English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Ta_. Ile doe the best I can, Lady; first, he danses as comely, and
lightly as any man, for upon my honour, I have seene him danse upon
Egges, and a has not broken them.
_Pene_. Nor crackt them neyther.
_Ta_. That I know not; indeed I wood be loath to lie though he be my
kinsman, to speake more then I know by him.
_Eug_. Well, forth my Lord.
_Ta_. He has an excellent skill in all manner of perfumes, & if you
bring him gloves from forty pence, to forty shillings a paire, he will
tell you the price of them to two pence.
_Hip_. A pretty sweet quality beleeve me.
_Tales_. Nay Lady he will perfume you gloves himselfe most delicately,
and give them the right Spanish Titillation.
_Pene_. Titillation what's that my Lord?
_Tal_. Why, Lady, tis a pretty kinde of terme new come up in perfuming,
which they call a Titillation.
_Hip_. Very well expounded, my Lord; forth with your kinsmans parts I
pray.
_Tal_. He is the best Sempster of any woman in England, and will worke
you needle-worke-edgings, and _French_ purles, from an Angell to foure
Angells a yarde.
_Eug_. That's pretious ware indeed.
_Tal_. He will worke you any flower to the life, as like it as if it
grew in the very place, and being a delicate perfumer, he will give it
you his perfect, and naturall savour.
_Hip_. This is wonderfull; forth, sweet Lord _Tales_.
_Tal_. He will make you flyes, and wormes, of all sorts most lively, and
is now working a whole bed embrodred, with nothing but glowe wormes;
whose lights a has so perfectly done, that you may goe to bed in the
Chamber, doe any thing in the Chamber, without a Candle.
_Pene_. Never trust me, if it be not incredible; forth my good Lord.
_Tal_. He is a most excellent Turner, and will turne you wassel-bowles,
and posset Cuppes caru'd with libberds faces, and Lyons heads with
spouts in their mouths, to let out the posset Ale, most artificially.
_Eug_. Forth, good Lord _Tales_.
_Pene_. Nay, good my Lord no more; you have spoken for him thoroughly I
warrant you.
_Hip_. I lay my life _Cupid_ has shot my sister in love with him out of
your lips, my Lord.
_Eug_. Well, come in, my Lords, and take a bad Dinner with me now, and
we will all goe with you at night to a better supper with the Lord and
Lady _Furnifall_.
_King_. _Tale_. We attend you, honorable Ladies.
_Exeunt_.
_Actvs Tertii_.
SCAENA PRIMA.
_Enter Rudesby, Goosecappe_.
_Rud_. _Bullaker_.
_Bul_. I, Sir.
_Rud_. Ride, and catch the Captaines Horse.
_Bul_. So I doe Sir.
_Rud_. I wonder, Sir _Gyles_, you wood let him goe so, and not ride
after him.
_Goos_. Wood I might never be mortall sir _Cutt_: if I rid not after
him, till my horse sweat, so that he had nere a dry thread on him, and
hollod, and hollod to him to stay him, till I had thought my fingers
ends wood have gon off with hollowings; Ile be sworne to yee, & yet he
ran his way like a _Diogenes_, and would never stay for us.
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