Pray ye question
him, and if you find him not
Fit for your purpose,
shake him off, there’s no harm
Done.
Margarita:
Can you love a young Lady? How he blushes!
Altea:
Leave twirling
of your hat, and hold your head up,
And speak to’th’
Lady.
Leon:
Yes, I think I
can,
I must be taught,
I know not what it means Madam.
Margarita:
You shall be taught,
and can you when she pleases
Go ride abroad,
and stay a week or two?
You shall have
men and horses to attend ye,
And mony in your
purse.
Leon:
Yes I love riding,
And when I am
from home I am so merry.
Margarita:
Be as merry as
you will: can you as handsomely
When you are sent
for back, come with obedience,
And doe your dutie
to the Lady loves you?
Leon:
Yes sure, I shall.
Margarita:
And when you see
her friends here,
Or noble kinsmen,
can you entertain
Their servants
in the Celler, and be busied,
And hold your
peace, what e’re you see or hear of?
Leon:
’Twere fit I were hang’d else.
Margarita:
Let me try your
kisses,
How the fool shakes,
I will not eat ye Sir,
186] Beshrew my heart he kisses wondrous manly,
Can ye doe any
thing else?
Leon:
Indeed I know
not;
But if your Ladiship
will please to instruct me,
Sure I shall learn.
Margarita:
You shall then
be instructed:
If I should be
this Lady that affects ye,
Nay say I marry
ye?
Altea:
Hark to the Lady.
Margarita:
What mony have ye?
Leon:
None Madam, nor
friends,
I wou’d
doe any thing to serve your Ladiship.
Margarita:
You must not look
to be my Mr Sir,
Nor talk i’th’
house as though you wore the breeches,
No, nor command
in any thing.
Leon:
I will not,
Alas I am not
able, I have no wit Madam.
Margarita:
Nor do not labour
to arrive at any,
’Twill spoil
your head, I take ye upon charity,
And like a Servant
ye must be unto me,
As I behold your
duty I shall love ye,
And as you observe
me, I may chance lye with ye,
Can you mark these?
Leon:
Yes indeed forsooth.
Margarita:
There is one thing,
That if I take
ye in I put ye from me,
Utterly from me,
you must not be sawcy,
No, nor at any
time familiar with me,
Scarce know me,
when I call ye not.