_Roch._ So farre that if you trouble me againe
With a report like this, I shall not onely 290
Iudge you malicious in your disposition,
But study to repent what I haue done
To such a nature.
_Rom._ Why, ’tis exceeding well.
_Roch._ And for you, daughter, off with this, off with it:
I haue that confidence in your goodnesse, I, 295
That I will not consent to haue you liue
Like to a Recluse in a cloyster: goe
Call in the gallants, let them make you merry,
Vse all fit liberty.
_Bell._ Blessing on you.
If this new preacher with the sword and feather 300
Could proue his doctrine for Canonicall,
We should haue a fine world.
_Exit Bellapert._
_Roch._ Sir, if you please
To beare your selfe as fits a Gentleman,
The house is at your seruice: but if not,
Though you seeke company else where, your absence 305
Will not be much lamented--
_Exit Rochfort._
_Rom._ If this be
The recompence of striuing to preserue
A wanton gigglet honest, very shortly
’Twill make all mankinde Panders--Do you smile,
Good Lady Loosenes? your whole sex is like you, 310
And that man’s mad that seekes to better any:
What new change haue you next?
_Beau._ Oh, feare not you, sir,
Ile shift into a thousand, but I will
Conuert your heresie.
_Rom._ What heresie? Speake.
_Beau._ Of keeping a Lady that is married, 315
From entertayning seruants.--
_Enter Nouall Iu._ _Malatine_, _Liladam_, _Aymer_, _Pontalier_.
O, you are welcome,
Vae any meanes to vexe him,
And then with welcome follow me.
_Exit Beau_
_Nou._ You are tyr’d
With your graue exhortations, Collonell.
_Lilad._ How is it? Fayth, your Lordship may doe well, 320
To helpe him to some Church-preferment: ’tis
Now the fashion, for men of all conditions,
How euer they haue liu’d; to end that way.
_Aym._ That face would doe well in a surplesse.
_Rom._ Rogues,
Be silent--or--
_Pont._ S’death will you suffer this? 325
_Rom._ And you, the master Rogue, the coward rascall,
I shall be with you suddenly.
_Nou._ _Pontallier_,
If I should strike him, I know I shall kill him:
And therefore I would haue thee beate him, for
Hee’s good for nothing else.
_Lilad._ His backe 330
Appeares to me, as it would tire a Beadle,
And then he has a knotted brow, would bruise
A courtlike hand to touch it.
_Aym._ Hee lookes like
A Curryer when his hides grown deare.
_Pont._ Take heede
He curry not some of you.
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