uns down again.
And Egad this was an Adventure and a bold one-- but since I am come off
with a whole Skin, I am flesht for the next onset-- Madam-- has your
Greatness any mind to marry?
[Goes to her, speaks, and runs back; Blunt claps him on the Back.
_Giant._ What if I have?
_Feth._ Why then, Madam, without inchanted Sword or Buckler, I'm your
Man.
_Giant._ My Man? my Mouse. I'll marry none whose Person and Courage
shall not bear some Proportion to mine.
_Feth._ Your Mightiness I fear will die a Maid then.
_Giant._ I doubt you'll scarce secure me from that Fear, who court my
Fortune, not my Beauty.
_Feth._ Hu, how scornful she is, I'll warrant you-- why I must confess,
your Person is something heroical and masculine, but I protest to your
Highness, I love and honour ye.
_Dwarf._ Prithee, Sister, be not so coy, I like my Lover well enough;
and if Seignior Mountebank keep his Word in making us of reasonable
Proportions, I think the Gentlemen may serve for Husbands.
_Shift._ Dissemble, or you betray your Love for us.
[Aside to the Giant.
_Giant._ And if he do keep his Word, I should make a better Choice, not
that I would change this noble Frame of mine, cou'd I but meet my Match,
and keep up the first Race of Man intire: But since this scanty World
affords none such, I to be happy, must be new created, and then shall
expect a wiser Lover.
_Feth._ Why, what a peevish Titt's this; nay, look ye, Madam, as for
that matter, your Extraordinariness may do what you please-- but 'tis
not done like a Monster of Honour, when a Man has set his Heart upon
you, to cast him off-- Therefore I hope you'll pity a despairing Lover,
and cast down an Eye of Consolation upon me; for I vow, most Amazonian
Princess, I love ye as if Heaven and Earth wou'd come together.
_Dwarf._ My Sister will do much, I'm sure, to save the Man that loves
her so passionately-- she has a Heart.
_Feth._ And a swinger 'tis-- 'Sbud-- she moves like the Royal Sovereign,
and is as long a tacking about.
[Aside.
_Giant._ Then your Religion, Sir.
_Feth._ Nay, as for that, Madam, we are _English_, a Nation I thank God,
that stand as little upon Religion as any Nation under the Sun, unless
it be in Contradiction; and at this time have so many amongst us, a Man
knows not which to turn his Hand to-- neither will I stand with your
Hugeness for a small matter of Faith or so-- Religion shall shall break
no squares.
_Dwarf._ I hope
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