To know of her faire Patients how they slept.
By which meanes she, and the blinde Archer crept
Into their fauours, who would often Toy,
And tooke delight in sporting with the Boy; 70
Which many times amongst his waggish tricks,
These wanton Wenches in the bosome prickes;
That they before which had some franticke fits,
Were by his Witchcraft quite out of their wits.
Watching this Wisard, my minde gaue me still
She some Impostor was, and that this skill
Was counterfeit, and had some other end.
For which discouery, as I did attend,
Her wrinckled vizard being very thin,
My piercing eye perceiu’d her cleerer skin 80
Through the thicke Riuels perfectly to shine;
When I perceiu’d a beauty so diuine,
As that so clouded, I began to pry
A little nearer, when I chanc’t to spye
That pretty Mole vpon her Cheeke, which when
I saw; suruaying euery part agen,
Vpon her left hand, I perceiu’d the skarre
Which she receiued in the Troian warre;
Which when I found, I could not chuse but smile.
She, who againe had noted me the while, 90
And, by my carriage, found I had descry’d her,
Slipt out of sight, and presently doth hide her.
Lelipa.
Nay then my dainty Girles, I make no doubt
But I my selfe as strangely
found her out
As either of you both; in
Field and Towne,
When like a Pedlar she went
vp and downe:
For she had got a pretty handsome
Packe,
Which she had fardled neatly
at her backe:
And opening it, she had the
perfect cry,
Come my faire Girles, let’s
see, what will you buy. 100
Here be fine night Maskes,
plastred well within,
To supple wrinckles, and to
smooth the skin:
Heer’s Christall, Corall,
Bugle, Iet, in Beads,
Cornelian Bracelets for my
dainty Maids:
Then Periwigs and Searcloth-Gloues
doth show,
To make their hands as white
as Swan or Snow:
Then takes she forth a curious
gilded boxe,
Which was not opened but by
double locks;
Takes them aside, and doth
a Paper spred,
In which was painting both
for white and red: 110
And next a piece of Silke,
wherein there lyes
For the decay’d, false
Breasts, false Teeth, false Eyes
And all the while shee’s
opening of her Packe,
Cupid with’s
wings bound close downe to his backe:
Playing the Tumbler on a Table
gets,
And shewes the Ladies many
pretty feats.
I seeing behinde him that
he had such things,
For well I knew no boy but
he had wings,
I view’d his Mothers
beauty, which to me
Lesse then a Goddesse said,
she could not be: 120