_Cour._ Heigho! heigho! Ha! where am I? Was I drunk or no, last night? Something leaning that way. But where the devil am I? sincerely in a bawdy-house: faugh! what a smell of sin is here! Let me look about; if there be ever a Geneva Bible or a _Practice of Piety_ in the room, I am sure I have guessed right. What's the matter now? tied fast! bound too! What tricks have I played to come into this condition? I have lighted into the territories of some merrily-disposed chambermaid or other; and she in a witty fit, forsooth, hath trussed me up thus: has she pinned no rags to my tail, or chalked me upon the back, trow? Would I had her mistress here at a venture! _Enter_ SYLVIA _and_ Maid. _Sylv._ What would you do with her, my enchanted knight, if you had her? you are too sober for her by this time: next time you get drunk, you may perhaps venture to scale her balcony like a valiant captain as you are. _Cour._ Hast thou done this, my dear destruction? and am I in thy limbo? I must confess, when I am in my beer, my courage does run away with me now and then; but let me loose, and thou shalt see what a gentle humble animal thou hast made me. Fie upon't! what, tie me up like an ungovernable cur to the frame of a table! let, let thy poor dog loose, that he may fawn and make much of thee a little. _Sylv._ What, with those paws which you have been ferreting Moor-fields withal, and are very dirty still? After you have been daggling[48] yourself abroad for prey, and can meet with none, you come sneaking hither for a crust, do you? _Maid._ Shall I fetch the whip and the bell, madam, and slash him for his roguery soundly? _Cour._ Indeed, indeed! Do you long to be ferking[49] of man's flesh, madam flea-trap? Does the chaplain of the family use you to the exercise, that you are so ready for it? _Sylv._ If you should be let loose, and taken into favour now, you would be for rambling again so soon as you had got your liberty. _Cour._ Do but try me, and if ever I prove recreant more, let me be beaten and used like a dog in good earnest. _Sylv._ Promise to grant me but one request, and it shall be done. _Cour._ Hear me but swear. _Sylv._ That anybody may do ten thousand times a-day. _Cour._ Upon the word of a gentleman; nay, as I hope to get money in pocket. _Sylv._ There I believe him, lelely.[50] You'll keep your word, you say? _Cour._ If I don't, hang me up in that wench's old garters. _Sylv._ See, sir, you have your freedom. [_Unbinds him._ _Cour._ Well, now name the price; what I must pay for't? _Sylv._ You know, sir, considering our small acquaintance, you have been pleased to talk to me very freely of love-matters.