English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Goos_. Heere ile take out your eye, and you wil Mistris.
_Pene_. No by my faith, Servant, t'is better in.
_Goos_. Why, Ladie, Ile but take it out in jest, in earnest.
_Pene_. No, something else there, good servant.
_Goos_. Why then here shall be a Camell, and he shall have hornes, and
he shall looke for all the World like a maide without a husband.
_Hip_. O bitter sir _Giles_.
_Ta_. Nay he has a drie wit, Ladie, I can tell ye.
_Pene_. He bobd me there indeed, my Lord.
_Fur_. Marry him, sweet Lady, to answere his bitter bob.
_King_. So she maie answere him with hornes indeed.
_Eug_. See what a pretty worke he weares in his boote-hose.
_Hip_. Did you worke them your selfe, sir _Gyles_, or buy them?
_Goos_. I bought am for nothing, Madam, in th'exchange.
_Eug_. Bought am for nothing?
_Tal_. Indeed, Madam, in th'exchange they so honour him for his worke,
that they will take nothing for any thing he buies on am; but wheres the
rich night-cap you wroght, cosen? if it had not bin too little for you,
it was the best peece of worke, that ever I sawe.
_Goos_. Why, my Lord, t'was bigge enough; when I wrought it, for I wore
pantables then you knowe.
_Tal_. Indeed the warmer a man keepes his feete the lesse he needs weare
uppon his head.
_Eug_. You speake for your kinsman the best that ever I heard, my Lord.
_Goos_. But I beleeve, Madam, my Lord my cosen has not told you all my
good parts.
_Ta_. I told him so I warrant you, cosen.
_Hip_. What doe you thinke hee left out sir _Gyles_?
_Goos_. Marry, Madam, I can take _Tobacco_ now, and I have bought
glow-wormes to kindle it withall, better then all the burning glasses
ith World.
_Eug_. Glowe-wormes, sir _Giles_? will they make it burne?
_Goos_. O good Madam, I feed am with nothing but fire, a purpose, Ile
besworne they eat me five Faggots a-weeke in Charcoale.
_Tal_. Nay he has the strangest devices, Ladies, that ever you heard,
I warrent ye.
_Fur_. That's a strange device indeed, my Lord.
_Hip_. But your sowing, sir _Gyles_, is a most gentlewoman-like quality,
I assure you.
_Pene_. O farr away, for now, servant, you neede never marry, you are
both husband, and wife your selfe.
_Goos_. Nay indeed, mistris, I wood faine marry for all that, and ile
tell you my reason, if you will.
_Pene_. Let's here it good servant.
_Goos_. Why, Madam, we have a great match at football towards, married
men against batchellers, and the married men be all my friends, so I
wood faine marry to take the married mens parts in truth.
_Hip_. The best reason for marriage that ever I heard sir _Gyles_.
_Goos_. I pray will you keepe my worke a little, Mistris; I must needes
straine a little courtesie in truth. [_Exit Sir Gyles_.
_Hip_. Gods my life, I thought he was a little to blame.
_Rud_. Come, come, you he[a]re not me, dame.
_Pur_. Well said, sir _Cut_: to her now; we shall heare fresh courting.
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