The Tragicall Commedie
A lu sty companion to deuise with fine Dames,
Whose humour to feede, his wylie witte he frames.
IACKE.
P Be cocke as you say, your Mai ster is a Minion,
275A foule coyle he keeps in this Courte. Ari stippus alone
Now rules the roa ste with his pleasant deuises,
That I feare he wyll put out of conceit my Mai ster Carisophus.
WYLL.
P Feare not that Iacke, for like brother and brother
280They are knit in true Friend ship the one with the other,
They are fellowes you knowe, and hone st men both,
Therfore the one to hinder the other, they wyll be lothe.
IACKE.
P Yea, but I haue heard say, there is fal shod in felow shippe,
285In the Court somtimes, one geues another finely the slippe:
Which when it is spied, it is laught out with a scoffe,
And with sporting and playing, quietly shaken of:
In which kinde of toying, thy ma ster hath such a grace,
That he wyll neuer blu sh, he hath a wodden face:
290But Wyll, my mai ster hath Beees in his head,
If he finde me heare pratinge, I am but dead:
He is styll trotting in the Citie, there is sumwhat in the winde:
His lookes bewrayes his inwarde troubled mynde:
Therefore I wyll be packing, to the Courte by and by
295If he be once angry, Iacke shall cry wo the pye.
WYLL.
P Byr Lady, if I tary longe here, of the same sauce shall I ta st,
For my ma ster sent me on an errand, and bad mee make ha ste,
Therfore we wyll departe together. EXEVNT.
300 PHere entreth STEPHANO.
POfte times I haue heard, before I came hether,
That no man can serue two mai sters together:
A sentence so true, as mo ste men doo take it,
At any time false, that no man can make it:
305And yet by their leaue, that fir st haue it spoken,
How that may proue false, euen here I wyll open:
For I Stephano, loe, so named by my father,
At this time serue two ma sters together:
And loue them a lyke, the one and the other,
310I duely obey, I can doo no other,
A bondman I am so nature hath wrought me,
One Damon of Greece, a gentleman bought me:


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