MER. Who’s found a thiefe, _Madam_.
And to haue rob’d your Vsher, Maſter _Ambler_,
This morning.
TAY. How?
MER. I’ll tell you more, anon.
FIT. Gi me ſome _garlicke, garlicke, garlicke, garlicke_.
_He beginnes his fit._
MER. Harke the poore Gentleman, how he is tormented! 25
FIT. _My wife is a whore, I’ll kiſſe her no more: and why?
Ma’ſt not thou be a Cuckold, as well as I?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, &c._
POV. That is the _Diuell_ ſpeakes, and laughes in him.
_The Iuſtice interpret all:_
MER. Do you thinke ſo, S^r.
POV. I diſcharge my conſcience. 30
FIT. _And is not the Diuell good company? Yes, wis._
EVE. How he changes, Sir, his voyce!
FIT. _And a Cuckold is
Where ere hee put his head, with a_ a _Wanion,
If his hornes be forth, the Diuells companion!
Looke, looke, looke, elſe._
MER. How he foames!
EVE. And ſwells! 35
TAY. O, me! what’s that there, riſes in his belly!
EIT. A ſtrange thing! hold it downe:
TRA. PIT. We cannot, _Madam_.
POV. ’Tis too apparent this!
FIT. _Wittipol, Wittipol._
Wittipol, _and_ Manly _and_ Mistr. Fitz-dottrel _enter_.
WIT. How now, what play ha’ we here.
MAN. What fine, new matters?
WIT. The _Cockſcomb_, and the _Couerlet_.
MER. O ſtrang impudēce! 40
That theſe ſhould come to face their ſinne!
EVE. And out-face
_Iuſtice_, they are the parties, Sir.
POV. Say nothing.
MER. Did you marke, Sir, vpon their comming in,
How he call’d _Wittipol_.
EVE. And neuer ſaw ’hem.
POV. I warrant you did I, let ’hem play a while. 45
FIT. _Buz, buz, buz, buz._
TAY. Laſſe poore Gentleman!
How he is tortur’d!
M^rs. FI. Fie, Maſter _Fitz-dottrel_!
What doe you meane to counterfait thus?
FIT. _O, ô,_
_His wife goes to him._
_Shee comes with a needle, and thruſts it in,_
_Shee pulls out that, and ſhee puts in a pinne,_ 50
_And now, and now, I doe not know how, nor where,_
_But ſhee pricks mee heere, and ſhee pricks me there: ôh, ôh:_
POV. Woman forbeare.
WIT. What, S^r?
POV. A practice foule
For one ſo faire:
WIT. Hath this, then, credit with you?
MAN. Do you beleeue in’t?
POV. Gentlemen, I’ll diſcharge
My conſcience. ’Tis a cleare conſpiracy! 56
A darke, and diuelliſh practice! I deteſt it!
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