cing
the morrice ouer the Alpes.[xi:5]

"_Kemp._ Well, you merry knaues, you may come to the honor of it
one day: is it not better to make a foole of the world as I haue
done, then to be fooled of the world as you schollers are? But be
merry, my lads: you haue happened vpon the most excellent vocation
in the world for money; they come North and South to bring it to
our playhouse; and for honours, who of more report then Dick
Burbage and Will Kempe? he is not counted a Gentleman that knowes
not Dick Burbage and Wil Kempe; there's not a country wench that
can dance Sellengers Round[xii:1] but can talke of Dick Burbage and
Will Kempe.

"_Phil._ Indeed, M. Kempe, you are very famous, but that is as well
for workes in print as your part in kue.

"_Kempe._ You are at Cambridge still with sice kue,[xii:2] and be
lusty humorous poets; you must vntrusle:[xii:3] I road this my last
circuit purposely, because I would be iudge of your actions.

"_Bur._ M. Stud., I pray you take some part in this booke, and act
it, that I may see what will fit you best. I thinke your voice
would serue for Hieronimo:[xii:4] obserue how I act it, and then
imitate mee.

"_Stud._ 'Who call[s] Hieronomo from his naked bed,
And,' &c.

"_Bur._ You will do well after a while.

"_Kemp._ Now for you, me thinkes you should belong to my tuition,
and your face me thinkes would be good for a foolish Mayre or a
foolish iustice of peace. Marke me.[xii:5] 'Forasmuch as there be
two states of a common wealth, the one of peace, the other of
tranquility; two states of warre, the one of discord, the other of
dissention; two states of an incorporation, the one of the
Aldermen, the other of the Brethren; two states of magistrates, the
one of gouerning, the other of bearing rule; now, as I said euen
now, for a good thing cannot be said too often, Vertue is the
shooing-horne of iustice, that is, vertue is the shooing-horne of
doing well, that is, vertue is the shooing-horne of doing iustly,
it behooueth mee and is my part to commend this shooing-horne vnto
you. I hope this word shooing-horne doth not offend any of you, my
worshipfull brethren, for you, beeing the worshipfull headsmen of
the towne, know well what the horne meaneth. Now therefore I am
determined not