14351355Bor. Therefore know, I haue earned of Dun Iohn a thou-

14361356sand ducates.

14371357Con. Is it possible that any villanie should be so deare?

14381358Bor. Thou shouldst rather aske if it were possible any vil-

14391359lanie shuld be so rich? for when rich villains haue need of poor

14401360ones, poore ones may make what price they will.

14421361Con. I wonder at it.

14431362Bor. That shewes thou art vnconfirm'd, thou knowest

14441363that the fashion of a dublet, or a hat, or a cloake, is nothing to a

14451364man.

14461365Con. Yes it is apparell.

14471366Bor. I meane the fashion.

14481367Con. Yes the fashion is the fashion.

14491368Bor. Tush, I may as well say the foole's the foole, but seest

14501369thou not what a deformed theefe this fashion is?

14511370Watch I know that deformed, a has bin a vile theefe, this

14521371vij. yeere, a goes vp and downe like a gentle man: I remember

14531372his name.

14541373Bor. Didst thou not heare some body?

14551374Con. No, twas the vane on the house.

14561375Bor. Seest thou not (I say) what a deformed thiefe this fashi-

14571376on is, how giddily a turnes about all the Hot-blouds, between

14581377foureteene and fiue and thirtie, sometimes fashioning them

14591378like Pharaoes souldiours in the rechie painting, sometime like

14601379god Bels priests in the old church window, sometime like the

14611380shauen Hercules in the smircht worm-eaten tapestry, where

14621381his cod-peece seemes as massie as his club.

14641382Con. Al this I see, and I see that the fashion weares out more

14651383apparrell then the man, but art not thou thy selfe giddy with

14661384the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling

14671385me of the fashion?

14681386Bor. Not so neither, but know that I haue to night wooed

14691387Margaret the Lady Heroes gentle-woman, by the name of

14701388Hero, she leanes me out at her mistris chamber window, bids

14711389me a thousand times good night: I tell this tale vildly. I should

14721390first tel thee how the prince Claudio and my master planted,

14731391and placed, and possessed, by my master Don Iohn, saw a farre