ACT. IIIJ. SCENE. IJI. MERE-CRAFT. WITTIPOL. } to them. Wittipol _is dreſt like a_ Spaniſh Lady. MER. Here is a noble _Lady_, _Madame_, come, [146] From your great friends, at _Court_, to ſee your _Ladi-ſhip_: And haue the honour of your acquaintance. TAY. Sir. She do’s vs honour. WIT. Pray you, ſay to her _Ladiſhip_, It is the manner of _Spaine_, to imbrace onely, 5 Neuer to kiſſe. She will excuſe the cuſtome! _Excuſes him ſelfe for not kiſſing._ TAY. Your vſe of it is law. Pleaſe you, ſweete, _Madame_, To take a ſeate. WIT. Yes, _Madame_. I’haue had The fauour, through a world of faire report To know your vertues, _Madame_; and in that 10 Name, haue deſir’d the happineſſe of preſenting My ſeruice to your _Ladiſhip_! TAY. Your loue, _Madame_, I muſt not owne it elſe. WIT. Both are due, _Madame_, To your great vndertakings. TAY. Great? In troth, _Madame_, They are my friends, that thinke ’hem any thing: 15 If I can doe my ſexe (by ’hem) any ſeruice, I’haue my ends, _Madame_. WIT. And they are noble ones, That make a multitude beholden, _Madame_: The common-wealth of _Ladies_, muſt acknowledge from you. EIT. Except ſome enuious, _Madame_. WIT. Yo’ are right in that, _Madame_, 20 Of which race, I encountred ſome but lately. Who (’t ſeemes) haue ſtudyed reaſons to diſcredit Your _buſineſſe_. TAY. How, ſweet _Madame_. WIT. Nay, the parties Wi’ not be worth your pauſe--Moſt ruinous things, _Madame_, That haue put off all hope of being recouer’d 25 To a degree of handſomeneſſe. TAY. But their reaſons, _Madame_? I would faine heare. WIT. Some _Madame_, I remember. They ſay, that painting quite deſtroyes the face-- EIT. O, that’s an old one, _Madame_. WIT. There are new ones, too. Corrupts the breath; hath left ſo little ſweetneſſe 30 In kiſſing, as ’tis now vſ’d, but for faſhion: And ſhortly will be taken for a puniſhment. Decayes the fore-teeth, that ſhould guard the tongue; And ſuffers that runne riot euer-laſting! And (which is worſe) ſome _Ladies_ when they meete 35 Cannot be merry, and laugh, but they doe ſpit In one anothers faces! MAN. I ſhould know This voyce, and face too: Manly _begins to know him_.