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SCENA. 5.

Appetitvs, Mendatio, Lingva.
Ap.
So-hoe Mendatio! so-hoe, so-hoe!

Men.

Madame I doubt they come, yonder is Appetitus, you
had best begon, least in their outrage they should iniure you.
(Exit Lingua)
How now Hunger? how do'st thou my fine
may-pole, ha?


Ap.

I may well be calld a may-pole: for the Senses do nothing
but dance a morice about mee.


Men.

Why? what ayles them? are they not (as I promised
thee) friends with thee.


Ap.

Friends with mee? nay rather frenzy: I neuer knewe
them in such a case, in all my life.


Men.

Sure they dranke too much, and are mad for loue of
thee.


Ap.

They want common Sense among'st them: there's such
a hurly burly Auditus is starke deafe, and wonders why Men
speake so softly that he cannot here them: Visus hath drunke
himselfe starke blind, and therefore imagineth himselfe to bee
Polyphemus: Tactus is raging mad, and cannot bee otherwise
perswaded, but hee is Hercules furens; there's such conceits
amongst them.