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Scene 1.
Enter Doctor, and Peregrine.Doct.
Now sir be pleas'd to cloud your Princely raiment
With this disguise. Great Kings have done the like,
To make discovery of passages
Puts on a Cloake and Hat.
Among the people: thus you shall perceive
What to approve, and what correct among 'hem.
Per.
And so ile cherish, or severely punish.
Enter an old woman reading: to her, a young Maid.
Doct.
Stand close sir, and observe.
Old.
Royall pastime, in a great match betweene the Tanners
and the Butchers, sixe dogges of a side, to play single at the game
Bear, for fifty pound, and a tenne pound supper, for their dogs
and themselves. Also you shall see two ten dogge-courses at the
Great Beare.
Maid.
Fie Granny fie, can no perswasions,
Threatnings, nor blowes prevaile, but you'll persist
In these prophane and Diabolicall courses,
To follow Bear baitings, when you can scarce
Spell out their Bills with spectacles?
Old.
What though
My sight be gone beyond the reach of Spectacles,
In any print but this, and though I cannot,
(No, no, I cannot read your meditations)
strikes downe her book.
Yet J can see the Royall game plaid over and over,
And tell which dogge does best, without my Spectacles.
And though J could not, yet I love the noyse;
The noyse revives me, and the Bear-garden scent
Refresheth much my smelling.
Maid.
Let me entreat you
Forbeare such beastly pastimes, th'are Sathanicall.
Old.
Take heed Child what you say, tis the Kings game.
Per.
What is my game?
Beat-baiting sir she meanes.
Old.
A Beare's a Princely beast, and one side Venison
(Writ a good Author once) you yet want yeares,
And are with Bawbles pleas'd, ile see the Beares.
Exit.
Maid.
And I must beare with it, she's full of wine,
And for the present wilfull; but in due
Season ile humble her: but we are all
Too subject to infirmity.
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