POLYNESTA

And why should I not talk with Dulippo as well as with any other, I pray you? A great mishap I promise you: marry Gods blessing on their heart that set such a brouche on my cap. And I pray you whom may I thank but gentle nurse, that continually praising him, what for his per sonage, his courtesy, and above all, the extreme passion of his mind, in fine you would never cease till I accepted him, delighted in him, and at length desired him with no less affection, than he erst desired me. Nay rather that he filled your purse with bribes and rewards. No of honesty, I pray you, who first brought him into my chamber? who first taught him the way to my bed but you? fie Nurse fie, never speak of it for shame, you will make me tell a wise tale anon. Nay rather the author of my good happen gentle Nurse, for I would thou knewest I love not Dulipo, nor any of so mean estate, but have bestowed my love more worthily than thou deemest, but I will say no more at this time. Nay I neither have changed, nor will change it. Marry I say that I love not Dulipo, nor any such as he, and yet I neither have changed nor will change my mind. I can speak no plainer, I have sworn to y continued ̄ trary. Well, it is of greater importance than you think Nurse, yet would I tell it you under condition and pro mice that you shall not tell it again, nor give any sign or token to be suspected that you know it. Well hear you me then: this young man whom you have always taken for Dulipo, is a noble born Sicilian, his right name Erostrato, son to Philogono, one of the worthiest men in that country. Hold thy talking nurse, and harken to me, that I may explain the whole case unto Thee: the man whom to this day you have supposed to be Dulipo, is (as I say) Ero strato, a gentleman that came from Sicilia to study in this City, & even at his first arrival met me in the street, fell en amored of me, & of such vehement force were the passion he suffered, that immediately he cast aside both long gown and books, & determined on me only to apply his study: and to the end he might the more continued ̄ modiously both see me and talk with me, he exchanged both name, habit, clothes and credit with his serva ̄ to Dulipo, who ̄ only he brought with him out of Sicilia, and so with the turning of a hand, of Ero strato a gentleman, he became Dulipo a serving man, and soon after sought service of my father, and obtained it. Yea out of doubt, on the other side Dulippo took upon him the name of Erostrato his master, the habit, the credit, books, and all things needful to a studente, and in short space profited very much, and is now estée med as you see. Very few that pass this way, and few or none that tarry here any time. That is a policy devised between them, to put Doctor Dotipole out of conceit, the old dotard, he that so instantly doth lie upon my father for me: but look where he comes, as God help me it is he, out upon him, what a lusky younker is this? yet I had rather be a Noon a thousand times, than be cumbered with such a Coystrell. You might as well have said, the windows and the doors: do you not see how they harken?