Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

            A Woman will haue her will.
        
            836Will poll you, I, and pill you of your Wife:
    
            837They loue togeather: and the other two,
    
            838Loues her two Si
                sters: but tis onely you
    
            839Shall crop the flower, that they e
                steeme so much.
    
 840
        
                Alua. Do dey so; vell let me lone, sal see me giue dem
    
            841de such graund mocke, sal be 
                shame of dem selues.
    
 842
        
                Pisa>. Doe 
                sir, I pray you doe; set lu
                stily vpon them,
    
            843And Ile be ready 
                still to second you.
    
 844
        
                Walg. But Matt, art thou so mad as to turne French?
        
 845
        
                Math. Yes marry when two two Sundayes come together;
    
            846Thinke you Ile learne to speake this gibberidge,
    
            847Or the Pigges language? Why, if I fall 
                sicke,
    
            848Theyle say, the French (et-cetera) infected mee.
    
 849
        
                Pisa. Why how now Minion; what, is this your seruice;
    
            850Your other Si
                sters bu
                sie are imployde,
    
            851And you 
                stande idle: get you in, or. 
            Exit Mathea.
    
 852
        
                Walg. Yf you chide her, chide mee (M. Pisaro:
        
            853For but for mee, 
                she had gon in long 
                since.
    
 854
        
                Pisa. I thinke 
                she had: for we are sprights to scare her;
    
            855But er't be long, Ile driue that humor from her.
    
 856
        
                Alua. Signor, me thinkes you soud no macke de wen
                she
    
            857
            so hardee, so disobedient to de padre as ditt madona Matt.
    
 858
        
                Walg. Signor, me thinkes you 
                should learne to speake,
    
            859before you 
                should be so foole-hardy, as to woe such a
    
            860Mayden as that 
                Madona Matt?
        
 861
        
                Delio. Warrent you Mon
                sieur, he sal parle wen you sal
    
            862
            
                stande out the doure.
    
 863
        
                Haru. Harke you Mon
                sieur, you would wi
                sh your selfe
    
            864halfe hang'd, you were as sure to be let in as hee.
    
 865
        
                Uan. Macke no doubt de 
                signor Alua. 
                sal do vel enough
    
 866
        
                Heigh. perhaps so: but me thinkes your be
                st way were to
    
            867
            
                ship your selfe for Stoad, and there to batter your selfe for a
    
            868commodity; for I can tell you, you are here out of liking.
    
 869
        
                Pisa. The wor
                st perhappes di
                slike him, but the be
                st
        
            870e
                steeme him be
                st.
    
            Haru. 
        
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