eug. Now was there euer Lord so prodigall of his owne honor'd blood and dignity Mom Away with these same horse faire alligations will you answere the letter Eug. Gods my life you goe like a cuning spokes man man answere vnckle what doe ye thinke me desperate of a husband Mom. Not so neece but carelesse of your poore vnkle Eug. I will not write that 's certaine Mom. VVhat wil you haue my friend and I perish doe you thirst our bloods Eug. O y are in a mightie danger noe doubt on 't Mom. If you haue our bloods beware our ghostes I can tell ye come will ye write Eug. I will not write yfaith Mom. yfaith dame then I must be your secretarie I see here 's the letter come doe you dictate and I le write Eug. If you write no otherwise then I dictate it will scarce proue a kinde answere I beleeue Mom. But you will be aduis'de I trust Secretaries are of counsaile with their countesses thus it begins Suffer him to loue that suffers not louing what answere you to that Eug. He loues extreamely that suffers not in loue Mom. He answeres you for that presentlie his loue is without passion and therefore free from alteration for Pati you know is in Alterationem labi he loues you in his soule he tels you wherein there is no passion saie dame what answere you Eug. Nay if I answere anie thing Mom. VVhy verie well I le answere for you Eug. You answere shall I set my hand to your answere Mom. I by my faith shall ye Eug. By my faith but you shal answere as I wood haue you then Mom. Alwaies put in with aduice of your secretarie neece come what answere you Eug. Since you needes will haue my Answere I le Answere briefely to the first and last part of his letter Mom. Doe so Neece and leaue the midst for himselfe a gods name what is your answeare Eug. I cannot but suffer you to loue if you do loue Mom. Why very good there it is and will requit your loue say you so Eug. Beshrowe my lipps then my Lord Mom. Beshrowe my fingers but you shall what you may promise to requite his loue and yet not promise him marriage I hope wel and will requite your loue Eug. Nay good my Lord hold your hand for I le bee sworne I le not set my hand too 't Mom. VVell hold of your hand good madam till it shood come on I le be readie for it anon I warrant yee now forth my Loue is without passion and therefore free from alteration what answere you to that madam Eug. Euen this my Lorde your Loue being mentall needes no bodely Requitall Mom. I am Content with that and here it is but in hart Eug. VVhat but in hart Mom. Hold of your hand yet I say I doe embrace and repaie it Eug. You may write vnckle but if you get my hand to it Mom. Alas Neece this is nothing i st any thing to a bodely marriage to say you loue a mā in Soule if your harts agree and your bodies meet not simple marriage rites now let vs foorth hee is in the way to felicitie and desires your hand Eug. My hand shall alwaies signe the way to felicitie Mom. Very good may not any woman say this now Conclud now sweet Neece Eug. And so God prosper your Iourney Mom. Charitably concluded though farre short of that loue I wood haue showen to any friend of yours Neece I sweare to you your hand now and let this little stay his appetite Eug. Read what you haue writ my
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