Touchftone. No more repetitions. What else is wanting to make our harmony full? Golding. Only this, fir, that my fellow Francis make amends to Mistress Syndety with marriage. With all my heart. Quickfilver. Golding. And Security give her a dower, which fhall be all the reftitution he shall make of that huge mafs he hath fo unlawfully gotten. Touchftone. Excellently devifed! a good motion! What fays Mr. Security? Security. I fay any thing, fir; what you'll ha'me fay. Would I were no cuckold! Winifred. Cuckold, husband? why, I think this wearing of yellow has infected you. Touchstone. Why, Mr. Security, that should rather be a comfort to you than a corrofive. If you be a cuckold, it is an argument you fhall be much made of; you fhall have store of friends, never want money; you shall be eafed of much o'your wedlock pain, others will take it for you: befides, you being an ufurer (and likely to go to hell), the devils will never torment you: they'll take you for one of their own race. Again, if you be a cuckold, and know it not, you are an 71 Innocent; if you know and indure it, a true Martyr. Security. I am refolved, fir.-Come hither, Winny. Touchstone. Well then, all are pleafed, or fhall be anon. Master Wolf, you look hungry methinks: have you no apparel to lend Francis to fhift him? 71 Innocent] i. e. an ideot. See Note 8 to 'Tis pity She's a Whore, vol. VIII. p. 24. Quickfilver. i Quickfilver. No, fir, nor I defire none; but here make it my fuit, that I may go home through the streets in thefe; as a spectacle, or rather an example, to the children of Cheapfide. Thou hast thy wish. Now, London, look about, Touchstone. And in this moral fee thy glafs run out. The folemn deeds which each of us have done; [Exeunt. EPI S EPILOGU E. Spoken by QUICKSILVER. TAY, fir, I perceive the multitude are gathered together, to view our coming out at the Compter. See if the ftreets and the fronts of the houfes be not stuck with people, and the windows fill'd with ladies, as on 72 the folemn day of the pageant! O may you find in this our pageant here The fame contentment which you came to seek ; 72 the folemn day of the pageant] i. e. on the day of the Lord Mayor's election, when pageants ufed to be exhibited. EDITION. Made by Geo. "Eaftward Hoe 73. As it was play'd in the Black Friers. "By the Children of her Majefties Revels. "Chapman, Ben Jonfon, John Martton. "Printed for William Afpley. 1605, 410.” 73 Since Note 38, p. 250, was written, I have feen two copies of this Play, in neither of which are to be found the lines marked with commas. The Editions in every other refpect appear to be the fame. I therefore conclude, that after the publication a fheet was cancelled in order to leave out the paffage which offended King James the Firft. THE |