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SCENE. 9.

Avditvs. Tactvs.
Avd.
Tactus, Tactus.

Tac.

O Iupiter, 'tis Auditus all's mard, I doubt the slie knaue
heres so farre, but yet Ile grope him: how now Eares, what make
you here, ha?


Avd.

Nay, what make you here, I pray what were you talking
euen now, of an Asse, & a Crowne, & an Vrinall & a plague?


Tac.

A plague on you, what I?


Avd.

Oh, what you.


Tac.

O I had well nigh forgot nothing, but I say—


Avd.

What?


Ta.

That if a man (do you marke sir) being sick of the plague
(do you see sir) had a a, a, hem, hem, (this cold troubles me, It
makes me cough somtimes extreamly,) had a French Crowne,
(sir you vnderstand me) lying by him, and (come hither, come
hither) & would not bestow 2 pence (do you heare) to buy an vrinall
(do you marke me) to cary his water to the Phisitiā, (hem)


Avd.

What of all this?


Ta.

I say such a one was a very Asse, this was al I vse to speak
to my selfe, whē I am alone; but Auditus, when shall wee heare a
new set of singing-books, or th'viols, or the cōsort of Instrumēts.


Av.

This was not al, for I heard mētiō of a tombe, & an epitaph.


Tac.

True, true, I made my selfe mery with this Epitaph, vpon
such a fooles tombe thus a, thus, thus, plague brought this man,
(foh I haue forgotten) ô thus, plague brought this man (so, so, so)
vnto his buriall, because, because, because, (hem, hem) because he
would not buy an vrinall, come, come Auditus, shall we here thee
play, the Lyeroway, or the Lute-way shall we, or the Cornet, or
any Musicke, I am greatly reuiued when I heare.


Avd.

Tactus, Tactus, this will not serue, I heard all, you haue
not found a Crowne: you, no, you haue not.