756Puts vp all wrongs, and neuer giues reply:

757Yet shames she not in most opprobrious sort,

758To call him foole and doterd to his face,

759And sets her parasites of purpose oft,

760In scoffing wise to offer him disgrace.

761Oh yron age! O times! O monstrous, vilde,

762When parents are contemned of the child!

763His pension she hath halfe restrain'd from him,

764And will, e're long, the other halfe, I feare:

765For she thinks nothing is bestowde in vayne,

766But that which doth her fathers life maintayne.

767Trust not alliance; but trust strangers rather,

768Since daughters proue disloyall to the father.

769Well, I will counsell him the best I can:

770Would I were able to redresse his wrong.

771Yet what I can, vnto my vtmost power,

772He shall be sure of to the latest houre. Exit.

774Gon. I prithy, Skalliger, tell me what thou thinkst:

775Could any woman of our dignity

776Endure such quips and peremptory taunts,

777As I do daily from my doting father?

778Doth't not suffice that I him keepe of almes,

779Who is not able for to keepe himselfe?

780But as if he were our better, he should thinke

781To check and snap me vp at euery word.

782I cannot make me a new fashioned gowne,

783And set it forth with more then common cost;

784But his old doting doltish withered wit,

785Is sure to giue a sencelesse check for it.

786I cannot make a banquet extraordinary,

787To grace my selfe, and spread my name abroad,

788But he, old foole, is captious by and by,

789And sayth, the cost would well suffice for twice.

790Iudge then, I pray, what reason ist, that I

791Should stand alone charg'd with his vaine expence,

792And that my sister Ragan should go free,

793To whom he gaue as much, as vnto me?

C4 I prithy,