[560] 18 SN. _Enter_ MEERCRAFT. G
[561] 21 for’t W
[562] 23 SN.] _Re-enter_ TRAINS _dressed as at first_. G
[563] 26 Gentlewoman 1716 gentlewoman W, G
[564] 27, 33, 39 SN. om. G
[565] 31 succeed! [_Aside._ G
[566] 33 else! [_Aside._ G
[567] 34 ’ll] will G
[568] 37 ’s] is G
[569] 39 back! [_Aside._] G
[570] 44 entreated W, G
[571] 45 has 1692, f. passim
[572] 44, 60 SN. om. G
[573] 60 period om. 1716, f.
[574] 61 I’ll ...] _Meer._ I’ll ... W, G
[575] 61 [_Exeunt_ G
ACT. IIIJ. SCENE. I. [142]
TAILE-BVSH. MERE-CRAFT. MANLY.
A Pox vpo’ referring to _Commiſsioners_,
I’had rather heare that it were paſt the ſeales:
Your _Courtiers_ moue ſo Snaile-like i’ your _Buſineſſe_.
Wuld I had begun wi’ you.
MER. We muſt moue,
_Madame_, in order, by degrees: not iump. 5
TAY. Why, there was S^r. _Iohn Monie-man_ could iump
A _Buſineſſe_ quickely.
MER. True, hee had great friends,
But, becauſe ſome, ſweete _Madame_, can leape ditches,
Wee muſt not all ſhunne to goe ouer bridges.
The harder parts, I make account are done: 10
_He flatters her._
Now, ’tis referr’d. You are infinitly bound
Vnto’the _Ladies_, they ha’ so cri’d it vp!
TAY. Doe they like it then?
MER. They ha’ ſent the _Spaniſh-Lady_,
To gratulate with you--
TAY. I must ſend ’hem thankes
And ſome remembrances.
MER. That you muſt, and viſit ’hem. 15
Where’s _Ambler_?
TAY. Loſt, to day, we cannot heare of him.
MER. Not _Madam_?
TAY. No in good faith. They ſay he lay not
At home, to night. And here has fall’n a _Buſineſſe_
Betweene your Couſin, and Maſter _Manly_, has
Vnquieted vs all.
MER. So I heare, _Madame_. 20
Pray you how was it?
TAY. Troth, it but appeares
Ill o’ your Kinſmans part. You may haue heard,
That _Manly_ is a ſutor to me, I doubt not:
MER. I gueſs’d it, _Madame_.
TAY. And it ſeemes, he truſted
Your Couſin to let fall some faire reports 25
Of him vnto mee.
MER. Which he did!
TAY. So farre
From it, as hee came in, and tooke him rayling
Againſt him.
MER. How! And what said _Manly_ to him?
TAY. Inough, I doe aſſure you: and with that ſcorne
Of him, and the iniury, as I doe wonder 30
How _Euerill_ bore it! But that guilt vndoe’s
Many mens valors.
MER. Here comes _Manly_.
MAN. _Madame_, [143]
I’ll take my leaue--
Manly _offers to be gone_.
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