TAY. But for the manner of _Spaine_! Sweet, _Madame_, let vs
Be bold, now we are in: Are all the _Ladies_, 65
There, i’ the faſhion?
VVIT. None but _Grandee’s_, _Madame_,
O’ the claſp’d traine, which may be worne at length, too,
Or thus, vpon my arme.
TAY. And doe they weare
_Cioppino’s_ all?
VVIT. If they be dreſt in _punto_, _Madame_.
EIT. Guilt as thoſe are? _madame?_
WIT. Of Goldſmiths work, _madame_; [149] 70
And ſet with diamants: and their _Spaniſh_ pumps
Of perfum’d leather.
TAI. I ſhould thinke it hard
To go in ’hem, _madame_.
WIT. At the firſt, it is, _madame_.
TAI. Do you neuer fall in ’hem?
WIT. Neuer.
EI. I ſweare, I ſhould
Six times an houre.
WIT. But you haue men at hand, ſstill,
To helpe you, if you fall?
EIT. Onely one, madame, 76
The _Guardo-duennas_, ſuch a little old man,
As this.
EIT. Alas! hee can doe nothing! this!
WIT. I’ll tell you, madame,
I ſaw i’ the _Court_ of _Spaine_ once,
A _Lady_ fall i’ the Kings ſight, along, 80
And there ſhee lay, flat ſpred, as an _Vmbrella_,
Her hoope here crack’d; no man durſt reach a hand
To helpe her, till the _Guarda-duenn’as_ came,
VVho is the perſon onel’ allow’d to touch
A _Lady_ there: and he but by this finger. 85
EIT. Ha’ they no ſeruants, _madame_, there? nor friends?
WIT. An _Eſcudero_, or ſo _madame_, that wayts
Vpon ’hem in another Coach, at diſtance,
And when they walke, or daunce, holds by a hand-kercher,
Neuer preſumes to touch ’hem.
EIT. This’s ſciruy! 90
And a forc’d grauity! I doe not like it.
I like our owne much better.
TAY. ’Tis more _French_,
And _Courtly_ ours.
EIT. And taſts more liberty.
VVe may haue our doozen of viſiters, at once,
Make loue t’vs.
TAY. And before our husbands?
EIT. Huſband? 95
As I am honeſt, _Tayle-buſh_ I doe thinke
If no body ſhould loue mee, but my poore husband,
I ſhould e’n hang my ſelfe.
TAY. Fortune forbid, wench:
So faire a necke ſhould haue ſo foule a neck-lace.
EIT. ’Tis true, as I am handſome!
WIT. I receiu’d, _Lady_, 100
A token from you, which I would not bee
Rude to refuſe, being your firſt remembrance.
(FIT. O, I am ſatisfied now!
MER. Do you ſee it, Sir.)
WIT. But ſince you come, to know me, neerer, _Lady_,
I’ll begge the honour, you will weare for mee, 105
It muſt be ſo.
Wittipol _giues it Miſtreſſe_ Fitz-dottrel.
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