Actus
quintus
Seena
Prima
.
Doctor
Glister
and
Mistres
Glister
.
Mi.
Gl.
THis
was
your
colour
to
keepe
her
close
,
but
what
Cloake
ha'
you
for
hers
and
your
owne
shame
?
VVhat
your
owne
neece
,
your
brothers
daughter
besides
your
bastard
in
the
countrie
?
Doct.
Wife
range
not
too
farre
I
would
aduise
you
?
Come
home
in
time
?
vex
me
not
beyond
sufferance
:
The
two
edg'd
sword
of
thy
tong
,
hath
drawne
bloud
o'
my
?
patience
,
I
say
thou
art
all
this
while
in
an
error
.
Mi.
Gli.
No
,
thou
hast
been
all
this
while
in
an
Vrinall
,
thou
hast
gone
out
of
thy
compasse
in
womens
waters
,
Y'
are
a
coniurer
(
forsooth
)
and
can
rouse
your
Spirits
into
Circles
,
a
you
old
Fornicator
that
euer
I
saw
that
read
beard
of
thine
;
nowe
could
I
raile
against
thy
complexion
.
I
think
in
my
conscience
the
Trases
&
Caparison
of
Venus
coach
,
are
made
o'red
hayres
which
may
be
a
true
Embleme
,
that
no
flaxen
stuff
,
or
tan'd
white-leather
drawes
loue
like
'hem
;
J
thinke
thou
manurd'st
thy
Chin
with
the
droppings
of
Egs
and
Muskadine
,
before
it
brisled
:
a
shame
take
thee
and
thy
Loadstone
:
but
t
is
no
matter
,
Master
Placket
the
Parritor
has
cyted
you
,
and
you
shall
answer
it
.
Doct.
O
the
raging
iealousie
of
a
woman
!
do
you
heare
wife
I
will
shew
my selfe
a
man
of
sense
,
and
answer
you
with
silence
,
or
like
a
man
of
wisedome
,
speake
in
briefe
:
I
say
you
are
a
scowld
,
and
beware
the
Cucking
stoole
?
Mist.
Glist.
I
say
you
are
a
nynnyhammer
,
and
beware
the
Cuckoe
;
for
as
sure
as
J
haue
ware
,
I
le
traffique
with
the
next
Marchant
venturer
,
and
in
good
time
here
comes
gallants
of
the
right
trade
.
Enter
Lipsalue
and
Gudgin
.
Lip.
All
alone
mistrisse
Glister
?
meditating
who
shal
be
your
next
childs
Father
.
Gud.
Indeed
me thinks
that
should
be
one
end
of
her
thought
an
't
be
but
to
crie
quittance
with
her
husband
,
or
whose
abuse
the
Towne
rings
.
Doct.
Flax
and
fire
,
flax
and
fire
,
here
are
fellowes
come
in
the
nick
,
to
light
their
matches
at
my
tynder
.
Lipsalue
.
He
tells
you
true
mistrisse
Glister
,
the
Doctor
hath
made
you
ordinary
in
our
Ordinaries
,
Satyres
whet
their
tooths
,
and
steep
rods
in
pisse
,
Epigrams
lye
in
Poetries
pickle
and
we
shall
haue
ryme
out
of
all
reason
against
you
.
Gudgin
.
Ere
long
hee
will
take
vp
his
station
at
a
Stationers
,
where
wee
shall
see
him
doe
pennaunce
in
a
Sheete
at
least
.
Mi.
Gli.
O
I
am
netled
,
my
patience
is
so
prouoak't
,
that
I
must
doffe
my
modesty
:
what
shall
I
do
?
if
yee
be
honest
gentlemen
,
counsell
me
in
my
reuenge
,
teach
me
what
to
do
,
make
my
Case
your
own
.
Lip.
VVhy
you
are
in
the
common
roade
of
reuenge
,
take
which
hand
you
will
,
you
cannot
goe
out
o'
your
waye
;
t
is
as
soone
taken
,
as
Tyme
by
his
forepart
.
Gud.
Faith
since
he
has
strooke
with
the
sword
,
strike
you
with
the
Scabbard
:
in
plaine
termes
Cuckold
him
:
you
may
as
easilie
do
't
,
as
lye
downe
o'
your
bed
.
Doct.
This
geare
cottens
yfaith
.
Mi
�
Gli
I
apprehend
you
gentlemen
:
Lord
how
much
better
are
two
heads
then
one
,
to
make
one
large
head
?
Lip.
You
say
true
mistrisse
Glister
,
ther
's
help
requird
in
grafting
,
and
how
happily
we
come
to
tender
our
seruice
:
let
our
pretence
be
to
take
physicke
of
the
Doctor
:
and
that
he
may
with
as
much
ease
minister
to
vs
,
as
we
to
you
,
wee
'l
take
a
lodging
in
his
house
.
Gud.
How
say
you
to
this
,
is
the
colour
good
?
do'st
like
you
?
Mist.
Glist.
Passing
well
:
the
colour
is
so
good
,
that
you
shall
weare
my
fauour
out
o'
the
same
peece
.
Lip.
Excellent
,
excellent
,
now
shall
we
be
reuengd
for
the
whipping
;
mistrisse
Glister
let
me
be
your
first
man
?
Gud
Nay
soft
sir
:
I
ply'd
her
as
soone
as
you
.
Doct.
I
shold
haue
an
oare
in
her
boate
too
by
right
?
spoke
by
.
Lip.
How
ill
aduisd
were
you
to
marry
one
with
a
red
beard
?
Mi.
Gli.
O
master
Lipsalue
,
I
am
not
the
first
that
has
falne
vnder
that
ensigne
:
ther
's
no
complexion
more
atractiue
in
this
time
for
weomen
,
then
gold
and
red
beards
:
such
men
are
all
liuer
.
Gud.
J
,
but
small
hart
,
and
lesse
honesty
.
Lip.
Yes
,
they
are
honest
too
(
in
some
kind
)
for
they
le
beg
before
they
'l
steale
.
Gud.
That
's
true
,
for
,
for
one
that
holds
vp
his
hand
at
the
Sessions
,
you
shall
haue
ten
come
into
the
baudy
Court
.
Doct.
VVas
euer
Beard
so
backbitten
:
this
were
ynough
to
make
red
beards
turne
medley
:
and
dash
'hem
cleane
out
of
countenance
:
but
I
hope
like
mine
they
feare
no
colours
:
and
you
were
ten
Courtiers
I
le
front
you
:
I
must
giue
you
physick
with
a
pox
:
well
,
if
I
pepper
ye
not
,
call
me
Doctor
Doddipoll
:
Master
Lipsalue
and
master
Gudgin
you
are
hartily
welcome
,
I
am
very
glad
to
see
you
well
.
Lip.
O
master
Doctor
,
your
salutation
is
very
suspitious
?
Doct.
Why
master
Lipsalue
?
Lip.
It
can
scarce
be
harty
,
for
physitians
are
rather
glad
to
see
men
ill
,
then
well
.
Doct.
Not
so
sir
,
you
must
distinguish
of
men
:
though
this
J
know
,
vertue
is
not
the
end
of
all
science
,
which
commonly
keeps
the
professor
poore
,
some
study
questuary
and
gainfull
Arts
,
and
euery
one
would
thriue
in
's
calling
,
but
yfaith
gentlemen
,
what
wind
driues
you
hither
?
Gud.
The
wind
Collect
master
Doctor
,
or
some
such
disease
Doct.
But
not
the
Stone
Collect
?
Lip.
O
no
sir
,
we
haue
no
obstructions
in
those
parts
,
we
are
loose
ynough
there
.
Doct.
If
you
were
troubled
with
that
,
my
wife
can
tell
you
of
an
excellent
remedy
.
Gud.
We
need
it
not
,
we
need
it
not
:
but
indeed
master
Doctor
,
for
some
priuate
infirmities
(
which
our
waters
shal
make
knowne
to
you
)
we
desire
to
take
some
physick
of
you
for
a
few
daies
,
and
to
that
end
we
would
take
a
lodging
in
your
house
during
the
time
?
Lip.
Shall
we
intreate
your
fauour
?
Doct.
No
entreaty
gentlemen
,
you
shall
commaund
me
to
search
the
very
profundity
of
my
skill
for
you
.
Haue
them
in
wife
,
and
show
them
their
lodging
?
I
will
thinke
vpon
an other
receipt
,
and
follow
you
immediatly
.
Gud.
And
yfaith
we
shall
requite
your
paines
to
the
full
.
Exeunt
Lipsalue
,
Gudgin
,
Mistrisse
Glister
.
Doct.
To
the
foole
you
meane
:
I
know
you
ha
the
horne
of
plenty
for
me
,
which
you
would
deriue
vnto
me
,
from
the
liberality
of
your
bawdies
,
not
your
minds
;
here
are
Lordes
,
that
hauing
learnd
the
O.P.Q.
of
Courtship
,
trauell
vp
and
down
among
Cittizens
wiues
to
shew
their
learning
,
and
bringing
vppe
:
as
if
the
City
were
not
already
a
good
proficient
in
the
Court
Hornebooke
:
yes
I
warrant
they
haue
heads
as
capable
as
other
men
;
I
and
some
of
them
can
wisely
say
with
the
philosopher
,
that
in
knowing
all
they
know
nothing
.
VVell
,
because
I
am
of
the
Liuery
,
and
pay
Scot
and
Lot
amongst
you
,
doe
but
obserue
how
I
le
fetch
ouer
my
gallants
for
your
sakes
;
they
say
I
am
of
the
right
hayre
,
and
indeed
they
may
stand
too
't
,
and
hould
the
position
good
;
sauing
with
my
wife
:
soft
,
are
they
not
at
pro
and
contra
already
?
I
knowe
they
are
hote
spurres
,
and
I
must
haue
an
eye
to
the
maine
.
They
haue
bin
whipt
already
for
lechery
,
and
yet
the
pride
of
the
flesh
pricks
'hem
;
well
I
must
in
,
I
haue
giuen
them
such
a
Pill
shall
take
'hem
downe
,
for
lust
must
haue
his
fill
.
Exit
.
Enter
Maria
aboue
.
Ma
Now
natures
pensill
,
and
the
hand
of
time
,
Giues
life
and
lym
,
to
generations
Act
;
My
shame
and
guilt
in
wordles
notes
appeare
The
argument
of
scorne
,
O
now
J
stand
The
Theame
and
coment
to
each
liberall
tongue
,
Whilst
hope
breeds
comfort
,
and
feare
threats
my
wrong
.
O
Gerardine
how
oft
thy
liuely
figure
(
Deadly
impressed
in
my
yeelding
temper
)
Assures
me
thou
art
mine
:
how
fancy
paynts
Thy
true
proportion
in
my
troubled
sleepe
,
Because
sole
subiect
of
my
dayly
thoughts
;
O
if
thy
vowes
proue
fayn'd
,
and
thou
vniust
,
I
say
and
sweare
,
in
men
there
is
no
trust
.
Enter
Gerardine
.
Ger.
Thus
haue
J
past
the
Round
and
Court
of
Guard
,
Without
the
word
:
either
conceipt
is
strong
,
Or
else
the
Body
where
true
lou
's
confin'd
,
VValkes
as
a
Spirit
,
and
doth
force
his
way
Through
greatest
dangers
frightfull
to
those
eies
,
That
wayt
to
entercept
him
:
Maria
?
How
like
to
Cynthia
in
her
siluer
Orbe
She
seems
to
me
,
attended
by
loues
Lampe
VVhose
mutuall
Jnfluence
,
and
soules
sympathy
Doth
shew
,
heauens
modell
in
mortality
.
Ma.
Gerardine
?
Aurora
now
the
blushing
Sons
aproache
,
D'art
not
more
comfort
to
this
Vniuerse
Then
thou
to
me
:
most
acceptably
come
,
The
Art
of
number
cannot
count
the
howres
Thou
hast
bin
absent
.
Ger.
Infinity
of
Loue
Holds
no
proportion
with
Arithmetick
.
Thinke
not
Maria
but
my
hart
retaynes
A
deepe
impression
of
such
thoughts
as
these
:
I
haue
bin
forging
of
a
myrthfull
Plot
,
To
celebrate
our
wisht
Coniunction
;
Which
now
digested
,
come
to
summon
thee
To
be
an
Actresse
in
the
Comedy
.
Ma.
How
,
where
,
whe�
,
speake
?
myne
eares
are
quick
to
heare
,
I
stand
on
thornes
already
to
be
there
.
Ger.
At
Dryfats
house
the
Marchant
,
ther
's
our
Scene
,
Whose
sequell
(
if
I
fail
not
in
intent
,
)
Shall
answer
our
desires
,
and
each
content
:
But
when
saw'st
thou
Lipsalue
and
Gudgin
our
two
gallants
?
Ma.
They
are
heere
in
the
house
:
so
handled
by
myne
vncle
,
that
they
are
the
pittifullest
patients
that
euer
you
beheld
.
Ger.
No
matter
,
he
serues
them
in
their
kind
,
they
were
infamous
in
the
Court
&
now
are
grown
as
notorious
in
the
City
:
they
may
happily
proue
particles
in
our
sport
,
&
fit
subiects
for
laughter
:
Tyme
calls
me
hence
,
adieu
,
prepare
to
meet
.
Ma.
I
shall
outstrip
the
nimblest
in
my
feet
.
Exeunt
.
Act.
5.
Scaena
vltima
.
Enter
Dryfat
and
Club.
Dry.
Come
Club
come
,
ther
's
a
merry
Fray
towards
,
we
shall
see
the
death
of
melancholy
,
wherein
thou
and
I
must
call
a
grand
Jury
of
iests
together
,
and
passe
vpon
them
with
the
Club
Law
.
Club.
Now
as
I
am
O
,
the
Crier
,
&
yet
but
a
yong
Club
,
J
haue
not
yet
practizd
that
Law
,
you
haue
a
whole
dryfat
on
't
,
I
pray
you
instruct
me
?
Dri.
Why
t
is
a
Law
inacted
(
by
the
common
counsell
of
Statute
Caps
)
to
qualify
the
rage
of
the
Time
,
to
follow
,
to
call
back
,
and
sometimes
to
encounter
gentlemen
when
they
run
in
arrerages
,
I
tell
thee
ther
's
no
auerment
against
our
Booke
Cases
:
T
is
the
Law
call'd
make
peace
,
it
makes
them
euen
,
when
they
are
at
ods
,
it
shews
'hem
a
flat
case
,
as
plaine
as
a
pack
staffe
,
that
is
,
knocks
'hem
downe
without
circumstance
Club.
I
marry
I
like
that
law
well
,
t
is
studyed
with
the
turning
of
a
hand
:
ther
's
no
quiddits
,
nor
pedlers
French
in
't
,
there
needs
no
book
for
th'
exposition
o'
th
tearmes
;
t
is
as
easily
learned
as
the
felling
of
wood
,
and
getting
of
Children
,
all
is
but
laying
on
loade
the
downe
right
blow
.
Dry.
I
and
by
the
way
of
exhortation
it
prints
this
morall
Sentence
on
their
Costards
,
in
Capitall
Letters
Agree
?
for
the
Law
is
costly
.
Club.
Good
good
;
but
al
this
while
ther
's
no
Doctor
thought
on
,
we
must
haue
one
to
arbitrate
;
Dry.
VVhy
(
maister
Gerardine
)
man
,
has
his
name
for
the
purpose
,
he
shall
be
call'd
Doctor
Stickler
,
Lupus
est
in
Fabula
,
heere
hee
comes
.
Enter
Gerardine
.
Ger.
How
now
lads
do's
our
Conceit
cotten
,
ha
you
summond
your
wits
from
wool
gathering
?
Are
you
frought
with
matter
for
this
merryment
?
Dry.
Full
full
,
wee
are
in
labor
man
,
and
we
shall
die
without
midwiferie
.
Club.
We
are
rauisht
with
delight
like
the
wench
that
was
got
with
child
against
her
stomach
�
O
but
if
we
could
wrest
this
smock
law
(
now
in
hand
)
to
our
Club
law
,
it
were
excellent
.
Dry.
Easily
,
easily
,
all
shall
be
called
the
Club
law
.
Ger.
As
how
?
Dry.
VVhy
thus
:
Club
is
the
Crier
,
I
am
Poppin
the
Proctor
and
you
Stickler
the
Doctor
,
he
calls
them
to
appeare
,
I
must
be
of
their
counsel
,
&
you
must
attone
them
put
'hem
together
we
may
know
their
cases
,
and
be
in
their
Elements
(
mark
you
me
)
but
they
cannot
be
in
ours
,
Tut
,
none
knowes
our
secrets
,
we
can
speak
fustian
aboue
their
vndersta�ding
,
&
make
Asses
eares
attentiue
,
I
le
play
Ambodexter
tell
'hem
t
is
a
playn
Case
and
put
'hem
downe
with
the
club
law
;
so
that
(
as
Club
saide
well
ee'
now
)
our
knauery
is
as
neere
allied
,
as
felling
of
wood
and
getting
of
children
.
Gera.
Excellent
excellent
,
by
this
they
are
at
hand
;
le
ts
bear
these
things
like
our selues
;
I
le
withdraw
and
put
on
my
habiliments
and
then
enter
for
the
Doctor
.
Exit
.
Enter
Doctor
Glister
and
Purge
.
Dry.
Do
so
,
they
come
,
they
come
?
welcome
Master
Doctor
Glister
and
maister
Purge
,
ther
's
a
commission
to
be
sat
vpon
this
day
,
to
open
a
passage
for
imprisoned
trueth
,
concerning
Acts
yet
in
tenebris
.
Do.
Gl.
True
;
I
am
brought
hither
by
the
malice
of
my
wife
Pur.
And
I
haue
a
iust
Appeal
against
my
wife
.
D.
Gli.
Maister
Exigent
(
so
I
think
you
are
call'd
)
I
vnderstand
you
haue
the
Law
at
your
fingers
ends
.
Dri.
I
can
box
Cases
,
and
scould
&
scratch
it
out
amo�gst
them
Do.
Glist.
Indeed
fame
reports
you
to
be
a
good
Trumpeter
of
causes
,
I
must
retaine
you
sir
to
sound
mine
?
Dryfat
.
My
Sagbut
shall
do
it
most
pathetically
;
tell
me
in
briefe
the
nature
of
your
Case
?
Doc.
Faith
sir
,
a
scandalous
Letter
deuisd
to
wrong
my
reputation
,
about
a
Bastard
in
the
Country
which
should
be
mine
.
Dri.
About
a
Bastard
in
the
Country
which
should
be
yours
?
hum
;
t
is
very
like
you
then
,
it
should
seeme
.
Doct.
O
no
sir
,
vnderstand
me
,
only
father'd
vpon
me
.
Dri.
Only
father'd
vpon
you
,
cum
nemini
obtrudi
potest
;
I
vnderstand
you
and
like
you
wel
to
,
you
do
not
flatter
your selfe
in
your
own
Case
,
no
:
t
is
not
good
,
wel
what
more
:
Do.
And
about
my
Neece
got
with
child
,
in
my
own
house
.
Dri.
Byrlady
burthens
of
some
weight
,
which
you
make
light
of
�
you
deny
?
Doct.
What
else
sir
,
I
haue
reason
.
Dry.
I
know
it
well
,
I
take
you
for
no
beast
:
beleue
me
(
master
Doctor
)
denyall
and
reason
are
two
maine
grounds
,
stand
vpon
them
and
you
cannot
erre
.
Your
case
master
Purge
?
Purg
First
take
your
fee
master
Exigent
,
that
you
may
haue
the
more
feeling
,
and
vrge
it
home
when
you
come
too
t
,
mine
is
a
discouery
of
my
wyues
Iniquity
at
the
Family
of
loue
.
Dri.
Otherwise
call'd
the
house
of
Venery
,
where
they
hunger
and
thurst
for
't
.
Pur.
True
sir
,
you
haue
heard
of
the
hole
in
the
wall
,
where
they
assemble
together
in
the
day
time
,
like
so
many
Bees
vnder
a
hyue
.
Dry.
Come
home
Crura
Thimo
plena
,
and
lodge
among
hornets
,
is
't
not
so
?
Pur.
J
cannot
tell
sir
,
but
for
my
part
,
I
am
much
noted
as
I
go
Dry.
No
doubt
of
that
sir
,
your
wife
can
furnish
you
with
notes
out
of
her
Cotations
.
Club.
I
and
giue
him
a
two
tag'd
point
to
tie
'hem
together
.
Dry.
But
how
came
you
to
detect
her
?
Pu.
Why
thus
sir
:
getting
the
word
,
I
dogd
her
to
the
Family
where
closing
with
her
I
whispered
so
pleasing
a
tale
in
her
ear
,
that
J
got
from
her
her
wedding
Ring
,
&
heer
t
is
.
Dri.
Well
,
out
of
that
ring
we
wil
wring
matter
that
shal
carry
meat
i
th
mouth
.
But
what
witnesse
or
proofe
can
you
produce
to
make
good
your
wiues
iniquity
,
and
your
own
Cuccoldry
Pur.
Master
Lipsalue
,
and
Maister
Gudgin
,
who
were
her
co�panions
at
that
same
time
.
Dry.
Very
good
are
they
cited
in
the
quorum
nomina
?
Club.
they
will
be
heere
sir
.
D.
Gli.
If
they
be
they
will
beray
all
.
Dry.
So
much
the
better
t
will
sauor
well
for
Master
Purge
.
Pu.
You
vnderstand
my
case
now
?
D.
Gl
And
mine
too
sir
?
Dri,
I
do
J
do
,
they
are
as
different
as
a
Doctor
&
a
Dunce
,
a
man
and
a
beast
,
heer
's
the
Compe�dium
;
yours
master
Doctor
stands
vpon
the
negatiue
,
&
yours
master
Purge
vpon
the
affirmatiue
Pauca
sapienti
,
J
ha
't
,
J
ha
't
.
Pur.
Myne
is
very
currant
sir
,
J
can
shew
you
good
gilt
.
Dry.
I
marry
,
there
spoke
an
Angell
,
guilt's
currant
indeed
,
let
me
feel
't
let
me
fee
lt
.
Pur.
I
meane
my
wiues
guilt
.
Doct.
Master
Poppin
,
you
shall
haue
Innocence
to
speak
for
me
?
Dry.
Tut
,
Innocence
is
a
foole
,
I
care
not
for
's
company
,
I
can
speake
ynough
without
him
.
Doct.
Then
J
hope
you
will
be
as
good
to
vs
,
as
the
fiue-finger
at
Maw
.
Dry.
No
rather
as
Hercules
,
to
lip
labor
'hem
with
the
Club
Law
,
tut
let
me
alone
.
Enter
Mistrisse
Glister
,
Mistrisse
Purge
,
and
Maria
.
Mi.
Glist.
O
are
you
here
sir
,
I
haue
brought
you
a
full
barne
to
glut
your
greedy
appetite
if
you
haue
any
maw
,
feede
here
till
you
choak
againe
:
Now
shall
J
see
the
whole
Carkas
of
your
knauery
ript
vp
,
if
thou
hast
any
grace
,
now
will
thy
red
beard
turne
white
vpon
't
.
Mi.
Pur.
O
how
haue
I
been
tost
from
post
to
piller
,
Jn
this
libidinous
world
:
the
yoake
I
beare
Is
so
vneu'n
,
as
if
an
Innocent
Lamb
And
a
mad
hare-braind
Oxe
should
draw
together
:
But
I
must
haue
patience
ther
's
no
remedy
.
Dri.
Ther
's
some
difference
between
these
two
tempers
.
Doct.
J
would
giue
a
hundred
pounds
my
wife
had
so
gentle
a
spirit
.
Pur.
My
wife
must
needs
be
gentle
,
for
she
can
beare
double
.
Enter
Gerardine
.
Dri.
Here
comes
master
Doctour
,
now
rig
vp
your
vessells
,
euery
one
to
his
Tackling
.
Ger.
Good
day
to
all
at
once
,
and
peace
amongst
you
:
fy
how
I
sweate
,
J
think
Vulcan
nere
toyld
so
at
his
Anuill
,
as
J
haue
done
,
and
all
to
make
maydes
water
to
slake
Cupids
fire
,
and
to
turn
his
shafts
from
the
fetherbed
to
the
bed
post
,
from
the
hart
to
the
heele
:
Come
master
Poppin
shall
we
to
this
geare
?
Dri.
Reuerend
Doctor
we
haue
staid
your
comming
:
Cryer
cry
silence
?
He
cries
.
Master
Doctor
:
I
haue
heard
in
generall
termes
,
the
Tales
of
master
Doctor
Glister
,
and
master
Purge
,
which
haue
in
mutuall
manner
iumped
into
the
Quagmyre
of
my
minde
,
out
of
which
quagmyre
(
by
your
enforcement
,
and
mine
own
duty
)
I
plucke
them
vp
by
the
eares
,
and
thus
in
naked
apparance
I
present
them
.
Ger.
Ad
rem
,
ad
rem
master
Poppin
:
leaue
your
alegories
,
your
metaphors
,
and
Circumlocutions
,
and
to
the
point
?
Dry.
Then
briefly
thus
:
I
haue
compared
their
tales
,
how
short
they
will
come
of
their
wiues
I
know
not
:
and
first
for
mistrisse
Purge
,
Cryer
call
mistrisse
Purge
?
Club.
Rebecca
Purge
,
wife
to
Peter
Purge
Pothicary
,
apeare
vpon
thy
purgation
,
vpon
paine
of
excommunication
.
Mi.
Pu.
Here
I
am
:
O
times
impiety
!
Hither
I
come
from
out
the
harmlesse
fold
,
To
haue
my
good
name
eaten
vp
by
wolues
:
See
how
they
grin
?
well
,
the
weake
must
to
the
wall
,
I
must
beare
wrong
,
but
shame
shall
them
befall
.
Ger.
VVho
is
her
accuser
?
Dry.
Her
own
husband
vpon
the
late
discouery
of
a
Crewe
of
narrow
Ruste
straite
lac't
,
yet
loose
body'd
Dames
,
with
a
Route
of
Omnium
gatherums
,
assembled
by
the
title
of
the
family
of
loue
;
which
master
Doctor
if
they
be
not
punisht
and
supprest
by
our
Club
Law
,
each
mans
coppy
hold
,
will
become
free
hold
,
specialties
will
turne
to
generalities
and
so
from
vnity
to
parity
,
from
parity
to
plurality
,
&
from
plurality
to
vniuersalitie
,
their
wiues
,
the
onely
ornaments
of
their
houses
and
of
all
their
wares
,
goods
and
Chattell
,
the
chiefe
moueables
wil
be
made
common
.
Pur.
Most
Voluble
and
eloquent
proctor
.
Ger.
Byrladie
these
Enormities
must
and
shall
bee
redrest
,
otherwise
I
see
their
Charter
will
bee
infringd
,
and
their
auncient
Staffe
of
gouernment
the
Club
(
from
whence
wee
deriue
our
law
of
Castigation
)
this
club
I
say
(
they
seeming
nothing
lesse
then
men
by
their
forepart
)
will
be
turnd
vpon
their
owne
heads
.
Speake
Rebecca
Purge
art
thou
one
of
this
family
?
hast
thou
euer
knowne
the
body
of
any
man
there
,
or
elsewhere
Concupiscentically
?
Mi.
P.
No
M.
Doctor
,
those
are
but
deuises
of
the
wicked
to
trap
the
Innoce�t
,
but
I
thank
my
spirit
I
haue
feare
before
my
eyes
,
which
my
husband
sees
not
,
because
somthing
hangs
in
's
light
.
Pur.
That
's
my
hornes
:
she
flowts
me
to
my
face
,
and
I
will
not
endure
it
:
I
shall
carry
her
mark
to
my
graue
:
master
Doctor
she
has
giuen
me
that
,
that
Esculapius
(
were
he
now
exta�t
)
could
not
heale
,
nor
Edax
rerum
take
away
?
Ge.
Produce
your
witnesse
M.
Purge
,
and
blow
not
your
owne
horne
?
Purge
.
Master
Lipsalue
and
master
Gudgin
,
let
them
be
call'd
.
Cl.
Laurence
Lipsalue
&
Gregory
Gudgen
late
of
hic
&
vbique
in
the
County
of
nusquam
Gentlemen
,
come
into
the
Court
,
and
giue
your
euidence
,
vppon
payne
of
that
which
shall
ensue
.
Enter
Lipsalue
and
Gudgin
.
Doctor
.
Heere
they
come
,
in
payne
I
warrant
them
:
how
workes
your
physicke
Gallantes
?
doe
you
goe
well
to
the
ground
?
now
Cuckold
the
Doctor
?
wife
who
's
your
first
man
now
,
now
strike
with
the
scabbard
:
ha
,
ha
,
ha
.
Gud.
A
villanous
Doctor
.
Lip.
Mountybank
y'
are
a
rascall
,
and
wee
will
cast
about
to
be
reueng'd
.
Dri.
Cast
about
this
way
,
and
beray
what
you
can
concerning
Mistrisse
Purge
,
who
stands
heere
vpon
her
purgation
,
either
to
prooue
mundified
or
contaminated
,
according
to
the
tenor
peece
of
your
principall
Euidence
,
first
giue
'hem
the
Booke
?
Club.
Come
,
lay
your
hands
vpon
the
Booke
:
you
shall
speake
and
auerre
no
more
,
nor
wade
no
farther
into
the
Creame
pots
of
this
womans
cryme
,
then
the
naked
trueth
,
and
the
cart-rope
of
your
conscience
shall
conduct
you
,
so
helpe
you
the
contents
:
kisse
the
booke
.
Lips.
Alasse
,
we
are
not
in
case
to
answer
largely
,
but
if
you
will
haue
our
euidence
in
briefe
,
I
thinke
I
kist
her
at
the
Family
some
three
times
;
once
at
comming
,
once
at
going
,
and
once
in
the
middest
,
otherwise
neuer
knewe
her
dishonestlie
.
Pur.
I
,
marke
that
middle
kisse
master
Doctor
?
Gud.
And
for
my
part
I
haue
bin
more
mortified
by
her
,
then
euer
I
was
prouokt
.
Ger.
How
say
you
to
this
master
Purge
,
your
witnesse
is
weake
,
and
surreuerence
on
,
without
sounder
proofe
,
they
may
depart
to
the
close
stoole
whence
they
came
,
and
you
to
your
Pothicaries
shop
.
Pur.
No
master
Doctor
,
I
haue
an other
boult
to
shoot
,
that
shall
strike
her
dead
,
she
shall
not
haue
a
word
to
say
.
Dry.
Answer
me
to
this
Mistrisse
Purge
,
wher
's
your
wedding
Ring
?
Mi.
Pur.
My
wedding
Ring
?
why
what
should
J
doe
with
vnnecessary
things
about
me
,
when
the
poore
begs
at
my
gate
readie
to
starue
;
is
it
not
better
(
as
I
learned
last
Lecture
)
to
send
my
substance
before
me
,
where
I
may
find
it
,
then
to
leaue
it
behind
me
,
where
I
must
forgoe
it
?
yes
verily
;
wherefore
(
to
put
you
out
of
doubt
)
I
haue
giuen
that
Ring
to
charitable
vses
?
Dry.
Nay
now
she
falters
:
my
Clyent
can
shew
that
Ring
,
got
from
her
at
the
Family
,
when
these
two
Courtling
had
at
the
same
time
beleaguerd
her
Fort
.
Ger.
This
alters
the
Case
cleane
,
what
starting
hole
ha
you
now
mistrisse
Purge
?
Mi.
Purge
.
Eene
the
Sanctuarie
of
a
safe
conscience
:
now
truelie
,
truelie
,
(
how euer
he
came
by
that
Ring
)
by
my
Sisterhood
I
gaue
it
to
the
reliefe
of
the
distressed
Geneua
.
Purge
.
How
!
to
the
reliefe
of
the
distressed
Geneua
?
Justice
master
Doctor
:
I
may
now
decline
victus
victa
victum
,
one
word
more
shall
ouerthrow
her
:
I
my selfe
was
a
Familist
that
day
,
who
more
Iealous
then
zealous
in
deuotion
,
thrust
in
amongst
the
rest
(
as
I
had
most
right
)
on
purpose
to
sound
her
,
to
finde
out
the
knauerie
:
short
tale
to
make
,
I
gotte
her
Ring
,
and
heere
it
is
?
let
her
denye
it
if
she
can
;
and
what
more
I
discouer'd
,
non
est
nunc
narrandi
locus
.
Mi.
Pur.
Husband
,
I
see
you
are
hudwynck't
in
the
right
vse
of
feeling
and
knowledge
,
as
if
J
knew
you
not
then
,
as
wel
as
the
Child
knowes
his
owne
father
,
looke
in
the
posye
of
my
Ringe
:
does
it
not
tell
you
that
we
two
are
one
flesh
?
and
hath
not
fellow
feeling
taught
vs
to
know
one
another
as
wel
by
night
as
by
day
?
husband
husband
,
will
you
do
as
the
blind
Iade
,
breake
your
neck
downe
a
hill
because
you
see
it
not
?
ha
you
no
light
of
nature
in
that
flesh
of
yours
?
Now
(
as
true
as
I
liue
maister
Doctor
I
had
a
secret
operation
,
and
J
knew
him
then
to
be
my
husband
eene
by
very
instinct
.
Purge
.
Impudence
dost
not
blush
?
art
not
asham'd
to
lie
so
abhominable
.
Mi.
Pur.
No
husband
,
rather
be
you
ashamed
of
your
owne
weaknesse
,
for
,
for
my
part
J
neither
feare
nor
shame
what
man
can
doe
vnto
me
.
Ger.
Master
Purge
J
see
you
haue
spent
your
pith
;
therefore
best
make
a
full
point
at
the
ring
,
and
attend
our
pleasure
,
maister
Exigent
proceed
to
the
rest
?
Dri.
Crier
,
call
Doctor
Glister
?
Club.
Doctor
Glister
,
alias
suppositar
doctor
of
physicke
,
appeare
vpon
thy
purgation
,
vpon
the
bellie
paine
that
may
ensue
therein
.
Doct.
Here
master
Doctor
.
Ger.
VVho
is
his
accuser
?
Dry.
His
clamorous
wife
,
who
seems
to
enforce
a
separation
about
a
Bastard
in
the
Countrie
,
which
should
be
his
,
only
father'd
vpon
him
.
Ger.
VVhat
proofe
of
that
?
Mist.
Gli.
Proofe
vnaunswerable
master
Doctor
,
the
Nurses
Letter
:
let
it
be
red
,
but
first
obserue
his
countenance
?
it
may
be
his
blushing
will
bewray
his
guilt
.
Ger.
Now
by
this
light
,
I
thought
it
had
indeed
,
but
I
see
t
is
but
the
reflexion
of
his
beard
,
Reade
the
Letter
Master
Exigent
?
Club.
After
my
harty
commendations
remembred
vnto
your
worshipfull
doctorship
,
trusting
in
god
that
you
are
aswell
as
I
was
at
the
making
heereof
thanks
be
to
him
therefore
,
The
cause
of
my
writing
vnto
you
at
this
time
is
,
to
let
you
vnderstand
that
your
litle
sonne
is
turned
a
ragged
colt
,
a
verie
stripling
,
for
beeing
now
stript
of
all
his
cloathing
,
his
backside
wants
a
tayle-peece
commendes
it selfe
to
your
fatherly
Consideratio�
.
Wo
worth
the
time
that
euer
I
gaue
suck
to
a
child
that
came
in
at
the
window
,
god
knowes
how
.
Yet
if
you
did
but
see
how
like
the
peart
little
read
headed
knaue
is
,
to
his
Father
:
and
how
like
a
Cock
sparrow
he
mouses
and
touses
my
little
Besse
already
,
you
would
take
him
for
your
owne
,
and
pay
me
my
hier
,
I
write
not
of
the
want
of
one
thing
for
I
want
all
things
,
wherfore
take
some
speedy
order
or
else
as
naked
as
he
came
from
the
mother
will
I
send
him
to
the
father
.
From
Pis
.
the
xxii
of
�
Your
poore
nurse
Thomasiue
Tweed
es
.
Doctor
:
Maister
doctor
:
Truth
needes
not
the
foyle
of
Rhetorick
,
I
will
onely
in
Monosillaba
aunswere
for
my selfe
,
(
as
sometimes
a
wise
man
did
)
such
and
such
things
are
laide
to
my
charge
,
which
J
deny
,
you
may
thinke
of
mee
what
you
please
,
but
I
am
as
innocent
in
this
,
as
the
child
new
borne
.
Ger.
VVhy
ther
's
partly
a
confession
:
the
child
wee
know
is
innocent
and
not
new
borne
neyther
:
for
it
should
seeme
by
the
letter
he
is
able
to
call
his
dad
,
knaue
.
Doct.
You
take
me
wrong
master
Proctor
?
Dry.
Vnder
correction
thus
much
can
I
say
for
my
clients
Justification
;
Indeed
hee
hath
trauel'd
well
in
the
beating
of
pulses
,
and
hath
been
much
conuersant
in
womens
Iordanes
,
but
he
had
euer
a
care
to
raise
his
patient
,
beeing
before
cast
downe
:
his
charitable
disposition
hath
beene
such
to
poore
folke
,
that
he
neuer
tooke
aboue
foure
pence
for
the
casting
of
a
water
,
which
good
custome
was
so
well
knowne
among
all
his
patients
,
that
if
sixpence
were
at
any
time
offered
him
they
might
be
bold
to
aske
and
haue
two
pence
againe
.
Hee
hath
been
so
skilfull
and
painfull
withall
,
in
the
cure
of
the
greene
sicknes
,
that
of
my
knowledge
)
hee
hath
risen
at
all
houres
in
the
night
to
pleasure
maides
that
haue
had
it
.
And
for
that
foule
mouth'd
disease
tearm'd
by
a
fine
phrase
�
a
pox
on
't
what
d
ee
cal
't
?
ô
!
the
Grincomes
,
at
that
he
hath
plaid
his
doctors
prize
,
and
writes
Nil
vltra
to
all
Bountiba�ckes
.
So
that
the
wise
woman
in
Pissing
alley
,
nor
she
in
Do-little
lane
are
more
famous
for
good
deeds
the�
he
.
Then
maister
Doctor
,
out
of
these
presumptions
,
besides
his
flatte
denyall
(
a
more
infallible
ground
)
you
may
gather
his
innocence
,
and
let
him
haue
his
purgation
.
Gerardine
.
No
Maister
Exigent
it
is
not
so
to
be
foysted
off
.
Mi.
Gl.
Nay
mayster
Doctor
what
saye
you
to
his
own
Neece
that
looks
big
vpon
him
,
an
arrow
that
sticks
for
the
vpshot
against
al
commers
,
which
by
his
restraint
of
her
,
from
master
Gerardine
an
honest
Gentleman
that
lou'd
her
,
and
vpon
that
Colour
from
the
sight
and
enter-course
of
other
men
,
must
by
all
presumptions
be
his
owne
Act
.
Gerar.
O
monstrous
!
this
is
a
foule
Blot
in
your
Tables
indeede
.
Doct.
VVife
thou
hast
no
shame
nor
womanhood
in
thee
,
thy
conscience
knowes
mee
.
Mi.
Gli.
True
of
thy
flesh
who
knowes
not
that
?
thy
bearde
speakes
for
thee
:
I
,
J
,
thou
liest
by
me
like
a
Stone
,
but
abroade
th'
art
like
a
stone
horse
you
old
Timelifter
.
Dri.
Cease
your
clamour
,
and
attend
my
speach
;
most
Worshipfull
,
reuerend
and
iudiciall
Doctor
,
for
the
quickning
of
your
memory
I
will
giue
you
a
Breuiat
of
all
that
hath
beene
spoken
:
Master
Doctor
Glister
hath
a
cradlefull
and
a
bellie
full
(
you
see
)
thrust
vpon
him
,
and
master
Purge
a
head
foole
.
Your
wife
is
an
angry
honilesse
waspe
,
whose
sting
I
hope
you
need
not
feare
?
and
yours
carries
honny
in
her
mouth
,
but
her
sting
makes
your
forehead
swell
:
your
wife
makes
you
deafe
with
the
shrill
treble
of
her
tong
,
and
yours
makes
you
horne
mad
with
the
tenor
of
her
Taile
.
In
fine
,
mayster
Doctors
refuge
is
his
conscience
,
and
Master
Purge
runnes
at
his
wiues
Ring
.
Ger.
Summa
totalis
,
a
good
Audit
,
ha
you
made
master
Exigent
:
now
attend
my
Arbitterment
:
For
you
Gallants
though
you
haue
incurd
the
daunger
of
the
Law
,
by
vsing
counterfet
keyes
,
and
putting
your
hands
into
the
wrong
pocket
;
yet
because
I
see
you
punisht
and
purgd
already
,
my
aduise
is
,
that
you
learne
the
A.B.C.
of
better
manners
,
goe
backe
and
tell
how
you
haue
beene
vs'd
in
the
Citty
,
and
beeing
thus
scour'd
keepe
your selues
cleane
,
and
the
bedd
vndefiled
.
For
you
Master
Purge
,
because
I
see
your
Euidence
insufficient
,
and
indeed
too
weake
to
foyle
your
wiues
vprightnesse
,
and
seeing
Iealousy
and
vnkindnesse
,
hath
onely
made
her
a
stranger
in
your
land
of
Ham
;
my
counsell
is
that
you
readuance
your
Standard
,
giue
her
new
presse
mony
?
Purge
.
You
may
enioyne
me
sir
but
�
Ger.
But
not
at
mee
man
,
I
will
inioyne
you
,
and
conioyne
you
,
and
briefly
thus
,
you
haue
your
Ring
that
has
made
this
combustion
and
vproare
,
that
keepe
still
,
weare
it
,
and
here
by
my
edict
bee
it
proclaymed
,
to
all
that
are
iealous
,
to
weare
theyr
wiues
Ring
still
on
their
fingers
,
as
best
for
their
securitie
,
and
the
only
charme
against
Cuckoldry
.
Purge
.
Then
wife
at
master
Doctors
enioyntment
(
so
thou
wilt
promise
me
to
come
no
more
at
the
Familie
)
I
receiue
thee
into
the
lists
of
my
fauor
.
Mistr.
Purge
.
Truelie
Husband
my
loue
must
be
free
still
to
Gods
creatures
,
yea
neuerthelesse
preseruing
you
still
as
the
head
of
my
bodie
,
I
will
doe
as
the
Spirite
shall
inable
me
.
Ger.
Go
too
:
thou
hast
a
good
wife
,
and
there
an
end
:
vpon
you
master
Doctor
(
beeing
solicited
by
so
apparant
proofe
)
J
can
doe
no
lesse
then
pronounce
a
seuere
sentence
:
and
yet
yfaith
the
reuerence
of
your
calling
and
profession
doth
somewhat
checke
my
austeritie
,
what
if
master
Gerardine
(
by
my
perswasion
would
yet
be
induced
to
take
your
Neece
and
father
the
child
,
would
you
launch
with
a
thousand
pound
,
besides
her
fathers
portion
?
Doct.
Master
Doctor
I
would
,
were
it
but
to
redeeme
her
lost
good
name
.
Ger.
Then
foreknowing
what
would
happen
,
I
thought
good
in
master
Gerardines
name
,
to
haue
this
bond
ready
,
which
if
you
seale
to
,
he
shall
take
her
with
all
faults
.
Doct.
That
will
I
instantly
�
So
,
this
is
done
,
which
together
with
my
Neece
doe
I
deliuer
by
these
presents
to
the
vse
of
master
Gerardine
.
Ger.
He
thanks
you
hartily
,
and
lets
you
know
(
they
discouer
themselues
That
Indian
mines
and
Tagus
glistering
oare
To
this
bequest
were
vnto
me
but
poore
.
Doct.
Gli.
What!
Gerardine
,
Dryfat
and
Club
?
Dry.
The
very
same
:
your
are
welcome
to
our
Club
Lawe
?
Club.
The
very
same
:
your
are
welcome
to
our
Club
Lawe
?
Ger.
Cease
admiration
here
!
what
doubt
remaynes
I
le
satisfie
at
full
,
now
ioyne
with
me
,
For
approbation
of
our
Famylie
.