O, the doggs ar out of sight,
But the crye is my delight;
Harke how Jumball hitts it right,
Yolp, &c.
Over briars, over bushes;
Whose affeard of pricks & pushes,
Hee's no hunter woorth two rushes,
Yolp, &c.
But how long thus shall wee wander? [490]
O, the hares a lusty stander,
Follow apace, the doggs are yonder,
Yolp, &c. [_Exeunt._
_Enter one with a buckett and boughes and grasse._
A well there was withouten mudd,
Of silver hue, with waters cleare,
Whome neither sheepe that chawe the cudd,
Shepheards nor goates came ever neare;
Whome, truth to say, nor beast nor bird,
Nor windfalls yet from trees had stirrde.
[_He strawes the grasse about the buckett._
And round about it there was grasse, [F. 72r rev.] [500]
As learned lines of poets showe,
Which by next water nourisht was; [_Sprinkle water._
Neere to it too a wood did growe, [_Sets down the bowes._
To keep the place, as well I wott,
With too much sunne from being hott.
And thus least you should have mistooke it,
The truth of all I to you tell:
Suppose you the well had a buckett,
And so the buckett stands for the well;
And 'tis, least you should counte mee for a sot O, [510]
A very pretty figure cald _pars pro toto_. [_Exit._
_Enter_ DORASTUS, ECCHO _answeringe him within_.
_Dor._ Narcissus?
_Ecc._ Kisse us.
Kisse you; who are you, with a botts take you?
Botts take you.
Botts take mee, you rogue?
You rogue.
Slidd, hee retortes woord for woord.
Woord for woord.
Clinias, prethy, where art thou, Clinias? [520]
In, yee asse.
In where--in a ditch?
Itch.
What is his businesse? [F. 71v rev.]
At his businesse.
You don't tell mee trulye.
You lye.
Say so againe, ile cudgell you duely.
You doe lye.
Of your tearmes you are very full. [530]
Your a very foole.
Doe you crowe, I shall cracke your coxcombe.
Coxcombe.
I shall make you whine & blubber.
Lubber.
Youle make an end & dispatch.
Patch.
Goe to, youle let these woordes passe.
Asse.
If I come to you Ile make you singe a palinodye. [540]
Noddye.
Foole, coxcombe, lubber, patch, & noddye,
Are these good woords to give a bodye?
Doe not provoke me, I shall come.
Come.
Meete mee if you dare.
If you dare.
I come, despaire not.
Spare not. [_Exit._
_Enter_ CLINIAS, ECCHO _answeringe within_. [F. 71r rev.]
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