NEBULO

A very sweet faced Gentleman, so sooty as the Di well himself, I believe some Ambassador sent from Pluto and the fiends. Accept it Sir, if you be wise; it's not good, nor re ligious to refuse any men courtesy. But more honoured bag, Would I might keep thee for my self, I then Should make and Idol of thee — aside. Yes sir that I shall, I love to be employed a messenger To pretty maids, is she so beautiful I'll then Usher her safely in, and kiss her too. But chiefly unto me, I'll be her guardion too. I'll undertake to teach her both the tongues So I may be her tutor. she frowns upon him. Would I had such a daughter too, she should not Have then so course a name, all men should call her. The pretty Nebuletta; Nebulo, Then Nebulona, then neat Nebuletta, A sumptuous pedigree, how sweet it runs! Above the clouds, the gods would lodge themselves Beneath my roof, and pour down plenty on me In golden showers to rest in Danaes lap. Something inspired my brain, I know not what sir, But now i'm come unto my self again, 'Twas but a toy that took me. She needs not be Ashamed to show her face, it may procure her A husband by the way for ought you know; You shall but wrong her much in doing so. It's pity faith methinks to use her thus, It's such a pretty thing. We shall fallen down the river Nile to night, and hoist sail for Greece, brave news, comfortable news, my heart capers within me for joy, that I shall see my country again; my Master is soar troubled for black Sysime thres his constrained flight, which hath defeated their appoint ted meeting and conference touching Caricleas Fortune's, but haste our journey the sooner, there's my comfort. I left him cursing the Deputy, and invoking the God Apollos wrath to plague him for dismissing the Ambassador so suddenly, with such deadly threatenings to depart the Kingdom. Alas, poor maid, I pity thee, that by this means thou shalt not be able to know who begotten thee nor who brought thee forth, but all's one, thou wilt soon learn to be begotten, and to bring forth by instinct of nature and thy own experience. Catadupice adieu adieu, adieu gentlemen; when you see us next, 'twill be in Delphos ; away, away, away, merrily, merrily. Master, come Away for shame, the captain of the Aenians Embassage stays for you at the gate For to begin the sacrifice. But what said they when they saw it? But it a shame for Mars to be caught so. To no other but to a home course Sir, I must tell you plainly, I Like not these extravagant ones you take of traveling the world thus; I'm sure I have paid deer for those idle hu mours of yours, witness my body, brought to a mere Anato my by travel and fasting; me thinks, a wise man, as you are, should not have such wandering thoughts in his mind: well Master, resolve to leave this place, and return to Delphos our native habitation, or I shall soon resolve to leave you, and go there without you. Oh the smoke of mine own poor chim ney at home, and the beloved smoke of my wife, would both smell to my nose now so comfortable, as a perfume made of Arabia spices; adieu, I can stay no longer from pretty Nebu lona without the lash of her just displeasure; I come my chickin, I come, be ready to receive me, I know thou languishest all this while for want of my company. What dee take me for, a news Carrier? I would you should know it, I am none such, I have not to do with other men's business nor their wives, I would they had not to do with mine, but 'tis no mater for once, there is promised a refor mansion, I hope all will be amended, let it pass; but to the point now. And then to the business afterwards. No, 'tis not all one, the point is one thing, and the business another, we must first handle the point, before we come to the business; for your better understanding, I will make it plainer. I hope so, yet my wife hath gone beyond me I'll be sworn, by many degrees. In health, but doggedly out of tune, he will be with you presently, so much he bid me tell you, and something else, but I have forgot n it, so much business I have to think of. Wherefore I pray? well, there will be a sweet con fell now I am excluded, I should be loath to change heads with either of them for all my horns.— Exit Nebulo. I know not, but she dubbed me knight of the forked order. Nebulona my pretty chickin, how fairs thy body? didst thou not think me lost long ago? Why sure thou Wertenberg not, thou dost but jest I know. Methinks my brows begin Acteon -Like to bud already, they are very knotty, I pray God thou hast not grafted something there, I begin to suspect it shrewdly by diverse signs and tokens, how comes your belly so high wife? I do believe thee, how long is it since you perceived it to grow upon you? He is a fool, I am a better Doctor then he, thou shalt go with it this fourteen weeks yet or thereabouts; come you are a whore, and have abused my honest bed; I'll have you before the Justices to be punished for thy offence. Why then I am a cuckold it seems? Did Ʋ ulcan do so? Yes, but afterwards he repented it for he forged and artificial net, with which he caught his wife Venus and Mars a bed together in carnal copulation, then called all the gods and goddesses to be spectators of his own shame. but how did Venus ache this? Thou hast devised a pretty story in thy own de fence, i'st best to follow thy counsel, and say nothing, or stir this bade thing and make it stink the more? Let it be so then; I have traveled well I trow, and to good purpose, at may return home to father a child, of which I did not beget so much as the least finger or the least toe; if this be the fruits of traveling, God keep me from it hence forward, and all good folks beside; come Nebulona we are friends, do so no more, and all is forgotten. Sirs what dee mean to make such tarriance? The agines hath made such a feast, and all the good cheer will be eaten before you come, for shame come away, there are none of the guests wanting but you who are the principal, if you will be such fools to miss it, you may, but i'll not follow your foolish example. Well firs you may jest, But I mean earnest if I miss the feast. Would, what was that? a dreadful found me thought More pilgrimages? stay but listen yet. I am confirmed in horror, 'tis too true He'll travel once again, but soft attend. To Aethiopia, what strange land is that (I marvel) o, o now I do remember Sysimethres was born there as he said; Nebulo discovers himself. We shall be black a devils if we go there. Where sir, unto the temple of Apollo? Beyond the seas; He's mad I think, or hath some worse disease. aside. I care not who does know it. But this bade news of yours does vex me soar, That you will cross the seas, the bore conceit, Will keep me seven days without taste of meat. But hurts my body sir, and that is worse. Then I shall wear the Baize. Good sir, do not rge me to it; you know how willing I should be to wait upon you, did not one thing cross it. You have hit the mark, 'tis dangerous (I can tell ye) for me to go abroad and leave her at home I had woeful experience on't after our last peregrination. No, do they not rise by degrees? I suppose yes, as in this manner, from Knight to Lord, from Lord to Earl, from Earl to Duke of the forked order, and so forward: but my ambition is not to climb so high, therefore i'll stay at home and prevent that promotion. My Nebulona will heap enough such honours on my head, If I follow your counsel, but I tell you again I am not ambitious so to be promoted, yet notwithstanding, so well I love you, that rather then you shall go alone, i'll once more adventure my fortune.