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In lieu of this,laft night did lie with me.

Gra. Why this is like the mending of high wayes
In fummer, where the wayes are faire enough.
What,are we Cuckolds cre we haue deferu'd it?
Por.Speake not fo groffely, you are all amaz'd;
Heere is a Letter,reade it at your leisure,
It comes from Padua from Bellario,

There you shall find that Portia was the Doctor,
Nerriffa there her Clarke, Lorenzo heere
Shall witneffe I fet foorth as foone as you,
And euen but now return'd; I haue not yet
Entred my house. Anthonio, you are welcome,
And I haue better newes in ftore for you
Then you expect; vnfeale this letter foone,
There you shall finde three of your Argofies
Are richly come to harbour fodainly.
You fhall not know by what strange accident
I chanced on this Letter.

Ant. I am dumbe.

Baff. Were you the Doctor,and I knew you not ?
Gra. Were you the Clarke that is to make me Cuckold?
Ner,1,but the Clarke that neuer meanes to do it,

Vnleffe he liue vntill he be a man.

Baff. (Sweete Doctor) you shall be my bed-fellow,
When I am abfent,then lie with my wife.

An.Sweet Lady,you haue giuen me life and liuing;
For heere I reade for certaine,that my Ships
Are fafely come to Rode.

Por How now Lorenzo,

My Clarke hath fome good comforts too for you.
Ner.I,and ile giue them him without a fee,

There do I giue to you and leffica

From the rich lew,a fpeciall deed of gift
After his death, of all he dies poffeft off.

Loren, Faire Ladies, you drop Manna in the way
Of tarued people.

Por.

Por. It is almoft morning,

And yet Ime fure you are not fatisfied
Of thefe euents at full.Let's go in,
And charge vs there vpon intergotories,
And we will answer all things faithfully.
Gra.Let it be fo,the first intergotory
That my Nerriffa fhall be fworne on,is,
Whether till the next night she had rather stay,
Or go to bed now,being two houres to day:
But were the day come, I fhould wish it darke,
That I were couching with the Clarke.
Well,while I liue,ile feare no other thing
So fore,as keeping fafe Nerriffas Ring.

FINfS.

Exeunt.

Such harmony is in immortall foules,
But whilft this muddy vesture of decay
Doth groffely clote in it, we cannot heare it.
Come hoe, and wake Diana with him a hymne,
Wich fweetelt touches pierce your miftris eare,
And draw her home with Muficke.""

Muficke playes.

lef. I am neuer merry, when #heare fweete Mufick.
Lor. The reafon is, your fpirits are attentiue:
For, do but note a wilde and wanton heard,
Or race of youthfull and vnhandled Colts,
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing lowd,
Which is the hot condition of their blood,
If they perchance but heare a Trumpet sound,'
Or any aire of muficke touch their eares,
You fhall perceive them make a mutuall-stand,
Their fauage eies turn'd to a modeft gaze,

By the fweete power of muficke. Therefore the Poet
Did faine that Orpheus drew trees, ftones, and foods.
Since nought fo ftockish hard and full of rage,
But niuficke for the time doth change his nature?
The man that hath no muficke in himselfe,
Nor is not moou'd with concord of fweete founds,
Is fit for treasons, ftratagems,and fpoyles,
The motions of his fpirit are dull as night,
and his affections darke as Terebus:

Let no fuch man be trufted. Marke the Muficken

Enter Nerriffa and Portia.

M

Por. That light we feels burning in my hall: How farre that little candle throwes his beames,

So fhines a good deede in a naughty world.

Ner. When the Moone fhone we did not fee the candle. Por. So doth the greater glory dim the leffe.

A fubftitute fhines brightly as a King.

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