An Humorous Day's Mirth (Quarto 1, 1599)

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 dayes mirth.
 561Cat. Why my Lord she thinkes it is for nothing, but to
 562speake for your cosen.
 563Mo. I pray you birde, giue me leaue to speake for my
 564cosen.
 565Co. I am content for him.
 566Mo. Then one woorde with you more, curteous ladie
 567Martia.
 568Be. Not, and you were my father.
 569Mo. Gentlemen, for God sake thrust this asse out of the
 570doores.
 571Lem. Nay, birladye he le runne home and tell her fa-
 572ther.
 573Ca. Well, go to her, I warrant he shall not trouble you
 574(kind gentleman) how we dote on thee: imbrace him gen-
 575tlemen.
 576Blan. O sweete Besha how we honour thee.
 577Co. Nay Gentlemen, looke what a pearcing eye hee
 578hath.
 579Be. An eie? I haue an eie and it were a pole-cat.
 580Ca. Nay, looke what a nose he hath.
 581Be. My nose is nete crimson.
 582Blan. Nay, looke what a handsome man he is, O
 583Nature, Nature, thou neuer madest man of so pure a fea-
 584ture.
 585Be. Truly truly Gentlemen, I do not deserue this kind-
 586nesse.
 587Ca. O Lorde sir, you are too modest, come shall we
 588walke?
 589Be. Whither? to the alehouse?
 590Le Hearke you Madam, haue you no more care of the
 591right of your husband, then to let him talke thus affectio-
 592nately with another?
 593Coun. Why he speakes not for himselfe, but for his cosen
 594Colinet. Enter
 Lemot.
 595Le. Gods my life? he telles you so, nay and these excuses
 596may serue I haue done.
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