TAY. Can he manage?
FIT. Pleaſe you to try him, _Ladies_. Stand forth, _Diuell_.
PVG. Was all this but the preface to my torment? 195
FIT. Come, let their _Ladiſhips_ ſee your honours.
EIT. O,
Hee makes a wicked leg.
TAY. As euer I ſaw!
WIT. Fit for a _Diuell_.
TAY. Good _Madame_, call him _De-uile_.
WIT. _De-uile_, what property is there moſt required
I’ your conceit, now, in the _Eſcudero_? 200
_They begin their_ Catechiſme.
FIT. Why doe you not speake?
PVG. A ſetled diſcreet paſe, _Madame_.
WIT. I thinke, a barren head, Sir, Mountaine-like,
To be expos’d to the cruelty of weathers--
FIT. I, for his Valley is beneath the waſte, _Madame_,
And to be fruitfull there, it is ſufficient. 205
Dulneſſe vpon you! Could not you hit this?
PVG. Good Sir--
_He ſtrikes him._
WIT. He then had had no barren head.
You daw him too much, in troth, Sir.
FIT. I muſt walke
With the _French_ ſticke, like an old vierger for you.
PVG. O, _Chiefe_, call mee to _Hell_ againe, and free mee. 210
_The_ Diuell _prayes_.
FIT. Do you murmur now?
PVG. Not I, S^r.
WIT. What do you take [152]
M^r. _Deuile_, the height of your employment,
In the true perfect _Eſcudero_?
FIT. When?
What doe you anſwer?
PVG. To be able, _Madame_,
Firſt to enquire, then report the working, 215
Of any _Ladies_ phyſicke, in ſweete phraſe.
WIT. Yes, that’s an act of elegance, and importance.
But what aboue?
FIT. O, that I had a goad for him.
PVG. To find out a good _Corne-cutter_.
TAY. Out on him!
EIT. Moſt barbarous!
FIT. Why did you doe this, now? 220
Of purpoſe to diſcredit me? you damn’d _Diuell_.
PVG. Sure, if I be not yet, I ſhall be. All
My daies in _Hell_, were holy-daies to this!
TAY. ’Tis labour loſt, _Madame_?
EIT. H’is a dull fellow
Of no capacity!
TAI. Of no diſcourſe! 225
O, if my _Ambler_ had beene here!
EIT. I, _Madame_;
You talke of a man, where is there ſuch another?
WIT. M^r. _Deuile_, put caſe, one of my _Ladies_, heere,
Had a fine brach: and would imploy you forth
To treate ’bout a conuenient match for her. 230
What would you obſerue?
PVG. The color, and the ſize, _Madame_.
WIT. And nothing elſe?
FIT. The Moon, you calfe, the Moone!
WIT. I, and the Signe.
TAI. Yes, and receits for proneneſſe.
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