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SCENA QVARTA.

Enter Invention and Judicium.
Invent.
Bvt is it certaine which Report affirmes?
Young Topicus and Demonstration,
So shortly shall be married? Speake Judicium,
What doe you heare?

Iudic.
I am for truth assur'd
E're night their Nuptials will be finished:
This Morning from Verona come the Ladies,
Whose presence onely is attended here.
And now the love, Invention, which you beare
To Topicus, may best conceive my joy,
For Demonstrations equall happinesse.

Invent.
My joy and love esteemed by your owne
You well approve, and make me confident
Upon your judgment in a lesser thing:
My working thoughts to celebrate this day,
Have here brought forth a rude impollisht Rime
Where-with I dare trust your friendly censure.

Iudic.
You may be bold, on me, who cannot blame
What ever quick Invention hath compos'd.

Invent.
Nay, flattery becomes you not; 'tis this.

He delivers him a paper.
Judic.
What is't an Epigram?

Inven.
I have mistaken.

Iudic.

Nay Sir, by your favour, I will presume upon your
courtesie to read it.

Amico.

Our Civill Law doth seeme a royall thing,
It hath more Titles than the Spanish King:
But yet the Common Law quite puts it downe,
In getting, like the Pope, so many a Crowne.

Invent.
Nay, now I pray conceale not what you thinke.

Iudic.
You know Judicium ought to be conform'd
To Lawes, and not to speake his minde of them.

Invent.
I aske your censure of my Epigram,
Not of the Lawes.

Iudic.
I thinke that it were fit
It had a glosse to shew your meaning, what
You understand by Titles, and by Crownes;
Those words are doubtfull: but Sir shall I see
The other?

Jnven.
Stay, her's Fallacy.