_Cast._ O, you spoil my ruff, unset my hair; good,
away! 100
_Feli. Item, for strait canvass, thirteen pence halfpenny;
item, for an ell and a half of taffeta to cover your old
canvass doublet, fourteen shillings and threepence._--'Slight,
this is a tailor's bill.
_Cast._ In sooth, it is the outside of her letter, on
which I took the copy of a tailor's bill.
_Dil._ But 'tis not cross'd, I am sure of that. Lord have
mercy on him, his credit hath given up the last gasp.
Faith, I'll leave him; for he looks as melancholy as a
wench the first night she---- [_Exit._ 110
_Feli._ Honest musk-cod, 'twill not be so stitched together;
take that [_striking him_], and that, and belie no
lady's love: swear no more by Jesu, this madam, that
lady; hence, go, forswear the presence, travel three years
to bury this bastinado: avoid, puff-paste, avoid!
_Cast._ And tell not my lady-mother. Well, as I am a
true gentleman, if she had not willed me on her blessing
not to spoil my face, if I could not find in my heart to
fight, would I might ne'er eat a potato-pie more. [_Exit._
_Enter_ BALURDO, _backward_; DILDO _following him with a
looking-glass in one hand, and a candle in the other hand_:
FLAVIA _following him backward, with a looking-glass in one hand,
and a candle in the other_; ROSSALINE _following her_; BALURDO
_and_ ROSSALINE _stand setting of faces; and so the Scene begins_.
_Feli._ More fool, more rare fools! O, for time and
place, long enough, and large enough, to act these fools!
Here might be made a rare scene of folly, if the plat[120]
could bear it. 123
_Bal._ By the sugar-candy sky, hold up the glass higher,
that I may see to swear in fashion. O, one loof[121]
more would ha' made them shine; God's neaks,[122] they
would have shone like my mistress' brow. Even so the
Duke frowns, for all this curson'd[123] world: O, that
gern[124] kills, it kills. By my golden--what's the richest
thing about me? 130
_Dil._ Your teeth.
_Bal._ By my golden teeth, hold up, that I may put in:
hold up, I say, that I may see to put on my gloves.
_Dil._ O, delicious, sweet-cheek'd master, if you discharge
but one glance from the level of that set face, O,
you will strike a wench; you'll make any wench love
you.
_Bal._ By Jesu, I think I am as elegant a courtier as----.
How likest thou my suit?
_Cat._ All, beyond all, no peregal:[125] you are wondered
at--[_Aside._] for an ass. 141
_Bal._ Well, Dildo, no Christen creature shall know
hereafter, what I will do for thee heretofore.
_Ros._ Here wants a little white, Flavia.
_Dil._ Ay, but, master, you have one little fault; you
sleep open-mouth'd.
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