=Pam.= Why doth a kisse take ought away from your virginitie? =Ma.= Would you thinke it well done that I shoulde be frée of kisses vnto other men. =Pam.= Nay marrie I would haue my kisses spared for my selfe. =Ma.= I keepe them for you then. And yet there is an other thing in y^e way, which maketh me that I dare not at thys time giue you a kisse. =Pam.= What is that. =Ma.= You saye that your soule is alreadie gone well néere altogither into my body, and a very small parte thereof taryeth behinde in your owne, so that I feare in time of a kisse, that which remayneth might happen to sterte out after it, & then were you altogither without a soule. Haue you therefore my right hande in token of mutuall loue, and so fare you well. Go you earnestly about your matters. And I for my part in the meane while, shall pray vnto Christ, that the thing which you do, may be vnto the ioy and felicitie of vs both. Amen [Illustration] * * * * * Of the yong man and the _euill disposed woman_. =Lucrecia.= =Sophronius.= Iesu mercy my olde louing Frynde _Sophronius_, are you at length come againe vnto vs? nowe mee thinkes you haue beene awaye euen a worlde space, Truelye at the first blushe I scarce knewe you. =Sophronius.= And why so myne olde acquanintaunce _Lucres_? =Lucres.= Why so? bicause at your departing you had no berd at al, now you become a handsome beardling. But what is the matter my sweete harte: for me thinks you are waxed more sterne and graue countenaunced then to fore you had wont. =Sophronius.= I would gladly talke with you friendlye in some place aparte from all companye. =Lucres.= Why are we not here alone (my luste?) =Sophronius.= No, let vs go our selues into some place yet more secret and priuie. =Lu.= Be it so, let vs go into my inwarde chamber, if ought you list to doe. =Sophronius.= Yet mee thinketh this place is not close & secret ynough. =Lucres.= Why? whence comes this new shamefastnesse vpon you. I haue a Closet wherein I lay vp my Iewels and array, a place so darke that vnneth the one of vs shall see the other. =So.= Looke round about it, if there be any crany or rifte. =Lu.= Here is not a cranye nor rifte to be seene. =So.= Is there no body neere that mought listen and here vs? =Lu.= No verily not a flie (my ioy) why doubt you? Why go you not about your purpose? =So.= Shall wee here beguile the eies of God? =Lu.= Not so, for he seeth thorow all things? =So.= Or shall wee be out of the sight of his Aungels? =Lu.= Neyther, for no bodie can hide him out of their sight. =So.= How happeneth it then, that we be not ashamed to doe that before the eies of God, and in the presence of his holy Aungels, which wee woulde be ashamed to doe in the syght of men? =Lu.= What a strange thing is this, came you hither to preache? put yee on, one of Saint Francis cowles, and get ye vp into the Pulpit, and let vs heare you there my yong Beardling.