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The .iii. scene

Pamphilus/Simo/Chremes.
Pa.
who will haue me alas it is my father

S.
O what sayst thou/thou most vnthryfty

Ch.
O syr rather tell him of the matter
Than so speke to him so cruelly

S.
O think ye any thing to greuously
to him myght be sayd/what say you I you pray
Is Glycery a cytizen.

P.
syr so they sey.

Si.
So they say/O so here the bold belefe
Doth he think as he layth suppose ye
Or hath he of this any maner of grefe
Or in his colour now any syne do ye se
Or any maner shame in him for to be
Can he not his mynd wythstand nor wythdraw
But that agaynst the vse of the cyte & the law
And agayn his fathers mynd but study her to get
wyth shame inough.

P.
alas now wo is me

S.
Hast thou not perseyuyd that in the yet
But fare long a go/I wot that in the
This word myght haue bene very fyed for suerte
when thou dydyst set thy mynd so sore
To bryng to pas that thing thou longyst for.
But what do I why do I anger or vex me


why shall I troble my self wyth his fransy
Shall I for his offence ponyshyd be
well god spede him let him lyue wyth her hardely

P.
o fader.

S.
what fatheryst as though thou hadyst now gretly
Nede of thy fader/but thou hast now a son
A wife a howse & brought men to veryfy
That she is a Cytizen now thou hast all won.
O fader if it please you to here me

S.
what woldyst thou say.

C.
yet here him simo

S.
Shall I here hym what shall I here Chreme

Ch.
Let him speke yet.

S.
why let him go to

P.
I confesse fader that loue her I do
If that be any offens I confesse it styll
And therfor to you I submyt me vnto
Comand me to suffer what payn that ye will.
Is it your plesure I shalbe maryed than
will ye that I shall cast asyde the other
Certis I will do it as mych as I can
But one thing I desyre you aboue all other
Think not that I brought this old man hether
Suffer me now to pourge me of that thing
And before you here that I may him bring.

Si.
what to bring him hether.

P.
ye suffer me

C.
He desyryth but reson/graunt him hardely

P.
Graunt me that I desyre.

S.
I graunt it the
And what so euer els I graunt it vtterly
So that I be not begylyd by him therby

C.
O a fathers smale rebuke & ponyshment
For his sonnys gret offens is sufficient