Consents to waste [her on] lumps of almanac-stuff Kned with May-butter. Now, as I have thought on't, I'll spoil him in the baking. SAND. Prithee, as how, sirrah? SAV. I'll give him such a crack in one o' the sides, He shall quite run out of my master's favour. PHIL. I should but too much love thee for that. SAV. Thus, then, To help you both at once, and so good night to you : After my wit has shipp'd away the fool, As he shall part, I'll buzz into the ear Of my old master, that you, sir, master Sandfield, That each shall have his own; and both being welcom'd And chamber'd in one house,-as 'tis his pride i May-butter] "If during the moneth of May before you salt your butter you saue a lumpe thereof, and put it into a vessell, and so set it into the Sun the space of that moneth, yon shall finde it exceeding soueraigne and medicinable for wounds, straines, aches, and such like grievances." G. Markham's English Housewife, p. 199, ed. 1637. SAND. Let me applaud thee! That mak'st arm'd enemies embracing friends! About it speedily. [Exit with SANDFIELD. SAV. I need no pricking; I'm of that mettle, so well pac'd and free, There's no good riders that use spur to me. O, are you come? Enter GRACE. GRACE. Are any comforts coming? SAV. I never go without 'em. GRACE. Thou Sportest joys that utterance cannot perfect. SAV. Hark, are they risen? GRACE. Yes, long before I left 'em ; And all intend to bring the widow homeward. tree, How soon they'll hold up their laps to receive com fort! The music that I struck made her soul dance Enter LADY GOLDENFLEECE with SIR GILBERT LAMB- Here comes the lady widow, the late wife He pull'd that fleece that makes his widow weight. Those are her suitors now, sir Gilbert Lambstone, Master Pepperton, [and] master Overdone. [Aside. L. GOLD. Nay, good sir Oliver Twilight, master Sunset, We'll trouble you no farther. SIR O. TWI. SUN. Twi.} No trouble, sweet madam. SIR G. LAMB. We'll see the widow at home, it shall be our charge that. L. GOLD. It shall be so indeed. Thanks, good sir Oliver; and to you both I am indebted for those courtesies That will ask me a long time to requite. SIR O. TWI. Ah, 'tis but your pleasant conditioni to give it out so, madam. L. GOLD. Mistress Grace and mistress Jane, I wish you both A fair contented fortune in your choices, GRACE.) JANE. Thanks to you, good madam; GRACE. There's more in that word right than you imagine. [Aside. Since you are both so well, 'tis well enough; GRACE. JANE. S The like to you, madam! condition] i. e. disposition, nature. GRACE. I shall long much to have this riddle open'd. [Aside. JANE. I would you were so kind to my poor kinswoman, And the distressèd gentleman her husband, [Aside. L. GOLD. Thanks, good sir Oliver Twilight; welcome, Sweet master Pepperton ;-master Overdone, wel come. [Exeunt all except SIR OLIVER TWILIGHT and SAVOURWit. SIR O. TWI. And goes the business well 'twixt those young lovers? SAV. Betwixt your son and master Sunset's daughter The line goes even, sir. SIR O. TWI. Good lad, I like thee. SAV. But, sir, there's no proportion, height, or evenness, Betwixt that equinoctial and your daughter. There's no proportion in't? SIR O. TWI. Ay, marry am I, sir: I can abide no word that ends in portion; I'll give her nothing. SAV. Say you should not, sir As I'll ne'er urge your worship 'gainst your natureIs there no gentleman, think you, of worth and credit, Will open 's bed to warm a naked maid? Thanks, good, &c.] Makes in old ed. a portion of Jane's speech. A hundred gallant fellows, and be glad Is no such cheap ware as you make account on, SAV. Do not wise men and great often bestow Ten thousand pound in jewels that lie by em? If so, what jewel can lie by a man More precious than a virgin? if none more precious, Why should the pillow of a fool be grac'd With that brave spirits with dearness have embrac'd? And then, perhaps, ere the third spring come on, Sends home your diamond crack'd, the beauty gone; And more to know her, 'cause you shall not doubt her, A number of poor sparks twinkling about her. SIR O. TWI. Now thou play'st Dowland's Lacrymæ to thy master. SAV. But shall I dry your eyes with a merry jig now, And make you look like sunshine in a shower? SAV. Young master Sandfield, gallant master SIR O. TWI. Ha! what of him? 1 Dowland's Lacrymæ]" Lachrima or seaven Teares figured in seaven passionate Pauans, with divers other Pauans, Galiards, and Almands, set forth for the Lute, Viols, or Violons, in five Parts," was a very popular musical work, composed by John Dowland, a celebrated lutanist. |