_Will._ In lines of sweete delight.
_Wit._ The author who?
_Will._ Desire did draw the booke.
_Wit._ Who teacheth? _Will._ Time.
_Wit._ What order? _Will._ Lovers right.
_Wit._ What's that? _Will._
To catch Content, by hooke or crooke.
_Wit._ Where keepes he schoole?
_Will._ In wildernesse of wo.
_Wit._ Why lives he there?
_Will._ The fates appoint it so.
_Wit._ Why did they so?
_Will._ It was their secret will.
_Wit._ What was their will?
_Will._ To worke fond lovers wo.
_Wit._ What was their woe?
_Will._ By spite their sport to spill.
_Wit._ What was their sport?
_Will._ Dame Nature best doth know.
_Wit._ How grows their spite?
_Will._ By want of wish.
_Wit._ What's that?
_Will._ Wit knowes right well,
Will may not tell thee what.
* * * * *
_Wit._ Then, Will, adue.
_Will._ Yet stand me in some steed.
_Wit._ Wherewith, sweete Will?
_Will._ Alas, by thine advise.
_Wit._ Whereto, good Will?
_Will._ To win my wish with speed.
_Wit._ I know not how.
_Will._ Oh Lord, that Will were wise.
_Wit._ Wouldst thou be wise?
_Will._ Ful fain, then come from schoole.
_Wit._ Take this of Wit:
Love learns to play the foole.
_Will._ Content, I wil come from Schoole, I wil
give over _Artem Amandi_, and I will with thee to some
more worthie study, which may be as well to my
commoditie, comfort, as content. _Wit._ Well said,
Will, now I like thee well; and, therefore, now I will
do my best to worke thy delight. But for that now
I have a peece of worke in hand, which none must
be privie too, till it be finished; we will heere leave
off talke, and fall to our worke togither, so I shall the
sooner and the better dispatch it.
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