Margarita:
I do Sir,
’Tis Estifania,
that was once my woman.
Leon:
She writes to
me here, that one Cacafogo
An usuring Jewellers
son (I know the Rascal)
Is mortally faln
in love with ye.
Margarita:
Is a monster, deliver me from mountains.
Leon:
Do you goe a birding
for all sorts of people?
And this evening
will come to ye and shew ye Jewels,
And offers any
thing to get access to ye,
If I can make
or sport or profit on him,
(For he is fit
for both) she bids me use him,
And so I will,
be you conformable, and follow but my will.
Margarita:
I shall not fail, Sir.
Leon:
Will the Duke come again do you think?
Margarita:
No sure Sir,
H’as now
no policie to bring him hither.
Leon:
Nor bring you
to him, if my wit hold fair wife:
Let’s in
to dinner.
[Exeunt.
[Enter Perez.]
Michael Perez:
Had I but lungs
enough to bawl sufficiently,
That all the queans
in Christendom might hear me,
222] That men might run away from contagion,
I had my wish;
would it were most high treason,
Most infinite
high, for any man to marry,
I mean for any
man that would live handsomely,
And like a Gentleman,
in his wits and credit.
What torments
shall I put her to, Phalaris bull now,
Pox they love
bulling too well, though they smoak for’t.
Cut her apieces?
every piece will live still,
And every morsel
of her will do mischief;
They have so many
lives, there’s no hanging of ’em,
They are too light
to drown, they are cork and feathers;
To burn too cold,
they live like Salamanders;
Under huge heaps
of stones to bury her,
And so depress
her as they did the Giants;
She will move
under more than built old Babel,
I must destroy
her.
[Enter Cacafogo, with a Casket.]
Cacafogo:
Be cozen’d
by a thing of clouts, a she moth,
That every silkmans
shop breeds; to be cheated,
And of a thousand
duckets by a whim wham?
Michael Perez:
Who’s that
is cheated, speak again thou vision,
But art thou cheated?
minister some comfort:
Tell me directly
art thou cheated bravely?
Come, prethee
come, art thou so pure a coxcomb
To be undone?
do not dissemble with me,
Tell me I conjure
thee.
Cacafogo:
Then keep thy
circle,
For I am a spirit
wild that flies about thee,
And who e’re
thou art, if thou be’st humane,
I’le let
thee plainly know, I am cheated damnably.