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SCEN 4.

Sir Dauid alone, cracking Nuts.
Dau.

So ho, So ho, where be my Leash of noble Hookers
bestowed, Troe wee, Troe wee? I think they be fal'n by this
welkin, by whom I shall be sau'd now, into some Bogge, For by
S
t Anne I haue known, in my dayes the lyke case to haue happend, by concopulating, Sub audiendum est, by concopulating, so
that I can not now chuse but thus hallow after them, they be so
farr enterd into my Ematriculate Booke Perdy; But Ho, Vnica
Nux prodest nocet altera (Nux) Tertia Mors est, Vmph, Moreouer

in Summe and in the Synopsis of the Account Vina Venus
nuces faciunt corrumpere voces. Wel. If I were but to institute a
Cathedrall, I would make it Expulsion but for one to kisse a
wench or but for one to eate one sole Nut, For loe you now how
the Arraunt Calf does so grate the Crotchet vpon the Tooth of
man. Now as I do remember Cock and Hen went once a nutting
when Cock climing a Nut Three Hen stayd belowe to
gather, Fuck, quoth the Cock, Duck, quoth the Hen, when one
small Nut lighting on her little No Land, This Hen assured her
Chuck that the whole world was then falln on her, Tut, sayd
the Cock, But, sayd the Hen, Butted she so long, that the
Cock descrying, on the sudden, a full and bouncing showre of
Hayle comming toward him, was in huge and bodily Feare least
the whole Neast of the stars would instantly haue founderd all
and whole vpon him, wherevpon he bad his sweet Duck Incontinently
Trusse the whole wallet and home to be Jogging, So, I
least the same chaunce should now befall mee (For what can I
tell what omnipotent Fortune prætendeth by this Diuision or
Schisme of vs) I will instantly loe stretch my gosier, wide as euer
I haue him, to my Ayde, and crye (who if they come not at the
call the Pox goe with them all) lowde as euer I may, So ho, So
ho, ho ho ho, Hallow, whoope.