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Alb. Good, good, good! Go to my brother Adrian: Tell him Ile lurck; stay, tell him Ile lurck: stayNow is Albanos marriage-bed new hung With fresh rich curtaines! Now are my valence Imbost with orient pearle, my gransires gift! Now are the lawne sheetes fum'd with vyolets, To fresh the pawld lascivious appetite !

up,

Now worke the cookes, the pastry sweates with slaves;
The March-panes glitter: now, now, the musitions
Hover with nimble stickes ore squeaking crowds,
Tickling the dryed guttes of a mewing catt.

The taylors, starchers, semsters, butchers, pulterors, mercers,—all, all, all,—now, now, now,-none thinke a mee,the f f f French is te ƒfƒ fine man, de ppp pock man, de

Slip. Peace, peace! stand conceald. Yonder, by all discriptions, is he would be husband of my mistresse ;your wife! hah, meate, hah!

Alb. Uds! so, so, so! soule, thats my velvet cloake! Slip. O peace! observe him: ha!

Enter LAVERDURE and BIDETT, talking; QUADRATUS,
LAMPATHO, SIMPLICIUS, PEDANTE, and HOLI-
FERNES PIPPO.

Bid. 'Tis most true, sir. I heard all; I saw all; I tell all, and I hope you beleeve all. The sweete Francisco Soranza, the perfumer, is by your rivall Iacomo, and your two brothers that must be, when you have married your wife that shall be.

Ped. With the grace of Heaven.

Bid. Disguis'd so like the drownd Albano, to crosse

your sute, that by my little honesty 'twas great consolation to mee to observe them. Passion of joy, of hope! O excellent! cri'd Andrea. Passingly! cri'd Randolfo. Unparraleld, lispes Iacomo. Good, good, good, sayes Andrea. Now, stut, sayes Iacomo. Now stut, sayes Randolfo; whilst the ravisht perfumer had like to have waterd the seames of his breeches for extreame pride of their applause.

Lav. Sest, Ile to Celia, and, mauger the nose of her friends, wedde her; bedde her; my first sonne shall bee a captaine, and his name shall bee what it please his godfathers; the second, if hee have a face bad inough, a lawyer; the third, a marchant; and the fourth, if he bee maimd, dull-braind, or hard-shapt, a scholler, for thats your fashion.

Qua. Get them; get them, man, first. Now, by the wantonnesse of the night, and I were a wench, I would not ha thee, wert thou an heire, nay (which is more) a foole.

Lav. Why, I can rise high: a straight legge, a plumpe thigh, a full vaine, a round cheeke; and, when it pleaseth the firtility of my chinne to be delivered of a beard, 'twill not wrong my kissing, for my lippes are rebels, and stand

out.

Qua. Ho! but ther's an old fustie proverbe, these great talkers are never good dooers.

Lam. Why, what a babell arrogance is this?

Men will put by the very stock of fate;

Theyle thwart the destiny of marriage,

Strive to disturbe the sway of Providence :
Theile do it!

Qua. Come, youle be snarling now.

Lam. As if we had free-will in supernaturall

Effects, and that our love or hate

Depended not on causes bove the reach

Of humaine stature.

Qua. I thinke I shall not lend you forty shillings now.
Lam. Durt upon durt, feare is beneath my shooe.
Dreadlesse of rackes, strappados, or the sword-
Mauger informer and slie intelligence,—

Ile stand as confident as Hercules,
And, with a frightlesse resolution,
Rip up and launce our times impieties.
Sim. Uds so, peace.

Lam. Open a bounteous eare, for Пle be free:
Ample as Heaven, give my speech more roome;
Let me unbrace my breasts, strip up my sleeves,
Stand like an executioner to vice,

To strike his head off with the keener edge

Of my sharpe spirit.

Lav. Roome and good licence: come on! when, when?

Lam. Now is my fury mounted.

Intend your sences; bend your

Fix your eyes;

listning up;

For Ile make greatnesse quake; Ile tawe the hide

Of thick-skind Hugenes.

Lav. Tis most gratious; weele observe thee calmely.
Qua. Hang on thy toungs end. Come on! pree-thee doe.
Lam. Ile see you hang'd first. I thanke you, sir, Ile

none.

This is the straine that chokes the theaters;
That makes them crack with full-stufft audience;
This is your humor onely in request,

Forsooth to raile; this brings your eares to bed;
This people gape for; for this some doe stare.
This some would heare, to crack the authors neck;

WAR

OF

thebine.

This admiration and applause persues,

Who cannot raile, my humors chang'd, 'tis cleare :
Pardon, Ile none; I prise my joynts more deare.

Bid. Maister, maister, I ha discri'd the Perfumer in Albanos disguise. Looke you! looke you! Rare sport! rare sport!

Alb. I can containe my impatience no longer. You, Mounsieur Cavelere, Saint Dennis, you, caprichious sir, Sinio Caranto French braule,—you, that must marry Celia Galanto,-is Albano drown'd now? Goe wander, avant knight-errant, Celia shall bee no cuck-queane, my heire no begger, my plate no pawne,-my land no morgage, my wealth no food for thy luxuries, my house no harbour for thy comrades,-my bedde no bootye for thy lustes! My any thing shall bee thy nothing. Goe hence! packe, packe! avant! caper, caper! aloun, aloun! passe by, passe by! cloake your nose! away! vanish! wander! depart! slink by! away!

Lav. Harke you, Perfumer. Tell Iacomo, Randulfo, and Adrean, 'twill not doe;-looke you, say no more, but -'twill not doe.

Alb. What Perfumer? what Iacomo?

Qua. Nay, assure thee, honest Perfumer, good Francisco, wee know all, man. Goe home to thy civitt boxe; looke to the profit, commodity, or emolument of thy mus-cats taile : : goe, clap on your round cap-my what do you lack, sir, for yfaith, good rogue, alls discri'd!

Alb. What Perfumer? what mus-cat? what Francisco? What do you lack? Ist not inough that you kissd my wife?

Lav. Inough.

Alb. I, inough! and may be, I feare me too much; but

you must floute me,—deride me,-scoffe me,-keepe out, -touch not my porche ;-as for my wife!

Lav. Stirre to the dore: dare to disturbe the match, And by the

Alb. My sword! menace Albano fore his owne dores! Lav. No, not Albano, but Francisco: thus, Perfumer, Ile make you stinke if you stirre a For the rest :

well, via, via.

[Exeunt Cest. remanet Albano, Slip, Simp. and Holif. Alb. Jesu, Jesu! what intends this? ha!

Sim. O God, sir! you lye as open to my understanding as a curtizan. I know you as well

Alb. Some body knowes me yet: praise Heaven, somebody knowes me yet!

Sim. Why, looke you, sir: I ha paide for my knowing of men and women too, in my dayes: I know you are Francisco Soranza, the perfumer; I, maugre Sinior Satten, I–

Alb. Do not tempt my patience. Go to; doe not Sim. I know you dwell in Saint Markes Lane, at the signe of the Mus-cat, as well

Alb. Foole, or madd, or drunke, no more!

Sim. I know where you were drest, where you were
Alb. Na, then, take all !—take all! take all!

[He bastinadoes Simplicius. Sim. And I tell not my father; if I make you not loose your office of gutter-maister-ship; and you bee skavenger next yeare, well. Come, Holifernes; come, good Holifernes; come, servant. [Exit Sim. Holife.

¶ Enter IACOMO.

Alb. Francisco Soranza, and perfumer, and mus-cat, and gutter-maister, hay, hay, hay!-go, go, go!-f, f, f, fut! -Пle to the Duke; and Ile so ti, ti, ti, ticle them!

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