236221Cost. It may be so: but if he say it is so, he is in telling true:

237222but so.

238223Ferd. Peace.

239224Clow. Be to me, and euerie man that dares not fight.

240225Ferd. No wordes.

241226Clow. Of other mens secrets I beseech you.

242227Ferd. So it is besedged with sable coloured melancholie, I did

243228 commende the blacke oppressing humour to the most holsome phisicke

244229of thy health-geuing ayre: And as I am a Gentleman, betooke my

245230selfe to walke: the time When? about the sixt houre, When Beastes

246231most grase, Birdes best peck, and Men sit downe to that nourishment

247232which is called Supper: So much for the time When. Now for the

248233ground Which? which I meane I walkt vpon, it is ycliped Thy Park.

249234Then for the place Where? where I meane, I did incounter that ob-

250235seene & most propostrous euent that draweth frõ my snowhite pen the

252236ebon coloured Incke, which here thou viewest, beholdest, suruayest, or

253237seest. But to the place Where? It standeth North North-east & by

254238East from the West corner of thy curious knotted garden; There

255239did I see that low spirited Swaine, that base Minow of thy myrth,

256240(Clowne. Mee?) that vnlettered smal knowing soule, (Clow. Mee?)

257241that shallow vassall (Clown. Still mee.) which as I remember,

258242hight Costard,(Clow. O mee)sorted and consorted contrary to

259243thy established proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon: Which

261244with, ô with, but with this I passion to say wherewith:

With a childe of our Grandmother Eue, a female; or for thy

264247more sweete vnderstanding a Woman: him, I (as my euer esteemed

265248duetie prickes me on) haue sent to thee, to receiue the meede of pu-

266249nishment by thy sweete Graces Officer Anthonie Dull, a man of

267250good reput, carriage bearing, and estimation.

For Iaquenetta (so is the weaker vessell called) vvhich I

270253apprehended with the aforesayd Swaine, I keepe her as a vessell of

271254thy Lawes furie, and shall at the least of thy sweete notice, bring

272255hir to tryall. Thine in all complements of deuoted and hartburning

273256heate of duetie.