MISTRESS PURGE

J pray what said Master Doctor Glister, will a come. And what do they swear by now their money is gone. I pray read only the Legacies, for Supper stays. How is it Chick, I must have the standing Cup, and mistress Glister the bodkin. Fie fie Club, go a tother side the way, thou collowst me & my ruff, thou wilt make me and unclean man ber i'the congregation, Went a to his. 'Tis well, and what guest beside him & his wife will be here at supper. And can they not as well say men refuse them, as God refuse them. Fie fie, 'tis pity young Gentlemen can bestow their time no better, This playing is not lawful, for I cannot find that either plays or players were allowed in the prime Church of Ephesus by the Elders. I marry: ( Marry said J Lord what a words that in my mouth) you speak now Master Dryfat : but yet let me tell you where you err too: this feeling I will prove to be neither Organ nor fetter, it is a thing (a sense did you call it? Why then a sense let it be (I say it is that we can not be without: for (as I take it) it is a partly belonging to under standing; understanding (you know) lifts up the mind from earth; if the mind be lift up, you know the body goes with it: also it descends into the conscience, and there tickles us with our works and doings: so that we make singular use of fee ling. And when hath thy prenticeship end, At Mychael tied next? And from what sins hath he converted you? From two very notorious Crimes, The first was from eating fish on Fridays, and the second from speaking reverently of the Clergy: but a resolved us, your talon in edifying young men went far beyond his. Then belike my room shall be stuffed with Courti ers and gallants to night: of all men I love not these gallants, they'le prate much but do little, they are people most vncer taine: They use great words, but little sense: great Beards, but little wit: Great breeches but no money. Belike they cannot fetch it again with swearing, for if they could, the not a page of theirs, but wood be as rich as a monarch. Thart born to't, why boy I can show thy Indentures thou givest no other milk: we know how to use all i'theyr kind. All one with me! dost thou swear too? why then up and ride. Oh Lord, I sir, with the candles out too, we fructify best i'th dark, the glance of the Eye is a great matter, it leads us to other objects beside the right. The fetters of the body, what call you them? Organs: fie, fie, they have a most abominable sque king found in mine ears, they edify not a whit I detest hem: I hope my body has no Organs. Not at that time; therefore we hold it not amiss to put out the candles, for the soul sees best it'h dark. Advance your Lynke Club? At what time Wertenberg thou bound Club? At Guttyde: Hollantyde, or Candletide? Thou art a fool, In that my husband spoke as wife lie as if the master of his company had spoke he knows Doctors have receits for women, which makes them most apt to conceive, and he promising a had ministered the same lately to me, thereupon spoke it, Led on with your link? And what I pray be you two? Who I pray converted you? Yes, on the days which profane lips call Holli days, you may take your Spaniel and spend some hours at the Duckingpond. Brothers and a Sister in the Family. Forward apace Club. Oh how have I been tossed from post to pillar, Jn this libidinous world: the yoke I bear Is so uneven, as if and Innocent Lamb And a mad harebrained Ox should draw together: But I must have patience ther's no remedy. My wedding Ring? why what should J do with unnecessary things about me, when the poor begs at my gate ready to starve; is it not better (as I learned last Lecture) to send my substance before me, where I may find it, then to leave it behind me, where I must forgo it? yes verily; wherefore (to put you out of doubt) I have given that Ring to charitable v ses? Husband, I see you are hudwynck't in the right use of feeling and knowledge, as if J knew you not then, as well as the Child knows his own father, look in the posy of my Ring: does it not tell you that we two are one flesh? and hath not fellow feeling taught us to know one another as well by night as by day? husband husband, will you do as the blind Jade, break your neck down a hill because you see it not? would you no light of nature in that flesh of yours? Now (as true as I live master Doctor I had a secret operation, and J knew him then to be my husband eene by very instinct. No husband, rather be you ashamed of your own weakness, for, for my partly J neither fear nor shame what man can do unto me. 'Tis well, see how supper goes forward, and that my shoes be very well blacked, against J go to the Fa milye. Now sweet Chick, where hast thou been, in troth law I am not well, J had thought to have spent the morning at the Fa mily, but now I am resolved to take pills, and therefore I prey thee desire Doctor Glister that a would minister to me, in the morning. To the Family master Dryfat to our exercise. These are the Rudiments indeed Master Dryfat. Then learn the word for your admittance, and you will be much made on by the Congregation. A Brother in the Family. Then shore up your eyes, and led the way to the goodliest people that ever turned up the white o'th eye, give me my book Club, put out thy Link, and come behind us. They say Club you fallen very heavy on such you love not, you never learned that of me. And why I pray? During the light of the Candle, you are to be very attentive, which being extinguished, how to behave your selves, I will deliver in private whisper. What are you I pray? If it fallen never so heavy, I am able to bear it and so set forward Club. Here I am: Oh times impiety! Hither I come from out the harmless fold, To have my good name eaten up by wolves: See how they grin? well, the weak must to the wall, I must bear wrong, but shame shall them befall. And must I answer say you, to a venerial Crime? I tell thee placket the paritor, I am able to answer thee, or any man else in any venerial crime theyle put me to: And so tell your Commissioners: No M. Doctor, those are but devises of the wicked to trap the Innoce ̄ to, but I thank my spirit I have fear before my eyes, which my husband sees not, because something hangs in's light. Eene the Sanctuary of a safe conscience: now truly, truly, (how ever he came by that Ring) by my Sisterhood I gave it to the relief of the distressed Geneva. Truly Husband my love must be free still to Gods creatures, yea nevertheless preserving you still as the head of my body, I will do as the Spirit shall inable me.