+Abs.+ Farewell, Lorenzo, Whom my soul doth [yet] love: if you e'er marry, May you meet a good wife: so good, that you May not suspect her, nor may she be worthy Of your suspicion: and if you hear hereafter, That I am dead, inquire but my last words, And you shall know that to the last I lov'd you: And when you walk forth with your second choice Into the pleasant fields, and by chance talk of me, Imagine that you see me lean and pale, Strewing your paths with flowers: and when in bed You cast your arms about her happy side[s], Think you see me stand with a patient look, Crying, All hail, you lovers, live and prosper. But may she never live to pay my debts. If but in thought she wrong you, may she die In the conception of the injury. Pray, make me wealthy with one kiss. Farewell, sir. Let it not grieve you, when you shall remember That I was innocent: nor this forget-- Though innocence here suffer, sigh, and groan, She walks but thorough thorns to find a throne. [_Exit._ +Ver.+ Break up the court; and, cousin, learn this rede; Who stabs truth's bosom, makes an angel bleed. +Lor.+ The storm upon my breast, sir. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [127] A _costermonger_ is a seller of apples; and an _apple-squire_ was formerly a cant term for a _pimp_. So in Erasmus's "Praise of Folly," translated by Chaloner, 1549, sig. P.: "Or doo you judge peradventure they coulde easily fynde in their hertes, that so many scriveners, so many registrers, so manie notaries, so many advocates, so many promoters, so many secretaries, so many moyleters, so many horsekeepers, so many gentlemen of householde, so many _apple-squires_, so many baudes, I had almost spoken a softer worde," &c. Again, in "Faults, Faults, and Nothing but Faultes," by Barnaby Rich, 1606, p. 24: "Shee shall not want the assistance of her ruffians, her _apple-squires_, and of those brothell queanes that lodge, that harbour, and that retain her." Again, in Ben Jonson's "Every Man in his Humour," iv. 10-- "Well, good wife bawd, Cob's wife, and you, That make your husband such a hoddy doddy; And you, young _apple-squire_, and old cuckold-maker, I'll ha' you every one before a justice." See also "Dekker's Belman of London," sig. H 2. And in Bale's "Actis of Englishe Votaries," 1550, Part I., fol. 27: "Women in those dayes might sore have distained their newlie risen opinion of holines, if they had chaunced to haue bene with childe by the prelates, and therefore other spiritual remedies were sought out for them by their good providers and proctors; ye may if ye will call them _apple-squires_."--_Gilchrist._ [128] [Old copy, _full_.] [129] [Old copy, _circumstances_.] [130] [Old copy, _stand_.] [131] [A not unusual form of De Medici.] [132] [Old copy, _than is_.] ACT III. _Enter +Lodovico+, +Jaspro+, +Jovani+, and +Clown+._