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The fourthe scene.

Enter Obba & the musitians. Obba bringing a baskette of flowers.
Obb:
Yee fidlers follow mee, there take your place
If that your throates are dry Ile liquour them.
Ile straw these flowers on the ground, this day
My master must bee married, if I
Bee not well tipled before euening
I Obba ne're will drinke καθ' ολον more.
Enter Grunnio.
O Ioue what doe I see? Vse ghosts to walke
Before our dores? whose spirit art thou? speake
I thee adiure by Proserpinaes heade
By Acheron, by Styx & Phlegeton
And by the dismall boate that Charon rowes
By triple-headed Cerberus, by—.

Grun:
Lord, Obba.
What meanest thou by this? dost thou not knowe
Leane macilente Grunnio?

Obb:
I verily did take thee for some sp'rite
Thou lookst like an Anatomy, mee thinks
The winde shoulde whirle thee vp into the ayre.

Grun:
That I preuente by wearing leaden soles

Obb:
By Ioue thou art transparent, if I stande
Behinde thy backe I can see through thy nose.

Grun:
Tho see'st what tis to liue on browne breade crusts
To drinke deade vineger & lodge in straw.

Obb:
Ha, ha, he.
I am almoste dissolu'd into laughter
Art not thou famines sonne?

Grun:
I rather thinke
ffamine to bee my sonne, mee her mother
These tenne months I haue borne her in my wombe
And hope to bee deliuered this feaste.

Obb:
What doth Philargurus at home.

Grun:

Obb:
Why soe?

Grun:
Least in his sleepe he lose parte of his breathe

Ob.
O thrifty man.

Gru:
Wilt suffer mee after the feaste is done
To licke the greazy platters?

Obb:
Ile fill thy paunche full, neuer feare thy guttes.

Enter Philar.
Grun:
I see my master comming. Obba where
Where shall I hide mee? what? in the buttry?

Obb:
ffollow mee.

Grun:
O how my teethe doe water.