1628Her feet were much too dainty for such tread.

1629Duma. O vile, then as she goes what vpward lyes?

1630The street should see as she walk'd ouer head.

1631Kin. But what of this, are we not all in loue?

1632Ber. O nothing so sure, and thereby all forsworne.

1633Kin. Then leaue this chat, & good Berown now proue

1634Our louing lawfull, and our fayth not torne.

1635Dum. I marie there, some flattery for this euill.

1636Long. O some authority how to proceed,

1637Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the diuell.

1638Dum. Some salue for periurie.

1639Ber. O 'tis more then neede.

1640Haue at you then affections men at armes,

1641Consider what you first did sweare vnto:

1642To fast, to study, and to see no woman:

1643Flat treason against the Kingly state of youth.

1644Say, Can you fast? your stomacks are too young:

1645And abstinence ingenders maladies.

1646And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords)

1647In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke.

1648Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke.

1649For when would you my Lord, or you, or you,

1650Haue found the ground of studies excellence,

1651Without the beauty of a womans face;

1652From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue,

1653They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems,

1654From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire.

1655Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp

1656The nimble spirits in the arteries,

1657As motion and long during action tyres

1658The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer.

1659Now for not looking on a womans face,

1660You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes:

1661And studie too, the causer of your vow.

1662For where is any Author in the world,

1663Teaches such beauty as a womans eye:

1664Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe,

1665And where we are, our Learning likewise is.

1666Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes,

1667With our selues.

1668Doe we not likewise see our learning there?

1669O we haue made a Vow to studie, Lords,

1670And in that vow we haue forsworne our Bookes:

1671For when would you (my Leege) or you, or you?

1672In leaden contemplation haue found out

1673Such fiery Numbers as the prompting eyes,

1674Of beauties tutors haue inrich'd you with:

1675Other slow Arts intirely keepe the braine:

1676And therefore finding barraine practizers,

1677Scarce shew a haruest of their heauy toyle.

1678But Loue first learned in a Ladies eyes,

1679Liues not alone emured in the braine:

1680But with the motion of all elements,

1681Courses as swift as thought in euery power,

1682And giues to euery power a double power,

1683Aboue their functions and their offices.

1684It addes a precious seeing to the eye:

1685A Louers eyes will gaze an Eagle blinde.

1686A Louers eare will heare the lowest sound.

1687When the suspicious head of theft is stopt.

1688Loues feeling is more soft and sensible,

1689Then are the tender hornes of Cockled Snayles.

1690Loues tongue proues dainty, Bachus grosse in taste,

1691For Valour, is not Loue a Hercules?

1692Still climing trees in the Hesporides.

1693Subtill as Sphinx, as sweet and musicall,

1694As bright Apollo's Lute, strung with his haire.

1695And when Loue speakes, the voyce of all the Gods,

1696Make heauen drowsie with the harmonie.

1697Neuer durst Poet touch a pen to write,

1698Vntill his Inke were tempred with Loues sighes:

1699O then his lines would rauish sauage eares,

1700And plant in Tyrants milde humilitie.

1701From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue.

1702They sparcle still the right promethean fire,

1703They are the Bookes, the Arts, the Achademes,

1704That shew, containe, and nourish all the world.

1705Else none at all in ought proues excellent.

1706Then fooles you were these women to forsweare:

1707Or keeping what is sworne, you will proue fooles,

1708For Wisedomes sake, a word that all men loue:

1709Or for Loues sake, a word that loues all men.

1710Or for Mens sake, the author of these Women:

1711Or Womens sake, by whom we men are Men.

1712Let's once loose our oathes to finde our selues,

1713Or else we loose our selues, to keepe our oathes:

1714It is religion to be thus forsworne.

1715For Charity it selfe fulfills the Law:

1716And who can seuer loue from Charity.

1717Kin. Saint Cupid then, and Souldiers to the field.

1718Ber. Aduance your standards, & vpon them Lords.

1719Pell, mell, downe with them: but be first aduis'd,

1720In conflict that you get the Sunne of them.

1721Long. Now to plaine dealing, Lay these glozes by,

1722Shall we resolue to woe these girles of France?

1723Kin. And winne them too, therefore let vs deuise,

1724Some entertainment for them in their Tents.

1725Ber. First from the Park let vs conduct them thither,

1726Then homeward euery man attach the hand

1727Of his faire Mistresse, in the afternoone

1728We will with some strange pastime solace them:

1729Such as the shortnesse of the time can shape,

1730For Reuels, Dances, Maskes, and merry houres,

1731Fore-runne faire Loue, strewing her way with flowres.

1732Kin. Away, away, no time shall be omitted,

1733That will be time, and may by vs be fitted.

1734Ber. Alone, alone sowed Cockell, reap'd no Corne,

1735And Iustice alwaies whirles in equall measure:

1736Light Wenches may proue plagues to men forsworne,

1737If so, our Copper buyes no better treasure. Exeunt.

1740Pedant. Satis quid sufficit.

1741Curat. I praise God for you sir, your reasons at dinner

1742haue beene sharpe & sententious: pleasant without scur-

1743rillity, witty without affection, audacious without im-

1744pudency, learned without opinion, and strange without

1745heresie: I did conuerse this quondam day with a compa-

1746nion of the Kings, who is intituled, nominated, or called,

1747Don Adriano de Armatho.

1748Ped. Noui hominum tanquam te, His humour is lofty,

1749his discourse peremptorie: his tongue filed, his eye

1750ambitious, his gate maiesticall, and his generall behaui-

1751our vaine, ridiculous, and thrasonicall. He is too picked,

1752too spruce, too affected, too odde, as it were, too pere-

1753grinat, as I may call it.

M2 Curat.