VALENTINE

I do acknowledge it. I pray you sir is not your name Onion? M. Onion with a murrain, come come put off this Lyons hide, your ears have discovered you, why Peter! do not I know you Peter? Oh can you take knowledge of me now sir? Nothing so much as thou art with thine office, but sirrah, Onion is the Count Ferneze at home? How now man, how dost thou? Why man, thou Wertenberg merry enough even now. Dead! When died she? Faith thou hast made me weep with this news. Faith, Juniper, the better to see thee thus frolic. Hieroglyphic, what meanest thou by that. Why, but stay, stay, how long has this sprightly humour haunted thee? Natural, slid it may be supernatural, this? Oh how pitifully are these words forced. As though they were pumped out on's belly. I have seen some Juniper. I, that I have. I all; and he have a nimble tonge, if he prac tise to vault thus from one side of the world to another. Oh sea sick lest, and full of the scurvy. Never better gentlemen I faith. In health sir he will be here anon. I sir he is not passed six miles hence, he sent me before to learn if Count Ferneze were here and return him word. I will tell him sir. Sirs, what service is't they are employed in? Who leads our forces, can you tell? Who, Maximilian of Vicenza? Know him? Oh yes he's and excellent brave soldier. He is indeed, marry exceeding valiant. Well he is so I assure you. How dost thou bastinado the poor cudgel with terms? Oh Lord, I, especially they in Utopia, there they per form their prizes and challenges, with as great ceremony as the Italian or any nation else. Why thus sir. Marry, first they are brought to the public Theater: Theaters? I and plays to: both tragidy and comedy & set forth with as much state as can be imagined? Oh no? all premeditated things, and some of them we ry good I faith, my master used to visit them often when he was there. I, in the common Theaters, I tell you. But the sport is at a new play to observe the sway and variety of opinion that passes it. A man shall have such a confused mixture of judgement, poured out in the throng there, as ridiculous, as laughter it self: one says he likes not the writing, another likes not the plot, another not the playing. And sometime a fellow that comes not there passed once in five year at a Parli ament time or so, will be as deep mired in censuring as the best, and swear by Gods foot he would never stir his foot to see a hundred such as that is. Not a whit? the rankest stinkard of them all, will take upon him as peremptory, as if he had writ himself in artibus magister. I ever, ever, and the people generally are very ac ceptiue and apt to applaud any meritable work, but there are two sorts of persons that most commonly are infectious to a whole auditory. Marry? one is the rude barbarous crew, a people that have no brains, and yet grounded judgements, these will hiss any thing that mounts above their grounded capacities. But the other are worth the observation, I faith. Faith a few Capricious gallants. And they have taken such a habit of dislike in all things, that they will approve nothing, be it never so concei ted or elaborate, but fit dispersed, making faces, and spitting, wagging their upright ears and cry filthy, filthy. Simply vtte ring their own condition, and using their wried countenan ces in stead of a vice, to turn the good aspects of all that shall fit near them, from what they behold. Not I sir, I profess it not. Gods so, Onion has caught a bruise. He says very true, he took it single on the head. I indeed does he. Oh here's a sweet metamorphosis, a cupple of buz zards turned to a pair of peacocks. Nay good Master. Onion. Why hold, hold, hough? what do you mean? Of what sir? 'Tis pity to soil you sir, your new apparel. Oh rare, this would be a rare man, and he had a little travel, Balthazar, Martino, put off your shoes, and bid him cobble them. I sir, we do. I indeed sir. I, or else I must Ira' returned you no answer. Now will gull these ganders rarely: Gentlemen having in my peregrinatio ̄ through Mesopotamia.