ASTRONOMIA

What shall I, Geographus? What? of spite of my teeth? Marry and I hope I do not use to kiss without them. What? is't the Court humour then to kiss a Maid out of breath? Faith for my partly Sir Courtier, then I am not ac quainted with a long breath; though, I think, they that use kissing much, are acquainted with long breathes, for, I warrant them, they may be smelled far enough off. If it be So Sir, then I pray you keep you there still; for My Zone, I'll assure you, as yet is a Temperate one; pardon me Sir, Ʋ ngirt Ʋ nblest: if I am not Fast, I'm Lose, untie the Heavens and take away their Zones, we should have brave Skie-falling. Geog. I, and brave Larke-catching, (pretty Bird) ah! were they all such as Thee, it should be my First wish. I perceive Sir, then you Courtiers are ready to take a Maid at the Fallen; Well Sir, but let go your hand from my girdle, he that has that, shall have me and all. Pray le be; be Modest yet; I think yowl force me to say be Honest, leave, or I'll Cry. Nay, pray you, be not Elephantine; I suppose you have been in India, and pierce the Phrase. Won't I? what? Be kind? how? Marry— Oh Sir, your apprehension it too nimble; I was saying, marry gracious are the Fates, to deliver a Maid from the violence of a Ravisher. I must behave my self now as demurely, as a Gentlewoman when she's eating and Egg, well I'll prevent her, and go meet Her, or else she will be Meet with Me. FOrsooth, and it please you— And please you forsooth it was— It was forsooth and please you— Why then forsooth since it pleases you— Alas forsooth, I was coming of mine accord, to tell you forsooth. It was forsooth—. My Uncle Ethicus. No forsooth, he came to invite me to his House to a Banquet. And marveled that you and I were so great stran gers at his house. But I promised, for my self, my oftener presence hereafter, and bid Ethicus persuade himself, that though you did not come to him in person, yet that your love and best Affections dwelled always with him; and I did my best to make partly of and excuse for you. No. But it seems I have offended Nature; for Ime sure my mother Physica has poured out her affection to ward me. Nay, I have been held upon her Items: Item, for being in company with Geographus: Item, for being in come pany with Astrologiam — Item, for wearing my best clothes every day: Alas, alas, do's my Mother think All Nature's desire the same things? It pleases Her in Summer to wear one kind of gar meant; in Winter another; in Autumn and Spring as diffe rend: another perhaps would count this pride in her: I wear always the same, which me thinks her age (but that, Age is froward) might interpret, as a three-sold virtue, Humility, Thrift, and Constancy: but — You abuse me, Astrologiam: baseness? Alas! would you Parallel Geometres with Geogra phus? you may as well liken the Middle of the Earth to the whole Circumference: or, but some Angle to a whole Map. Marry thou sayest true, for I think there he is in deed. Come, let's begun; for I think every one now a Spy: for my mother told me shee'd set more Eyes beside Musicaes to attend me hereafter: but Musicam, do thou turn that way and meet him, that if he be one, I may know whom to thank for my mother's next kind salutation. FA, la, la, la, la, Solemnizing, la, mi, fa. In, Grammaticus, I am not in Case to pledge you: I pledged Astrologiam even now, and I am not since half well. I'm even stifled, I do not use to be in such a close Room, I love the Open Air. Nay, let it be pure Water. Nay, I shall never live, if I leave moving. Indeed, I confess that; and it's at that season, my only diet. Indeed, I confess, I am too neglective of that. Musicam, some drink; me thinks, I have not one jot of moisture in me. I must drink, the World was not in such a come bustion at Phaeton's driving the Chariot of the Sun, as I am in now. Some drink. She drinks and falls. I; and I, that Astrologiam may enjoy the benefit of the Heavens, liberty. Indeed he gave me a very good Clyster, Heaven knows.