_Mel._ Come, you have attired some fiddler like Albano,
to fright the perfumer; there's the jest.
_Enter_[528] RANDOLFO, ANDREA, _and_ JACOMO.
_Ran._ Good fortunes to our sister.
_Mel._ And a speedy marriage.
_And._[529] Then we must wish her no good fortunes.
_Jaco._ For shame! for shame! Straight dear your
house; sweep out this dust; fling out this trash; return
to modesty. Your husband! I say, your husband Albano,
that was supposed drown'd, is return'd,--ay, and at the
door! 293
_Cel._ Ha, ha! My husband! Ha, ha!
_And._[530] Laugh you? Shameless! Laugh you?
_Cel._ Come, come, your plot's discover'd. Good faith,
kinsmen, I am no scold. To shape a perfumer like my
husband! O sweet jest!
_Jaco._ Lost[531] hopes! all known.
_Cel._ For penance of your fault, will you maintain a
jest now? My love hath tired some fiddler like Albano,
like the Perfumer. 302
_Lav._ Not I: by blessedness, not I.
_Mel._ Come, 'tis true. Do but support the jest, and
you shall surfeit with laughter.
_Jaco._ Faith, we condescend; 'twill not be cross'd, I see.
Marriage and hanging go by destiny.
_Alb._ [_without_]. B-b-b-bar out Albano! O adulterous,
impudent!
_Fran._ [_without_]. B-b-b-bar out Albano! O thou
matchless g-g-g-giglet![532] 311
_Qua._ Let them in! Let them in! Now, now, now!
Observe, observe! Look, look, look!
_Enter_ ALBANO _and_ FRANCISCO.
_Jaco._ That same's a fiddler, shaped like thee. Fear
nought; be confident: thou shalt know the jest hereafter:
be confident; fear nought; blush not; stand
firm. 317
_Alb._ Now, brothers; now, gallants; now, sisters; now
call [me] a perfumer, a gutter-master. Bar me my house;
beat me,--baffle[533] me,--scoff me,--deride me! Ha,
that I were a young man again! By the mass, I would
ha' you all by the ears, by the mass, law! I am Francisco
Soranza! am I not, giglet, strumpet, cutters,[534]
swaggerers, brothel-haunters? I am Francisco! O God!
O slaves! O dogs, dogs, curs!
_Jaco._ No, sir; pray you, pardon us; we confess you
are not Francisco, nor a perfumer, but even---- 327
_Alb._ But even Albano.
_Jaco._ But even a fiddler,--a minikin-tickler,[535]--a pumpum!
_Fran._ A scraper, scraper!
Art not asham'd, before Albano's face,
To clip his spouse? O shameless, impudent!
_Jaco._ Well said, perfumer.
_Alb._ A fiddler,--a scraper,--a minikin-tickler,--a pum,
a pum!--even now a perfumer,--now a fiddler!--I will
be even What You Will. Do, do, do, k-k-k-kiss my wife
be-be-be-be-fore----
_Qua._ Why, wouldst have him kiss her behind?
_Alb._ Before my own f-f-f-face! 340
_Jaco._ Well done, fiddler!
_Alb._ I'll f-f-fiddle ye!
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