dayes mirth.
1850Host. To be
scarce, is to be rare: and therefore where as
1851he
sayes Gentles who
se wits be
scarce, is as much as to
say,
1852Gentles who
se wits be rare.
1853Lem. Well, forwards trunchman.
1854Boy. Faire ladies mo
st tender, and nobles mo
st slender,
1855and gentles who
se wittes bee
scarce, Queene Fortune
1856doth come with her trumpe, and her drumme, as it may ap
- 1858Lab. Come hither, are you a
schoolemai
ster, where was
1859Fortune Queene, of what countrey or kingdome?
1860Host. Wy
sir, Fortune was Queene ouer all the world.
1861Lab. Thats a lie, theres none that euer conquered all the
1862world, but mai
ster
Alisander, I am
sure of that.
1863Lem. O rare Mon
sieur
Labesha, who would haue thought
1864hee could haue found
so rare a fault in the
speach.
1865Host. Ile alter it if it plea
se your grace.
1866King. No, tis very well.
1867Boy. Father I mu
st begin againe they interrupt me
so.
1868Ho. I be
seech your grace giue the boy leaue to begin again.
1869King. With all my heart, tis
so good we cannot heare
1871Boy. Faire ladies mo
st tender, and nobles mo
st slender,
1872and gentles who
se wittes are
scarce, Queene Fortune doth
1873come with her Fife, and her Drum, as it doth appeare by
1874my voice, here is Fortune good, but il by the rood, and this
1875naught but good
shall do you, dealing the lots out of our
1876pots, and
so good Fortune to you
sir.
1877Lem. Looke you my liege, how hee that caries the torch
1879Kin. I warrant tis with care to carie his torch well.
1880Lem. Nay there is
something el
se in the wind: why my
1881ho
st, what meanes thy man
Iaques to tremble
so?
1882Host. Hold
still thou knaue, what art thou afraid to looke
1883vpon the goodly pre
sence of a king: hold vp for
shame.
1884Lem. Alas poore man, he thinks tis
Iaques his man: poore
1885lord, how much is he bound to
su
ffer for his wife?
King.