2086For want of fresh meat and due sustenance.

2087Per. Alack, my Lord, my heart doth bleed, to think

2088That you should be in such extremity.

2089Leir. Come, let vs go, and see what God will send;

2090When all meanes faile, he is the surest friend. Exeunt.

2093King. This tedious iourney all on foot, sweet Loue,

2094Cannot be pleasing to your tender ioynts,

2095Which ne're were vsed to these toylesome walks.

2096Cord. I neuer in my life tooke more delight

2097In any iourney, then I do in this:

2098It did me good, when as we hapt to light

2099Amongst the merry crue of country folke,

2100To see what industry and paynes they tooke,

2101To win them commendations 'mongst their friends.

2102Lord, how they labour to bestir themselues,

2103And in their quirks to go beyond the Moone,

2104And so take on them with such antike fits,

2105That one would think they were beside their wits!

2106Come away, Roger, with your basket.

2107Mum. Soft, Dame, here comes a couple of old youthes,

2108I must needs make my selfe fat with iesting at them.

2109Cor. Nay, prithy do not, they do seeme to be

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& Perillus

very faintly.

2110Men much o'regone with griefe and misery.

2111Let's stand aside, and harken what they say.

2112Leir. Ah, my Perillus, now I see we both

2113Shall end our dayes in this vnfruitfull soyle.

2114Oh, I do faint for want of sustenance:

2115And thou, I know, in little better case.

2116No gentle tree affords one taste of fruit,

2117To comfort vs, vntill we meet with men:

2118No lucky path conducts our lucklesse steps

2119Vnto a place where any comfort dwels.

2120Sweet rest betyde vnto our happy soules;

2121For here I see our bodies must haue end.

2122Per. Ah, my deare Lord, how doth my heart lament,

2123To see you brought to this extremity!

2124O, if you loue me, as you do professe,