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Truly sir a very courteous Gentlewoma ̄ , & she loves to act in as clean linen as any Gentlewoman of her fun ction about the town, and truly that's the reason that your sincere puritans cannot abide to wear a Surplesse, be cause they say 'tis made of the same thing that your villam nous sin is committed in, as your most profane holland. Hath he, I he hath indeed, if e knew all, & I can tell you he may thank me for't too, for he went to school to in my first husba ̄ ds time It is Master Parmisins son the Cheesemonger, and the next to him is Master Cavetas son the Ferry man, two very pretty sparks isle assure you. Tobias Parma sin, come hither Tobias, hold up your head Tobias, and look and you can see a penny in my brow: So, t'is well done; What partly of speech is Mentula? And why a noun adjective? Mark you Sir, I teach both substance and meam ning; I do not teach as your common people, worser, oh, b, a, b, b, bottles; Go fit you down again Tobyas, Timothy, come ye hither Timothy: How construe you this verse Timothy? I am, jam, Tacturus, Sidera summa putes. Ye shall sir; Sir, I have taken as much pains with them, as any Poet whatsoever could have done, to make them answer upon their Q. with good Actium, distin ction, & deliberation: would, would, would, how many devils are there? Look you Sir, there are and infinite number of Devils: What is the Devil? What is the nature of that wicked spirit? On whom does it work mischief? When hath he most power to work mischief? With what visitations then deludes he mankind? What is the men best comfort? Sir, I will tell you, notwithstanding all these pains I take with them, yet how unkindly their Parents use me: they suffer their younger Children to beray the Church porch: And no longer since then Monday last, came the Official, and there being angry with me about other matters, he threw that in my dish, as if I could have hell ped it: but I answered him sufficiently: For I told him, they that did it, were but the Children and the youth, and youth would break out in despite of his Nose; or the best men Nose in the parish. Yes sometime sir, here was yesterday Master Nu come the Courtier, do you not know him sir? He is a fine Gentleman, a good Scholar, and and excellent Naturalist: and truly fell into a great disputation, (peace these Boys there) and our Argument was, whither a Fool or a wiseman made the best Lawyer. He stood for the Wise man, and I most Scholastically, stood for the Fool: and thus I began my Syllogism, (peace these Boys when I bid you) your wiseman (said I) uses few words, your Fool, much babbling; your best Lawyers use much bab ling. Ergo, your Fools makes the best Lawyers. Nay then sir you hall prevail indeed: you shall, yet I remember; Dyonisius ille Tyram ̄ nus, Scyciliae crudelissimus, crudelissimus Scici jae Tyrannus ille Dyonisius: says to one of his Pupils: Hue ades, haec animo, concipe dictatuo. So I say unto you all my Masters, reverere Maiores: pluck off your Hats to your betters, and look ye give the Woman the wall, and so go your ways. And truly Husband, isle come to their labours, be it at midnight, if they send for me. Nay pray your Lordship to spare me now, faith I am ashamed. Yes I warra ̄ to you, if you can find in your heart to love & marry me, let me alone for y ? isle keep you Like a ma ̄ all days of your life beside, if the stones of the street in y cive should be too hight, for you, & that you dare not walk on them for fear the wicked vanities of the world should catch hold of you, as they have done to the utter overthrow & undoing of many a good ma ̄ , yet I can get my living in the Suburbs, & what trade so ever go down, I doubt not but mine will hold up as long as the kingdom yields either soldiers or younger brother's, which wants maintenance to keep wives of their own No M. Wages, my trade is a sweet trade, little does any body know what continued ̄ mings in I have daily, I keep 3. as good featherbeds going winter & sum ̄ mere, as any sinner in the suburbs: beside, I warrant you, I get above 20 pou ̄ worser a year in Rennish wine, at the second hand. And thats as much as any woman can ask truly: and please your worship I have a suit to you. I promise you sir, I had Dinde forth to day, but that you see the weather is Cloudy, and the Heavens lower on my delights. Tell what thou canst, justice my Lord Justice, I beseech you for Justice. And Like your honour, I think 'tis as lawful for me to have four wives, as 'tis for my parson to have four benefices, con idering I use them as he doth his benefices, for I protest to your honour, I near came near none of them. Go fit you down again: Will you hear them all examined Sir? Look you now sir, are they not pretty children? Truly I am half ashamed. A flash, a flash, a foolish School-point, a foolish School-point. Oh Master Wages, they do nothing else, they do nothing but play, nothing but play. No Wife, nor I desire not to learn. Come you away huswife, come you from him, come. Morrow sweet Wife, sweet Frisset, sweet Nuptial. And arrant Cuckold (Wife) believe it. Because it is true, Wife. Good Master Wages talk no more of Cuc kolds; I would they were all in the Sea for my partly. Husband, can you swim? I would have you in any case appoint with my Husband that I may come masked. Master Wages, your Master is the helm by which my labours are governed: and tell him I will steer all the navy of my actions by his directions: And so pray commend me back to him. Well sir then, till then Farewell. The Like to you sir. Come Wise, I hope that thou shalt thrive, for as all your Cockatrices maintain sur gions by their issues: So does the Priest and Midwife a gree: I set them together, they make work for thee. I would desire a word in private with your ho now. A friend of yours. They unmask. Spretious 'tis my wife.