Wom. Even what you think is meet.
Leu. Give her ten Crowns, we are full of business, She is a poor Woman, let her take a Cheese home. Enter the wench i’ th’ Office. [Ex. Wom. and 1 Ma.
2 Ma. What’s your name, Sister?
Phe. Phebe, forsooth.
Leu. A pretty name; ’twill do well:
Go in, and let the other Maid instruct you, Phebe.
[Ex. Phe.
Let my old Velvet skirt be made fit for her.
I’ll put her into action for a Wast-coat;
And when I have rigg’d her up once, this small
Pinnace
Shall sail for Gold, and good store too; who’s
there? [Knock within
Lord, shall we never have any ease in this world!
Still troubled! still molested! what would you have?
Enter Menipp[us].
I cannot furnish you faster than I am able,
And ye were my Husband a thousand times, I cannot
do it.
At least a dozen posts are gone this morning
For several parts of the Kingdom: I can do no
more
But pay ’em, and instruct ’em.
Men. Prithee, good sweet heart, I come not to disturb thee, nor discourage thee, I know thou labour’st truly: hark in thine ear.
Leu. Ha! What do you make so dainty on’t? look there I am an Ass, I can do nothing.
Men. Celia? I, this is she; a stranger born.
Leu. What would you give for more now?
Men. Prithee, my best Leucippe,
there’s much hangs on’t,
Lodg’d at the end of Mars’s street?
that’s true too;
At the sack of such a Town, by such a Souldier
Preserv’d a Prisoner: and by Prince Demetrius
Bought from that man again, maintain’d and favour’d:
How came you by this knowledg?
Leu. Poor, weak man, I have a thousand eyes, when thou art sleeping, Abroad, and full of business.
Men. You never try’d her?
Leu. No, she is beyond my level; so hedg’d in By the Princes infinite Love and Favour to her—
Men. She is a handsome Wench.
Leu. A delicate, and knows it; And out of that proof arms her self.
Men. Come in then; I have a great design from the King to you, And you must work like wax now.
Leu. On this Lady?
Men. On this, and all your wits call home.
Leu. I have done
Toys in my time of some note; old as I am,
I think my brains will work without barm;
Take up the Books.
Men. As we go in, I’le tell ye. [Exeunt.
SCENA IV.
Enter Antigonus, Timon, Lords and a Souldier.
Ant. No face of sorrow for this loss,
’twill choak him,
Nor no man miss a friend, I know his nature
So deep imprest with grief, for what he has suffer’d,
That the least adding to it adds to his ruine;
His loss is not so infinite, I hope, Souldier.