dayes mirth.
1490vs the
slip before dinner.
1491Cat. Well Gentlemen,
since we are
so
fitly mette, Ile tell
1492you an excellent
subie
ct for a
fit of myrth, and if it bee well
1494Ber. Why, what is it?
1495Cat. Why man,
Labesha is grown maruelous malecon
- 1496tent, vpon
some amorous di
spo
sition of his mi
stres, and
1497you know he loues a mea
se of cream, and a
spice-cake with
1498his heart, and
I am
sure he hath not dined to day, and he hath
1499taken on him the humour of the yong lord
Dowsecer, and
1500we will
set a mea
se of creame, a
spice-cake, and a
spoone,
1501as the armour, pi
cture, and apparell was
set in the way of
1502Dowsecer, which I doubt not but will woorke a rare cure
1503vpon his melancholie.
1504Host. Why, this is excellent, Ile go fetch the creame.
1506Ber. And
I the
spoone.
1507Exeunt, and come in againe. 1508Cat. See where hee comes as like the lord
Dowsecer as
1509may be, nowe you
shall heare him begin with
some Latin
1510sentence that hee hath remembred euer
since hee read his
1513La. Faelix quē faciunt aliena pericula cautum. O
sillie
state
1514of things, for things they be that cau
se this
sillie
state: and
1515what is a thing, a bable, a toy, that
stands men in
small
stead:
He spies the
creame.
1516but what haue we here? what vanities haue we here?
1517Host. He is
strongly tempted, the lord
strengthen him,
1518see what a vaine he hath.
1519Lab. O cruell fortune, and do
st thou
spit thy
spite at my
1520poore life: but O
sowre creame what thinke
st thou that I
1521loue thee
still? no, no, faire and
sweete is my mi
stries, if thou
1522hadde
st strawberries and
sugar in thee: but it may bee thou
1523art
set with
stale cake to choke me: well ta
ste it, and trie it,
1524spoonefull by
spoonefull: bitterer and bitterer
still, but O
1525sowre creame, wert thou an Onion,
since Fortune
set thee