d pleasure I must have.

2 Lady:

'Tis fit you should have,
Your years require it, and 'tis necessary,
As necessary as meat to a young Lady,
Sleep cannot nourish more.

1 Lady:

But might not all this be, and keep ye single.
You take away variety in marriage,
The abundance of the pleasure you are bar'd then,
182] Is't not abundance that you aim at?

Margarita:

Yes why was I made a woman?

2 Lady:

And every day a new?

Margarita:

Why fair and young but to use it?

1 Lady:

You are still i'th' right, why would you marry then?

Altea:

Because a husband stops all doubts in this point,
And clears all passages.

2 Lady:

What Husband mean ye?

Altea:

A Husband of an easy faith, a fool,
Made by her wealth, and moulded to her pleasure,
One though he see himself become a monster,
Shall hold the door, and entertain the maker.

2 Lady:

You grant there may be such a man.

1 Lady:

Yes marry, but how to bring 'em to this rare Perfection.

2 Lady:

They must be chosen so, things of no honour,
Nor outward honesty.

Margarita:

No 'tis no matter,
I care not what they are, so they be lusty.

2 Lady:

Me thinks now a rich Lawyer, some such fellow,
That carries credit, and a face of awe,
But lies with nothing but his clients business.

Margarita:

No there's no trusting them, they are too subtil,
The Law has moulded 'em of natural mischief.

1 Lady:

Then some grave governor,
Some man of honour, yet an easy man.

Margarita:

If he have honour I am undone, I'le none such,
I'le have a lusty man, honour will cloy me..br

Altea:

'Tis fit ye should Lady;
And to that end, with search and wit and labour,
I have found one out, a right one and a perfect,
He is made as strong as brass, is of brave years too,
And doughty of complexion.

Margarita:

Is he a Gentleman?

Altea:

Yes and a souldier, as gentle as you would wish him,
A good fellow, wears good cloaths.

Margarita:

Those I'le allow him,
They are for my credit, does he understand
But little?

Altea:

Very little.
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Margarita:

'Tis the better,
Have not the wars bred him up to anger?

Alonzo:

No, he will not quar