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Sc. viii

Enter Clowne wt h a whimwham
Enter Iacomo, Lucretia,
lu:
ha ha this ffellow talkes wordes more ridiculous
then does yor talking Courtier for a kisse

Iac:
a nights like yor baffoones or like yor whelpes
they hop from lip to lip yet in yor bedd
affoord'em play for want of Company

Lu:
ist possible that any man whose ffeet
hath trodd the ascent
of honors staires euen to the hiest topp
should beare his thoughtes to loue Civillity

Iac:
youle say as doth my mr

lu:
a man who in the ffield, by power of sword
com̄aunded thousandes to attend on him
and when his eye but wheeld it selfe about
all his whole armies were ledd by him
but when his sword

Iac:
I mr s when his sword
vnmaskt the fface of wrath the daring shew
like flashing lightning strooke amazed ffeare
to the eyes of all his souldiers

lu:
but when hee strooke

Iac:
I mr s when hee strooke
death shew'd his dreadfull fface, and trembling men
strooke to their Mother earth for shelter

lu:
and thou'lt make mee beleeue this

Iac:
noe yor fox can but beleeue.
baboones beare glasses, imposter'd ffooles eat ffire
that horse that runnes vpon the top of powles
and Cattes Cry bacon mistris

lu:
this is thy scurvy humor souldier now

Iac:
scurvy him whom ffrost and ffire could neuer yet anape
whose handes haue beat of fflames as wind the dust
whose vallour conquer'd townes besieged ffortes
and troade on men as beastes doe tread on grasse
ffor ffood and life and humane services
& be calld scurvy

lu:
prthee souldier

Iac:
I yt haue sau'd virginity kept maried wiues
as sacred as a temple vndefild
and be call'd scurvy

lu:
tell mee but out the story of his life
the ffortune of his warres, his grace at home
and I'le beleeue thee all, ere thou shalt chide

Iac:
why make mee Cursie then

lu:
wt h all observance

Iac:
why soe
the lambe's noe milder then the souldier is.
when hee's pleas'd attend me then
the ensigne of his Conquest being display'd
his armor guilded ore wt h bloud and dust
homeward hee ridd the fortunable way
being sided by a thronging multitude
and all the ground whereon his horse did pace
being hallowed by praiers and wonderment
[and all] when thronging people stood, pan'd to ech others cheekes
and every tongue cride ffortunate young man
blest be the wombe, brought forth that face
for vs to gaze vpon, nere to the Citty gates
saluted him the bewties of the dukedome
whose sparkling eies drew admiration
from the eies of all menn but from him
the duke, when hee in duty offer'd him his knee,
a kisse vpheau'd him, and his princely armes
buckling his souldiers sides said fortunate sir
these knees to mee noe duty shall resigne
now you'le noe more beleeue all this
then that hee loues you

lu:
oh such a man found in the spatious world
my hart and knee would bow to

Ia:
what sed you mr s

lu:
oh such a man found in the spatious world
my heart and knee should bow to

Iac:
and all yor loue faire bewty

lu:
all thates mine

Iac:
obserue me then, postes wee haue ready laid to
beare you hence

lu:
mee

Iaco:
chast bewty you

lu:
by thy religious ffaith to heauen and men
by reverence thou ow'st to aged yeares
such as my ffather weares

Iac:
tush my oath hath made an armory gainst teares
now the rape's made

lu:
helpe helpe helpe

Iac:
and yet a mariage gloue
whose seames are sow'd wt h riches, honor, loue,
wc h all the world would wedd to.

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