20271946A Lyon fell, nor else no Lyons damme.

20281947For, if I should, as Lyon, come in strife,

20291948Into this place, 'twere pitty on my life.

20301949Duk. A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.

20311950Deme. The very best at a beast, my Lord, that ere I saw.

20321951Lys. This Lyon is a very fox, for his valour.

20331952Duk. True: and a goose for his discretion.

20341953De. Not so my Lord. For his valour cannot carry his dis-

20351954cretion: and the fox carries the goose.

20361955Duk. His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour.

20371956For the goose carries not the fox. It is well: leaue it to his

20381957discretion, and let vs listen to the Moone.

20391958Moone. This lanthorne doth the horned moone present.

20411959Deme. He should haue worne the hornes, on his head.

20421960Duk. He is no crescent, and his hornes are inuisible, with-

20431961in the circumference.

20441962Moone. This lanthorne doth the horned moone present,

20451963My selfe, the man ith Moone, doe seeme to be.

20461964Duke. This is the greatest errour of all the rest; the man

20471965should be put into the lanthorne. How is it else the man ith

20481966Moone?

20491967Deme. He dares not come there, for the candle. For,

20501968you see, it is already in snuffe.

20511969Dutch. I am aweary of this Moone. Would hee woulde change.

20531970Duke. It appeares, by his small light of discretion, that

20541971hee is in the wane: but yet in curtesie, in all reason, wee

20551972must stay the time.

20561973Lysan. Proceede, Moone.

20571974Moon. All that I haue to say, is to tell you, that the lan-

1975thorne is the Moone, I the man ith Moone, this thorne bush

20591976my thorne bush, and this dogge my dogge.

20601977Deme. Why? All these should be in the lanthorne: for all

20611978these are in the Moone. But silence: here comes Thisby.

20621979 Enter Thisby. Th. This is ould Ninies tumbe. Where is my loue? Lyon.Oh.