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Scæna. 2.
Enter Madame Fulsome, Eunuchus and Phego.Ful.
Come let vs set to our businesse, Phego,
Lend vs your wind to coole this posset.
Phego.
It is not the first time I haue bene constrained to puffe
and blow in your Ladiships seruice.
Ful.
It hath oft come in my minde to knowe the deriuation
and denomination of this word posset?
Eunu.
I take it that it comes of the Latin word posse to make a
man able: and that's the reason euer after eating them, men desire
to make experience of their forces.
Phego.
I rather conceaue it comes of the word pono of putting
together, for that your possets are the vsuall meanes of
congregating, putting and combining your Court creatures together.
Eunu.
And that may well be: for I remember that reuerent
pedagoge William Lilly, brings in gigno, pono, cano, one in
the necke of another, gigno to beget, pono to put in, and cano to
sing.
Ful.
That Lilly was a beastly knaue to put pono behind gigno
there is no musique in it: but all this time we misse not Signior
Bordello, it hath not be his custome to be absent where his chops
might haue had imployment.
Eunu.
You speake of the dayes of hunger, when the slaue was
a straunger in the land of Hauilab: but the word is retrograde: the
last age is a golden age with him.
Fuls.
See where the sonne of Saturne appeares.
Eun.
Sfoot I thought the Dog-fish had bene bayting Cerberus
ere this time.
Bord.
Ladies did you not see a spirit passe this way?
Eunu.
Thou seest we are feeding the flesh man, what doost
thou talke of the spirit?
Bord.
Without iest a meere Ghost, standing bolt vpright at
Timocleas chamber, so nye Court Incubus on my life.
Fuls.
Were you not much terrified Signior with the apparition?
Bord.
How: terrefied? I no sooner beheld it, but drawing my
better parts together
Helpe, helpe!
All run out, Timoclea followes the Eunuch out.
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