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The thryd scene
Simo. Chremes.Si.
God spede Chremes.
C.
O I sought the.
S.
& I you
Now well met some folkis cā to me
And sayd that you sayd that my doughter now
Shuld be weddyd to your sō & now I come to se
whether ye or they be mad.
S.
what wyth the
hark & be styll now.
Ch/
speke & I will here
Si.
O Chremes noW for loue of the goddes all
And our old frendship which hath euer
Contynuyd styll syth we were chyldern small
And for love of my sonne/& eke thy doughter
Of whose kepyng thou shalt haue the power
I pray the help that they maryed may be
As was apoyntyd betwene the & me.
C.
O pray me not for this is in lyke case
As it behouyth the wyth prayng me to get
Thynkyst I am other than I before was
when I sayd I wold/if it be theyr profet
Let it be don/but if thou se yet
That more hurt then good therof shuld grow
Indyfferent for both ∥tis councell me now.
As it behouyth the wyth prayng me to get
Thynkyst I am other than I before was
when I sayd I wold/if it be theyr profet
Let it be don/but if thou se yet
That more hurt then good therof shuld grow
Indyfferent for both ∥tis councell me now.
As though she were thyne & pāphilus me sonne
Si.
So I will & desyre the it may be truly
Nor I wold ask it except it ought to be done
what is it/
S/
Glycery & my son now be angry
I here the/
S/
so far that I trust he may verely
Be take from her/
C/
talys/
S/
it is so certayn
C.
So as I tell the man it is sykerly
The angers of louers renew loue agayn
Si.
I pray the let vs go while tyme is
And while his plesure is shit vp wyth dysdayn
Before that her wikkydnes mynglyd wyth terys
And dysceytis bryng his loue syk mynd agayn
To pyte/let vs mary him & I trust for certayn
He shalbe ouer cōe wyth costume/& wedlok liberall
Then shall he sone be delyūd from these illys all
C.
Thinkist thou so/but I think he nother cannat
Haue her alway nor I cannot it suffer
S.
How know you it/but if ye preue that
C.
But that were a shrewd profe in my doughter
S.
This shalbe the hurt if any be hereafter
A deforce/which god forfend/yet if he now
Be correctyd/se how many perfettis shall grow.
Be correctyd/se how many perfettis shall grow.
Furst thow shalt make hym a good frēd to the
A stedfast sonne ī law & also thow shalt fynd
Him a good husband to thy doughter to be
A stedfast sonne ī law & also thow shalt fynd
Him a good husband to thy doughter to be
Ch.
well what of this yf ye think it in your mynd
Profytable I will not put it behynd
Si.
O chremes I haue done for the alway
but not wythout a cause.
C.
but what do you say
Si.
what.
C.
how know you that they be at dystaūce
Si.
Dauus most chefe of theyr councell sayd so
And he concellyd me/wythall the furtherauns
To spede the mariagis wold he so do
wythout he knew my son to agre therto
Thou shalt here hym speke/how call dauus
Lo I se hym now comyng toward vs.
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