2934you to day a squire of low degree. I pray you fall too, if

2935you can mocke a Leeke, you can eate a Leeke.

2936Gour. Enough Captaine, you haue astonisht him.

2937Flu. I say, I will make him eate some part of my leeke,

2938or I will peate his pate foure dayes: bite I pray you, it is

2939good for your greene wound, and your ploodie Coxe-

2940combe.

2941Pist. Must I bite.

2942Flu. Yes certainly, and out of doubt and out of que-

2943stion too, and ambiguities.

2944Pist. By this Leeke, I will most horribly reuenge I

2945eate and eate I sweare.

2946Flu. Eate I pray you, will you haue some more sauce

2947to your Leeke: there is not enough Leeke to sweare by.

2948Pist. Quiet thy Cudgell, thou dost see I eate.

2949Flu. Much good do you scald knaue, heartily. Nay,

2950pray you throw none away, the skinne is good for your

2951broken Coxcombe; when you take occasions to see

2952Leekes heereafter, I pray you mocke at 'em, that is all.

2953Pist. Good.

2954Flu. I, Leekes is good: hold you, there is a groat to

2955heale your pate.

2956Pist. Me a gro at?

2957Flu. Yes verily, and in truth you shall take it, or I haue

2958another Leeke in my pocket, which you shall eate.

2959Pist. I take thy groat in earnest of reuenge.

2960Flu. If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in Cud-

2961gels, you shall be a Woodmonger, and buy nothing of

2962me but cudgels: God bu'y you, and keepe you, & heale

2963your pate. Exit

2964Pist. All hell shall stirre for this.

2965Gow. Go, go, you are a counterfeit cowardly Knaue,

2966will you mocke at an ancient Tradition began vppon an

2967honourable respect, and worne as a memorable Trophee

2968of predeceased valor, and dare not auouch in your deeds

2969any of your words. I haue seene you gleeking & galling

2970at this Gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because

2971he could not speake English in the natiue garb, he could

2972not therefore handle an English Cudgell: you finde it o-

2973therwise, and henceforth let a Welsh correction, teach

2974you a good English condition, fare ye well. Exit

2975Pist. Doeth fortune play the huswife with me now?

2976Newes haue I that my Doll is dead i'th Spittle of a mala-

2977dy of France, and there my rendeuous is quite cut off:

2978Old I do waxe, and from my wearie limbes honour is

2979Cudgeld. Well, Baud Ile turne, and something leane to

2980Cut-purse of quicke hand: To England will I steale, and

2981there Ile steale:

2982And patches will I get vnto these cudgeld scarres,

2983And swore I got them in the Gallia warres. Exit.

2988King. Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met;

2989Vnto our brother France, and to our Sister

2990Health and faire time of day: Ioy and good wishes

2991To our most faire and Princely Cosine Katherine:

2992And as a branch and member of this Royalty,

2993By whom this great assembly is contriu'd,

2994We do salute you Duke of Burgogne,

2995And Princes French and Peeres health to you all.

2996Fra. Right ioyous are we to behold your face,

2997Most worthy brother England, fairely met,

2998So are you Princes (English) euery one.

2999Quee. So happy be the Issue brother Ireland

3000Of this good day, and of this gracious meeting,

3001As we are now glad to behold your eyes,

3002Your eyes which hitherto haue borne

3003In them against the French that met them in their bent,

3004The fatall Balls of murthering Basiliskes:

3005The venome of such Lookes we fairely hope

3006Haue lost their qualitie, and that this day

3007Shall change all griefes and quarrels into loue.

3008Eng. To cry Amen to that, thus we appeare.

3009Quee. You English Princes all, I doe salute you.

3010Burg. My dutie to you both, on equall loue.

3011Great Kings of France and England: that I haue labour'd

3012With all my wits, my paines, and strong endeuors,

3013To bring your most Imperiall Maiesties

3014Vnto this Barre, and Royall enterview;

3015Your Mightinesse on both parts best can witnesse.

3016Since then my Office hath so farre preuayl'd,

3017That Face to Face, and Royall Eye to Eye,

3018You haue congreeted: let it not disgrace me,

3019If I demand before this Royall view,

3020What Rub, or what Impediment there is,

3021Why that the naked, poore, and mangled Peace,

3022Deare Nourse of Arts, Plentyes, and ioyfull Births,

3023Should not in this best Garden of the World,

3024Our fertile France, put vp her louely Visage?

3025Alas, shee hath from France too long been chas'd,

3026And all her Husbandry doth lye on heapes,

3027Corrupting in it owne fertilitie.

3028Her Vine, the merry chearer of the heart,

3029Vnpruned, dyes: her Hedges euen pleach'd,

3030Like Prisoners wildly ouer-growne with hayre,

3031Put forth disorder'd Twigs: her fallow Leas,

3032The Darnell, Hemlock, and ranke Femetary,

3033Doth root vpon; while that the Culter rusts,

3034That should deracinate such Sauagery:

3035The euen Meade, that erst brought sweetly forth

3036The freckled Cowslip, Burnet, and greene Clouer,

3037Wanting the Sythe, withall vncorrected, ranke;

3038Conceiues by idlenesse, and nothing teemes,

3039But hatefull Docks, rough Thistles, Keksyes, Burres,

3040Loosing both beautie and vtilitie;

3041And all our Vineyards, Fallowes, Meades, and Hedges,

3042Defectiue in their natures, grow to wildnesse.

3043Euen so our Houses, and our selues, and Children,

3044Haue lost, or doe not learne, for want of time,

3045The Sciences that should become our Countrey;

3046But grow like Sauages, as Souldiers will,

3047That nothing doe, but meditate on Blood,

3048To Swearing, and sterne Lookes, defus'd Attyre,

3049And euery thing that seemes vnnaturall.

3050Which to reduce into our former fauour,

3051You are assembled: and my speech entreats,

3052That I may know the Let, why gentle Peace

3053Should not expell these inconueniences,

3054And blesse vs with her former qualities.

3055Eng. If Duke of Burgonie, you would the Peace,

3056Whose want giues growth to th'imperfections

3057Which you haue cited; you must buy that Peace

3058With full accord to all our iust demands,

3059Whose Tenures and particular effects

3060You haue enschedul'd briefely in your hands.

3061Burg. The King hath heard them: to the which, as yet

3062There is no Answer made.

3063Eng. Well then: the Peace which you before so vrg'd,

3064Lyes in his Answer.