dayes mirth.
634Lem. Excu
se me to the King, and tell him I will meet
635him there:
so this is but the beginning of
sport betweene
636this
fine lord and his old lady: but this wench M
artia hath
637happy
starres raigned at the di
spo
sition of her beautie, for
638the King him
selfe doth mightily dote on her. Now to my
639Puritane, and
see if I can make vp my full proofe of her.
640Enter the puritane in her best attyre.
641Flo. Now am I vp and ready, ready? why? becau
se my
642cloathes once on, that call we ready: but readine
sse I hope
643hath reference to
some
fit a
ction for our
seuerall
state: for
644when I am attyred thus Counte
sse-like, tis not to worke,
645for that be
fittes me not, tis on
some plea
sure, who
se chiefe
646obie
ct is one mans content, and hee my husbande is, but
647what need I thus be attyred, for that he would be plea
sed
648with meaner weed? be
sides I take no plea
sure thus to plea
se
649him: I am content, becau
se it is my duty to keep to him, and
650not to
seeke no further: but if that plea
sure be a thing that
651makes the time
seeme
short, if it do laughter cau
se, if it pro
- 652cure the tongue but hartily to
say, I thanke you, I haue no
653such thing, nor can the godlie
st woman in the worlde, a
- 654gain
st her nature plea
se her
sen
se, or
soule,
she may
say, this
655I will, or this I will not. But what
shall
she reape hereby?
656comfort in an other world, if
she will
stay till then.
657Enter her husband behind her. 658Lab. Yea mary
sir now I mu
st looke about, now if her
659de
solate proouer come againe,
shal I admit him to make
660farther triall? Ile haue a Dialogue betweene my
selfe and
661manly rea
son: to that
speciall end rea
son,
shall I indure a de
- 662solate man to come and court my wife, and proue her con
- 663stancie: rea
son, to court and proue her you may beare my
664lord, for per
fite things are not the wor
se for triall; gold will
665not turne to dro
sse for deepe
st triall: before God a comfor
- 666table
saying: thanks gentle rea
son, Ile trouble you no more.