COLLOQUINTIDA

Why how now Mistress Prat? i'the old disease still, will it ne ver be better, cannot a woman find one kind man amongst twenty? Oh the days that I have seen, when the law of a woman's wit, could have put her husbands purse to execution. Faith for the most partly, all scholars are so: for they take so upon the ̄ to know all things, that indeed they know nothing: & beside, they are with study and ease, grown so unwieldy, that a woman shall near want a soar stomach that's troubled with them. True, and great reason they have for it, but a wise man will put it in a woman's hand, what? shee'le save what he spends. Nay this is but shallow, marry I have a ruff is a quarter deep, measured by the yard. By the standard I assure you: you have a pretty set too, how big is the steel you set with? I but not eat of his mutton. Faith my Lord I have done my best to make somebody relish your sweet meats; but hark you my Lord, I have struck the stroke, I have done the deed, there wants nothing but time, place and her consent. A trifle, a trifle, upon her, upon her my Lord, she may seem a little rough at the first; but if you stand stiffly to her, shee'le fallen; a word with you M r . President. A coil, why what coil? if he were my husband and did but thwart me, I would ring him so many alarms, found him so many brass trumpets, beat him so many drums to his confusion, and thunder him such a peal of great shot, that I would turn his brain in the pan, and make him mad with and eternal silence. Let your wrath be reciprocal, and pay him at his own uvea Pon: but to the purpose for which I came, the party you wot of, commends him to you in this diamond, he that met the party you know, and said the parties party was a party of a partly pretty under standing. The very same believe it, he loves you, and swears he so loves you, that if you do not credit him you are worse then and infidel. Begin you to pout first, for thats a woman's prevention. Indeed master Prate she tells you truly; I wonder that you being a proper man and and Orator will not go brave, according to the custom of the country. Fast locked in her bed with a close ward to devour thee my brave Paraquito; but hushed no words, there is a calm before the tempest. Follow thy colours my brave worthy, mount up thy standard, so enter and prosper. Thou hast a rich room, safe locks, sweet sheets, a choice armefull, with o the rare, rare thought of imagination. Nay go thy way for a Camel or a Chameleon, thou mayest come pare with all Europe, Africa and Asia, and one that will change tricks, though thou Wertenberg worthy to be schoolmaster either to Proteus or Aritine: what and excellent gift did God give unto man when he gave him woman, but how much more when that woman was made fair? but o the most of all when she had wit to use every member of her credit ation. Well I'll stand to it, theirs nothing but beauty, use and old age that puts Women of my rank out of request, and yet Like old buck le though few of your gallant cauileres will wear us, yet many of your stale Ruffians will employ us, and thats our comfort still. How now, who knocks so rudely at the door? Soul of my bawdy office, how are we betrayed, Anon, anon sir, what Mistress Prate I say? Arise for shame, your husbands at the door, I come, I come, Lord God how dull you are When danger's at your heals, rise quickly. I come, I come, I think he's mad with hast, What John, what Thomas, Robert, where's these knaves, What Julian, Marry, Sislie, near a maid within. Nay I am at my wits end, and am made Duller then any spurgald, tired Jade. Fie I have almost broke my heart with running. He is. Yes, and in revenge thereof hath vowed, that in this naked sort as you are, you shall do penance through the City for your sin of unchastity.