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Scene 4.
Ent. Blaze with a habit in his hand.Bla.
Bab! art thou here?
Looke well. How thinkst thou Tony?
Hast not thou neither slept to night?
Bla.
Yes, yes.
I lay with the Butler. Who was thy bed-fellow?
Bar.
You know I was appoynted to sit up.
Bla.
Yes, with the Doctor in the Bride-chamber.
But had you two no waggery? Ha!
Bar.
Why how now Tony?
Bla.
Nay facks I am not jealous:
Thou knowst I was cur'd long since, and how.
I jealous! I an asse. A man sha'n't aske
His wife shortly, how such a gentleman does?
Or how such a gentleman did? or which did best?
But she must thinke him jealous.
Bar.
You need not: for
If I were now to dye on't, nor the Doctor,
Nor I came in a bed to night: I meane
Within a bed.
Bla.
Within, or without, or over, or under,
I have no time to thinke o' such poore things.
Bar.
What's that thou carriest Tony?
Bla.
O ho Bab.
This is a shape.
Bar.
A shape? what shape I prethee Tony?
Bla.
Thou'lt see me in't anon; but shalt not know me
From the starkst foole ith' Towne. And I must dance
Naked in't Bab.
Bar.
Wil I here be Dancing Tony?
Bla.
Yes Bab. My Lord gave order for't last night.
It should ha' bin ith' Play: But because that
Was broke off, he will ha't today.
Bar.
O Tony.
I did not see thee act ith' Play.
Bla.
O, but
I did though Bab, two Mutes.
Bar.
What in those Breeches?
Bla.
Fie foole, thou understandst not what a Mute is.
A Mute is a dumbe Speaker in the Play.
Bar.
Dumbe Speaker! that's a Bull. Thou wert the Bull
Then, in the Play. Would I had seene thee rore.
Bla.
That's a Bull too, as wise as you are Bab.
A Mute is one that acteth speakingly,
The Sage Man-midwife, and the Basket-maker.
Bar.
Well Tony, I will see thee in this thing.
And tis a pretty thing.
Bla.
Prethee good Bab,
Come in, and help me on with't in our Tyring-house.
And helpe the Gentlemen, my fellow dancers,
And thou shalt then see all our things, and all
Our properties and practice to the Musicke.
Bar.
O Tony come, I long to be at that.
Exeunt.
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