I’le refresh ye
Sir;
When ye want, you know
your Exchequer.
Lea.
If all this get me but access, I am happy.
Lop.
Come, I am tender of ye.
Lea.
I’le go with ye.
To have this fort betray’d
these fools must fleece me.
[Exeunt.
SCENA II.
Enter Bartolus, and Amaranta.
Bar.
My Amaranta,
a retir’d sweet life,
Private and close, and
still, and houswifely,
Becomes a Wife, sets
off the grace of woman.
At home to be believ’d
both young, and handsome,
As Lilies that are cas’d
in crystall Glasses,
Makes up the wonder:
shew it abroad ’tis stale,
And still the more eyes
cheapen it ’tis more slubber’d,
And what need windowes
open to inviting?
Or evening Tarrasses,
to take opinions?
When the most wholsome
air (my wife) blows inward,
When good thoughts are
the noblest Companions,
And old chast stories,
wife, the best discourses;
But why do I talk thus,
that know thy nature?
Ama.
You know your own disease:
distrust, and jealousie,
And those two, give
these Lessons, not good meaning,
What trial is there
of my honestie,
When I am mew’d
at home? to what end Husband,
Serves all the vertuous
thoughts, and chast behaviours
Without their uses?
Then they are known most excellent
When by their contraries
they are set off, and burnish’d.
If ye both hold me fair,
and chast, and vertuous,
Let me goe fearless
out, and win that greatness:
These seeds grow not
in shades, and conceal’d places:
Set ’em i’th’
heat of all, then they rise glorious.
Bar.
Peace, ye are too loud.
Ama.
You are too covetous.
If that be rank’d
a vertue, you have a rich one.
Set me (like other Lawyers
wives) off handsomely,
Attended as I ought,
and as they have it,
My Coach, my people,
and my handsome women,
My will in honest things.
Bar.
Peace Amaranta.
Ama.
They have content, rich
clothes, and that secures ’em,
Binds, to their carefull
husbands, their observance,
They are merry, ride
abroad, meet, laugh.
Bar.
Thou shalt too.
Ama.
And freely may
converse with proper Gentlemen,
Suffer temptations daily
to their honour.
Enter Woman-Mo[o]re.
Bar.
You are now too far
again: thou shalt have any thing,
Let me but lay up for
a handsome Office,
And then my Amaranta—