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COme wife, me thought our party stood stiffly to it. I find you kind sir. Go to sirrah, I will not have your kindness to intermeddle with her kind, she is meat for your master. Go to sirrah, you will be obscene, and then I shall knock you; but to the combat, me thought our side were the more proper men. My Lord, I will instantly attend their majesty's. Wife you can have my service no longer. Sirrah, President, attend you upon your mistress home: and wife, I would have you to hold your journey directly homeward, and not to imitate prin ces in their progress, step not out of your way to visit a new gossip, to see a new garden-house, to smell the perfumes of Court jerkins, or to handle other tools then may fit for your modesty: I would not have you to step into the Suburbs, and acquaint your self either with monsters or motions, but holding your way directly homeward, show your self still to be a rare house wife. Content thee wife, it is but my love that gives thee good con sail. But here comes one of my clients. Si, M r . country gentleman, I am now for present business of the kings. If you be gentlemen do not make me mad. If you be Christians do not make me and Atheist, I shall pro phane if you vex me thus. What more vexation? my Lord, my Lord, save your breath for your broth, I am not now at leisure to attend you. Not a word I beseech your Lordship, I am for the Kings but sinesse, you must attend me at my chamber. What President I say, come and attend me to the senate house. Your Lordship's pleasure. Nay your Lordship must be brief, I not attend The shallow sleight of words, your suit, your suit. They are confiscat. My Lord, my Lord, the Queen's more merciful. Sir me no sirs. Do not I know you were the chief of those Which raised the wars in Sicily? and long since Wrought in the kings loves bloody business. Did not you hold fair quarter and commerce With all the spies of Cypress? fie I am ashamed, Blind impudence should make you be so bold, To bear your face before authority. Alas my Lord the state, Legions of devils haunt their diligence. Your majesty may mould me to your pleasure Why, whats the matter? Go to, you shall have what you will. Go to neighbour, he that will rise to the top of a high ladder must go up, not leap up: but be patient wench, and thou shalt short lie see me gallant it with the best, and for thy self my Lollia, Not Lollia Paulina, nor those blazing stars, Which makes the world the Apes of Italy: Shall match thy self in sun-bright splendency. Believe it wench so I will, but to the purpose for which I came, the end of this great war is now brought to a combat, two to two, the Duke of Epyre and Alphonso for our Queen against the King and Prince Philocles: now wench if thou wilt go see the fight, I will send and provide thee of a good standing. What, President I say? Why when I say, the villains belly is Like a bottomless pit, ever filling and yet empty, at your leisure sir. Well sir, get you without the town, to the place for the combat, and provide me for my wife some good standing, to see the conflict. Whats this, whats this I say? provide me a standing for my wife upon a scaffold. I grant you, if there were a chamber convenient. I think the knave be mad, sirrah you chop logic, blockhead, you that have your brain pan made of dry leather, & your wit ever wetshod: pack about your business, or I'll pack your pen and inckhorne about your cares. Why when sir. And come sweet wife, nay neighbour let us have your company too. Sancte benedicite, what have we here, hath the golden snake cast his skin upon my bed, go toe wife, I smell I smell, me thinks your plain rug should not agree with this rich counterpoint. Sayest thou me so wench, a kiss for that i'faith, Before God it is a delicate fine suit, rich stuff, rare work, and of the newest fashion; nay if the Senates business were never so hasty, I will stay to try it on, come, help good wenches help, so there, there there. Fit fit: excellent fit as though, The body it was made for wore my mould, Wife I will have it, weel dispute no price. What Lollia I say, where are you my house looks you, my men lack you, I seek you, and a whole quest of inquiry cannot find you, fie, fie, fie, fie, Idleness is the whip of thrift, a good huswife should ever be occupied? Heigh day, I shall mix your business with the kings. Sir, sir, you must not confine me to your seasons, I tell you I will collect mine own leisures. Sir, it is my pleasure you dispatch your self from mine incum brance, I tell you I am for instant business of the Kings, Bear it till your bones ache, I tell you I cannot bear it now, I am for new business. Sir you forget your faith, Was known unto the Queen, the state and us, Your malecontented spirit, your disease in duty: Your diligent purturbance of the peace: Your passages, occurrences and— I will hear no reply, go home, repent, pray & die. Come Gentlemen, what's your businesses? Oh I have you in my memory, the suit is great: And I must squeisse forth more then a thousand crowns. Well attend me to the senate, you shall have fair dispatches 'Tis I I say, open the door, I am in hast. Open the door, or I will break it open. I think I was not blessed this morning when I rose: for through my forgetfulness I have left behind me in my study the breviates of all my causes, and now the Senate is feign to dance attendance on my lea sure, fie, fie, fie. I think the Devil have laid his horns in my way. I come, I come, good friend go say I come, And wife see that you pay for this suit, what so ere it cost. But five hundred crowns of my best conscience. Heart of impatience, I am then a Cuckold, A scorn, a by word and a laughing stock. What is my wife turned whoreand must her depth Be sounded by the plumes of foreigners? Well, the revenge that I will take for this my shame, Shall make all whores hereafter dread my name.