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An Humorous Day's Mirth (Quarto 1, 1599)
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An humerous
386in France? I know an hundred Ladies in this towne that
388ning goe to bed to her husband as cleere a woman as if she
390no husband, thou art the man, and he takes her for the wo-
391man.
392Flo. And all this can I doe.
393La. Take heede of it wife.
394Flo. Feare not my good heade, I warrant you for
395him.
397howe can you conquer that, against which you neuer
399To liue idle in this walke, to inioy this companie, to weare
401foorde you, is to make vertue an idle huswife, and to hide
405put on rich apparrell, fare daintily, heare musique, reade
407all night amongst gallants, then if you come to bed to
408your husband with a cleere minde, and a cleere body, then
410of experiment, and you shall haue an hundred gallants
412on.
413Lab. O vanitie of vanities!
415La. And you wil try all this now, wil you not?
417to perfection through al temptation, Abacuke the fourth.
418Lab. Abacucke, cucke me no cuckes, in a doores I
419saye, theeues, Puritanes, murderers, in a doores I
say.