93Must I be comforted, not in his sphere;

94Th' ambition in my loue thus plagues it selfe:

95The hind that would be mated by the Lion

96Must die for loue. 'Twas prettie, though a plague

97To see him euerie houre to sit and draw

98His arched browes, his hawking eie, his curles

99In our hearts table: heart too capeable

100Of euerie line and tricke of his sweet fauour.

101But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancie

102Must sanctifie his Reliques. Who comes heere?

104One that goes with him: I loue him for his sake,

105And yet I know him a notorious Liar,

106Thinke him a great way foole, solie a coward,

107Yet these fixt euils sit so fit in him,

108That they take place, when Vertues steely bones

109Lookes bleake i'th cold wind: withall, full ofte we see

110Cold wisedome waighting on superfluous follie.

111Par Saue you faire Queene.

112Hel And you Monarch.

113Par No.

114Hel And no.

115Par Are you meditating on virginitie?

116Hel I: you haue some staine of souldier in you: Let

117mee aske you a question. Man is enemie to virginitie,

118how may we barracado it against him?

119Par Keepe him out.

120Hel But he assailes, and our virginitie though vali-

121ant, in the defence yet is weak: vnfold to vs some war-like

122resistance.

123Par There is none: Man setting downe before you,

124will vndermine you, and blow you vp.

125Hel Blesse our poore Virginity from vnderminers

126and blowers vp. Is there no Military policy how Vir-

127gins might blow vp men?

128Par Virginity beeing blowne downe, Man will

129quicklier be blowne vp: marry in blowing him downe

130againe, with the breach your selues made, you lose your

131Citty. It is not politicke, in the Common-wealth of

132Nature, to preserue virginity. Losse of Virginitie, is

133rationall encrease, and there was neuer Virgin goe, till

134virginitie was first lost. That you were made of, is met-

135tall to make Virgins. Virginitie, by beeing once lost,

136may be ten times found: by being euer kept, it is euer

137lost: 'tis too cold a companion: Away with't.

138Hel I will stand for't a little, though therefore I die

139a Virgin.

140Par There's little can bee saide in't, 'tis against the

141rule of Nature. To speake on the part of virginitie, is

142to accuse your Mothers; which is most infallible diso-

143bedience. He that hangs himselfe is a Virgin: Virgini-

144tie murthers it selfe, and should be buried in highwayes

145out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate Offendresse a-

146gainst Nature. Virginitie breedes mites, much like a

147Cheese, consumes it selfe to the very payring, and so

148dies with feeding his owne stomacke. Besides, Virgini-

149tie is peeuish, proud, ydle, made of selfe-loue, which

150is the most inhibited sinne in the Cannon. Keepe it not,

151you cannot choose but loose by't. Out with't: within

152ten yeare it will make it selfe two, which is a goodly in-

153crease, and the principall it selfe not much the worse.

154Away with't.

155Hel How might one do sir, to loose it to her owne

156liking?

157Par Let mee see. Marry ill, to like him that ne're

158it likes. 'Tis a commodity wil lose the glosse with lying:

159The longer kept, the lesse worth: Off with't while 'tis

160vendible. Answer the time of request, Virginitie like

161an olde Courtier, weares her cap out of fashion, richly

162suted, but vnsuteable, iust like the brooch & the tooth-

163pick, which were not now: your Date is better in your

164Pye and your Porredge, then in your cheeke: and your

165virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French

166wither'd peares, it lookes ill, it eates drily, marry 'tis a

167wither'd peare: it was formerly better, marry yet 'tis a

168wither'd peare: Will you any thing with it?

169Hel Not my virginity yet:

170There shall your Master haue a thousand loues,

171A Mother, and a Mistresse, and a friend,

172A Phenix, Captaine, and an enemy,

173A guide, a Goddesse, and a Soueraigne,

174A Counsellor, a Traitoresse, and a Deare:

175His humble ambition, proud humility:

176His iarring, concord: and his discord, dulcet:

177His faith, his sweet disaster: with a world

178Of pretty fond adoptious christendomes

179That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he:

180I know not what he shall, God send him well,

181The Courts a learning place, and he is one.

182Par What one ifaith?

183Hel That I wish well, 'tis pitty.

184Par What's pitty?

185Hel That wishing well had not a body in't,

186Which might be felt, that we the poorer borne,

187Whose baser starres do shut vs vp in wishes,

188Might vvith effects of them follow our friends,

189And shew what we alone must thinke, which neuer

190Returnes vs thankes.

192Pag Monsieur Parrolles

193My Lord cals for you.

194Par Little Hellenfarewell, if I can remember thee, I

195will thinke of thee at Court.

196Hel Monsieur Parolles you were borne vnder a

197charitable starre.

198Par Vnder MarsI.

199Hel I especially thinke, vnder Mars

200Par Why vnder Mars

201Hel The warres hath so kept you vnder, that you

202must needes be borne vnder Mars

203Par When he was predominant.

204Hel When he was retrograde I thinke rather.

205Par Why thinke you so?

206Hel You go so much backward when you fight.

207Par That's for aduantage.

208Hel So is running away,

209When feare proposes the safetie:

210But the composition that your valour and feare makes

211in you, is a vertue of a good wing, and I like the

212weare well.

213Paroll I am so full of businesses, I cannot answere

214thee acutely: I will returne perfect Courtier, in the

215which my instruction shall serue to naturalize thee, so

216thou wilt be capeable of a Courtiers councell, and vn-

217derstand what aduice shall thrust vppon thee, else thou

218diest in thine vnthankfulnes, and thine ignorance makes

219thee away, farewell: When thou hast leysure, say thy

220praiers: when thou hast none, remember thy Friends:

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