Cicero that sold for glory the sweet peece of life make a torment of rich natures work wearing thy self by watchful candel light when all the Smithes Weauers were at rest and yet was gallant ere the day bird sung to haue a troope of clyents at thy gates armed with religious suplications such as wold make sterne Minos laugh to reade look on our lawyers billes not one containes vntrue or honest drifts but he cares he cares he cares for acorns now are in request but the okes poore fruite did nourish men men were li cokes of body tough and strong men were like Gyants then but Pigmies now yet full of villanies as their skinne can hold Le. How like you this humor my liege King This is no humour this is but perfit iudgement Coun. Is this a frensie Mar. O were al men such men were no men but gods this earth a heauen Do. See see the shamelesse world that dares present her mortall enemie with these grose ensignes of her lenity yron and steele vncharitable stuffe good spittle-sounders enemies to whole skinnes as if there were not waies enow to die by natural and casuall accidents diseases surfeits braue carowses old aquavitae and too base wiues and thousands more hence with this art of murder But here is goodly geare the soule of man for t is his better part take away this and take away their merites and their spirites scarce dare they come in any publike view without this countenance giuer and some dares not come because they haue it too for they may sing in written books they find it what is it then the fashion or the cost the cost doth match but yet the fashion more for let it be but meane so in the fashion t is most gentleman like is it so make a hand in the margent and burne the booke a large house and a codpeice makes a man a codpece nay indeed but house must down well for your gentle forgers of men and for you come to rest me into fashion I le weare you thus and sit vpon the matter La. And he doth despise our purposes Ca. Beare with him yet my Lorde hee is not resolued La. I would not haue my friend mocke worthy men for the vaine pride of some that are not so Dow. I do not here deride difference of states no not in shew but wish that such as want shew might not be scorned with ignorant Turkish pride beeing pompous in apparel and in mind nor would I haue with imitated shapes menne make their natiue land the land of apes liuing like strangers when they be at home and so perhaps beare strange hearts to their home nor loose a snuffe like a piannets taile for nothing but their tailes and formall lockes when like to creame boules all their vertues swim in their set faces all their in parts then fit to serue pesants or make curdes for dawes but what a stocke am I thus to neglect this figure of mans comfort this rare peece La. Heauens grant that make him more humane and sotiable King Nay hee s more humane then all we are La. I feare he will be too sharp to that sweete sex Dow. She is very faire I thinke that she be painted and if she be sir she might aske of mee how many is there of our sexe that are not t is a sharpe question marry and I thinke they haue small skill if they were all of painting t were safer dealing with them and indeed were their minds strong enough to guide their bodies their beuteous deeds shoulde match with their heauenly lookes t were necessarie they should weare them and would they vouchsafe it euen I would ioy in their societie Ma. And who would not die with such a man Dow. But to admire them as our gallants do O what an eie she hath O dainty hand rare foote and legge and leaue the minde respectles this is a plague that in both men and women make such pollution of our earthly beeing well I will practice yet to court this peece La. O happie man now haue I hope in her King Me thinkes I could indure him daies and nights Dow. Well sir now thus must I do sir ere it come to women now sir a plague vpon it t is so ridiculous I can no further what poore asse was it that set this in my way now if my father should be the man Gods precious coles t is he Lab. Good sonne go forward in this gentle humor obserue this picture it presents a maide of noble birth and excellent of parts whom for our house and honor sake I wish thou wouldst confesse to marrie Dow. To marrie father why we shall haue children La. Why that 's the ende of marriage and the ioye of men Do. O how You are deceiued you haue but me what a trouble am I to your ioy but father if you long to haue some fruite of me see father I will creepe into this stuborne earth and mixe my flesh with it and they shall breede grasse to fat oxen asses and such like and when they in the grasse the spring conuerts into beasts nourishment then comes the fruite of this my body forth then may you well say seeing my race is so profitably increased that good fat oxe and that same large eard asse are my sonne sonnes that caulfe with a white face is his faire daughter with which when your fields are richly filled then will my race content you but for the ioyes of children tush t is gone children will not deserue nor parents take it wealth is the onely father the child and but in wealth no man hath any ioy La. Some course deare sonne take for thy honor sake Dow. Then father here 's a most excellent course La. This is some comfort yet Dow. If you will strait be gone and leaue me here I le stand as quietlye as anye lambe and trouble none of you La. An haplesse man Le. How like you this humour yet my liege King As of a holy fury not a frensie Mor. See see my liege he hath seene vs sure King Nay looke how he viewes Martia and makes him fine Lem. Yea my liege and she as I hope wel obserued hath vttered many kind conceits of hers King Well I le be gone and when shee comes to Verones ordinarie I le haue her taken to my custodie Lem, I le stay my liege and see the euent of this King Do so Lemot Exit the king Dow. What haue I seene howe am I burnt to dust with a new Sun and made a nouell Phoenix is she a woman that obiects this sight able to worke the chaos of the world into gestion O diuine aspect the excellent disposer of the mind shines in thy beautie and thou hast not chaunged my soule to sense but sense vnto my soule and I desire thy pure societie but euen as angels do to angels flie Exit Mar. Flie soule and follow him Lab. I maruaile much at my sonnes