Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

            A Woman will haue her will.
        
            2216To fru
                strate your intended mariages,
    
            2217And giue you full po
                s
                s
            e
                s
                s
            ion of your ioyes:
    
            2218
            Laurentia, ere the mornings light appeare,
    
            2219You mu
                st play Anthony in my disguise.
    
 2220
        }
        
                Math.
        
            2221
            Anthony, what of vs? What 
                shall we weare?
        
 2222
        
                Mari.
        
 2223
        
                Anth. Soft, soft, you are too forward Girles, I sweare,
    
            2224For you some other drift deuisd mu
                st bee ?
        
            2225One 
                shaddow for a sub
                stance: this is 
                shee.
    
            2226Nay weepe not sweetes, repose vpon my care,
    
            2227For all alike, or good or bad 
                shall 
                share:
    
            2228You will haue Haruie, you Heigham, and you Ned;
    
            2229You shall haue all your wi
                sh, or be I dead:
    
            2230For sooner may one day the Sea lie 
                still,
    
            2231Then once re
                straine a Woman of her will.
    
 2232
        
                All. Sweete Anthony, how 
                shall we quit thy hire?
    
 2233
        
                Anth. Not gifts, but your contentments I de
                sire:
    
            2234To helpe my Counrimen I ca
                st about,
    
            2235For Strangers loues blase fre
                sh, but soone burne out:
    
            2236Sweete re
                st dwell heere, and frightfull feare obiure,
    
            2237These eyes 
                shall wake to make your re
                st secure:
    
            2238For ere againe dull night the dull eyes charmes,
    
            2239Each one 
                shall fould her Husband in her armes:
    
            2240Which if it chaunce, we may auouch it 
                still,
    
            2241Women & Maydes will alwayes haue their will. 
            Exeunt.
    
 2242
        
            Enter Pisaro and Frisco.
    
 2243
        
                Pisa. Are Wood & Coales brought vp to make a fire?
    
            2244Is the meate spitted ready to lie downe:
    
            2245For Bakemeates Ile haue none, the world's too hard:
    
            2246There's Geese too, now I remember mee;
    
            2247Bid Mawdlin lay the Giblets in Pa
                st,
    
            2248Here's nothing thought vpon, but what I doe.
    
            2249Stay Frisco, see who ringes: looke to the Dore,
    
            2250Let none come in I charge, were he my Father,
    
            2251Ile keepe them whil
                st I haue them: Frisco, who is it?
    
 2252
        
                Frisc. She is come ynfayth.
    
            Pisa
             
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