436395Gods sending that way, for it is saide, God sends a curst cow

437396short hornes, but to a cow too curst, he sends none.

438397Leonato So, by being too curst, God will send you no

439398hornes.

440399Beatrice Iust, if he send me no husband, for the which bles-

441400sing, I am at him vpon my knees euery morning and euening:

442401Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face, I

443402had rather lie in the woollen!

444403Leonato You may light on a husband that hath no beard.

446404Beatrice What should I do with him, dresse him in my ap-

447405parell and make him my waiting gentlewoman? he that hath a

448406beard, is more then a youth: and he that hath no beard, is lesse

449407then a man: and he that is more then a youth, is not for me, and

450408he that is lesse then a man, I am not for him, therefore I will

451409euen take sixpence in earnest of the Berrord, and leade his

452410apes into hell.

453411Leonato Well then, go you into hell.

454412Beatrice No but to the gate, and there will the diuell meete

455413me like an old cuckold with hornes on his head, and say, get

456414you to heauen Beatrice, get you to heauen, heeres no place for

457415you maids, so deliuer I vp my apes and away to saint Peter: for

458416the heauens, he shewes me where the Batchellers sit, and there

459417liue we as mery as the day is long.

461418brother Well neece, I trust you will be rulde by your fa-

462419ther.

463420Beatrice Yes faith, it is my cosens duetie to make cursie and

464421say, father, as it please you: but yet for all that cosin, let him be a

465422handsome fellow, or else make an other cursie, and say, father,

466423as it please me.

467424Leonato Well neece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a

468425husband.

469426Beatrice Not til God make men of some other mettal then

470427earth, would it not grieue a woman to be ouer-masterd with

471428a peece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod

472429of waiward marle? no vnckle, ile none: Adams sonnes are my

473430brethren, and truely I holde it a sinne to match in my kin-

474431red.