_Pyr._ Wee held discourse of a perfum'd asse,
that being disguis'd in a lions case imagin'd 235
himself a lion: I hope that toucht not you.

_Buss._ So, sir? Your descants doe marvellous
well fit this ground; we shall meet where your
buffonly laughters will cost ye the best blood in
your bodies. 240

_Bar._ For lifes sake, let's be gone; hee'll kill's
outright else.

_Buss._ Goe, at your pleasures; Ile be your
ghost to haunt you; and yee sleepe an't, hang
me. 245

_L'An._ Goe, goe, sir; court your mistresse.

_Pyr._ And be advis'd; we shall have odds
against you.

_Buss._ Tush, valour stands not in number: Ile
maintaine it that one man may beat three boyes. 250

_Brisac._ Nay, you shall have no ods of him in
number, sir; hee's a gentleman as good as the
proudest of you, and yee shall not wrong him.

_Bar._ Not, sir?

_Melynell._ Not, sir; though he be not so rich, 255
hee's a better man than the best of you; and I
will not endure it.

_L'An._ Not you, sir?

_Bris._ No, sir, nor I.

_Buss._ I should thank you for this kindnesse, 260
if I thought these perfum'd musk-cats (being
out of this priviledge) durst but once mew at us.

_Bar._ Does your confident spirit doubt that,
sir? Follow us and try.

_L'An._ Come, sir, wee'll lead you a dance. 265
_Exeunt._

_Finis Actus Primi._

LINENOTES:

2 _that_. A, this.

4 _the_. A omits.

10 _Court-fashion_. A, Court forme.

11 _demi-gods_. A, semi-gods.

14-15 _No question . . . immortality_. A omits.

18 _vaunt_. A, boast.

20 _clowneries_. A, rudenesse.

32 _confusion_. A, deformitie.

47 _sole heire_. A, first borne.

53 _more_. A omits.

54 _To jet . . . haughtely_. A, To be the pictures of
our vanitie.

56 _Holding . . . vaunts_. A omits.

58 _a_. A, this. _to court_. A, t'attend you.

60-61 _That's . . . attire_. Printed as prose in Qq.

62, 63 _We_. A, I.

67 So in A: B has only: They that will winne, must