name,
Seal't then with your own signet and dispatche it
As I will have dyrected; doo't, I charge you,
Without the least demurre or fallacy.
By dooinge this you shall prevent distrust
Or future breach beetwixt us; you shall further
Expresse a just obediens.
_Lady_. Syr, I shall,
What ere your concealed purpose bee, I shall.
_Lord Av_. Provyde mee horses, I will ryde.
_Denis_. When, syr?
_Lord Av_. Instantly, after dinner, and gie't out
I am not to returne till three dayes hence,
So spreade it throughe the howse.
_Denis_. What followers, Syr,
Meane you to take alonge?
_Lord Av_. Thyself, no more,
For 'tis a private busines, and withall;
Provyde mee,--harke thyne eare.
_Denis_. A stronge one, Syrr.
_Lord Av_. One that will howld; withall give pryvate order
At night the guarden gates may bee left open,
By whiche wee may returne unknowne to any.
What I intend lyes heare.
_Denis_. All wee servants
Are bownd to doo, but not examine what;
That's out of our comission.
_Lord Av_. 'Twixt us too
I shall resolve thee further.
_Denis_. I am gone, Syr.
_Lord Av_. Nowe, sweete ladye, have you doon?
_Lady_. As you commanded.
_Lord Av_. Itt wants nothinge nowe
But seale and superscription; I'l see't doone.
And marke mee nowe; at evensonge, passinge through
The cloyster to the chappell, when the fryar
Amongst the rest bowes with his wonted duckes,
Add rather then deminish from your smiles
And wonted favours. Let this shee post then
Conveigh this letter to the fryar's close fist,
Who no dowbt gapes for answer.
_Lady_. All shall bee
As you instructe; but punishe, syr, with pitty;
Putt him to payne or shame, but deathe, alas,
Is too seveare.
_Lord Av_. Tush, wyfe, feare not; think'st thou Ile
quale[102] a churchman?
[_Exeunt_.
SCENE 2.
_Enter after a great noyse within, the Clowne,
meetinge with Ashburne and Godfrey_.
_Clowne_. If this villadge bee inhabited with men as this place within
is with monsters; if with men that have eyes and can distinguishe bewty,
or that have hartes and therfore saver of pitty; if you bee fathers and
know what belonges to children, or christians and therefore what is ment
by charity; if husbandmen and have hope of your harvest, or marchants of
your trade's increase; if fishermen that would thryve by your labours,
or any of all these that would be knowne by your honesty--
_Ashburne_. Many of those t
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