¶Cost. It may be
so: but if he
say it is
so, he is in telling true:
¶Clow. Be to me, and euerie man that dares not fight.
¶Clow. Of other mens
secrets I be
seech you.
¶Ferd. So it is besedged with sable coloured melancholie, I did
¶ commende the blacke oppressing humour to the most holsome phisicke
¶of thy health-geuing ayre: And as I am a Gentleman, betooke my
245selfe to walke: the time When? about the sixt houre, When Beastes
¶most grase, Birdes best peck, and Men sit downe to that nourishment
¶which is called Supper: So much for the time When. Now for the
¶ground Which? which I meane I walkt vpon, it is ycliped Thy Park.
¶Then for the place Where? where I meane, I did incounter that ob-
250seene & most propostrous euent that draweth frõ my snowhite pen the
¶ebon coloured Incke, which here thou viewest, beholdest, suruayest, or
¶seest. But to the place Where? It standeth North North-east & by
¶East from the West corner of thy curious knotted garden; There
255did I see that low spirited Swaine, that base Minow of thy myrth,
¶(Clowne. Mee?)
that vnlettered smal knowing soule,
(Clow. Mee?)
¶that shallow vassall (Clown. Still mee.)
which as I remember,
(Clown. O mee)sorted and consorted contrary to
¶thy established proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon: Which
¶with, ô
with, but with this I passion to say wherewith:
¶Ferd. With a childe of our Grandmother Eue
, a female; or for thy
¶more sweete vnderstanding a Woman: him, I (as my euer esteemed
265duetie prickes me on) haue sent to thee, to receiue the meede of pu-
¶nishment by thy sweete Graces Officer Anthonie Dull
, a man of
¶good reput, carriage bearing, and estimation.
¶Antho. Me ant
shall plea
se you? I am
Anthony Dull.
¶Ferd. For Iaquenetta (
so is the weaker vessell called) vvhich I
270apprehended vvith the aforesayd Svvaine, I keepe her as a vessell of
¶thy Lavves furie, and shall at the least of thy svveete notice, bring
¶hir to tryall. Thine in all complements of deuoted and hartburning
B
A pleasant conceited Comedie:
