_Coc._ Why, then, my worshipful good friends, I bid
myself most heartily welcome to your merry nuptials
and wanton jigga-joggies.--And now, my very fine
Heliconian gallants, and you, my worshipful friends in
the middle region, 164
If with content our hurtless mirth hath been,
Let your pleased minds at our much care be seen;[114]
For he shall find, that slights such trivial wit,
'Tis easier to reprove than better it.
We scorn to fear, and yet we fear to swell;
We do not hope 'tis best,--'tis all, if well. 170
[_Exeunt._
[109] Ed. 1. "Thou art."
[110] Old eds. "Welyman" and "wely-man."
[111] The reader will be reminded of Mistress Quickly's
description of Falstaff's last moments:--"'How now, Sir John,'
quoth I, 'what, man! be o' good cheer.' So a' cried out 'God,
God, God!' three or four times. Now I to comfort him, bid him a'
should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble
himself with any such thoughts yet."
[112] Old eds. "brothers, brothers."
[113] _Bragot_ was the name of a sort of mead, once popular in
Wales and in the West of England. See Nares' _Glossary_, s.
BRAGGET.
[114] Ed. 1. "as our much care _hath bin_." Ed. 2. "_as_ our much
care be seene."
THE FAWN.
_Parasitaster, Or The Fawne, As It Hath Bene Divers times presented
at the blacke Friars, by the Children of the Queenes Maiesties
Reuels. Written by Iohn Marston. At London Printed by T. P. for
W. C._ 1606. 4to.
_Parasitaster, Or The Fawne, As It Hath Bene Divers Times Presented
at the blacke Friars, by the Children of the Queenes Maiesties
Reuels, and since at Powles. Written by Iohn Marston. And now
corrected of many faults, which by reason of the Author's
absence, were let slip in the first edition. At London Printed
by T. P. for W. C._ 1606. 4to.
STORY OF THE PLAY.
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