She has the Keys, Sir.
Michael Perez:
I know she has, but who has all my goods, Spirit?
Old Woman:
If you be married
to that Gentlewoman,
You are a wretched
man, she has twenty Husbands.
Maid:
She tells you true.
Old Woman:
And she has cozen’d all, Sir.
Michael Perez:
The Devil she has! I had a fair house with
her,
201] That stands hard by, and furnisht royally.
Old Woman:
You are cozen’d too, ’tis none of hers, good Gentleman.
Maid:
The Lady Margarita,
she was her Servant,
And kept the house,
but going from her, Sir,
For some lewd
tricks she plaid.
Michael Perez:
Plague o’
the Devil,
Am I i’th’
full Meridian of my Wisedom
Cheated by a stale
Quean! what kind of Lady
Is that that owes
the House?
Old Woman:
A young sweet Lady.
Michael Perez:
Of a low stature?
Old Woman:
She is indeed but little, but she is wondrous fair.
Michael Perez:
I feel I am cozen’d;
Now I am sensible
I am undone,
This is the very
Woman sure, that Cousin
She told me would
entreat but for four days,
To make the house
hers; I am entreated sweetly.
Maid:
When she went
out this morning, that I saw, Sir,
She had two Women
at the door attending,
And there she
gave ’em things, and loaded ’em,
But what they
were—I heard your Trunks to open,
If they be yours?
Michael Perez:
They were mine
while they were laden,
But now they have
cast their Calves, they are not worth
Owning: was
she her Mistress say you?
Old Woman:
Her own Mistress,
her very Mistress, Sir, and all you saw
About and in that
house was hers.
Michael Perez:
No Plate, no Jewels, nor no Hangings?
Maid:
Not a farthing, she is poor, Sir, a poor shifting thing.
Michael Perez:
No money?
Old Woman:
Abominable poor,
as poor as we are,
Money as rare
to her unless she steal it,
But for one civil
Gown her Lady gave her,
She may go bare,
good Gentlewoman.
Michael Perez:
I am mad now,
I think I am as
poor as she, I am wide else,
One civil Sute
I have left too, and that’s all,
And if she steal
that she must fley me for it;
Where does she
use?
Old Woman:
You may find truth
as soon,
202] Alas, a thousand conceal’d corners, Sir,
she lurks in.
And here she gets
a fleece, and there another,
And lives in mists
and smoaks where none can find her.