PEN. Life! my lord; you had best marry 'em all three. They'll never be content else. C. FRED. I think so, too. SIR J. WOR. These are impossibilities. Come, Sir Abraham. A little time will wear out this rash vow. ABRA. Shall I but hope? LUC. O, by no means. I cannot endure these round breeches: I am ready to swoon at them. KATE. The hose are comely. LUC. And then his left leg: I never see it, but I think on a plum-tree. ABRA. Indeed, there's reason there should be some difference in my legs, for one cost me twenty pounds more than the other. LUC. In troth, both are not worth half the money. C. FRED. I hold my life, one of them was broke, and cost so much the healing. ABRA. Right hath your lordship said; 'twas broke indeed At foot-ball in the university. PEN. I know he is in love by his verse-vein. STRANGE. He cannot hold out on't: you shall hear. ABRA. Well, since I am disdain'd, off garters blue! Which signify Sir Abram's love was true; Off, cypress black! for thou befits not me; Thou art not cypress of the cypress-tree, Befitting lovers. Out, green shoe-strings, out! Wither in pocket, since my Luce doth pout. Gush, eyes; thump, hand; swell, heart; buttons, fly open! Thanks, gentle doublet, else my heart had broken. Now to thy father's country house at Babram Hide post; there pine and die, poor, poor Sir Abram. OMNES. O doleful dump! [_Music plays._ SIR J. WOR. Nay, you shall stay the wedding. Hark, the music! Your bride is ready. C. FRED. Put spirit in your fingers! louder still, And the vast air with your enchantments fill. [_Exeunt omnes._ FOOTNOTES: [10] An allusion (one out of hundreds in our old plays) to "The Spanish Tragedy," act iii., where Hieronimo finds a letter, and taking it up, exclaims-- "What's here? A letter! Tush, it is not so-- A letter written to Hieronimo." --[v. 68.] [11] [Advice.] [12] [Old copy, _again_.] [13] [Old copy, _doubt on_.] [14] [Old copy, _as_.] [15] Cotgrave tells us that "_piccadilles_ are the several divisions or pieces fastened together about the brim of the collar of a doublet." They are mentioned over and over again in old plays, as by Field himself (probably) in "The Fatal Dowry," act iv. sc. 1: "There's a shoulder-piece cut, and the base of a _pickadille_ in _puncto_." A _pickadel_ is spoken of in "Northward Ho!" sig. D 3, as part of the dress of a female. See Gifford's Ben Jonson, v. 55, for the origin and application of the word. [16] A place notorious for prostitutes, often mentioned. [17] [Ordered them to be made, not being a poet or verse writer himself. Old copy, _commend_.] [18] [Usually, a kind of sausage; but here it seems to have an indelicate sense, which may be readily conjectured.]