FRESHWATER

Thats all. I can inform you of their dance in Italy, Marry that very morning I left Venice, I had intelligence of a new device. Si Signior, I know not What countryman invented, but they say There be Chopinoes made with such rare art, That worn by a Lady when she means to dance, Shall with their very motion found forth music, And by a secret sympathy with their tread Strike any tune that without other instrument, Their feet both dance and play. I do lie At the sign of Dona Margaretta de Pia In the Strand. Thou Platalone be silent. Signior. Exit. You must encourage strangers while you live, It is the Character of our nation, We are famous for dejecting our own countrymen. Who teaches you to dance? Why so, 'tis necessary, Trust while you live the Frenchman with your legs, Your faces with the Dutch, if you mislike Your faces, I mean if it be not sufficiently Painted, let me commend upon my credit A precious workman to your Ladyship. Not and English man I warrant you, One that can please the Ladies every way, You shannot fit with him all day for shadows, He has Regallias, and can present you with Suckets of fourteen pence a pound, Canary, Prunellas, Venice glasses, Parmisan, Sugars, Bologuia, Sausages all from Antwerp ; But he will make Ollepodredos most incomparably. A Butcher told me of they, very likely. All have paid me, but; You are just Madam, And bountiful, though I came hither with Simple intention to present my service It shall be crossed. Gudgin remember too, Her Ladyships name. Madam I'll take my leave, I'll find another Time to attend my Lady, there's no light, I cannot abide this fellow. Exit with Good. In all my travels, I have not seen a more Convenient Structure. I hardly ever was at home, and yet All countries lost wiseman are his own? Did you never travel Ladies, Yet there be Ladies would your languages, And married to great men prove the better Statesmen. And you may hear talk, but give me the man That has measured they, talks but talk. London is nothing. To what it will be a hundred years hence. I tell you Madame, I took shipping at Gravesend, and had no sooner passed The Cantons, and Grissons, making some stay In the Valtoline, but I came to Paris a pretty Hamlet, and much in the situation Like Dunstable, 'Tis in the Province of Alcontora, some three leagues Distant from Civil, from whence we have our Oringes. You may hear many things, The people are civil that live in Spain, or there May be one town Like another, but if Civil Be not in France, I was never at Civil in my life. Do not I know Paris, it was built by the youngest Son Of King Priam, and was called by his name, yet some Call it Lutetia, because the gentlewomen there Play so well upon the Lute. But there be no such Comedians as we have here, Yet the women are the best Actors, they play Their own parts, a thing much desired in England By some Ladies, Inns a Court Gentlemen, and others, But that by the way. I had stayed longer there, but I was offended with a Villainous sent of Onions, which the wind brought from St. Omers. But the sent 'tis not to be endured, I smelled On they when I came to Room, and hardly scaped the Inquisition fort. 'Tis in my way to Venice, I'll tell you Madam I was very Loath to leave their country. Where was I last? Right, for I had a very good Inn, where mine Host Was a notable good fellow, and a Cardinal. What should I trouble you with many stories? from hence I went to Naples, a soft kind of people, and clothed In silk, from thence I went to Florence from whence we Have the art of working custards, which we call Florentines, Milan a rich state of Haberdashers, Permount, where I had excellent Venison, And Padua, famous for the pads, or easy saddles Which our physicians ride upon, and first brought from Thence when they commenced Doctor. My Lord, my Ladies, will you see a Monster, I have not met such another in all my travails. And affection I had to be acquainted with some countries. Signior I kept no horses there, my man, and I How Signior? I had some durrie acres. Which I reduced into a narrow compass, Some call it selling. And it a thriving policy. It was but two hundred pound Per annum sir, A loan revenue. I did not leave and acre, rod, or perch, That had been no discretion, when I was selling I would fell to purpose, do you see this roll, I have good security for my money sir, Not and egg here but has five chickens in't, I did most pollitickely disburse my sums, To have five for one at my return from Venice, And now I thank my stars I am at home. Yes Signior quintupled, I wonot purchase yet I mean to use This trick seven years together, first I'll still put out, and quintuply as you call't, And when I can in my Exchequer tell Two, or three Millions, I will fallen a purchasing. I have a mind to buy Constantinople from the Turk, and give it The Emperor. I wear none Signior. Fell they, no Signior. Honest Tom Odcombe. Fine, Ime glad he's gone, Gudgine, what dost thou think. Nay, nay he'll not spare a Lord But were not I best call in my moneys Gudgin, My estate wonot hold out, I must be more Familiar with my gentlemen. Enter Lord. I thank your honour. Yes my Lord. There is a sum, my Lord. There was a sum my Lord delivered From your poor servant Freshwater. I five? Your Lordship has forgotten the Cinquepace. Is't come to this? if Lords play fast and lose, What shall poor Knights, and gentlemen? Hum, 'tis he. Enter Coronel. Noble Coronel. Que dite vous? Adieu five pieces, Gudgin gape, is't not he? They wonot use me o'this fashion, Did he not speak to me ith' morning? I think so, But then you would not know him in Italian, And now he will not know you in French. Call you this selling of land, and putting out money To multiply estate? Five for one, 'tis ten to one if I get my principal. I would, Signior farewell. Exeunt. And English Painter? Prithee let me see him. Madam, I did not think your Ladyship Had so little judgement As to let and English man draw Your Picture, and such rare Monsieurs in town. O by no means Madam, They would not active Pensiles. Mounsieur Le Frisk these Ladies were pleased To command my attendance hither. Here I observed many remarkable buildings, as the University, which some call the Lour, where the Students made very much of me, and carried me To the Bear-garden, where I saw a play on the Bankside, a very pretty Comedy called Martheme, In London. O the catches we sang, and his wife a pretty woman, And one that warms a bed one oth' best in Europe. But mine Host. Right, had a shrewed pate, and his ears were some thing O'th longest, for one upon the oath of a w— Walloune that — from Spain to the Low - Countries, and the other from Lapland into Germany. A perilous head, and yet loving to his guests, As mine host Banks, as read in the gills, and as merry A —but anger him, and he sets all Christendom Together by the ears, well shortly after I left France, and sailing along the Alps, I came to Lombardy, where I left my cloak, for it was very Hight traveling, and went a Pilgrim to Room Where I saw the Tombs, and a Play in Pompey's Theater, here I was kindly entertained by and anchorite, In whose chamber I lay, and drink Cider. I see little in Mantua, beside dancing upon the ropes, Only their strong beer, better than any I Ever drunk at the Trumpet, but Venice of all The Champion Countries, do not mistake they are the Valiantest gentlemen under the Sun. Oh the Catazaners we turned there. Two or three magnifico's grandees of the State, We tickled they in the very Pialto, by the same Token two or three English spies told us they had lain Leger three months to steal away the Piatzo, and ship It for Covent. Garden, a pretty fabric and building Upon the — but I was compelled to make Short stay here by reason of the Dukes Concubines Fell in love we me, gave me a ring of his, out of A solid Diamond, which afterwards I lost washing my Hands in the salt water. No, there was no staying, I took post horse presently For Genoa, and from thence to Madrill, and so to The Netherlands. Why, we were drunk every day together, they get their Living by it. And making bargains in their tippling, The Jews are innocent, nay the devil himself Is but a Dunce to they, of whose trade they are. They fish, they fish still, who can help it, they Have nets enough, and may catch the Province In time then let the Kingdoms look about they, They can't be idle, and they have one advantage Of all the world, theyle would no conscience to trouble They, I herd in whispered they want butter, they have A Design to charm the Indies, and remove their Darie, but that as a secret, shall go no further; I caught a surfeit of Boar in Holland, upon my Recovery I went to Flushing, where I met with a handsome Fro, with whom I went to Middleborough, by the — And lest her drunk at Rotterdam, there I took Shipping again for France, from thence to Dover, From Dover to Gravesend, from Gravesend to Queen - Hive, and from thence to what I am come to. I hope he did not overhear me. Absence had been a sin my Lord where you Were pleased to invite. Enter Mounsieur. Mounsieur La Frisk, a word, a word, I beseech you, No excuser moi. Exit Fresh. and Mon. Mercy and silence as you are honourable. Why if I must gentlemen, you imagine I would been At Venice, but I stayed at Gravesend All this Summer expecting a wind, and finding it So uncertain, will defer the voyage till the Spring, I am not the first whom the winds, and seas have crossed. If you please, I'll require But my principal, and for your good company, I'll stay at home for good, and all to be merry. I thank you gentlemen, I am in a way now, I have sold my land, and put out my money To live I see my heart wonot dance to night, I may to Gravesend in the morning, I can be but pickled in salt water, and I'll Venture one drowning to be revenged Again, again, set, set. Where be the Ladies?