about a little worke I haue of hers Maister Flo. What worke you knaue no thou hast some conceit to robbe me of my daughter but away I like not that conceit out of my doores Phi. Vnhappy Phillis and vnfortunate Fra. Sir I am content I le not moue your patience Phi. Life of my liuing body if thou goe Though not aliue take me hence dead with woe she sounds Berry In troth sir you are too blame Master Flow. What is she dead it is no good conceit Speake to me Phillis O vnhappy time Sweete Girle deere daughter O my onely ioy Speake to thy father wench in some conceit What not a word Berry Now may you see what fell impatience Begets vpon such tender plants as these Mistris Flow. Now may we see the folly of old age Gouern'd by spleene and ouerweening rage Master Flow. Speake to me daughter And thou shalt haue what not couetst thou gold Thou shalt not want for crownes thou shalt haue all O was my furie author of thy trance Did I deny thy loues accesse to thee Speake but one word and thou shalt be his wife By heauen thou shalt Phil. I take you at your word it is no paine To die for loue and then reuiue againe Berry Now M. Flower how like you this conceit Hath shee not ouer reach'd you M. Flow. My word is past and yet for all my rage I rather choose to faile in my conceit And wed thee Phillis to thy owne content Heere take my daughter Cripple loue her well Be kinde to her and I le be kinde to thee Thou art but poore well I will make thee rich And so God blesse you with a good conceit Frank I thanke you when I leaue to loue my wife Heauen hasten death and take away my life M. Flow. T is well done Franke I applaude thy wit And now I know I faile not in conceit Enter Cripple Fredinand Anthonie Bowdler Crip. Gentlemen sweet bloods or brethren of familiarity I would speake with Phillis shall I haue audience Phil. Helpe me derre father O helpe me Gentlemen This is some spirit driue him from my sight Frank Were he the deuill thou shalt not budge a foote Bowd. Zounds two Cripples two dogs two curres t is wonderfull Frank Feare not deare heart Phil. Hence foule deformitie Nor thou nor he shall my companion be If Cripples dead the liuing seeme to haunt I le neither of either therefore I say auaunt Helpe me father Frank Deere heart reuoke these words Here are no spirites nor deformities I am a counterfeit Cripple now no more But yong Franke Golding as I was before Amaze not loue nor seeme not discontent Nor thee nor him shall euer this repent Ferd. M. Flower I come to claime your promise Anth. I come for yours your daughter I doe meane M. Flow. My promise why sir you refusde my promise And sent me word so in your letter Mistresse Flow. And so did you to me and now t is past Your brother Franke hath both our free consents Ferd. Sir sir I wrote no letter Anth. By heauen nor I Frank But I did for you both I was your Scribe The whilst you went to see your house a fire And you as I remember I did send To see your sister drown'd at London-Bridge Ferd. Y faith good brother haue you ore reach'd vs so Anth, So cunningly that none of vs could know Ferd. For all this cunning I will breake the match Anth. And so will I Frank Why brothers shee 's mine by her fathers gift Ferd. Brother you lie you got her with a shift Franke I was the first that lou'd her Ferd. That 's not so t' was I Anth. Catch that catch can then brothers both you lie M. Flow. Yea but conceit me Gentlemen what doe you meane to spoile my daughter you claime her and I haue giuen her your yonger brother this is no good conceite why how now Phillis still drooping cheare thee my girle see a companie of Gentlemen are at strife for thy loue looke vp and in this faire assembly make thine owne choise choose where thou wilt and vse thine owne conceit Phil. But will my father then applaud my choise M. Flow. I will Phil. And will these worthy Gentlemen be pleasde How euer my dislike or liking prooue All We will Phil. I must confesse you all haue taken paines And I can giue but all for that paines taken And all my all is but a little loue And of a little who can make deuision I would I knew what would content you all Ferd. Thy loue Anoth. Thy life and loue Frank Thy life thy loue thy selfe and all for me For if I want but one I then want thee Phil. If then I giue what either if you craue Though not what you desire will it suffice Ferd. I wish but loue Phil. And as a friend you haue it Anth. I life and loue Phil. And as your friend I vow to loue you whilst I liue as doe now Frank I aske but all for I deserue no more Phil. And thou shalt haue thy wish take all my store My loue my selfe Frank By heauen I aske no more Brothers haue done and Dad to end all strife Come take her hand and giue her for my wife M Flow. With all my heart and t is a good conceit Bowd. Gentlemen patience is your fairest play Ferd. Impatience puls me hence for this disdaine I am resolu'd neuer to loue againe Exit Anth. Stay brother Ferdinand I le follow thee Farewell all loue t is full of treacherie Exit Bow By heauens Franke I do commend thy wit Come Mall shall thou and I aske blessing too for company Mall You and I sir alas we are not play-fellowes though we be turtles I am prouided Bowd. Prouided why am not I thy Menelaus Mall I sir but this is my Paris I am resolu'd And what I doe is by authoritie Bowd. Is it euen so is Hellen stolne by Paris Then thus in armes will Menelaus mourne Till Troy be sack'd and Hellena returne Exit Enter M. Wood and Officers Wood This is the man officers attach him vpon fellonie Office M. Flower I arrest you vpon fellonie and charge you to obey M. Flow. Arrest me vpon fellonie at whose sute Wood Sir at mine where had you that Dyamond on your finger it was stole from me and many other Iewels to the value of a hundred pownd M Flo. This is no good conceit hath Captaine Racket Banded old Flower to such an exegent I hope my credit somewhat will asist me Well whither must I goe Wood Straight to the bench where now the Iudges are To giue you speedy tryall M. Flow. Words here are little worth wife and friends all Goe with me to my tryall you shall see A good conceit now brought to infamie Exeunt FINIS
Stay there my horse Whence comes this eccho of extreamitie All Helpe helpe Frank What doe I heare a virgin call for helpe Hands off dam'nd vilaines or by heauen I sweare I le send you all to hell Fight and driue them away Crip. Hold forbeare I came in rescue of Virginitie Phil. He did he did and freed vs once from thrall But now the second time they wrought his fall Frank Now you distressed obiects do you tell Vpon what mount of woe your sorrowes dwell Phil. First get we hence away and as we goe Kinde gentleman our fortunes you shall know Crip. Thanks worthy sir may but the Cripple be Of power to gratifie this courtesie I then shall thinke the heauens fauour me Phil. No more now for Gods sake let vs hence Crip. If I doe liue your loue I le recompence Exeunt Enter Mall Berrie Mall NOw for my true-loues hand-kercher these flowers Are pretie toyes are very pretie toyes O but me thinkes the Peascod would doe better The Peascod and the Blossome wonderfull Now as I liue I le surely haue it so Some maides will chuse the Gilliflower some the Rose Because their sweet cents do delight the nose But very fooles they are in my opinion The very worst being drawen by cunning art Seemes in the eye as pleasant to the heart But heer 's the question whether my loue or no Will seeme content I there the game doth goe And yet I le pawne my head he will applaude The Pescod and the flower my pretie choice For what is he louing a thing in heart Loues not the counterfeit though made by art I cannot tell how others fancie stand But I reioyce sometime to take in hand The simile of that I loue and I protest That pretie pescod likes my humor best But I le vnto the Drawers hee le counsell me Heere is his shop alas what shall I doe Hee 's not within now all my labor 's lost See see how forward loue is euer crost But stay what Gallant 's this Enter M. Bowdler Bow A plague on this Drawer hee 's neuer at home Good morrow sweet-heart tell me how thou dost Mall Vpon what acquaintance Bow That 's all one once I loue thee giue me thy hand and say Amen Mall Hands off sir Knaue and weare it for a fauor Bowd. What dost thou meane thy loue pretie foole Mall No foole the knaue O grosse A gentleman and of so shallow wit Bowd. I know thou camst to the drawer Mall How then Bowd. Am not I the propperer man Mall Yes to make an asse on Bowd. Will you get vp and ride Mall No I le lackey by his side and whip the asse Bowd. Come come leaue your iesting I shall put you down Mall With that face away you want-wit Bowd. By this hand I shall Mall By the asse-head you shall not Bowd. Go to you are a woman Mall Come come ye are a man Bowd. I haue seene as faire Mall I haue heard as wise Bowd. As faire as Mall Berry Mall As wise as yong Bowdler Bowd. As M. Bowdler Mall Hoida come vp Bowd. Go thou down then Mall No good asse bate an Ase of that Enter Barnard Bar. What M. Bowdler will it nere be otherwise Still still a hunting euery day wenching Bowd. Faith sir the modest behauior of this Gentlewoman Hath insinuated my company Mall Lord how eloquence flowes in this Gentleman Bowd. Faith I shall put you downe in talke you were best to yeeld Mall No sir I will hold out as long as I may Though in the end you beare the foole away Bowd. Meane you by me you gull me not Mall No by this night not I Bowd. For if you did I would intoxicate my head Mall Yea I dare sware you 'le goe a foole to bed Bowd. Meane you by mee you gull me not Bar. No I dare sweare the Gentlewoman meanes well Mall And so I doe indeed himselfe can tell But this it is speake Maidens what they will Men are so captious thei 'le euer conster ill Barn To her sir to her I dare sware she loues you Bowd. Well then faire Mall you loue me as you say Mall I neuer made you promise did I I pray Bowd. All in good time you will do else you lie Will you not Mall No for-sooth not I Bowd. Barnard she gulles me still Barn T' is but your mis-conceit try her againe You know by course all women must be coy To her againe then she may happely yeeld Not I in faith Mall Then mine shall be the field Wisedome adue once more faint heart farewell Yet if thou seest the Drawer I prethee tell him Mall Berry hath more worke for him to doe And for your selfe learne this when you doe woe Arme you with courage and with good take heede For he that spares to speake must spare to speede And so farewell Exit Bowd. Call her againe Barnard Barn Shee 's too swift for me Why this is the right course of gullerie What did you meane hauing so faire an aime So fondly to let slip so faire a game Bowdler become a man for maides will stand And then strike home art thou not yong and lustie The minion of delight faire from thy birth Adonis play-pheere and the pride of earth Bowd. I know it but a kind of honest blood Tilts in my loynes with wanton appetites She bade me doe a message to the Drawer And I will doe it there will come a day When Humfry Bowdler will keepe holiday Then Mall looke to your selfe see that you be sped Or by this light I le haue your maidenhead Larn Spoke like a gallant spoke like a gentleman spoke like your selfe Now doe I see some sparkes of manhoode in you Keepe in that key keepe in the selfe same song I le gage my head you le haue her loue ere long Exeunt Enter Ferdinand and Franke Franke Wilt thou not tell me brother Ferdinand Now by this light I le haunt thee like a sprite Vntill I know whence springs this melancholy Ferd. O brother Thou art too yong to reach the depth of griefe That is immur'd within my hearts deepe closet A thousand sighes keepe daily centinell That beate like whirle-winds all my comfort backe As many sobbes guard my distressed heart That no reliefe comes neere to ayde my soule Millions of woes like bands of armed men Stop vp the passage of my sweete reliefe And arte thou then perswaded that thy wordes Can any comfort to my soule afford No no good Franke deere brother then forbeare Vnlesse with griefe in me you le take a share Fran. Griefe me no griefes but tell me what it is Makes my sweete Ferdinand thus passionate I le coniure griefe if griefe be such an euill In spite of Fortnne Fates or any Deuill Ferd. Wilt thou not leaue me to my selfe alone Fran. Brother you know my minde If you will leaue your dumpish melancholy And like my selfe banish that puling humour Or satisfie my exspectation By telling
haue Heer 's a letter for you and by that You shall be iudge if I did speake with her Now Cripple shall we prooue your learned wit Anth. Zounds am I mad or is she mad that writ this I le reade it or'e againe A Letter SIr I did neuer like you I doe not nowe thinke well of you And I will neuer loue you I choose my husband with my eyes and I haue seene some especiall fault in you as the colour of your haire the eleuating of your head to an affected proportion as if you fainted for want of aire and stood in that manner to sucke it into your nose your neck is too long and to be short I like no part in or about you and the short and the long boy is that I will neuer loue you and I will neuer marry but one I loue Not yours but her owne Antho. Blancke I am strucke blancke and blind and mad withall Heere is a flat denyall to my sute A resolution neuer to be wonne What shall I doe assist me God of loue Instruct me in thy schoole-tricks be my guide Out of this laborinth of loue and feare Vnto the pallace of faire Phillis fauour I haue it I will intimate her mother In my behalfe with letters and with gifts To her I le write to be my aduocate Porter farewell ther 's for thy paines Thy profite by this toyle passeth my gaines Exit Frank You haue your answer and a kind one too Cripple I le make thee crutches of pure siluer For this deuise thou hast a golden wit Now if my brother Ferdinand were heere To reade his absolution heere he comes Enter Ferdinand Brother Ferd. Franke What hast thou giuen the letter to her hand And staid my brother Anthonies withall Frank I haue done both and more then that behold Heere is an answere to your letter brother Anth. Franke I will loue thee whiles I liue for this Franke Scarce when you reade what there contained is A Letter GAllant that write for loue if you had come your self yon might perchance haue sped I do not counsell you neither to come your selfe vnlesse you leaue your head at home or weare a vizard or come backe-wardes for I neuer looke you in the face but I am sicke and so praying God to continue my health by keeping you from me I leaue you Ferd. O vnkinde answere to a Louers letter Let me suruay the end once more For I neuer looke you in the face but I am sicke and so praiing God to continue me in health by keeping you from mee Is shee so farre from yeelding is this fort Of her chaste loue yet so impregnable What shall I doe this is the furthest way A labour of impossibilities This way to winne her I will once againe Challenge the promise that her father made me To him I le write and he I know will pleade My loue to Phillis and so winne the maide Exit Frank Farewell poore tortur'd heart was euer knowne Two louing brothers in such miserie Let me consider of my owne estate What profit do I reape by this delusion Why none I am as farre from Phillis heart As when she first did wound me with her eyes Cripple to thee I come t is thou must be My counsellor in this extreamitie Exit Enter Cripple Bowdler and Barnard Crip. Sirra Bowdler what makes thee in this merry vaine Bowd. O Lord sir it is your most eleuated humor to be merry to be concise set vp the coller and looke thus with a double chinne like Diogenes peering ouer his Tub is too cymicall the signe of Melancholly and indeede the meere effect of a salt rhume Crip. Who would thinke this Gentleman yesterdayes distemperature should breed such motions I thinke it be restoratiue to actiuitie I neuer saw a gentleman caper so excellent as he did last night Bow Meane you me sir Crip. Your owne selfe by this hand Bowd. You gull me not Crip. How gull you Me thinkes a man so well reputed of So well commended for your quallities In Schooles of nimble actiuenesse And places where diuinest Querristers Warble inchanting harmonie to such As thinke there is no heauen on earth but theirs And knowing your selfe to be the Genius Of the spectators and the audience hearts You wrong your worthy selfe intollerably To thinke our words sauor of flatterie Bowd. Sirra dogge how didst thou like my last caper and turne a the toe Crip. Before God passing well Barn I know his worship made it t is so excellent Bowd. It was my yesterdayes exercise Crip. After the working of your purgation was it not Bowd. What purgation you filthy curre Crip. After the purging of your braine Sir Bow Be still dogge barke not though by mis-fortune I was last night somewhat distempered I will not be vpbraided t' was no more But to refine my wit but tell me truely How dost thou like my caper Crip. Farre better than I can commend it Bowd. Now as I am a Gentleman My Tutor was not witting of the same And in my opinion t' will doe excellent O this aire heer 's a most eloquious aire for the memorie I could spend the third part of my Armes in siluer To be encountred by some good wit or other Crip. What say you to your sweet heart Mall Berry Bowd. Peace Cripple silence name her not I could not indure the carrire of her wit for a million shee is the onely shee Mercury vnder the heauens her wit is all spirit that spirit fire that fire flies from her tongue able to burne the radix of the best inuention in this Element shee is the abstract and breefe of all the eloquence since the incarnation of Tullies I tell thee Cripple I had rather incounter Hercules with blowes than Mall Berry with words And yet by this light I am horribly in loue with her Enter Mall Berry Crip. See where she comes O excellent Bowd. Now haue I no more blood than a bull-rush Barn How now what aile you sir Crip. What 's the matter man Bowd. See see that glorious angell doth approach What shall I doe Crip. Shee is a saint indeed Zounds to her court her win her weare her wed her and bed her too Bowd. I would it were come to that I win her by heauen I am not furnish'd of a courting phrase to throw at a dogge Crip. Why no but at a woman you haue O sir seeme not so doultish now can you make no fustian aske her if shee le take a pipe of Tobacco Bow It wil offend her iudgement pardon me Cri. But heare you sir reading so much as you haue done Doe you not remember one pretty phrase To scale the walles of a faire wenches loue Bow I neuer read any thing but Venus and Adonis Crip. Why that 's the very quintessence of loue If you remember but a verse or two I le pawne my head goods lands and all t will doe Bow Why then haue at her Fondling I say since I
be her loue Maister Flo. How wife Mistris Flo. Euen so husband Maister Flo. You will not crosse my purpose will you Mistris Flo. In this you shall not bridle me I sweare Maister Flo. Is she not my daughter Mistris Flo. You teach me husband what your wife should say I thinke her life is deerest vnto me Though you forget the long extreamitie And paine which I indurd when foorth this wombe With much adoe she did inioy the life she now doth breathe And shall I now suffer her destruction Maister Flo. Yea but conceit me wife Mistris Flo. A figge for your conceits in this I know there can be none that Say he be his fathers eldest sonne and a merchaunt of good wealth yet my deere Anthonies as rich as he What though his portion was but small at first His industrie hath now increasd his talent And he that knoweth the getting of a penny Will feare to spend she shall haue him if any Maister Flo. By the Mary God wife you vex me Mistris Flo. T is your owne impatience you may chuse Maister Flo. I will not wed my daughter to that Anthony Mistris Flo. By this Maister Flo. Hold wife hold I aduise thee sweare not For by him that made me first I vow She shall not touch the bed of Anthony Mistris Flo. And may I neuer liue so God me help If euer she be wed to Ferdinand Maister Flo. The diuel 's in this woman how she thwartes me still Mistris Flo. Fret on good husband I will haue my will Maister Flo. But conceit me wife suppose we should consent our daughter should wedde either of them both and shee dislike the match were that a good conceit Mistris Flo. All 's one for that I know my daughters mind if I but say the word Maister Flo. I would be loath to wed her against hir will Content thee wife wee le heare her resolution And as I finde her to her owne content To either of them she shall haue my consent Mistris Flo. Why now old Flower speaketh like himselfe Maister Flo. Agreed and faith wife t is a good conceit Enter Phillis And see where my daughter comes welcome gerle How doth your Mistris Phillis God blesse thee Phillis rise Phi. God haue the glory in perfect health she is Maister Flo. T is good I am glad she doth so well But list my daughter I haue golden newes To impart vnto thee A golden Golding wench must be thy husband Is 't not a good conceit Phi. Father I vnderstand you not Maister Flo. Then my gerle thy conceit is very shallow Maister Ferdinand Golding is in loue with thee Mistris Flo. No daughter t is thine Anthony Maister Flo. Ferdinand is rich for he hath store of gold Mistris Flo. Anthony is rich yet is not so old Maister Flo. Ferdinand is vertuous full of modestie Mistris Flo. Anthony's more gratious if more may be Maister Flo. Ferdinand is wise being wise who would not loue him Mistris Flo. Anthony more wise then Gerle desire to proue him Maister Flo. In Ferdinand is all the beauty that may be Mistris Flo. He is deceiu'd t is in thine Anthony Phi. Deare Parents you confound me with your wordes I pray what meane these hote perswasions Maister Flo. Thy good my daughter Mistris Flo. If but rulde by me Maister Flo. But for thy ill-fare Mistris Flo. If she tend to thee Maister Flo. The trueth is this that each of vs hath tane A solemne vow that thou my louing daughter Shalt wed with one of those two gentlemen But yet referre the choice vnto thy selfe One thou shalt loue loue Ferdinand if me Mistresse Flo. If loue thy mother loue thine Anthonie Phil. In these extreames what shall become of me I pray you giue me respite to consider How to disgest these impositions You haue imposde a busines of such weight Pray God your daughter may discharge her selfe Maister Flo. Thinke on 't my gerle we will withdrawe awhile Phi. A little respite fits my resolution They walke Those Gentles sue too late there is another Of better worth though not of halfe their wealth What though deform'd his vertue mends that misse What though not rich his wit doth better gold And my estate shall adde vnto his wants I am resolu'd good father and deere mother Phillis doth choose a Cripple and none other But yet I must dissemble Maister Flo. How now my soules best hope tell mee my gerle Shall Ferdinand be he Phi. I pray a word in priuate Maister Flo. Mary with all my heart Phi. In all the duety that a childe can shew The loue that to a father it doth owe I yeeld my selfe to be at your commaund And vow to wed no man but Ferdinand But if you please at your departure hence You may inforce dislike to cloude your brow To avoyde my mothers anger and suspition M Flo. Before God a very good conceit Hence baggage out of my sight Come not within my doores thou hadst been better Runne millions of miles bare footed then Thus by your coy disdaine to haue deluded me Oh mine owne flesh and blood the mirror of wit Now will I hence and with all the speed I may Send for my sonne I le haue it done this day Exit old Flow Mistresse Flow. What is he gone and in so hot a chafe Well let him goe I need not question why For well I wote his sute is cold t' must die Daughter I gather by thy pleasant smiles Thy mother hath more interest in thy loue Than discontented Flower thy aged father Phi. Mother you haue for when I well consider A mothers care vnto her deere bought childe How tenderly you nurcde and brought me vp I could not be so much vnnaturall As to refuse the loue you proffer me Especially being for my chiefest good Therefore when married I intend to be My loyall husband shall be Anthony Mistris Fl. Liue euer then my deere deere daughter Phillis Let me imbrace thee in a mothers armes Thus thus and thus I le euer hugge my daughter Him hence thou sendst with frowns me hence with laughter Come Phillis let vs in Exit Mistris Flower Phi. Forsooth I le follow you Am not I a good childe thinke you To play with both hands thus against my parents Well t is but a tricke of youth say what they will I le loue the Cripple and will hate them still Exit Enter Cripple in his shop and to him enters Franke Franke Mirrour of kindnesse extremities best friend While I breathe sweete bloud I am thine Intreate me nay commaund thy Frances heart That wilt not suffer my insuing smart Cripp. Sweet signior my aduise in the reseruation of those Letters Which I will haue you hide from eie of day Neuer to feele the warmth of Phoebus beames Till my selfes care most carefull of your weale Summon those lines vnto the barre of Ioy Francke I will not erre deere friend in this commaund Cripple So much for that now listen further
the loue of a kinde Gentleman To dote on Bowdler Fie fie reclaime thy selfe Imbrace thy Barnard take him for thy husband And saue his credite who is else vndone By thy hard fathers hatefull crueltie Mall Cripple If thou canst prooue that euer I Did fancie Barnard I will loue him still Crip. Why I le be sworne thou didst Mal. And that I doated on him in my sleepe Crip. I le be sworne I could not sleepe all night In the next roome thou didst so raue on him Mal. I cannot tell I may well be deceiu'd I thinke I might affect him in my sleepe And yet not know it let me looke on him Yfaith he is a pretty hansome fellow T is pitty he should waste himselfe in prison Hey ho Crip. What 's the mater wench Mal. Cripple I will loue him Crip. Wilt thou yfaith Mal. Yfaith I will Enter two Serieants Crip. Giue me thy hand a bargaine t is enough Mal. But how shall he know I loue him Crip. Why thus I will intreate the Serieants To goe with him along vnto thy father And by the way I le send yong Bowdler from vs And then acquaint my Barnard with thy loue He shall accept it and auouch the same Vnto thy father wench do thou the like And then I hope his bonds are cancelled Barn Cripple shall we haue your company Crip. My friends hold here there 's mony for your paines Walke with your prisoner but to maister Berry And ye shall either finde sufficient baile Or else discharge the debt or I assure you Wee le be your ayde to guarde him safe to prison 1. Serieant Well we are willing sir we are content To shew the Gentleman any kind of fauour Crip. Along then hearke maister Bowdler Exeunt Enter Maister Flower Mistris Flower Maister Berry and Fiddle Maist Flo. Welcome good maister Berry is your stomack vp sir It is a good conceit yfaith Fiddle It is indeede sir Master Flo. What Fiddle Fid. If his stomacke be vp to goe to dinner Maister Flo. Fiddle bid maister Berry welcome Fid. What else maister with the best belly in my heart the sweetest straine in my musicke and the worst entertainment that may be Fiddle bids your worship adesdum Berry Thankes Fiddle and maister Flower I am much beholding to your curtesie Mistris Flo. Fiddle I wonder that he staies so long Thou toldst me Anthony would follow thee Fid. I and hee le be heere I warrant you Maister Flo. I le tell you sir it is a rare conceit My wife would haue her marry Anthony The yonger brother but against her minde I will contract her vnto Ferdinand And I haue sent for you and other friends To witnes it and t is a good conceit Mistris Flo. Fiddle are all things ordred well within Fid. All 's well all 's well but there wants some saffron To colour the custards withall Mistris Flo. Heere take my keyes bid Susan take enough Maister Flo. Fiddle are all our guests come yet Fid. I sir and here comes one more than you lookt for Exit Enter Franke Franke God saue you Master Flower as much to you Master Berry Maister Flo. Welcome M. Golding y are very welcome sir Franke My brother Ferdinand commends him to you And heere 's a letter to you from himselfe Maister Flo. A letter sir it is a good conceit I le reade it strait Giues the other Letter to mistris Flower Maister Flower I am beholding to you for your kindenesse and your furtherance in my loue-suite but my minde is changed and I will not marry your daughter and so farewell This is no good conceit what Ferdinand Delude olde Flower make me deceiue my friends Make my wife laugh and triumph in her will What thinke you Fiddle Fid. Why sir I thinke it is no good conceit Maister Flo. Thou saist true Fiddle t is a bad conceit But heare you sir Mistris Flower reades her Letter I vnderstand by Fiddle your forwardnesse in my sute to your daughter but neuertheles I am determined to drawe backe and commit your daughter to her best fortunes and your selfe to God Farewell Why this is like my husbands bad conceit Haue you ore-reachd me Flower you crafty fox This is your doing but for all your sleight I le crosse you if my purpose hit aright Fra. Tut tell not me sir for my credite and reputation is as it is and there 's an end if I shall haue her why so Maist. Flo. Sir the conceit is doubtfull giue me leaue but to consider of it by my selfe Franke With all my heart Mistris Flo. Maister Golding a word I pray sir You know my daughter Phillis doe you not Franke Mistris I doe Mistris Flo. She is a starre I tell you Franke She is no lesse indeede Mistris Flo. I tell you sir vpon the sodaine now There came an odde conceit into my head Are you a batcheller Franke I am indeede Mistris Flo. And are you not promisde Franke Not yet beleeue me Maister Flo. Maister Golding Mistris Flo. Well do you heare sir if you will be pleasde To wed my daughter Phillis you shall haue her Franke To wed your daughter why she loues me not Mistris Flo. All 's one for that she will be rulde by me Disdaine her not because I proffer her I tell you sir Merchants of great account Haue sought her loue and Gentlemen of worth Haue humbly sude to me in that behalfe To say the trueth I promisde her to one But I am crossd and thwarted by my husband Who meanes to marry hir vnto another Now sir to cry but quittance for his guile I offer her to you if you accept her I le make her dowrie richer by a paire Of hundred pounds than else it should haue beene Franke Why this is excellent past all compare Sude to to haue her gentle mistris Flower Let me consider of it Mistris Flo. Nay nay deferre no time if you wil haue her I le search my coffers for another hundred Fran. Say I should yeeld your husband will withstand it Mistris Fl. I le haue it closely done without his knowlege Is it a match Franke Well well I am content Mast. Fl. Why then old Flower I le crosse your close intent Master Flo. It shall be so and t is a good conceit It shall be so if but to crosse my wife Hearke maister Golding the conceit doth like me You loue my daughter so me thought you said You said moreouer that she loues you well This loue on both sides is a good conceit But are you sure sir that my daughter loues you Franke For proofe thereof shew her this ring Maister Flo. A ring of hers t is well Franke I but conceit mee If I had wood her in my proper shape I do beleeue she neuer would haue likde me Therefore since I shall haue her giue me leaue To come and court hir in my borrowed shape Maister Flo. With all my heart and t is a good conceit And heere 's my hand