ing-time of our sacred love.
Thou great commander of the circled orbs,
Grant that this league of lasting amity
May lie recorded by eternity.

LELIA.
Then wish'd content knit up our nuptial right;
And future joys our former griefs requite.

WILL CRICKET.
Nay, and you be good at that, I'll tell you what we'll do: Peg and I
must be married to-morrow; and if you will, we'll go all to the church
together, and so save Sir John a labour.

ALL.
Agreed.

FORTUNATUS.
Then march along, and let's be gone,
To solemnise two marriages in one.

[_Exeunt omnes_.

FINIS.

LINGUA.

_EDITIONS_.

(1.) _Lingva: Or, The Combat of the Tongue, And the fiue Senses for
Superiority. A pleasant Comoedie, At London Printed by G. Eld, for Simon
Waterson_, 1607, 4to[165].

(2.) _Lingua: or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the five Senses, for
Superiority. A pleasant Comoedie. London, Printed by N. Okes, for Simon
Waterson_, [circa 1610], 4to.

(3.) _Lingua; or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the five Senses, for
Superiority. A pleasant Comoedie. London, Printed by Nicholas Okes, for
Simon Waterson_, 1617, 4to.

(4.) _Lingua: or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the five Sences, for
Superiority. A pleasant Comedy. London, Printed by Nicholas Okes, for
Simon Waterson_, 1622, 4to.

(5.) _Lingua: or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the five Sences, for
Superioritie. A pleasant Comoedie. London, Printed by Augustine
Matthewes, for Simon Waterson_, 1632, 4to.

(6.) _Lingua: or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the five Senses, for
Superiority. A pleasant Comoedy. London, Printed for Simon Miller, at
the Starre in St Paul's Churchyard_, 1657, 8vo.

INTRODUCTION

[Of the author of "Lingua" nothing is known. By some of our earlier
bibliographers the play was ascribed, without the slightest authority,
to Anthony Brewer.

In the former edition it was pointed out that Winstanley gave to the
same writer (among other pieces which he probably did _not_ write)
"Pathomachia; or, Love's Loadstone," published in 1630, upon which
point Reed observes:--"Whoever was the real author of 'Lingua,' there
is some plausibility in assigning to him also 'Pathomachia; or, Love's
Lodestone,' for they are certainly written upon the same plan, and very
much in the same stile, although the former is considerably superior
to the latter, both in design and execution. The first scene of
'Pathomachia' contains an allusi