Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

            A Woman will haue her will.
        
            1801Ha, ha, Mai
                ster Uandalle, many such nights
    
            1802Will swage your bigg swolne bulke, and make it lancke:
    
            1803When I was young; yet though my Haires be gray,
    
            1804I haue a Young mans spirit to the death,
    
            1805And can as nimbly trip it with a Girle,
    
            1806As those which fold the spring-tide in their Beards:
    
            1807Lord how the verie thought of former times,
    
            1808Supples these neere dried limbes with actiuene
                s
                s
            e:
    
            1809Well, thoughts are 
                shaddowes, sooner lo
                st then seene,
    
            1810Now to my Daughters, and their merrie night,
    
            1811I hope Aluaro and his companie,
    
            1812Haue read to them morall Philosophie,
    
            1813And they are full with it: Heere Ile 
                stay,
    
            1814And tarry till my gallant youths come foorth.
    
 1815
        
            Enter Haruie, Walgraue, and Heigham.
    
 1816
        
                Heigh. You mad-man, wild-oats, mad-cap, where art (thou?.
        
 1817
        
                Walg. Heere afore.
    
 1818
        
                Haru>. Oh ware what loue is? Ned hath found the scent;
    
            1819And if the Connie chaunce to mi
                s
                s
            e her Burrough,
    
            1820Shee's ouer-borne yfayth, 
                she cannot 
                stand it.
    
 1821
        
                Pisa. I know that voyce, or I am much deceiued.
    
 1822
        
                Heigh. Come, why loyter wee? this is the Dore:
    
            1823But soft, heere's one a
                sleepe.
    
 1824
        
                Walg. Come, let mee feele:
    
            1825Oh tis some Rogue or other; spurn him, spurne him.
    
 1826
        
                Haru. Be not so wilfull, prethee let him lie.
    
 1827
        
                Heigh. Come backe, come backe, for wee are pa
                st the (house,
        
            1828Yonder's Matheas Chamber with the light.
    
 1829
        
                Pisa. Well fare a head, or I had been discride.
    
            1830Gods mee, what make the Young
                sters heere so late?
    
            1831I am a Rouge, and spurne him: well Iacke sauce,
    
            1832The Rogue is waking yet, to marre your sport.
    
 1833
        
                Walg. Matt, Mi
                stress Mathea; where be these Girles?
        
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