"_Kemp._ Now, Signior, how many are you in companie? "_Harl._ None but my wife and my selfe, sir. "_Kemp._ Your wife! why, hearke you; wil your wife do tricks in publike? "_Harl._ My wife can play. "_Kemp._ The honest woman, I make no question; but how if we cast a whores part or a courtisan? "_Harl._ Oh, my wife is excellent at that; she's practisd it euer since I married her, tis her onely practise. "_Kemp._ But, by your leaue, and she were my wife, I had rather keepe her out of practise a great deale. "_Sir Anth._ Yet since tis the custome of the countrie, Prithe make one, conclude vpon the proiect: We neither looke for Schollership nor Arte, But harmlesse mirth, for thats thy vsuall part. "_Kemp._ You shall finde me no turne-coate. _[Exit Sir Anth.]_ But the proiect, come; and then to casting of the parts. "_Harl._ Marry, sir, first we will haue an old Pantaloune. "_Kemp._ Some iealous Coxcombe. "_Harl._ Right, and that part will I play. "_Kemp._ The iealous Cox-combe? "_Harl._ I ha plaid that part euer since-- "_Kemp._ Your wife plaid the Curtizan. "_Harl._ True, and a great while afore: then I must haue a peasant to my man, and he must keepe my wife. "_Kemp._ Your man, and a peasant, keepe your wife! I haue knowne a Gentleman keepe a peasants wife, but 'tis not vsuall for a peasant to keepe his maisters wife. "_Harl._ O, 'tis common in our countrey. "_Kē._ And ile maintaine the custome of the coūtry. _Offer to kisse his wife._ "_Harl._ What do you meane, sir? "_Kemp._ Why, to rehearse my part on your wiues lips: we are fellowes, and amongst friends and fellowes, you knowe, all things are common. "_Harl._ But shee shall bee no common thing, if I can keepe her seuerall: then, sir, wee must haue an Amorado that must make me Cornuto. "_Kemp._ Oh, for loue sake let me play that part! "_Harl._ No, yee must play my mans part, and keepe my wife. "_Kemp._ Right; and who so fit to make a man a Cuckold, as hee that keepes his wife? "_Harl._ You shall not play that part. "_Kemp._ What say you to my boy? "_Harl._ I, he may play it, and you will. "_Kemp._ But he cannot make you iealous enough? "_Harl._ Tush, I warrant you, I can be iealous for nothing. "_Kemp._ You should not be a true Italian else. "_Harl._ Then we must haue a Magnifico that must take vp the matter betwixt me and my wife. "_Kemp._ Any thing of yours, but Ile take vp nothing of your wiues. "_Harl._ I wish not you should: but come, now am I your Maister. "_Kemp._ Right, and I your seruant. "_Harl._ Lead the way then.