33252948Fir
st my feare then my cur
sie, la
st my
speech.
33262949My feare, is your di
splea
sure, my cur
sy, my duty, & my
speech,
33272950to beg your pardons: if you looke for a good
speech now, you
33282951vndo me, for what I haue to
say is of mine owne making, and
33292952what indeed (I
should
say) wil (I doubt) proue mine own mar
- 33302953ring: but to the purpo
se, and
so to the venture. Be it knowne to
33312954you, as it is very well, I was lately here in the end of a di
splea
- 33322955sing play, to pray your patience for it, and to promi
se you a bet
- 33332956ter: I meant indeed to pay you with this, which if like an il ven
- 33342957ture it come vnluckily home, I breake, and you my gentle cre
- 33352958ditors loo
se, here I promi
sde you I would be, and here I com
- 2959mit my body to your mercies, bate me
some, and I will pay you
33362960some, and (as mo
st debtors do) promi
se you in
finitely: and
so I
3336.12961kneele downe before you; but indeed, to pray for the Queene.
33382962If my tongue cannot intreate you to acquit mee, will you
2963commaund me to v
se my legges? And yet that were but light
33392964payment, to daunce out of your debt, but a good con
sci
- 33402965ence will make any po
ssible
sati
sfa
ction, and
so woulde I: all
33412966the Gentlewomen heere haue forgiuen me, if the Gentlemen
2967will not, then the Gentlemen doe not agree with the Gentle
- 33422968women, which was neuer
seene in
such an a
ssemblie.
33442969One word more I be
seech you, if you bee not too much
2970cloyd with fatte meate, our humble Author will continue the
33452971storie, with
sir Iohn in it, and make you merry with faire Ka
- 33462972tharine of Fraunce, where (for any thing I knowe) Fal
sta
ffe
33472973shall die of a
sweat, vnle
sse already a be killd with your harde
2974opinions; for Olde-ca
stle died Martyre, and this is not the
33482975man: my tongue is weary, when my legges are too, I wil bid