_Syl_. What i'st? A noble Husband; In that word, a Noble Husband, all content of Woman Is wholly comprehended; He will rowse her, As you say, with the Sunne, and so pipe to her, As she will dance, ne're doubt it, and hunt with her, Upon occasion, untill both be weary; And then the knowledge of your Plants and Simples, As I take it, were superfluous; A loving, And but adde to it a gamesome Bedfellow, Being the sure Physician. _Lew_. Well said Wench. _Ang_. And who gave you Commission to deliver Your verdict, Minion? _Syl_. I deserve a fee, And not a frown, deare Madam; I but speak Her thoughts, my Lord, and what her modesty Refuses to give voyce to; shew no mercy To a Maidenhead of fourteene, but off with't: Let her lose no time Sir; fathers that deny Their Daughters lawfull pleasure, when ripe for them, In some kinds edge their appetites to tast of The fruit that is forbidden. _Lew_. Tis well urg'd, And I approve it; no more blushing Girle, Thy woman hath spoke truth, and so prevented What I meant to move to thee: There dwells neere us A Gentleman of blood, Mounsieur _Brisac_, Of a faire state, sixe thousand Crowns _per annum_, The happy Father of two hopefull Sons, Of different breeding; Th' elder, a meere Scholar, The younger, a quaint Courtier. _Ang_. Sir, I know them By publique fame, though yet I never saw them; And that oppos'd antipathy between Their various dispositions, renders them The general discourse and argument; One part inclining to the Scholar _Charles_, The other side preferring _Eustace_, as A man compleat in Courtship. _Lew_. And which [w]ay (If of these two you were to chuse a husband) Doth your affection sway you? _Ang_. to be plaine, Sir, (Since you will teach me boldnesse) as they are Simply themselves, to neither; Let a Courtier Be never so exact, Let him be blest with All parts that yeeld him to a Virgin gracious, If he depend on others, and stand not On his owne bottomes, though he have the meanes To bring his Mistresse to a Masque, or by Conveyance from some great ones lips, to taste Such favour from the Kings: or grant he purchase, Precedency in the Country, to be sworne A servant Extraordinary to the Queen; Nay, though he live in expectation of Some huge preferment in reversion; If He Want a present fortune, at the best Those are but glorious dreames, and onely yeeld him A happiness in _posse_, not in _esse_; Nor can they fetch him silkes from th' Mercer; nor Discharge a Taylors bill; nor in full plenty (Which still preserves a quiet bed at home) Maintaine a family. _Lew_. Aptly consider'd, And to my wish; but what's thy censure of The Schollar? _Ang_. Troth (if he be nothing else) As of the Courtier; all his Songs, and Sonnets, His Anagrams, Acrosticks, Epigrammes, His deep and Philosophical discourse Of natures hidden secrets, makes not up A perfect husband; He can hardly borrow The Starres of the Celestial crown to make me A tire for my head; nor _Charles_ Waine for a Coach,