PURE. Son, were you not warn'd of the vanity of the eye? have you
forgot the wholesome admonition so soon?
LIT. Good mother, how shall we find a pig, if we do not look about
for't: will it run off o' the spit, into our mouths, think you, as in
Lubberland, and cry, _wee, wee!_
BUSY. No, but your mother, religiously-wise, conceiveth it may offer
itself by other means to the sense, as by way of steam, which I think
it doth here in this place--huh, huh--yes, it doth. [_He scents after
it like a hound._] And it were a sin of obstinacy, great obstinacy,
high and horrible obstinacy, to decline or resist the good titillation
of the famelic sense, which is the smell. Therefore be bold--huh, huh,
huh--follow the scent: enter the tents of the unclean, for once, and
satisfy your wife's frailty. Let your frail wife be satisfied; your
zealous mother, and my suffering self, will also be satisfied.
LIT. Come, Win, as good winny here as go farther, and see nothing.
BUSY. We scape so much of the other vanities, by our early entering.
PURE. It is an edifying consideration.
MRS. LIT. This is scurvy, that we must come into the Fair, and not
look on't.
LIT. Win, have patience, Win, I'll tell you more anon.
[_Exeunt, into the booth, Littlewit, Mrs. Littlewit, Busy, and
Purecraft._
KNOCK. Mooncalf, entertain within there, the best pig in the booth, a
pork-like pig. These are Banbury-bloods, o' the sincere stud, come a
pig-hunting. Whit, wait, Whit, look to your charge.
[_Exit Whit._
BUSY. [_within._] A pig prepare presently, let a pig be prepared to
us.
_Enter MOONCALF and URSULA._
MOON. 'Slight, who be these?
URS. Is this the good service, Jordan, you'd do me?
KNOCK. Why, Urse, why, Urse? thou'lt have vapours i' thy leg again
presently, pray thee go in, it may turn to the scratches else.
URS. Hang your vapours, they are stale, and stink like you! Are these
the guests o' the game you promised to fill my pit withal to-day?
KNOCK. Ay, what ail they, Urse?
URS. Ail they! they are all sippers, sippers o' the city; they look as
they would not drink off two pen'orth of bottle-ale amongst 'em.
MOON. A body may read that in their small printed ruffs.
KNOCK. Away, thou art a fool, Urse, and thy Mooncalf too: in your
ignorant vapours now! hence! good guests, I say, right hypocrites,
good gluttons. In, and set a couple o' pigs on the board, and half a
dozen of the biggest bottles afore 'em, and call Whit. [_Exit
Mooncalf._] I do not love to hear innocents abused; fine ambling
hypocrites! and a stone puritan with a sorrel head and beard! good
mouth'd gluttons; two to a pig, away.
URS. Are you sure they are such?
KNOCK. O' the right breed, thou shalt try 'em by the teeth, Urse;
where's this Whit?
_Re-enter WHIT._
WHIT. _Behold, man, and see,
What a worthy man am ee!
With the fury of my sword,
And the shaking of my beard,
I will make ten thousand men afeard._
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