Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

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                    sh-men for my money: or,
 
            31But soft, What noyse of footing doe I heare?
    
 32
        
            Enter Laurentia, Marina, Mathea, and Anthony.
    
 33
        
                Laur. Now Mai
                ster, what intend you to read to vs?
    
 34
        
                Anth. Pisaro your Father would haue me read morall Phi-
            
            (losophy.
        
 35
        
                Mari. What's that?
    
 36
        
                Anth. Fir
                st tell mee how you like it?
    
 37
        
                Math. Fir
                st tell vs what it is.
    
 38
        
                Pisa. They be my Daughters and their Schoole-mai
                ster.
    
            39
            Pisaro, not a word, but li
                st their talke.
    
 40
        
                Anth. Gentlewomen, to paint Philosophy,
    
            41Is to present youth with so sowre a di
                sh,
    
            42As their abhorring 
                stomackes nill dige
                stes.
    
            43When fir
                st my mother Oxford (Englands) pride)
    
            44Fo
                stred mee puple-like, with her rich 
                store,
    
            45My 
                study was to read Philosophy:
        
            46But 
                since, my head-
                strong youths vnbridled will,
    
            47Scorning the leaden fetters of re
                straint,
    
            48Hath prunde my feahers to a higher pitch.
    
            49Gentlewoman, Morall Philosophy is a kind of art,
    
            50The mo
                st contrary to your tender sexes;
    
            51It teacheth to be graue: and on that brow,
    
            52Where Beawtie in her rare
                st glory 
                shines,
    
            53Plants the sad semblance of decayed age:
    
            54Those Weedes that with their riches 
                should adorne,
    
            55And grace faire Natures curious workman
                ship,
    
            56Mu
                st be conuerted to a blacke fac'd vayle,
    
            57Griefes liuerie, and Sorrowes semblance:
    
            58Your food mu
                st be your hearts aboundant 
                sighes,
    
            59Steep'd in the brini
                sh licquor of your teares:
    
            60Day-light as darke-night, darke-night spent in prayer:
    
            61Thoughts your companions, and repentant mindes,
    
            62The recreation of your tired spirits:
    
            63Gentlewomen, if you can like this mode
                stie,
    
            64Then will I read to you Philosophy
        
            Laur
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Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)
