_Hee is iealous about his_ ring, _and_ Mere-craft
_deliuers
it.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
I ?
hould know
This voyce, and face too:
Manly _begins to know him_.
VVIT. Then they ? ay, 'tis dangerous [147]
To all the falne, yet well di? pos'd _Mad-dames_,
That are indu? trious, and de? ire to earne 40
Their liuing with their ? weate! For any di? temper
Of heat, and motion, may di? place the colours;
And if the paint once runne about their faces,
Twenty to one, they will appeare ? o ill-fauour'd,
Their ? eruants run away, too, and leaue the plea? ure 45
Imperfect, and the reckoning all vnpay'd.
EIT. Pox, the? e are _Poets_ rea? ons.
TAY. Some old _Lady_
That keepes a _Poet_, has deuis'd the? e ? candales.
EIT. Faith we mu? t haue the _Poets_ bani? h'd, _Madame_,
As Ma? ter _Either-? ide_ ? aies.
MER. Ma? ter _Fitz-dottrel_? 50
And his wife: where? _Madame_, the _Duke_ of _Drown'd-land_,
That will be ? hortly.
VVIT. Is this my _Lord_?
MER. The ? ame.
[604] SD. om. G
[605] 1 SN. is om. 1692, 1716, W || For G see 70 above.
[606] 5 embrace 1716, f.
[607] 6 SN. om. G
[608] 16 'em G
[609] 20 Yo'] Y' 1716, W
[610] 22 't] it G
[611] 38 SN. ] [_Aside. _ G
[612] 39 _Mad-dams_ 1692, 1716 mad-dams W mad-ams G
[613] 46 also G
[614] 51 wife! _Wit. _ Where? _Enter Mr. and Mrs. _ FITZDOTTREL,
_followed by_ PUG. _Meer. _ [_To Wit. _] Madam, G
ACT. IIIJ. SCENE. IV.
FITZ-DOTTREL. Mi? tre? ? e FITZ-DOTTRELL.
PVG. } _to them. _
Your ? eruant, _Madame_!
VVIT. How now? Friend? offended,
That I haue found your haunt here?
Wittipol _whi? pers with_ Manly.
MAN. No, but wondring
At your ? trange fa? hion'd venture, hither.
VVIT. It is
To ? hew you what they are, you ? o pur? ue.
MAN. I thinke 'twill proue a med'cine again? t marriage;
To know their manners.
VVIT. Stay, and profit then. 6
MER. The _Lady_, _Madame_, whose _Prince_ has brought her, here,
To be in? tructed.
_Hee pre? ents Mi? tre? ? e_ Fitz-dottrel.
VVIT. Plea? e you ? it with vs, _Lady_.
MER. That's _Lady-Pre? ident_.
FIT. A goodly woman!
I cannot ? ee the ring, though.
MER. Sir, ? he has it. 10
TAY. But, _Madame_, the? e are very feeble rea? ons!
WIT. So I vrg'd _Madame_, that the new complexion,
Now to come forth, in name o' your _Ladi? hip's fucus_,
Had no _ingredient_--
TAY. But I dur? t eate, I a? ? ure you.
WIT. So do they, in _Spaine_.
TAY. Sweet _Madam_ be ? o liberall, 15
To giue vs ? ome o' your _Spani? h Fucu? es_!
VVIT. They are infinit, _Madame_.
TAY. So I heare, they haue
VVater of _Gourdes_, of _Radi? h_, the white _Beanes_,
Flowers of _Gla? ? e_, of _Thi? tles_, _Ro? e-marine_.
Raw _Honey_, _Mu? tard-? eed_, and Bread dough-bak'd, 20
The crums o' bread, _Goats-milke_, and whites of _Egges_,
_Campheere_, and _Lilly-roots_, the fat of _Swannes_,
Marrow of _Veale_, white _Pidgeons_, and pine-_kernells_, [148]
The ? eedes of _Nettles_, _perse'line_, and _hares gall_.
_Limons_, thin-skind--
EIT. How, her _Ladi? hip_ has ? tudied 25
Al excellent things!
VVIT. But ordinary, _Madame_.
No, the true rarities, are th' _Aluagada_,
And _Argentata_ of Queene _Isabella_!
TAY. I, what are their _ingredients_, gentle _Madame_?
WIT. Your _Allum Scagliola_, or _Pol-dipedra_; 30
And _Zuccarino_; _Turpentine_ of _Abezzo_,
Wash'd in nine waters: _Soda di leuante_,
Or your _Ferne_ a? hes; _Beniamin di gotta_;
_Gra? ? o di ? erpe_; _Porcelletto marino_;
Oyles of _Lenti? co_; _Zucche Mugia_; make 35
The admirable _Verni? h_ for the face,
Giues the right lu? ter; but two drops rub'd on
VVith a piece of ? carlet, makes a _Lady_ of ? ixty
Looke at ? ixteen. But, aboue all, the water
Of the white _Hen_, of the _Lady E? tifanias_! 40
TAY. O, I, that ? ame, good _Madame_, I haue heard of:
How is it done?
VVIT. _Madame_, you take your _Hen_,
Plume it, and skin it, clean? e it o' the inwards:
Then chop it, bones and all: adde to foure ounces
Of _Carrauicins_, _Pipitas_, _Sope_ of _Cyprus_, 45
Make the decoction, ? treine it. Then di? till it,
And keep it in your galley-pot well glidder'd:
Three drops pre? erues from wrinkles, warts, ? pots, moles,
Blemi? h, or Sun-burnings, and keepes the skin
_In decimo ? exto_, euer bright, and ? mooth, 50
As any looking-gla? ? e; and indeed, is call'd
The Virgins milke for the face, _Oglio reale_;
A Ceru? e, neyther cold or heat, will hurt;
And mixt with oyle of _myrrhe_, and the red _Gilli-flower_
Call'd _Cataputia_; and flowers of _Roui? tico_; 55
Makes the be? t _muta_, or dye of the whole world.
TAY. Deare _Madame_, will you let vs be familiar?
WIT. Your _Ladi? hips_ ? eruant.
MER. How do you like her.
FIT. Admirable!
But, yet, I cannot ? ee the ring.
_Hee is iealous about his_ ring, _and_ Mere-craft _deliuers it. _
PVG. Sir.
MER. I mu? t
Deliuer it, or marre all. This foole's ? o iealous. 60
_Madame_--Sir, weare this ring, and pray you take knowledge,
'Twas ? ent you by his wife. And giue her thanks,
Doe not you dwindle, Sir, beare vp.
PVG. I thanke you, Sir.
TAY. But for the manner of _Spaine_! Sweet, _Madame_, let vs
Be bold, now we are in: Are all the _Ladies_, 65
There, i' the fa? hion?
VVIT. None but _Grandee's_, _Madame_,
O' the cla? p'd traine, which may be worne at length, too,
Or thus, vpon my arme.
TAY. And doe they weare
_Cioppino's_ all?
VVIT. If they be dre? t in _punto_, _Madame_.
EIT. Guilt as tho? e are? _madame? _
WIT. Of Gold? miths work, _madame_; [149] 70
And ? et with diamants: and their _Spani? h_ pumps
Of perfum'd leather.
TAI. I ? hould thinke it hard
To go in 'hem, _madame_.
WIT. At the fir? t, it is, _madame_.
TAI. Do you neuer fall in 'hem?
WIT. Neuer.
EI. I ? weare, I ? hould
Six times an houre.
WIT. But you haue men at hand, ? still,
To helpe you, if you fall?
EIT. Onely one, madame, 76
The _Guardo-duennas_, ? uch a little old man,
As this.
EIT. Alas! hee can doe nothing! this!
WIT. I'll tell you, madame,
I ? aw i' the _Court_ of _Spaine_ once,
A _Lady_ fall i' the Kings ? ight, along, 80
And there ? hee lay, flat ? pred, as an _Vmbrella_,
Her hoope here crack'd; no man dur? t reach a hand
To helpe her, till the _Guarda-duenn'as_ came,
VVho is the per? on onel' allow'd to touch
A _Lady_ there: and he but by this finger. 85
EIT. Ha' they no ? eruants, _madame_, there? nor friends?
WIT. An _E? cudero_, or ? o _madame_, that wayts
Vpon 'hem in another Coach, at di? tance,
And when they walke, or daunce, holds by a hand-kercher,
Neuer pre? umes to touch 'hem.
EIT. This's ? ciruy! 90
And a forc'd grauity! I doe not like it.
I like our owne much better.
TAY. 'Tis more _French_,
And _Courtly_ ours.
EIT. And ta? ts more liberty.
VVe may haue our doozen of vi? iters, at once,
Make loue t'vs.
TAY. And before our husbands?
EIT. Hu? band? 95
As I am hone? t, _Tayle-bu? h_ I doe thinke
If no body ? hould loue mee, but my poore husband,
I ? hould e'n hang my ? elfe.
TAY. Fortune forbid, wench:
So faire a necke ? hould haue ? o foule a neck-lace.
EIT. 'Tis true, as I am hand? ome!
WIT. I receiu'd, _Lady_, 100
A token from you, which I would not bee
Rude to refu? e, being your fir? t remembrance.
(FIT. O, I am ? atisfied now!
MER. Do you ? ee it, Sir. )
WIT. But ? ince you come, to know me, neerer, _Lady_,
I'll begge the honour, you will weare for mee, 105
It mu? t be ? o.
Wittipol _giues it Mi? tre? ? e_ Fitz-dottrel.
M^rs. FIT. Sure I haue heard this tongue.
MER. What do you meane, S^r?
Mere-craft _murmures,_
WIT. Would you ha' me mercenary?
We'll recompence it anon, in ? omewhat el? e.
_He is ? atisfied, now he ? ees it. _
FIT. I doe not loue to be gull'd, though in a toy.
VVife, doe you heare? yo' are come into the Schole, wife,
VVhere you may learne, I doe perceiue it, any thing! 111
How to be fine, or faire, or great, or proud,
Or what you will, indeed, wife; heere 'tis taught.
And I am glad on't, that you may not ? ay,
Another day, when honours come vpon you, 115
You wanted meanes. I ha' done my parts: beene,
Today at fifty pound charge, fir? t, for a ring, [150]
_He vpbraids her, with his Bill of co? ts. _
To get you entred. Then left my new _Play_,
To wait vpon you, here, to ? ee't confirm'd.
That I may ? ay, both to mine owne eyes, and eares, 120
Sen? es, you are my witne? ? e, ? ha' hath inioy'd
All helps that could be had, for loue, or money--
M^rs. FIT. To make a foole of her.
FIT. Wife, that's your malice,
The wickedne? ? e o' you nature to interpret
Your husbands kinde? ? e thus. But I'll not leaue; 125
Still to doe good, for your deprau'd affections:
Intend it. Bend this ? tubborne will; be great.
TAY. Good _Madame_, whom do they v? e in me? ? ages?
WIT. They comonly v? e their ? laues, _Madame_.
TAI. And do's your _Ladi? hip_.
Thinke that ? o good, _Madame_?
WIT. no, indeed, _Madame_; I, 130
Therein preferre the fa? hion of _England_ farre,
Of your young delicate Page, or di? creet V? her.
FIT. And I goe with your _Ladi? hip_, in opinion,
Directly for your Gentleman-v? her.
There's not a finer _Officer_ goes on ground. 135
WIT. If hee be made and broken to his place, once.
FIT. Nay, ? o I pre? uppo? e him.
WIT.
This voyce, and face too:
Manly _begins to know him_.
VVIT. Then they ? ay, 'tis dangerous [147]
To all the falne, yet well di? pos'd _Mad-dames_,
That are indu? trious, and de? ire to earne 40
Their liuing with their ? weate! For any di? temper
Of heat, and motion, may di? place the colours;
And if the paint once runne about their faces,
Twenty to one, they will appeare ? o ill-fauour'd,
Their ? eruants run away, too, and leaue the plea? ure 45
Imperfect, and the reckoning all vnpay'd.
EIT. Pox, the? e are _Poets_ rea? ons.
TAY. Some old _Lady_
That keepes a _Poet_, has deuis'd the? e ? candales.
EIT. Faith we mu? t haue the _Poets_ bani? h'd, _Madame_,
As Ma? ter _Either-? ide_ ? aies.
MER. Ma? ter _Fitz-dottrel_? 50
And his wife: where? _Madame_, the _Duke_ of _Drown'd-land_,
That will be ? hortly.
VVIT. Is this my _Lord_?
MER. The ? ame.
[604] SD. om. G
[605] 1 SN. is om. 1692, 1716, W || For G see 70 above.
[606] 5 embrace 1716, f.
[607] 6 SN. om. G
[608] 16 'em G
[609] 20 Yo'] Y' 1716, W
[610] 22 't] it G
[611] 38 SN. ] [_Aside. _ G
[612] 39 _Mad-dams_ 1692, 1716 mad-dams W mad-ams G
[613] 46 also G
[614] 51 wife! _Wit. _ Where? _Enter Mr. and Mrs. _ FITZDOTTREL,
_followed by_ PUG. _Meer. _ [_To Wit. _] Madam, G
ACT. IIIJ. SCENE. IV.
FITZ-DOTTREL. Mi? tre? ? e FITZ-DOTTRELL.
PVG. } _to them. _
Your ? eruant, _Madame_!
VVIT. How now? Friend? offended,
That I haue found your haunt here?
Wittipol _whi? pers with_ Manly.
MAN. No, but wondring
At your ? trange fa? hion'd venture, hither.
VVIT. It is
To ? hew you what they are, you ? o pur? ue.
MAN. I thinke 'twill proue a med'cine again? t marriage;
To know their manners.
VVIT. Stay, and profit then. 6
MER. The _Lady_, _Madame_, whose _Prince_ has brought her, here,
To be in? tructed.
_Hee pre? ents Mi? tre? ? e_ Fitz-dottrel.
VVIT. Plea? e you ? it with vs, _Lady_.
MER. That's _Lady-Pre? ident_.
FIT. A goodly woman!
I cannot ? ee the ring, though.
MER. Sir, ? he has it. 10
TAY. But, _Madame_, the? e are very feeble rea? ons!
WIT. So I vrg'd _Madame_, that the new complexion,
Now to come forth, in name o' your _Ladi? hip's fucus_,
Had no _ingredient_--
TAY. But I dur? t eate, I a? ? ure you.
WIT. So do they, in _Spaine_.
TAY. Sweet _Madam_ be ? o liberall, 15
To giue vs ? ome o' your _Spani? h Fucu? es_!
VVIT. They are infinit, _Madame_.
TAY. So I heare, they haue
VVater of _Gourdes_, of _Radi? h_, the white _Beanes_,
Flowers of _Gla? ? e_, of _Thi? tles_, _Ro? e-marine_.
Raw _Honey_, _Mu? tard-? eed_, and Bread dough-bak'd, 20
The crums o' bread, _Goats-milke_, and whites of _Egges_,
_Campheere_, and _Lilly-roots_, the fat of _Swannes_,
Marrow of _Veale_, white _Pidgeons_, and pine-_kernells_, [148]
The ? eedes of _Nettles_, _perse'line_, and _hares gall_.
_Limons_, thin-skind--
EIT. How, her _Ladi? hip_ has ? tudied 25
Al excellent things!
VVIT. But ordinary, _Madame_.
No, the true rarities, are th' _Aluagada_,
And _Argentata_ of Queene _Isabella_!
TAY. I, what are their _ingredients_, gentle _Madame_?
WIT. Your _Allum Scagliola_, or _Pol-dipedra_; 30
And _Zuccarino_; _Turpentine_ of _Abezzo_,
Wash'd in nine waters: _Soda di leuante_,
Or your _Ferne_ a? hes; _Beniamin di gotta_;
_Gra? ? o di ? erpe_; _Porcelletto marino_;
Oyles of _Lenti? co_; _Zucche Mugia_; make 35
The admirable _Verni? h_ for the face,
Giues the right lu? ter; but two drops rub'd on
VVith a piece of ? carlet, makes a _Lady_ of ? ixty
Looke at ? ixteen. But, aboue all, the water
Of the white _Hen_, of the _Lady E? tifanias_! 40
TAY. O, I, that ? ame, good _Madame_, I haue heard of:
How is it done?
VVIT. _Madame_, you take your _Hen_,
Plume it, and skin it, clean? e it o' the inwards:
Then chop it, bones and all: adde to foure ounces
Of _Carrauicins_, _Pipitas_, _Sope_ of _Cyprus_, 45
Make the decoction, ? treine it. Then di? till it,
And keep it in your galley-pot well glidder'd:
Three drops pre? erues from wrinkles, warts, ? pots, moles,
Blemi? h, or Sun-burnings, and keepes the skin
_In decimo ? exto_, euer bright, and ? mooth, 50
As any looking-gla? ? e; and indeed, is call'd
The Virgins milke for the face, _Oglio reale_;
A Ceru? e, neyther cold or heat, will hurt;
And mixt with oyle of _myrrhe_, and the red _Gilli-flower_
Call'd _Cataputia_; and flowers of _Roui? tico_; 55
Makes the be? t _muta_, or dye of the whole world.
TAY. Deare _Madame_, will you let vs be familiar?
WIT. Your _Ladi? hips_ ? eruant.
MER. How do you like her.
FIT. Admirable!
But, yet, I cannot ? ee the ring.
_Hee is iealous about his_ ring, _and_ Mere-craft _deliuers it. _
PVG. Sir.
MER. I mu? t
Deliuer it, or marre all. This foole's ? o iealous. 60
_Madame_--Sir, weare this ring, and pray you take knowledge,
'Twas ? ent you by his wife. And giue her thanks,
Doe not you dwindle, Sir, beare vp.
PVG. I thanke you, Sir.
TAY. But for the manner of _Spaine_! Sweet, _Madame_, let vs
Be bold, now we are in: Are all the _Ladies_, 65
There, i' the fa? hion?
VVIT. None but _Grandee's_, _Madame_,
O' the cla? p'd traine, which may be worne at length, too,
Or thus, vpon my arme.
TAY. And doe they weare
_Cioppino's_ all?
VVIT. If they be dre? t in _punto_, _Madame_.
EIT. Guilt as tho? e are? _madame? _
WIT. Of Gold? miths work, _madame_; [149] 70
And ? et with diamants: and their _Spani? h_ pumps
Of perfum'd leather.
TAI. I ? hould thinke it hard
To go in 'hem, _madame_.
WIT. At the fir? t, it is, _madame_.
TAI. Do you neuer fall in 'hem?
WIT. Neuer.
EI. I ? weare, I ? hould
Six times an houre.
WIT. But you haue men at hand, ? still,
To helpe you, if you fall?
EIT. Onely one, madame, 76
The _Guardo-duennas_, ? uch a little old man,
As this.
EIT. Alas! hee can doe nothing! this!
WIT. I'll tell you, madame,
I ? aw i' the _Court_ of _Spaine_ once,
A _Lady_ fall i' the Kings ? ight, along, 80
And there ? hee lay, flat ? pred, as an _Vmbrella_,
Her hoope here crack'd; no man dur? t reach a hand
To helpe her, till the _Guarda-duenn'as_ came,
VVho is the per? on onel' allow'd to touch
A _Lady_ there: and he but by this finger. 85
EIT. Ha' they no ? eruants, _madame_, there? nor friends?
WIT. An _E? cudero_, or ? o _madame_, that wayts
Vpon 'hem in another Coach, at di? tance,
And when they walke, or daunce, holds by a hand-kercher,
Neuer pre? umes to touch 'hem.
EIT. This's ? ciruy! 90
And a forc'd grauity! I doe not like it.
I like our owne much better.
TAY. 'Tis more _French_,
And _Courtly_ ours.
EIT. And ta? ts more liberty.
VVe may haue our doozen of vi? iters, at once,
Make loue t'vs.
TAY. And before our husbands?
EIT. Hu? band? 95
As I am hone? t, _Tayle-bu? h_ I doe thinke
If no body ? hould loue mee, but my poore husband,
I ? hould e'n hang my ? elfe.
TAY. Fortune forbid, wench:
So faire a necke ? hould haue ? o foule a neck-lace.
EIT. 'Tis true, as I am hand? ome!
WIT. I receiu'd, _Lady_, 100
A token from you, which I would not bee
Rude to refu? e, being your fir? t remembrance.
(FIT. O, I am ? atisfied now!
MER. Do you ? ee it, Sir. )
WIT. But ? ince you come, to know me, neerer, _Lady_,
I'll begge the honour, you will weare for mee, 105
It mu? t be ? o.
Wittipol _giues it Mi? tre? ? e_ Fitz-dottrel.
M^rs. FIT. Sure I haue heard this tongue.
MER. What do you meane, S^r?
Mere-craft _murmures,_
WIT. Would you ha' me mercenary?
We'll recompence it anon, in ? omewhat el? e.
_He is ? atisfied, now he ? ees it. _
FIT. I doe not loue to be gull'd, though in a toy.
VVife, doe you heare? yo' are come into the Schole, wife,
VVhere you may learne, I doe perceiue it, any thing! 111
How to be fine, or faire, or great, or proud,
Or what you will, indeed, wife; heere 'tis taught.
And I am glad on't, that you may not ? ay,
Another day, when honours come vpon you, 115
You wanted meanes. I ha' done my parts: beene,
Today at fifty pound charge, fir? t, for a ring, [150]
_He vpbraids her, with his Bill of co? ts. _
To get you entred. Then left my new _Play_,
To wait vpon you, here, to ? ee't confirm'd.
That I may ? ay, both to mine owne eyes, and eares, 120
Sen? es, you are my witne? ? e, ? ha' hath inioy'd
All helps that could be had, for loue, or money--
M^rs. FIT. To make a foole of her.
FIT. Wife, that's your malice,
The wickedne? ? e o' you nature to interpret
Your husbands kinde? ? e thus. But I'll not leaue; 125
Still to doe good, for your deprau'd affections:
Intend it. Bend this ? tubborne will; be great.
TAY. Good _Madame_, whom do they v? e in me? ? ages?
WIT. They comonly v? e their ? laues, _Madame_.
TAI. And do's your _Ladi? hip_.
Thinke that ? o good, _Madame_?
WIT. no, indeed, _Madame_; I, 130
Therein preferre the fa? hion of _England_ farre,
Of your young delicate Page, or di? creet V? her.
FIT. And I goe with your _Ladi? hip_, in opinion,
Directly for your Gentleman-v? her.
There's not a finer _Officer_ goes on ground. 135
WIT. If hee be made and broken to his place, once.
FIT. Nay, ? o I pre? uppo? e him.
WIT.
