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Ah daughter say not so there is great cause and skill, For which you should mislike to live unmarried thus alone What comfort can you have remaining thus unknown How shall the common wealth by you advanced be If you abide enclosed here where no man may you see It is not for your state, your self to take the pain All strangers that resort to you to entertain To suffer free access of all that come and go To be at eke man's call to travail too and from, What the ̄ , since God hath placed such treasure in your breast Wherewith so many thousand think by you to be refreshed Needs must you have some one of hid and secret trust By whom these things may be, well ordered and discuste: To him you must disclose the depth of all your thought By him as time shall serve all matters must be wrought To him above you must content your self to be at call You must be his, he must be yours, he must be all in all. Speak. He hath be instructed this errand as I guess. Do so. Nay Wit, advise your self and pause a while, Or else this hast of yours will you beguile. Yet would not I for no good to have forgone her. She is a Queen I tell thee in her degree, If this marriage go forward, thou must be her man. She shall not hurt the unless her cause be juster. Why. It is but thy fancy, I see no such thing in her. That were great marvel in so many years. You are come in good time, Instruction our treasure, This Gentleman craveth your acquaintance & aid. What you may do for him let him not be denayde, Consider and talk together with these, And you shall find in your travail great Take here of me before I take my leave, This glass of Crystal clear which I you geaue Accept it and reserve it for my sake most sure, Much good to you in time it may procure, Be old your self therein, and view and pry, Mark what defects it will discover and descry, And so with judgement ripe, and curious eye, What is a miss endeavour to supply, Farewell. Here let us rest a while and pause all three: Friend Wit? are you the man in deed which you inte ̄ worser, Can you be well content until your life does end, To join and knit most sure with this my daughter here, And unto her alone your fixed faith to bear. We know not whom to trust, the world is so ill. Can you fight if need be. What one art thou? thereof how canst thou tell. Good fellow whence art thou, what is thy name? Thou shalt say so long enough, or we believe it. If thou be Wit, let see, what tokens thou canst tell. How comest thou first acquainted here? what said we? How did we Like thy suit, what entertainment made we? To put thee out of doubt, if thou think we say not true, It wear good for thee, in a glass thy face to view. Hast thou the glass, which I to Wit did gyve. These marks me muse, how should he come thereby: We are content thou try thy case by this. Shame. Here is a merchant Shame, for thee to tame. And here is one whom thou must rightly blame, That hath preferde his folly to his fame. Wit? that on wooing, to Lady Science came. He hath deserved it, let him be well bet. Remember in what case, Dame Nature left thee Wit, And how thou hast abused the same. Thou hast deceived all our hope as all the world may see. Remember what fair words, and promises thou didst make, That for my daughters love, no pains thou wouldst forsake. Remember in what sort, we had a care of the: Thou hast deceived all our hope, as all the world may see. Remember how I struction, should have be followed Still, And how thou wouldst be ruled, by none but by Will. How Idleness hath crept, and reigneth in thy breast, How Ignorance her son, hath wholly thee possessed. Hold slave take thou his Coofe for thy labour, We are content at her request, to take you to our favour. Come in and dwell with us, till time shall serve: And from Instruction rule, look that thou never swerve Within we shall provide, to set you up once more, This scourge hath taught you, what default was in you hereto before Daughter I fear all is not, as it S old ée.