dayes mirth.
919women; now
sir a plague vpon it, tis
so ridiculous I can no
920further: what poore a
sse was it that
set this in my way? now
921if my father
should be the man: Gods precious coles tis
923Lab. Good
sonne go forward in this gentle humor, ob
- 924serue this pi
cture, it pre
sents a maide of noble birth and ex
- 925cellent of parts, whom for our hou
se and honor
sake, I wi
sh 926thou would
st confe
sse to marrie.
927Dow. To marrie father? why we
shall haue children.
928La. Why that's the ende of marriage, and the ioye of
930Do. O how you are deceiued, you haue but me, & what
931a trouble am I to your ioy? but father, if you long to haue
932some fruite of me,
see father I will creepe into this
stuborne
933earth and mixe my
fle
sh with it, and they
shall breede
934gra
sse, to fat oxen, a
sses and
such like, and when they in the
935gra
sse the
spring conuerts into bea
sts nouri
shment, then
936comes the fruite of this my body forth; then may you well
937say,
seeing my race is
so pro
fitably increa
sed, that good fat
938oxe, and that
same large eard a
sse are my
sonne
sonnes, that
939caulfe with a white face is his faire daughter, with which,
940when your
fields are richly
filled, then will my race content
941you, but for the ioyes of children, tu
sh tis gone, children
942will not de
serue, nor parents take it: wealth is the onely
943father & the child, and but in wealth no man hath any ioy.
944La. Some cour
se deare
sonne take for thy honor
sake.
945Dow. Then father heres a mo
st excellent cour
se.
946La. This is
some comfort yet.
947Dow. If you will
strait be gone and leaue me here, Ile
948stand as quietlye as anye lambe, and trouble none of you
950Le. How like you this humour yet my liege?
951King. As of a holy fury, not a fren
sie.
952Mor. See
see my liege, he hath
seene vs
sure.
953King. Nay looke how he viewes
Martia and makes