say his horse stales with a good presence, and he's your
bondslave. When he returns, I'll tell twenty admirable lies of his hawk;
and then I shall be his little rogue and his white villain for a whole
week after. Well, let others complain; but I think there is no felicity
to the serving of a fool.

ACTUS III., SCAENA 1.

SIR RADERIC, RECORDER, PAGE, SIGNIOR IMMERITO.

SIR RADERIC.
Signior Immerito, you remember my caution for the tithes, and my promise
for farming my tithes at such a rate?

IMMERITO.
Ay, and please your worship, sir.

SIR RADERIC.
You must put in security for the performance of it, in such sort as I
and Master Recorder shall like of.

IMMERITO.
I will, an't please your worship.

SIR RADERIC.
And because I will be sure that I have conferred this kindness upon a
sufficient man, I have desired Master Recorder to take examination of
you.

PAGE.
My master, it seems, takes him for a thief; but he hath small reason for
it. As for learning, it's plain he never stole any; and for the living,
he knows himself how he comes by it; for let him but eat a mess of
furmenty this seven year, and yet he shall never be able to recover
himself. Alas, poor sheep, that hath fallen into the hands of such a
fox! [_Aside_.

SIR RADERIC.
Good Master Recorder, take your place by me, and make trial of his
gifts: is the clerk there to record his examination? O, the page shall
serve the turn.

PAGE.
Trial of his gifts! never had any gifts a better trial: why, Immerito's
gifts have appeared in as many colours as the rainbow; first, to Master
Amoretto, in colour of the satin suit he wears: to my lady, in the
similitude of a loose gown: to my master, in the likeness of a silver
basin and ewer: to us pages, in the semblance of new suits and points.
So Master Amoretto plays the gull in a piece of a parsonage; my master
adorns his cupboard with a piece of a parsonage; my mistress, upon good
days, puts on a piece of a parsonage; and we pages play at blowpoint for
a piece of a parsonage: I think here's trial enough for one man's gifts.
[_Aside_.

RECORDER.
Forasmuch as nature hath done her part in making you a handsome likely
man--

PAGE.
He is a handsome young man indeed, and hath a proper gelded parsonage.[93]
[_Aside_.

RECORDER.
In the next place, some art is requisite for t