SUB. Was not all the knowledge Of the Aegyptians writ in mystic symbols? Speak not the scriptures oft in parables? Are not the choicest fables of the poets, That were the fountains and first springs of wisdom, Wrapp'd in perplexed allegories? MAM. I urg'd that, And clear'd to him, that Sisyphus was damn'd To roll the ceaseless stone, only because He would have made Ours common. DOL [APPEARS AT THE DOOR].-- Who is this? SUB. 'Sprecious!--What do you mean? go in, good lady, Let me entreat you. [DOL RETIRES.] --Where's this varlet? [RE-ENTER FACE.] FACE. Sir. SUB. You very knave! do you use me thus? FACE. Wherein, sir? SUB. Go in and see, you traitor. Go! [EXIT FACE.] MAM. Who is it, sir? SUB. Nothing, sir; nothing. MAM. What's the matter, good sir? I have not seen you thus distemper'd: who is't? SUB. All arts have still had, sir, their adversaries; But ours the most ignorant.-- [RE-ENTER FACE.] What now? FACE. 'Twas not my fault, sir; she would speak with you. SUB. Would she, sir! Follow me. [EXIT.] MAM [STOPPING HIM]. Stay, Lungs. FACE. I dare not, sir. MAM. Stay, man; what is she? FACE. A lord's sister, sir. MAM. How! pray thee, stay. FACE. She's mad, sir, and sent hither-- He'll be mad too.-- MAM. I warrant thee.-- Why sent hither? FACE. Sir, to be cured. SUB [WITHIN]. Why, rascal! FACE. Lo you!--Here, sir! [EXIT.] MAM. 'Fore God, a Bradamante, a brave piece. SUR. Heart, this is a bawdy-house! I will be burnt else. MAM. O, by this light, no: do not wrong him. He's Too scrupulous that way: it is his vice. No, he's a rare physician, do him right, An excellent Paracelsian, and has done Strange cures with mineral physic. He deals all With spirits, he; he will not hear a word Of Galen; or his tedious recipes.-- [RE-ENTER FACE.] How now, Lungs! FACE. Softly, sir; speak softly. I meant To have told your worship all. This must not hear. MAM. No, he will not be "gull'd;" let him alone. FACE. You are very right, sir, she is a most rare scholar, And is gone mad with studying Broughton's works. If you but name a word touching the Hebrew, She falls into her fit, and will discourse So learnedly of genealogies, As you would run mad too, to hear her, sir. MAM. How might one do t' have conference with her, Lungs? FACE. O divers have run mad upon the conference: I do not know, sir. I am sent in haste, To fetch a vial. SUR. Be not gull'd, sir Mammon. MAM. Wherein? pray ye, be patient. SUR. Yes, as you are, And trust confederate knaves and bawds and whores. MAM. You are too foul, believe it.--Come here, Ulen, One word. FACE. I dare not, in good faith. [GOING.] MAM. Stay, knave. FACE. He is extreme angry that you saw her, sir. MAM. Drink that. [GIVES HIM MONEY.] What is she when she's out of her fit?