=Maria.= And before what iudgement seate shall I be arrayned, before the seuere =Areopagetes= and God will? =Pam.= Not so, but before the tribunall seate of _Venus_. =Maria.= Best of al, for they say she is a patient and pitiful Goddesse. =Pam.= Say you so, there is not one amongst them all, whose wrath is more to be feared. =Ma.= Why, hath she a thunderbolte? =Pam.= No. =Maria.= Hath she a thréeforked mase like _Neptune_? =Pam.= Not so. =Ma.= Hath she a speare as _Pallas_? =Pam.= Neyther: but shée is a Goddesse of the Sea. =Maria.= I come not within hir kingdome. =Pam.= But she hath a boye. =Maria.= I feare no boyes. =Pam.= He is readie to reuenge, and will paye home when he striketh. =Ma.= And what shall he doe to me? =Pam.= What shall he doe: the gods fore let him. I will prognosticate none euill vnto one, whome I beare good will. =Ma.= Yet tell me I pray you, I will take no conceit of it. =Pam.= Then will I tell you if you shall disdaine this louer, who doubtlesse is not vnworthie your loue, verily I beleue, that same boy (peraduenture at the cōmaundement of his mother) wyll thirle into your heart a launce embrued with to bad a poyson, wherby you shal set your affection miserably vppon some hoblout, who shall not loue you any whit againe. =Ma.= Marrie that were a plague in déede, of all other most to be detested. Certes I had rather to die, than to be entangled in the loue of one which is deformed, & could not finde in his hart to loue me likewise againe. =Pam.= But it is not long time, since there was a right notable example of this euil, which I now speak off, shewed in a certaine yong damzel. =Ma.= In what place, and I may be so bold as to ask you? =Pam.= At the Citie _Aurelia_. =Ma.= Howe many yeares ago? =Pam.= Howe many yeares, nay, it is scarse yet ten monethes. =Ma.= And what was the Maydes name? whereat sticke you? =Pam.= Nothing. I knewe hir as well as I knewe you. =Ma.= Why tell you me not hir name then? =Pam.= Bicause I like not the lucke therof, I had rather she had had any other name: She had euen the verie name that you haue. =Ma.= Who was hir father? =Pam.= He is yet man aliue, and amongst the Lawyers is one of chiefe estimation, and of substantiall welth. =Ma.= Tell me his name also. =Pam.= _Mauritius._ =Ma.= His surname. =Pam.= His surname was _Aglaus_. =Ma.= Liueth the mother yet? =Pam.= She departed of late. =Ma.= Of what disease died shée? =Pam.= Of what disease, quoth you, for méere sorrow & heauinesse. And the father himselfe albeit he is a man of a strong nature scaped very narowly. =Ma.= And may I learne at your hand also the name of the mother. =Pam.= With all mine hart, who is he that knoweth not _Sophrona_. But what meane you by this questioning? Thinke you that I contriue fables for you. =Ma.= Why would I thinke so, that is rather to be suspected in oure kinde, but tell on, what befell vnto this mayde.