University of Virginia Library

[Actus Tertius]

[sc. i]

Enter. Varletti: Kathrine
Kath.
Banisht from Court?

Varl.
yes Banisht from court, & like a sentles hownd past servyce
rebuked & rated home to my kennell, by the Barons & the king

Kath.
the king! thow shouldst, I durst & wood ha told the['m] king
he dealt not like him selfe, but tis a curse
ffollowes a woman that like me will marry
a man of a Mans makeinge, capable
of no prferment more then cap and knee
can scrape from a kings smiles, & wt. are they?
but dyeing vanities, blossomes that fade
& fall off ith bloome, wert thow a Man yet?

Varl
man, mad woma: wt am I else a beast? but no more thow
dost but ad wings to the winde & throw oyle into Eatna, for
how ever I seme to force a slavish patience I could [chew my] in [the] a
[noble]/[mere] Bitternes of vexation chew my gall and spit it in the
ffaces of the proud Barronns. But that forgetfull Prorex

Kath.
Now I comend thy spirt
& will Ioyne strengthes in thy Revenge. thine ere
yong Geraldine sonn to [the] Earle [of] clarydon—

Varl.
[Hates me for wearing of his fathers title, champeon]

Kath.
[that hate (wt h a trick I have) Ile turne to Love]

Varl.
[trust not to [that] tricks, hele out [trick]/[Iugle] vs both if it come to [that]/[tricks]]
out
[once, [he is as]/[for] I am [faithfully]/[credibly] Informd, he is by the king [to get]]
Imploid vpon intelligence to get wt hin & betray my Loyalty]

Kath:
[thers subiect for my Wit to worke on then,]
out
[I know hym to be desperate, Humerous strong]
[in Tenants & in [freinds] Allyes.]

Varl.
[& wt can yor wit worke out of all that now.]

Kath.
[make him a freind & beare go An equall share venturer.]
[in yor maine faction]
[I mary sir Hic Labor Hoc opus. this were a Labour worthy a she Hercules]

Varl.
[such a trick handsomly playd woold be a good help to a weak game Indeed[OMITTED]]

Kath.
[feart not tis sure, now sr the news wt h yow.]

Enter. serv. yong Geraldine
Kath:
the man I wisht admit him
Ile to work streight

Varl.
& wt must I stand Idle

Kath.
Onely salute & complement, observe
out.
[be wise & make the best vse of yr knowledg]
[for warnd halfe Amd.]

Varl.
[but for the trick yw talkt on.]

Kath.
[the rest]/[Leave that] to me, yw shall se prety sport]
A Lamb beguile a ffox Ile hunt close fort.

Enter Gerald wt h a Pardon
Ger
Now Rome for a knave cu privelegio [for] & vnder pardon being
spoken I am a kinde of state Intelligencer, [«bu»t]

Varl.
my Lord of Clare, wt. er yr Busyness be
yar nobly wellcome

Ger:
noe great Busyness sr. onely kynde visitacion to yor self
& to renue acquaintance wt h my prety play fellow yor wife

Varl.
they ha byn at game then, why tis kindly done, And to the
best Intertainment, a dispicd Iaile can yeild (my howse
at this tymes no better) yar frely wellcome

Ger
Soe much I hard, & wonder at yor more then manly
fortitude to beare it, that proud Baron Conon—

Varl.
is a noble gentlema & worthely wears the Honor s I put off

Ger.
whither yow put em off, or the prorex pluckt em off [I]
In dubio est is a dowt amongst Doctors
[know not]: But I thought to have found yow in the full
heat & Harvest of action, writeing & receveing letters. solliciteing
ffreinds somoneing Tenants, & busy as a Bee, in building
vp the [body] frame of a new ffaction, if he has any spark of revenge
in him this will kindle it or nothing, Is yor life in chase by Lyons
& Tigers? & yow ronn a scaperloiteing wt h boyes after
Beetles & butter fflyes the very thought ont mads me,

Varl.
never moves me: Bid thy freind wellcome Kate
I wisht for a chaire of ease & now I hate—

Ext
Ger.
a stoick a mere Tymonist I may make wast paper
of my pardon, theres no such vanity as speaking off
treason in Rerum natura

Kath.
pray sr a word

Ger
wt h me swete play fellow?

Kath
wt h yow sr. tho my husband like a hogg—

Ger.
A swine, a very Boarish Animall & Lookes—

Kath.
no higher then the trough he eats his huskes in I have
an ey—to wepe myne owne & a hart to compassionate [hart]
[to mourne] my freinds wrong

Ger.
How yor freinds—a my life in Love wt h me—

Kath.
yes yours.
for how ere clowded. yow are in deathes black booke
as depe as we

Ger
I in deathes Bookes for wt. I never bought nor sold wt h
[that slipery m'chant]/[him], how the devill should I come in his Bookes then,
& for wt.

Kath.
for feare yow should revenge yor fathers murder.

Ger.
my fathers murder

thers treason a c[OMITTED]ing the mints going
already Ile help to stampe it, they wc h they

(Marginal note)

Kath
yes they poisend him.

Ger
The Barrons?

Kath.
& the prorex.

Ger:
did I [mary sr.]/[not say soe] why this is treason to my harts Desire, It honyes
me A litle more & I surffeit: I hard such a whisper Indeed

Kath.
that whisper now is growne to a full voice
& sayes the prorex poisend Clarydon,—

Ger.
And this
be not as trew treason as ever Tobacho shop or Taverne yelds thers no spirit in Canary.

Kath.
& cause my husband wood not yeild consent
they Banisht [me]/[him] the court.

she draws me into play spite of my teth

(Marginal note)

Ger.
& sent me a Batfowleing to catch him in the limbush of

Kat.
Intelligence, I could have told yow that [too]. afore too.
his life they cannot touch tho.

Ger.
nor I nether he lyes at too sure guard, & I comend him fort too. some of
there coppie holds Ile touch to the quick tho.

Kath.
Las wt s one single valour gainst so many
could yow but worke my husband to yr faction

Ger.
How work him toot, he wonnot, canot sha not deny me

Kath.

Ger.
by the? in any thing, why thart my patrone, my protection my Polletico
my pardon is a meere parenthesis to her, (& yet if Varletti should
stand off: as all things considerd, he has no great reason to come
on. I shalbe as able to powder the prorex as he was to
poisen my father,

Kath.
so, I have done, perv'st, and as yow like
the sence, sub scribe or cancellt.

Varl
now for the trick she talkt on—

Ger.
Reads.
Noble Varletti, for my fathers most Inhumaine murder, I
purpose a sharpe & sodaine revenge, In wc h I request yw
to Ioyne & share fortunes, the Prorex dead, we two wilbe
competitors in the crowne: Subscribe it: yes both
wt h my penn & sword. the pen.—yor s. Geraldine.

Varl.
I mary girle This trick cleanly tane vp may Be worth a crowne Indeed

Ger
Brave amazonian. this thy Noble encoragement, name
of a crowne, and easy demonstracōn to attaine it, makes
me all fyer, & active flame, wele kill him at table kneling
at his Devotion

Kath
that were to charitabler. be ruld by me, to morow the
king mainetains a sollemp̄ne hunt for the stag Royall,
at wc h my husband & yor self Disguisd, haveing singled him

Ger.
no more, theres thy fee, when I am king shalt ride in
purple, be sargeant of the Coife & crossclothe, but will
thy husband Ioyne hands thinkst—

Enter Varletti
Varl.
Both hands & Harts, I overhard all, & like it so well, as
give me but that noat to evidence my Loyalty. when
yow come to be king once, as that Honor I dare promise y«w»

Ger.
And Ile desyre no greater, takt wt h my hart

Varl
but it will cost some heads—

Ger
Never feare thine, for the Porex dead, & by thy hand
for tis my purpose to giue the the Honor of it, both
court & comons will hold it an Act in the being A Romaine
worth Cronocle at Least if not Meritorious—

Kath.
& not wt hout cause, for by it they shake off all slavery.

Ger.
redeme there fredomes, displant the Romaine Garison

Varl.
chose & proclaime a king of there owne nation

Kath
And who so fit to succed Tarquī as Brutus—yor self

Ger.
And I had but his berd, his gravetye, we want a beard
a man of experience to countenance & direct vs.

Kath
& well remembred? wt. saye to my vncle Percy banishd
by the Prorex into ffrance.

Varl.
[a man made for the purpose swete Kate write for him stregh[OMITTED]]

Ger
[Percy. I should know him: wt was that Percye]

Varl
[brave mettled fellow, Humorous blody & somwt. vainglorious]

Ger.
[thre admirable virtus in a com̄der. Allex. had none better.]

Varl.
[hees Eminent in em all tho.]

Ger.
[write for him streight, & when I am king once as let me se]
[all this is vnder pardon yet, for till the stroke]
[be given alls veniall no condicion broake]
[& tho I canot rule my tongue Ile governe my hands.]
[let my Romaine spirit take the Honor of that]
[write for [him] thine vncle streight; the prorex downe.]
[we twole be rivalls in the British Crowne]

Ext.
Varl.
[when I have done wt ht, but haveing reacht it once]
[Ile stand alone tumble my Ladder downe]
[if he slip from me, or but one step mistread]
[I haves owne hand here to strike off his head.]

Kath.
[thank her that got it]

Varl.
my she Machevill
excellent in all, best both at good and ill—

ext

[sc. ii]

Enter Clarydon, throw of his cloke Apeare disguisd as the waspe.
Gilb.
ffarewell old Clare, & welcome mr waspe, In this fantastick
& ridiculous habit Tyme gives me Leave to play [thy] the foole, & [for]
make a foole both of the Tyme & my self too, & fooleing in
this Censorious [& over Curyous] age, is a fashion that some
[of yr witts will vouchsafe to walk in—yor Timonist or as]
[we call e'm Tyme-ist is yr onely man—for he is allowd or]
[at least takes allowance, to raile at Authority, gird at [the]]
[governement & vnder pretence of strikeing at pety Abuses]
[[beg] in others, begets & generates greater in himself—& in]
[this swarme do I buz and make a noise but sting none, noh—]
[I differ from yor tyme-ist in that]
[my Wife, a faire & I hope a good one, thrust from her]
[right by my vngratious [son] boye lives in disguice here at]
[Waltamstowe, wt h whome to make tryall of her disposytiō]
[I live [as] a servant, my h* man howlet I have sent in quest]
[of my sonns behavior, & here he comes—how now disguizd]

Enter Howl.
Howl.
A litle transformd, my metamorphosd lord, a poore Tassell
that dangles at the purse string of the fashion, but I have
most contagious news to tell yw of yr sonn;

Gilb.
wt ist knave dooth he kepe a good howse & governt Noblye.

Howl.
for howskepeing, he kepes the very same howse yw did, & all land to y[OMITTED]
but has got such a palsy ins elboo wt h shakeing a dy—all is i«n»
danger to be cast away at a cast, for good chere I think he
kepes more, then ever yw could or wood do.

Gilb
some comfort in that yet how dos he kepe it

How
mary so close, that a poore man may sooner break his
neck then his fast wt h him—hees very temperate tho, for to
avoyd gluttony and drunkenes he kepes a leane kichin, & a
dry Butterye, has casheird all yr old servingme, & kepes
onely a Coach man, two footmen and a page.

Gilb.
[that all his traine]

Houl.
[Tis well the peacock has so much. considering the course he take]

Gilb.
[course wt. course]

How.
[why hees turnd scholler sr., goes to schole, & studies the Art of]
[memory (the wrong waye,) wc h is to fforget his father & not]
[remember his freinds, [w] he proffits wondrous well too for he knowes not him]
[selfe all ready, has made my Lady a prentise turnd her tyme over]
[to the vestalls [for]/[&] me poore Howlet he has thrust out of my]
[Ivy bushe, & threatens to hang me for the box of Iewells you wot on, & to]
[shonn the offycers like other gentlm I flew into a new fashion,]

Gilb:
[well let him ronn his course Ile shortly course hym out on't.]
[Ile se yw provided for, wt h one yow litle dreame on. go wet yor beak ithe butery ywle sing the clerer]

Exit Howlet
Enter. Countess. Luce
Count.
wt. thinkst thow of this country life my girle
my constitution doeth like it far
beyond the Honorable miserye
that waits on greatnes—pride is here a stranger
ffly blowne ambition has no being heare
here snarleing Envy has no residence
heres Earthes content, & here I do not feare
the slipery fall of noble wrechednes

Gilb.
she makes som vse of her retirement I comend her for that ye[OMITTED]

Count:

Luce.
In my Mynde tis better being here, then sit bloweing a cole wt h
the vestalls, rather then I wood be shut vp from the company
of man as they are, I would ventur of six husbands in seven
weeks tho I ware sure to bury every mothers son of em—

Gilb.
Thow woldst ha bene a good wife fer a bucher, tho lovst flesh so well,

Count
ah wench the Love of my deare lord deceast
has closd my hart gainst thought of second Mariage,

Gilb
shas not forgot me yet then, some comfort in that too—

Count.
And yet thow seest I am dayly cloyd wt h suitors
& for the Honourd port that I have kept
I still affect a bounteous howskepeing
& canot chose but give e'm freindly welcome
yet I could wish I ware well rid of em,

Gilb
Lass good Penelope, but Ile take away that trouble from the pn̄tly.

Count
But wheres that downe-right honnest man the waspe
his harmeless buzzing highly does content me,
vpon my word I like his open waye
of playnes, tas no trick of flatery int.
I am perswaded has had better breeding
then he makes showe off, but here he comes himself
now Mr. waspe where ha yw byn buzing this morneing

Gilb
Marry Mr s. I have byn buzzing & huming to find out that
wc h any man may finde wt hout seekeing

Count.
whats that

Gilb.
knavery Roguery cozenage villanie, I have sene the devill
& the flesh beat the worlds eyes out, & now being blinde
she takes vpon her like gill Iustice & mistakes every thing, so that an
honest man can nether speke nor doe any thing in safetye,
but mr s. I haue a suit to yw.

Count.
I have too many suiters allready

Gilb
I must prefer one more tho, not to be yor husband but yor
good-man, in the sence of service I meane, he has but
a few good condicions & ther for ant plese yw let him
relate e'm him selfe, Come sr a—
Enter Howl:
re herse some of yr best parts

Howl.
Trewly Mr i s. when I was a stripling I cheated a lawyer
of his lyeinge, & in less then a yeare he was allmost
beggerd for want of it, & I was never the Richer
[wt h it] fort nether, because I lack the skill wit to make trew vse it, so I in pity gave]
it [him] the pore fellow Agen, & he has thriven & growne devilish]
rich by it]

Count
A very Charitable part & a conscyonable]

Howl.
[he belongs not to that court tho, he will not ly at so low]
[a prize, then I met wt h a poore Taylor, & robd him]
stet
[of his truth wc h I have kept ever synce, for the]
[Taylour wonnot have it Againe, if I wood give him]
[mony to boot, for hees now Mr of his parish and his cloak]
[butterd quite thro wt h velvet]

Gylbert
[so then by this it Apears thow canst nether ly nor steale]
[trulye]

Howl.
[trewly I can do nether]

Count:
[I like the the better, & Intertaine the]

Howl.

[Exit Howlet]
Enter 4.
Count.
[more suiters yet wellcome all gentleme.]

Kenw.
[Retire & know yor places. I tooke yow as Aids not peremptory]
[corivalls & therfore fall off.]

gr:
[I am a soulyer, the word of courage is come on; & ther fore]
[ffall yw off into the Reare, Ile have the Honor of the van my selfe]
[if yow will accept the affectionate service of an vnconquerd]
[Martialist, Hanniball, Cesar Dangerfeild, gunpowder Ally]
[my Millitary Garizon, I freely tender it, I am by title a]
[Solyor.—Alexander hymsclfe no more, & tho my function be]
[bloody & all for purple Execution—]

Gilb.
[talks like a Hangma—]

Count:
[conffesses him self a cuthroate.]

gr.
[yet it is knowne I never put any Man to the sword, wt hout a]
[Iusticiary tryall, In all my designes I have byn victorious]
[& never came home empty of Spoile, all wc h, wt h my sword]
[gauntlet, & swete selfe. I humbly prostrate at yor service]

Gilb
[Thanks good Horatio (but take thy glove Againe, she ansers]
[no challenges, I am her champeon: How dee like him widowe]

Count
[Somwt. to bloody if I shold mary yow sr. I must bynde yow to]
[the peace, for I am a very coward: [the next]. How now]

Hunt:
[I am by quallity a lawyer, & yet no lawyer but a cuntry]
[sollicite r. & have skill to vndo more clyents in one returne by]
[my single knavery—then 20. cyty coun sellors. can soader]
[a gen in a terme wt h all ther vnited Honestyes. I have but litle]
[Land, & that lyes comon too: & yet wt h a trick of myne]
[owne trampling I make it yeld me 4. Crops a yere constant]

grig
[thats nothing I have one tre beres me fruite 12. tymes]
[a yeare, once a moneth at least. a kind of choke peare I]
[confess. but]

Gilb.
[An orchard of such trees, wood set vp a yong costerdmonger.]
[how doe yow like em now?]

Knock
Count.
[so well I know not wc h is worst, & wood wt hall my hart be]
[[rid off em all;] How now who knockes there? som Habeas]
[Corpus to remove em all I hope.]

Damp.
[Swete mistress of my Ascendant]

Enter. servas
serv:
[Mr ffalbridge the cunstable of the Hundreth.]

Damp
[& he were constable of ten thowsand Ile speake out my spech]
[now I ha studyed it, most bowntefull & riche]

Count.
[pray kepe yor riches I have no need of em,]

Damp
[my part Mr s. will yow not give me Leave to play my part]

Count.
[T wood be a far greater part of modesty in yow to for beare]
[this fall-bridg is a shrowd fellow & he be chafft. let yor]
[spech alone till dynner tyme, twilbe the better gracd I assur yw]

How.
[By yor Leave widow—]

enter Howlet. & officers
Damp.
[Imortall Zenith off Beatitude, the next line ravishes her]

How.
[By virtue of the k: warant to Iustice Byndover, I am to]
[make privy serch for 3. or 4. disguisd rascalls. now cause I will]
[not be Impartiall in my office, I must serch the rich widow aswell as the poore]
[My wit gives me warant for it & my pollicy shall bere me out in it]

grig.
[good Mr wit & pollicy I hope we are not those rascalls—]

Houl.
[wit & pollicy for bid & yet a knave lookes so like an honest man—]
[an officer can scarce know wc h is wc h. but those I serch for are]
[fled the city for meritorious rogueryes, the one is a hangma]
[much of that Gentlemans picthe]

grig
[My pich? wt a snuffling grinkans this—Harke yow, mr ffalb. are not yr]
[Eyes sisters]

How.
[My wp s wit conffesses it, but wt. means yr pollicy to aske]

grig

Howl.
[my wit vnderstands yow. gent. but my pollicy, canot giue yw so]
[sownd an Answeare as I could wishe.]

Gilb
[I partly believe yw but forward mr ffalbridge]

How.
[This mad hangman, had a trick to be lukewarme in his office, &]
[burnt a thefe in the hand wt h a cold Iron; for wc h it is knowne he]
[tooke bribes & thervpon, he is privately fled the Citye,]

Ken.
[theres a test for yw mr. grig.]

grig.
[pox ons fingers that made it, this romes to hot, Ile go cole my self in the Irish aile]

Damp.
[mary a faire winde after yw. mr. Camelion. & I could but come to speke]
[my spech once, thy sparkling nose thy sparows eyes.]

How.
[The second was a Broaking Lombard, for conyveing wt h theves]
[& receiving stolne goods; wc h found ins howse hees likewise ffled,]

Damp.
[they were found since I came forth then—A pore rascall peacht]
[me last Sessions I confess. Ile be gone for fere the stone choke me the next]

Hunt.
[stay diner speake yr spech & take yr answer of the widow first]

Howl.
[The third was an Informer. who takeing a 100l. bribe of vintners]
[& vitlers, for dressing & vending flesh vpon fasting dayes,]
[had wit to take the mony & pollicy to betray them to a brother of]
[who sued the statut vpon e'm. recoverd & sharde the divident]

Hunt:
[now I have eat the Roast, I am in danger to be beaten wt h the]
[spitt: this kichins to hott for me I must take a cooler Roome,]

Ken:
[[Afore yw have an answere from the widow, se now am I] sols cu sol[OMITTED]]

Howl.
[The last is a most dellicate sharkeing rascall, that has some 24.]
[trades, a man of monstrous acquaintance, for he knows all the]
[Tibs & the Toms. the Natts & the Molls—all the Hee & she cozeners]
[& cut-purses, pick pockets & chetes in the city I have hym vnder]
[the clawe of my pollicy too, & my wit assurs me I shall fynd]
[him out]

Ken:
[But may not, yor wit & yor pollicy be decivd in him think yw.]

Howl.
[no, no—deceivd no no no noh]

Ken:
[pax of yor noe'-s & I curse not to late, I must een turne fidler]
[too, & sneake after my noise, if I can play the trew thefe & steale]
[my selfe honcstly out of there companies I care not.]

Ext
Count.
[These are a pack of swet beagles, well worth hanging indeed,]
[[now gent. to yr speche, lets ha yr Iudgmt. mr ffalb.] but my suiters where «.»]

How.
[why they & the 4. rascalls I serch for are gone togither & se]
[all my wit & pollicy is gone Along wt h e'm.]

Count.
[How my new Servant turnd constable, How comes this A bout]

How.
[why thes weare the very same men disguisd, that I pr tended]
[my serch for, now to rid yow of a trouble, & wipe of an old]
[Recking that was be twixt vs. I put this clinch vpon em.]

Count.
[I thanke the, & will well reward the fort:]

Howl.
[Ile go carry home my wit & pollicy where I borrowd it, for]
[for the constable that lent it me is as very coxcomb as I wt hout it]

[Gilb.]
[well go thy wayes, for a sodaine Ieast I ha seene a worse.]
but now widow [thes vermyne being frighted awaye wt h this
painted staff of pollicy] wt s. the reason yw Blow of yor
substantiall suitors so sleightly.

Count
onely to drawe thee on, &—I perceive it dryves the further off
Hast Any stomach to mary? Ime most Horibly in Love wt h thee.

Gilb.
Troth not to desemble, tis more then I am wt h yow then

Count.
yor reason? am I not yong beutifull & wealthy.

Gilb.
yes & wc h is worth em all, somwt Im̄odest

Count
Imodest come yar too bitter: tho it be yor nature
to buzze, & make a sawcy noise wt h yor ffellows—
(the more my fault to countnance it) yet if yw
goe about to stinge my reputacion once—

Gilb.
Reputacōn marry buzz: reputacon̄: thast none
never hadst Any.
knowst not what it is reputacion ha ha ha mary buzz.

Count.
dost laugh Imposture

Gilb
& hartely in trothe; to see yow can Indure no Ieast madam,

Count
How madam?

Gilb
a word broak prison [gainst my knowledge]/[a fore I was a ware ont].

Count
calt in agen in tyme then least yow Answer fort

Gilb
no synce tis out, let it go, if be calld in question fort Ile
make it good.

Count.
that I am a lady wood thow couldst else—

Gilb.
that yow are a lady I can, nay more a Countess I will, &
more then that an Honob l e. countess the Erle of Claridonns
Countess.

Count.
Am I betrayd

Gilb.
no nere mistrust it—for by the Love I ought yor husband, for
whose sake I thus carfully observe yow, yor life[s] & Honors as safe in my kepeing
as in his owne being alive

Count.
nay tho a stranger I dare Credit the
& cann take no thing ill that comes from the.—
Indeed thy services are so gentile
fayre & becomeing they comand acceptance
& som thing in me pleads [thy]/[a] suit for the
would ha me call the husband & halfe perswades me
thow worthely deservst it.

Gilb
me husband? mary buz, I am meane & poore yow see,

Count
it Is not wealth but virtue & thy care
of my wrongd Honor—And wart not I have vowd
a single life, sure I should mary the.

Gilb:
lass good Penelope, that webbs woven long agoe, theres
som kyndnes in her affections yet theyd faine take acquaine
taince on me & she would suffer vm. But if yow Love me
as yow proffesse & I partly Beleve, here a good Ieast
madam, wt. say yw if to gull the world & make our selvs merry
we pr supposed a private Maryage, & gave out our
selvs to be man & wife Indeed.

Count:
Livd & so kept howse togither twold allow our thoughts much
fredome of familiarity

Gilb
& rid yow from a great many of vnruly suiters, besides we
are not the first paire of Barbarie pidgeons, that have
buzd & billd togither in the day & flowne to severall Locker
holes at night

Count.
An excellent conceit, & I a prove it will instantly go voise
it [a]'mongst the tenants & [my] howshold servants, take
[giue thee purse keyes &] government of all,
[Controwle the Howhold,] alter my estate
[buy sell make bargaines, build & Ruynate.]
renew old Leases but do not rack my Tenants.

Gilb.
I comend the for that yet, hold e'm still at theld rent

Count.
be liberall to the poore banquet the rich
be bowntefull to all

Gilb
If Iturne mizer vn husband me Agen,

Count.
& now & then for more variety
seeme to finde fault—& ccoff me, chide a litle!
thow art too myld to chide

Gilb
I can buz a make a Horible noise if I be angry once not else

Count
let me alone Ile anger the I warne the—

G.
& Ile buz then fer* not the

Count.
& then like children wele fall out & wrangle
for toies & triffles & ath sodaine playe
our selvs good freinds & fall in. [againe twill be my plesure]

Gilb.
By no meanes no falling in theres danger in th«is» I shall st«i»g «t»h*

Count.
to be comanded by the—I shall take great plesure

Gilb:
I comend the for that thy tother husband was a good
comander & if ere I do come to enter the breach thow shalt fynde me no bench whistler, when
—I do sting I sting to the quicke

Count.
Show yor selfe generous & take state vpon yow
you may have cause to vse it

Gilb
Trew I may come to be vpper churchwarden. or high constabl«e»
of the hundreth. [plant a sparagas] garden [for recreation] & [too] [to proffit my self & plesur my fre[OMITTED]]
& then—a gowne [furrd] linde wt h a litle state will not be a mis [for entertainemt]

Count.
strange power of Love, I cann for beare no Longer
grant fate I do not Ieast my self into
an Earnest dotage, for by this amorous kiss—
as chast & harmeless as the dreams of babes
I love the as derely as the Count thats dead
& can deny the nothing

Gilb
yes his bed.

Count:
I had forgotten that, come husband now
grant [Iuno] Vesta Love make me not Breake my Vow.

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Gilb.
wert not a good Ieast & yow should see me make my self
a cuckold now, twere no very strange thing & yet my
modesty Blushes at the very conceit of it
yet wher fore blushe, when a peice of grownd lyes comō.
ech sexe may till it, aswell man as woman
[Ex]
[This is myne owne severall tho, & I may make the]
[bolder wt ht by all that yow know]

Ext