_Perf._ Oh sweet Lord! 5
_Nouall sits in a chaire,_
_Page._ That’s his Perfumer.
_Barber orders his haire,_
_Tayl._ Oh deare Lord,
_Perfumer giues powder,_
_Page._ That’s his Taylor.
_Taylor sets his clothese._
_Nou._ Monsieur _Liladam_, _Aymour_, how allow you the
modell of these clothes? 10
_Aym._ Admirably, admirably, oh sweet Lord! assuredly
it’s pity the wormes should eate thee.
_Page._ Here’s a fine Cell; a Lord, a Taylor, a Perfumer, a
Barber, and a paire of Mounsieurs: 3 to 3, as little will in the
one, as honesty in the other. S’foote ile into the country 15
againe, learne to speake truth, drinke Ale, and conuerse with
my fathers Tenants; here I heare nothing all day, but
vpon my soule as I am a Gentleman, and an honest
man.
_Aym._ I vow and affirme, your Taylor must needs be an expert 20
Geometrician, he has the Longitude, Latitude, Altitude,
Profundity, euery Demension of your body, so exquisitely,
here’s a lace layd as directly, as if truth were a
Taylor.
_Page._ That were a miracle. 25
_Lila._ With a haire breadth’s errour, ther’s a shoulder
piece cut, and the base of a pickadille in _puncto_.
_Aym._ You are right, Mounsieur his vestaments fit: as if
they grew vpon him, or art had wrought ’em on the same
loome, as nature fram’d his Lordship as if your Taylor were 30
deepely read in Astrology, and had taken measure of your
honourable body, with a _Iacobs_ staffe, an _Ephimerides_.
_Tayl._ I am bound t’ee Gentlemen.
_Page._ You are deceiu’d, they’ll be bound to you, you must 35
remember to trust ’em none.
_Nou._ Nay, fayth, thou art a reasonable neat Artificer, giue
the diuell his due.
_Page._ I, if hee would but cut the coate according to the
cloth still. 40
_Nou._ I now want onely my misters approbation, who is
indeed, the most polite punctuall Queene of dressing in all
_Burgundy_. Pah, and makes all other young Ladies appeare,
as if they came from boord last weeke out of the country,
Is’t not true, Liladam? 45
_Lila._ True my Lord, as if any thing your Lordship could
say, could be othewrise then true.
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