772725Bra. Warble child, make passionate my sense of hearing.

774726Boy. Concolinel.

775727Brag. Sweete Ayer, go tendernes of yeeres, take this Key,

776728giue enlargement to the Swaine, bring him festinatly hither,

777729I must imploy him in a letter to my loue.

779730Boy. Maister, will you win your loue with a french braule?

780731Brag. How meanest thou? brawling in French.

781732Boy. No my complet Maister, but to Iigge off a tune at

782733the tongues ende, canarie to it with your feete, humour it

783734with turning vp your eylids, sigh a note and sing a note som-

784735time through the throate, if you swallowed loue with sing-

785736ing loue sometime through: nose as if you snufft vp loue by

786737smelling loue with your hat penthouse like ore the shop of

787738your eyes, with your armes crost on your thinbellies doblet

788739like a Rabbet on a spit, or your handes in your pocket like a

789740man after the olde painting, and keepe not too long in one

790741tune, but a snip and away: these are complementes, these

791742are humours, these betraie nice wenches that would be be-

792743traied without these, and make them men of note: do you

793744note men that most are affected to these.

795745Brag. How hast thou purchased this experience?

796746Boy. By my penne of obseruation.

797747Brag. But o but o.

798748Boy. The Hobbie-horse is forgot.

799749Brag.Calst thou my loue Hobbi-horse.

800750Boy. No Maister, the Hobbi-horse is but a colt, and your

801751loue perhaps, a hacknie: But haue you forgot your Loue?

803752Brag. Almost I had.

804753Boy. Necligent student, learne her by hart.

805754Brag. By hart, and in hart boy.

806755Boy. And out of hart Maister: all those three I will

807756proue.

808757Brag. What wilt thou proue?

809758Boy. A man, if I liue (and this) by, in, and without, vpon the

810759instant: by hart you loue her, because your hart cannot come

811760by her: in hart you loue her, because your hart is in loue

812761with her: and out of hart you loue her, being out of hart

813762that you cannot enioy her.

814763Brag. I am all these three.

815764Boy. And three times as much more, and yet nothing

816765at all.

817766Brag. Fetch hither the Swaine, he must carrie me a letter.

819767Boy. A message well simpathisd, a Horse to be embassa-

820768doure for an Asse.

821769Brag. Ha ha, What saiest thou?

822770Boy. Marrie sir, you must send the Asse vpon the Horse,

823771for he is verie slow gated: but I go.

824772Brag. The way is but short, away.

825773Boy. As swift as Lead sir.

826774Brag. The meaning prettie ingenius, is not Lead a mettal

827775heauie, dull, and slow?

828776Boy. Minnime honest Maister, or rather Maister no.

829777Brag. I say Lead is slow.

830778Boy. You are too swift sir to say so.

831779Is that Lead slow which is fierd from a Gunne?

832780Brag. Sweete smoke of Rhetorike,

833781He reputes me a Cannon, and the Bullet thats hee:

834782I shoote thee at the Swaine.

835783Boy. Thump then, and I flee.

836784Brag. A most acute Iuuenall, volable and free of grace,

837785By thy fauour sweete Welkin, I must sigh in thy face:

838786Most rude melancholie, Valour giues thee place.

839787My Herald is returnd.

841789Pag. A wonder Maister, Heers a Costard broken in a shin.

843790Ar. Some enigma, some riddle, come, thy Lenuoy begin.

845791Clo. No egma, no riddle, no lenuoy, no salue, in thee male sir.

846792O sir, Plantan, a pline Plantan: no lenuoy, no lenuoy, no Salue

847793sir, but a Plantan.

848794Ar. By vertue thou inforcest laughter, thy sillie thought,

849795my spleene, the heauing of my lunges prouokes me to radi-

850796culous smyling: O pardone me my starres, doth the incon-

851797siderate take salue for lenuoy, and the word lenuoy for a salue?

853798Pag. Do the wise thinke them other, is not lenuoy a salue?

855799A. No Page, it is an epilogue or discourse to make plaine,

856800Some obscure presedence that hath tofore bin saine.

856.1801I will example it.

856.2802The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee,

856.3803 Were still at oddes being but three.

856.4804Ther's the morrall: Now the lenuoy.

856.5805Pag. I will adde the lenuoy, say the morrall againe.

856.6806Ar. The Foxe, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee,

856.7807Were still at oddes, being but three.

856.8808Pag. Vntill the Goose came out of doore,

856.9809 And staied the oddes by adding foure.

856.10810Now will I begin your morrall, and do you follow with

856.11811 my lenuoy.

859812The Foxe, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee,

860813Were still at oddes, being but three.

861814Arm. Vntill the Goose came out of doore,

862815Staying the oddes by adding foure.

863816Pag. A good Lenuoy, ending in the Goose: woulde you

864817desire more?

865818Clo. The Boy hath sold him a bargaine, a Goose, that's flat.

866819Sir, your penny-worth is good, and your Goose be fat.

867820To sell a bargaine well is as cunning as fast and loose:

868821Let me see a fat Lenuoy, I thats a fat Goose.

869822Ar. Come hither, come hither: How did this argument (begin?

871823Boy. By saying that a Costard was broken in a shin.

872824Then cald you for the Lenuoy.

873825Clow. True, and I for a Plantan, thus came your argument (in,

875826Then the boyes fat Lenuoy, the Goose that you bought,

876827and he ended the market.

877828Ar. But tel me, How was there a Costard broken in a shin?

879829Pag. I will tell you sencibly.

880830Clow. Thou hast no feeling of it Moth, I will speake that (Lenuoy.

882831I Costard running out, that was safely within,

883832Fell ouer the threshold, and broke my shin.

884833Arm. We will talke no more of this matter.

885834Clow. Till there be more matter in the shin.

886835Arm. Sirra Costard, I will infranchise thee.

887836Clow. O marrie me to one Francis, I smell some Lenuoy,

888837some Goose in this.

889838Arm. By my sweete soule, I meane, setting thee at libertie.

890839Enfreedoming thy person: thou wert emured, restrained,

891840captiuated, bound.

892841Clown. True, true, and now you wilbe my purgation,

893842and let me loose.

894843Arm. I giue thee thy libertie, set thee from durance, and in

895844lewe thereof, impose on thee nothing but this: Beare this

896845significant to the countrey Maide Iaquenetta: there is remu-

897846neration, for the best ward of mine honour, is rewarding

898847my dependants. Moth, follow.

899848Pag. Like the sequell I. Signeur Costard adew. Exit.

901849Clow. My sweete ouce of mans flesh, my in-conie Iew:

902850Now will I looke to his remuneration.

903851Remuneration, O that's the latine word for three-farthings:

904852Three-farthings remuration, What's the price of this yncle?

905853i.d. no, Ile giue you a remuneration: Why? it carries it re-

906854muneration: Why? it is a fayrer name then French-Crowne.

907855I will neuer buy and sell out of this word.

910857Ber. O my good knaue Costard, exceedingly well met.

911858Clow. Pray you sir, How much Carnation Ribbon may

912859a man buy for a remuneration?

913860Ber. O what is a remuneration?

914861Cost. Marie sir, halfepennie farthing.

915862Ber. O, why then threefarthing worth of Silke.

916863Cost. I thanke your worship, God be wy you.

917864Ber. O stay slaue, I must employ thee.

918865As thou wilt win my fauour, good my knaue,

919866Do one thing for me that I shall intreate.

920867Clow. When would you haue it done sir?

921868Ber. O this after-noone.

922869Clow. Well, I will do it sir: Fare you well.

923870Ber. O thou knowest not what it is.

924871Clow. I shall know sir when I haue done it.

925872Ber. Why villaine, thou must know first.

926873Clow. I will come to your worship to morrow morning.

927874Ber. It must be done this after noone,

928875Harke slaue, it is but this:

929876The Princesse comes to hunt here in the Parke,

930877And in her traine there is a gentle Ladie:

931878When tongues speake sweetely, then they name her name,

932879And Rosaline they call her, aske for her:

933880And to her white hand see thou do commend

934881This seald-vp counsaile. Ther's thy guerdon: goe.

935882Clow. Gardon, O sweete gardon, better then remuneratiõ.

936883a leuenpence-farthing better: most sweete gardon. I will

937884do it sir in print: gardon remuneration.

939886Ber. O and I forsoth in loue, I that haue been loues whip?

941887A verie Bedell to a humerous sigh, a Crietick, nay a night-

942888watch Constable,

943889A domineering pedant ore the Boy, then whom no mor-

944890tall so magnificent.

945891This wimpled whyning purblind wayward Boy,

946892This signior Iunios gyant dwarffe, dan Cupid,

947893Regent of Loue-rimes, Lord of folded armes,

948894Th'annoynted soueraigne of sighes and groones:

949895Liedge of all loyterers and malecontents:

950896Dread Prince of Placcats, King of Codpeeces.

951897Sole Emperator and great generall

952898Of trotting Parrators (O my litle hart.)

953899And I to be a Corporall of his fielde,

954900And weare his coloures like a Tumblers hoope.

955901What? I loue, I sue, I seeke a wife,

956902A woman that is like a Iermane Cloake,

957903Still a repairing: euer out of frame,

958904And neuer going a right, being a Watch:

959905But being watcht, that it may still go right.

960906Nay to be periurde, which is worst of all:

961907And among three to loue the worst of all,

962908A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow,

963909With two pitch balles stucke in her face for eyes.

964910I and by heauen, one that will do the deede,

965911Though Argus were her eunuch and her garde.

966912And I to sigh for her, to watch for her,

967913To pray for her, go to: it is a plague

968914That Cupid will impose for my neglect,

969915Of his almightie dreadfull little might.

970916Well, I will loue, write, sigh, pray, shue, grone,

971917Some men must loue my Ladie, and some Ione.