Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare
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Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare
English drama (Comedy)
_Wynde Myller._ Let not me be forgoten, I beseche ye.
_Both_ MYLLERS _goth forth_.
_Mery-reporte._ If I remember you not both alyke
I wolde ye were over the eares in the dyke.
Now be we ryd of two knaves at one chaunce. 765
By saynte Thomas, yt is a knavyshe ryddaunce.
_The_ GENTYLWOMAN _entreth_.
_Gentylwoman._ Now, good god, what a foly is this?
What sholde I do where so mych people is?
I know not how to passe in to the god now.
_Mery-reporte._ No, but ye know how he may passe into you. 770
_Gentylwoman._ I pray you let me in at the backe syde.
_Mery-reporte._ Ye, shall I so, and your fore syde so wyde? C iv
Nay not yet; but syns ye love to be alone,
We twayne will into a corner anone.
But fyrste, I pray you, come your way hyther, 775
And let us twayne chat a whyle to-gyther.
_Gentylwoman._ Syr, as to you I have lyttell mater.
My commynge is to speke wyth Jupiter.
_Mery-reporte._ Stande ye styll a whyle, and I wyll go prove
Whether that the god wyll be brought in love. 780
My lorde, how nowe! loke uppe lustely!
Here is a derlynge come, by saynt Antony.
And yf yt be your pleasure to mary,
Speke quyckly; for she may not tary.
In fayth, I thynke ye may wynne her anone; 785
For she wolde speke with your lordshyp alone.
_Jupyter._ Sonne, that is not the thynge at this tyme ment.
If her sewt concerne no cause of our hyther resorte,
Sende her out of place; but yf she be bent
To that purpose, heare her and make us reporte. 790
_Mery-reporte._ I count women lost, yf we love them not well,
For ye se god loveth them never a dele.
Maystres ye can not speake wyth the god.
_Gentylwoman._ No! why?
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