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Scen. 2.
Trimælchio, Capritio, Agurtes, Autolicus.Trim.
How goes our matters forward?
Ag.
Very well Sir.
For I haue made your entrance open; told her
All that I can to grace you, that you are
Exactly qualified, unparalleld,
For your rare parts of mind, and body, full
Of rare bounty, and that she likes best in you,
Shee holds it a good argument you will
Maintaine her well hereafter, marry else
She is naturall covetous, but that's
A point of Huswivery, she does not care,
You should spend much upon your selfe, and can
Dispense with housekeeping; so you allow her
To keepe her State, her Coach, and the fashion,
These things she meanes to article beforehand,
I tell you what you must trust to.
Trim.
Very well Sir.
Agu.
Now see that you be circumspect, and faile not
In the least circumstance; you may doe somewhat
Extraordinary, at the first meeting.
For when she has conceiv'd of your good nature,
The lesse will be expected.
Trim.
Why the Captaine
Has put me in a forme.
Agur.
Of words he has,
But you must doe the deeds.
Trim.
I, so I will.
For looke you Sir, I haue the seuerall graces
Of foure Nations, in imitation
Of the foure Elements, that make a man
Concurre to my perfection.
Ag.
As how?
Trim.
I am in my complement, an Italian,
In my disease a Frenchman,
And in mine appetite an Hungarian.
Agur.
All these are good and commendable things
In a Companion, but your subtle women
Take not a mans desert on trust, they must
See and feele something, what you giue her now,
You make her but the keeper, 'tis your owne,
You winne her by it: I should be loath to see you
Out done with Courtesies: what if some Gull,
That has more land than you, should interpose it,
And make ecclipse betweene you? 'tis a feare,
Therefore you must be sodaine, and dispatch it,
For she is ticklish as any Haggard,
And quickly lost: she is very humoursome.
Trim.
I'll fit her then, I am as humoursome
As her selfe, I haue all the foure humors.
As her selfe, I haue all the foure humors.
I am hot, I am cold,
I am dry, and I am moyst.
I am dry, and I am moyst.
Agur.
I must be like the Satyr then, and leaue you,
If you are hot and cold.
Trim.
Oh you mistake me.
I am hot in my ambition,
I am dry in my iests,
I am cold in my charity,
And moyst in my luxury.
I am dry in my iests,
I am cold in my charity,
And moyst in my luxury.
Autol.
Sir, for the Gentlewoman that is with her,
Not so much in the nature of a servant,
As her Companion; for 'tis the fashion
Amongst your great ones, to haue those wait on them
As good as themselues: she is the sole daughter
To a great Knight, and has an ample dowry.
Apply your selfe to her, though it be nothing
Else but to practise Courtship, and to keepe you
From sleepe and idlenesse.
Caprit.
I shall be rul'd
By you in any thing.
Autol.
You shall not doe
And then obiect it to your friends; you can
Advance your selfe without their counsell.
Capr:
Counsell;
I still scorn'd that.
Trim.
Captaine, a word with you:
Were I not best looke like a Statesman, thinke you?
Autol.
What to a woman? 'twere a solecisme
In nature, for you know Cupid's a boy,
And would you tyre him like a Senator,
And put a declamation in his mouth?
Twere a meere madnesse in you: here they come;
See what a Maiesty she beares, goe meet her.
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