Unto your lady dutchess. You may say
She is a civil lady, and does give her
All her respects already: bad you tell her,
She lives but to receive her wish'd command-

ments,

And have the honour here to kiss her hands, For which she'll stay this hour yet. Hasten you Your prince, away.

Pug. And, sir, you will take care The excuse be perfect?

Meer. You confess your fears

Too much.

Pug. The shame is more.

Meer. I'll quit you of either.

[Exeunt.

ACT IV. SCENE I.

A Room in Lady TAILBUSH's House.

Enter Lady TAILBUSH and MEERCRAFT.

Lady T. Apox upon referring to commissioners! I had rather hear that it were past the seals: You courtiers move so snail-like in your business. Would I had not begun with you!

Meer. We must move,

Madam, in order, by degrees; not jump.

Lady T. Why, there was sir John Moneyman could jump

A business quickly.

8 Pug. The shame is more. I'll quit you of either.] The latter part of this line, though all the editions concur in giving it to Pug, evidently belongs to Meercraft, and is an answer to Pug's apprehensions of being discovered. WHAL.

Meer. True, he had great friends;

But, because some, sweet madam, can leap ditches,

We must not all shun to go over bridges.
The harder parts, I make account, are done,
Now 'tis referr'd: you are infinitely bound
Unto the ladies, they have so cried it
Lady T. Do they like it then?

up

Meer. They have sent the Spanish lady To gratulate with you.

Lady T. I must send them thanks,

And some remembrances.

Meer. That you must, and visit them. Where's Ambler?

!

Lady T. Lost, to-day, we cannot hear of him. Meer. Not, madam !

Lady T. No, in good faith: they say he lay not At home to-night. And here has fallen a business Between your cousin and master Manly, has Unquieted us all.

Meer. So I hear, madam. Pray you, how was it?

Lady T. Troth, it but appears

Ill on your kinsman's part. You may have heard, That Manly is a suitor to me, I doubt not.

Meer. I guess'd it, madam.

Lady T. And it seems, he trusted

Your cousin to let fall some fair reports

Of him unto me.

Meer. Which he did!

Lady T. So far

From it, as he came in, and took him railing
Against him.

Meer. How! And what said Manly to him? Lady T. Enough, I do assure you; and with that scorn

Of him and the injury, as I do wonder

How Everill bore it; but that guilt undoes
Many men's valours.

Enter MANLY.

Meer. Here comes Manly.

Man. Madam, I'll take my leave-
Lady T. You shall not go, i' faith.

I'll have you stay and see this Spanish miracle,
Of our English lady.

Man. Let me pray your ladyship,

Lay your commands on me some other time. Lady T. Now, I protest; and I will have all pieced,

And friends again.

Man. It will be but ill-solder'd!

Lady T. You are too much affected with it.
Man. I cannot,

Madam, but think on't for the injustice.
Lady T. Sir,

His kinsman here is sorry.

Meer. Not I, madam,

I am no kin to him, we but call cousins:
And if he were, sir, I have no relation
Unto his crimes.

Man. You are not urged with them.

I can accuse, sir, none but mine own judgment;
For though it were his crime so to betray me,
I am sure, 'twas more mine own, at all to trust him:
But he therein did use but his old manners,
And savour strongly what he was before.
Lady T. Come, he will change.

Man. Faith, I must never think it;
Nor were it reason in me to expect,

That, for my sake, he should put off a nature He suck'd in with his milk. It may be, madam, Deceiving trust is all he has to trust to:

If so, I shall be loth, that any hope

Of mine should bate him of his means.
Lady T. You are sharp, sir:

This act may make him honest.

Man. If he were

To be made honest by an act of parliament,
I should not alter in my faith of him.

Enter Lady EITHERSIDE.

Lady T. Eitherside!

Welcome, dear Eitherside! how hast thou done, good wench?

Thou hast been a stranger: I have not seen thee this week.

Lady E. Ever your servant, madam.
Lady T. Where hast thou been?

I did so long to see thee.

Lady E. Visiting, and so tired!

I protest, madam, 'tis a monstrous trouble.

Lady T. And so it is. I swear I must to-morrow Begin my visits, would they were over, at court: It tortures me to think on them.

Lady E. I do hear

You have cause, madam, your suit goes on.
Lady T. Who told thee?

Lady E. One that can tell; master Eitherside.
Lady T. O, thy husband.

Yes faith, there's life in't now; it is referr'd.
If we once see it under the seals, wench, then,
Have with them for the great caroch, six horses,
And the two coachmen, with my Ambler bare,
And my three women; we will live, i'faith,
The examples of the town, and govern it:
I'll lead the fashion still.

Lady E. You do that now,
Sweet madam.

Lady T. O but then, I'll every day

Bring up some new device. Thou and I, Eitherside,
Will first be in it, I will give it thee;

And they shall follow us. Thou shalt, I swear,
Wear every month a new gown out of it.
Lady E. Thank you, good madam.

Lady T. Pray thee call me Tailbush,

As I thee Eitherside; I love not this madam. Lady E. Then I protest to you, Tailbush, I am glad

Your business so succeeds.

Lady T. Thank thee, good Eitherside.

Lady E. But master Eitherside tells me, that he likes

Your other business better.

Lady T. Which?

Lady E. Of the tooth-picks.
Lady T. I never heard of it.

Lady E. Ask master Meercraft.

Meer. Madam! [Aside to Manly.]-He is one, in a word, I'll trust his malice

With any man's credit, I would have abused. Man. Sir, if you think you do please me in this,

You are deceived.

Meer. No, but because my lady

Named him my kinsman, I would satisfy you
What I think of him; and pray you upon it
To judge me.

Man. So I do; that ill men's friendship
Is as unfaithful as themselves.

Lady T. Do you hear?

Have you a business about tooth-picks?

Meer. Yes, madam;

Did I ne'er tell it you? I meant to have offer'd it Your ladyship, on the perfecting the patent. Lady T. How is it?