_Roch._ Your friend _Romont_:
Would you ought with me?
_Rom._ I stand so engag’d
To your so many fauours, that I hold it
A breach in thankfulnesse, should I not discouer,
Though with some imputation to my selfe, 245
All doubts that may concerne you.
_Roch._ The performance
Will make this protestation worth my thanks.
_Rom._ Then with your patience lend me your attention
For what I must deliuer, whispered onely
You will with too much griefe receiue.
_Enter Beaumelle, Bellapert._
_Beau._ See wench! 250
Vpon my life as I forespake, hee’s now
Preferring his complaint: but be thou perfect,
And we will fit him.
_Bell._ Feare not mee, pox on him:
A Captaine turne Informer against kissing?
Would he were hang’d vp in his rusty Armour: 255
But if our fresh wits cannot turne the plots
Of such a mouldy murrion on it selfe;
Rich cloathes, choyse faire, and a true friend at a call,
With all the pleasures the night yeelds, forsake vs.
_Roch._ This in my daughter? doe not wrong her.
_Bell._ Now. 260
Begin. The games afoot, and wee in distance.
_Beau._ Tis thy fault, foolish girle, pinne on my vaile,
I will not weare those iewels. Am I not
Already matcht beyond my hopes? yet still
You prune and set me forth, as if I were 265
Againe to please a suyter.
_Bell._ Tis the course
That our great Ladies take.
_Rom._ A weake excuse.
_Beau._ Those that are better seene, in what concernes
A Ladies honour and faire same, condemne it.
You waite well, in your absence, my Lords friend 270
The vnderstanding, graue and wise _Romont_.
_Rom._ Must I be still her sport?
_Beau._ Reproue me for it.
And he has traueld to bring home a iudgement
Not to be contradicted. You will say
My father, that owes more to yeeres then he, 275
Has brought me vp to musique, language, Courtship,
And I must vse them. True, but not t’offend,
Or render me suspected.
_Roch._ Does your fine story
Begin from this?
_Beau._ I thought a parting kisse
From young _Nouall_, would haue displeasd no more 280
Then heretofore it hath done; but I finde
I must restrayne such fauours now; looke therefore
As you are carefull to continue mine,
That I no more be visited. Ile endure
The strictest course of life that iealousie 285
Can thinke secure enough, ere my behauiour
Shall call my fame in question.
_Rom._ Ten dissemblers
Are in this subtile deuill. You beleeue this?
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