_Aym._ Let the Coach be brought _Enter Aymiere._
To the backe gate, and serue the banquet vp:
My good Lord _Charalois_, I thinke my house 35
Much honor’d in your presence.
_Cha._ To haue meanes
To know you better, sir, has brought me hither
A willing visitant, and you’l crowne my welcome
In making me a witnesse to your skill,
Which crediting from others I admire. 40
_Aym._ Had I beene one houre sooner made acquainted
With your intent my Lord, you should haue found me
Better prouided: now such as it is,
Pray you grace with your acceptance.
_Bau._ You are modest.
Begin the last new ayre.
_Cha._ Shall we not see them? 45
_Aym._ This little distance from the instruments
Will to your eares conuey the harmony
With more delight.
_Cha._ Ile not consent.
_Aym._ Y’are tedious,
By this meanes shall I with one banquet please
Two companies, those within and these Guls heere. 50
_Song aboue._
_Musique and a Song, Beaumelle within--ha, ha, ha._
_Cha._ How’s this? It is my Ladies laugh! most certaine
When I first pleas’d her, in this merry language,
She gaue me thanks.
_Bau._ How like you this?
_Cha._ ’Tis rare,
Yet I may be deceiu’d, and should be sorry 55
Vpon vncertaine suppositions, rashly
To write my selfe in the blacke list of those
I haue declaym’d against, and to _Romont_.
_Aym._ I would he were well of--perhaps your Lordship
Likes not these sad tunes, I haue a new Song 60
Set to a lighter note, may please you better;
Tis cal’d The happy husband.
_Cha._ Pray sing it.
_Song below. At the end of the Song, Beaumelle within._
_Beau._ Ha, ha, ’tis such a groome.
_Cha._ Doe I heare this,
And yet stand doubtfull?
_Exit Chara._
_Aym._ Stay him I am vndone,
And they discouered.
_Bau._ Whats the matter?
_Aym._ Ah! 65
That women, when they are well pleas’d, cannot hold,
But must laugh out.
_Enter Nouall Iu. Charaloys, Beaumley, Bellapert_.
_Nou._ Helpe, saue me, murrher, murther.
_Beau._ Vndone foreuer.
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