_Enter_[297] _Hostess_. _Hostis_. Oh, the father! Gallants, yonders the most hard favourd newes walkes the streetes, seaven men going to their graves, that dyed with drinking and bisseling.[298] _Acut_. Good, still, nay then I see the devill has some power over a woman more then a man. Seaven! t'will be more anon. _Get_. Now I beseech _Bacchus_ my puppie has not overseene[299] himself. _Scil_. This is verie strange. _Hostis_. And as true a report, I assure you. _Enter City-Wife_[300] _Cittie wife_. Out alas, where's my Gosip? Oh woman! have you not heard the newes? _Hostis_. Yes, I have heard on't. _Cittie wife_. Oh, woman, did your child's child ever see the like? nine men to bee buried too day, that drunk healthes last night. _Acut_. Better and better, goodnes never mends so fast in the carrying: nine! _Cittie wife_. They say one is your guest, _Philautus_. _Acut_. And all, I dare sweare, whome ile revive againe. _Cittie wife_. Well he was a propper man, yfaith. _Hostis_. I, and had good skill in prick-song, yet he had a fault in his humor, as none are without (but Puritans,); he would swear like an Elephant, and stamp and stare, (God blesse us,) like a play-house book-keeper when the actors misse their entrance. _Scil_. Nay, harke ye, sir, I can brooke much injurie but not that; meddle with me but not with my trade; shee is mine owne, shee's _meus, tuus, suus_, no man's else, I assure ye, we are sure[301] together. _Grac_. Sure ye are together, sir, but is your wife your trade? You meane to live upon your wife then. _Acut_. The foole has some wit,[302] though his money bee gone. _Grac_. Sir, I hope ye are not offended, I assure ye I would be loath to offend the least haire of your _caput, sissiput_, or _occiput_. _Scil_. _Occiput_? what meane you by _occiput_? _Grac_. The former part of your head. _Scil_. The former part of your head! why I hope I have not an occiput, in the former part of my head. Signior _Servulus_, what meanes he by it? _Serv_. The signification of the word only amounts to this, the former part of your head. _Accut_. The foole is jealious, prethee feede it. _Scil_. S'lid, I cannot be so sussified; I pray you, Segnior, what meanes he by _occiput_? _Grac_. No hurt, verily, onely the word signifies, and the reason is, saith _Varro_, being a great deriver from originals, it is called _occiput_ for that the former part of the head looks likest the Oxe. _Scil_. Likest the Oxe, by gad, if ere I come to talke with that _Varro_, ile make him show a better reason for it. _Grac_. But, howsoever, it proceeded from me all in kindenes. _Scil_. Sir, I accept it so, for I tell ye I am of a mollifying nature. I can strut and againe in kindnesse I can suffer a man to breake my head, and put it up without anger. _Accut_. I claime that priviledge, sir, I thinke I offended you once that way.