Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

            Engli
                    sh-men for my money: or,
 2598
        
                Bals
                . Why arrant lyer, wert thou not with mee?
    
 2599
        
                Pisa. How say you mai
                ster Browne, went he not foorth?
    
 2600
        
                Brow. Hee, or his likene
                s
                s
            e did, I know not whether.
    
 2601
        
                Pisa. What likene
                s
                s
            e can there be besides himselfe?
    
 2602
        
                Laur. My selfe (forsooth) that tooke his 
                shape vpon me,
    
            2603I was that Mowche that you sent from home:
    
            2604And that same Mowche that deceiued you,
    
            2605Effected to po
                s
                s
            e
                s
                s
            e this Gentleman:
    
            2606Which to attaine, I thus be guil'd you all.
    
 2607
        
                Frisc. This is excellent, this is as fine as a Fiddle: you
    
            2608M. Heigham got the Wench in Mowches apparell; now let
    
            2609
            Mowche put on her apparell, and be married to the Dutch-
            
            2610
            man: How thinke you, is it not a good vize?
    
 2611
        
                Moor. Mai
                ster Pisaro, 
                shake off melancholy,
    
            2612When thinges are helple
                s
                s
            e, patience mu
                st be vs'd.
    
 2613
        
                Pisa. Talke of Patience? Ile not beare these wronges:
    
            2614Goe call downe Matt, and mi
                stris Susan Moore,
    
            2615Tis well that of all three, wee haue one sure.
    
 2616
        
                Moor. Mi
                stris Susan Moore, who doe you meane 
                sir?
    
 2617
        
                Pisa. Whom 
                should I meane 
                sir, but your Daughter?
    
 2618
        
                Moor. You'r very pleasant 
                sir: but tell me this,
    
            2619When did you see her, that you speake of her?
    
 2620
        
                Pisa. I, late ye
                ster-night, when 
                she came heere to bed.
    
 2621
        
                Moor. You are deceiu'd, my Daughter lay not heere,
    
            2622But watch'd with her 
                sicke mother all la
                st night.
    
 2623
        
                Pisa. I am glad you are so pleasant M. Moore,
    
            2624You'r loth that Susan 
                should be held a 
                sluggard:
    
            2625What man, t'was late before 
                she went to bed,
    
            2626And therefore time enough to rise againe.
    
 2627
        
                Moor. Mai
                ster Pisaro, doe you floute your friends;
    
            2628I well perceiue if I had troubled you,
    
            2629I 
                should haue had it in my di
                sh ere now:
    
            2630
            Susan lie heere? 'am sure when I came foorth,
    
            2631I left her fa
                st asleepe in bed at home;
    
            2632Tis more then neighbour-hood to vse me thus.
    
            Pisa.
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Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)
