734Hell My dutie then shall pay me for my paines:

735I will no more enforce mine office on you,

736Humbly intreating from your royall thoughts,

737A modest one to beare me backe againe.

738King I cannot giue thee lesse to be cal'd gratefull:

739Thou thoughtst to helpe me, and such thankes I giue,

740As one neere death to those that wish him liue:

741But what at full I know, thou knowst no part,

742I knowing all my perill, thou no Art.

743Hell What I can doe, can doe no hurt to try,

744Since you set vp your rest 'gainst remedie:

745He that of greatest workes is finisher,

746Oft does them by the weakest minister:

747So holy Writ, in babes hath iudgement showne,

748When Iudges haue bin babes; great flouds haue flowne

749From simple sources: and great Seas haue dried

750When Miracles haue by the great'st beene denied.

751Oft expectation failes, and most oft there

752Where most it promises: and oft it hits,

753Where hope is coldest, and despaire most shifts.

754King I must not heare thee, fare thee wel kind maide,

755Thy paines not vs'd, must by thy selfe be paid,

756Proffers not tooke, reape thanks for their reward.

757Hel Inspired Merit so by breath is bard,

758It is not so with him that all things knowes

759As 'tis with vs, that square our guesse by showes:

760But most it is presumption in vs, when

761The help of heauen we count the act of men.

762Deare sir, to my endeauors giue consent,

763Of heauen, not me, make an experiment.

764I am not an Impostrue, that proclaime

765My selfe against the leuill of mine aime,

766But know I thinke, and thinke I know most sure,

767My Art is not past power, nor you past cure.

768King Art thou so confident? Within what space

769Hop'st thou my cure?

770Hel The greatest grace lending grace,

771Ere twice the horses of the sunne shall bring

772Their fiery torcher his diurnall ring,

773Ere twice in murke and occidentall dampe

774Moist Hesperushath quench'd her sleepy Lampe:

775Or foure and twenty times the Pylots glasse

776Hath told the theeuish minutes, how they passe:

777What is infirme, from your sound parts shall flie,

778Health shall liue free, and sickenesse freely dye.

779King Vpon thy certainty and confidence,

780What dar'st thou venter?

781Hell Taxe of impudence,

782A strumpets boldnesse, a divulged shame

783Traduc'd by odious ballads: my maidens name

784Seard otherwise, ne worse of worst extended

785With vildest torture, let my life be ended.

786Kin Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak

787His powerfull sound, within an organ weake:

788And what impossibility would slay

789In common sence, sence saues another way:

790Thy life is deere, for all that life can rate

791Worth name of life, in thee hath estimate:

792Youth, beauty, wisedome, courage, all

793That happines and prime, can happy call:

794Thou this to hazard, needs must intimate

795Skill infinite, or monstrous desperate,

796Sweet practiser, thy Physicke I will try,

797That ministers thine owne death if I die.

798Hel If I breake time, or flinch in property

799Of what I spoke, vnpittied let me die,

800And well deseru'd: not helping, death's my fee,

801But if I helpe, what doe you promise me.

802Kin Make thy demand.

803Hel But will you make it euen?

804Kin I by my Scepter, and my hopes of helpe.

805Hel Then shalt thou giue me with thy kingly hand

806What husband in thy power I will command:

807Exempted be from me the arrogance

808To choose from forth the royall bloud of France,

809My low and humble name to propagate

810With any branch or image of thy state:

811But such a one thy vassall, whom I know

812Is free for me to aske, thee to bestow.

813Kin Heere is my hand, the premises obseru'd,

814Thy will by my performance shall be seru'd:

815So make the choice of thy owne time, for I

816Thy resolv'd Patient, on thee still relye:

817More should I question thee, and more I must,

818Though more to know, could not be more to trust:

819From whence thou cam'st, how tended on, but rest

820Vnquestion'd welcome, and vndoubted blest.

821Giue me some helpe heere hoa, if thou proceed,

822As high as word, my deed shall match thy deed.

825Lady Come on sir, I shall now put you to the height

826of your breeding.

827Clown I will shew my selfe highly fed, and lowly

828taught, I know my businesse is but to the Court.

829Lady To the Court, why what place make you spe-

830ciall, when you put off that with such contempt, but to

831the Court?

832Clo Truly Madam, if God haue lent a man any man-

833ners, hee may easilie put it off at Court: hee that cannot

834make a legge, put off's cap, kisse his hand, and say no-

835thing, has neither legge, hands, lippe, nor cap; and in-

836deed such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the

837Court, but for me, I haue an answere will serue all men.

838Lady Marry that's a bountifull answere that fits all

839questions.

840Clo It is like a Barbers chaire that fits all buttockes,

841the pin buttocke, the quatch-buttocke, the brawn but-

842tocke, or any buttocke.

843Lady Will your answere serue fit to all questions?

844Clo As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an Attur-

845ney, as your French Crowne for your taffety punke, as

846Tibsrush for Tomsfore-finger, as a pancake for Shroue-

847tuesday, a Morris for May-day, as the naile to his hole,

848the Cuckold to his horne, as a scolding queane to a

849wrangling knaue, as the Nuns lip to the Friers mouth,

850nay as the pudding to his skin.

851Lady Haue you, I say, an answere of such fitnesse for

852all questions?

853Clo From below your Duke, to beneath your Con-

854stable, it will fit any question.

855Lady It must be an answere of most monstrous size,

856that must fit all demands.

857Clo But a triflle neither in good faith, if the learned

858should speake truth of it: heere it is, and all that belongs

859to't. Aske mee if I am a Courtier, it shall doe you no

860harme to learne.

861Lady To be young againe if we could: I will bee a

862foole in question, hoping to bee the wiser by your an-

863swer.