dayes mirth.
1563Quee. Tell me what ere it be, Ile beare it all.
1564Lem. beare with my rudene
sse then in telling it, for alas
1565you
see
I can but a
ct it with the left hande, this is my ge
- 1567Quee. Tis well enough.
1568Lem. Yea well enough you
say, this recompence
1569haue I for all my woundes: then thus the King inamou
- 1570red of an other ladie compares your face to hers, and
saies
1571that yours is fat and
flat, and that your neather lip was pa
s- 1573Quee. O wicked man, doth he
so
sodainlie condemne
1574my beautie, that when he married me he thought diuine:
1575for euer bla
sted be that
strumpets face, as all my hopes are
1576bla
sted, that did change them.
1577Lem. Nay Madam, though he
saide your face was fat,
1578and
flat, and
so forth, yet he liked it be
st, and
said, a perfe
ct 1579beautie
should be
so.
1580La. O did he
so! why that was right euen as it
should be.
1581Foy. You
see now Madam, howe much too ha
stie you
1582were in your griefes.
1583Que. If he did
so e
steeme of me indeed, happie am I.
1584Coun. So may your highne
sse be that hath
so good a hu
s- 1585band, but hell hath no plague to
such an one as I.
1586Lem. Indeed Madam, you haue a bad hu
sband: truly
1587then did the king growe mightily in loue with the other la
- 1588die, and
swore, no king could more inriched be, then to in
- 1589ioy
so faire a dame as
shee.
1590Cat. O mon
strous man, and acur
st mo
st mi
serable dame!
1591Le. But
saies the king I do inioy as faire, & though I loue
1592in al honored
sort, yet
Ile not wrōg my wife for al the world
1593Foy. This proues his con
stancie as
firme as bra
sse.
1594Que. It doth, it doth: O pardon me my lord, that I mi
- 1595stake thy royall meaning
so.
1596Coun. In heauen your highne
sse liues, but I in hell.
1597Lem. But when he vewd her radient eyes againe, blinde
1598was hee
strooken with her feruent beames: and now good
King