Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... Such pleasure, as ignorant what it is. Charl. Thy Sexe's wonder. Unhappy Charlemont! D'am. Come, let's to supper. There we will confirme The eternall bond of our concluded loue. Exeunt. ACTUS QUARTI SCENA PRIMA. Enter Cataplasma and Soquette with Needle-worke. Cataplasma. Come, . Soquette, your worke! let's examine your worke. What's here? a Medlar with a Plumtree growing hard by it; the leaues o' the Plumtree falling off; the gumme issuing out o' the perish'd joynts; and the branches some of 'em dead, and some rotten; and yet but a young Plum-tree. In good sooth very prettie. Soqu. The Plum-tree, forsooth, growes so neare the Medlar that the Medlar suckes and drawes all the sap from it and the natural strength o' the ground, so that it cannot prosper. Vol. I. 7 Cata. How conceipted you are! But heere th'ast made a tree to beare no fruit. Why's that? Soqu. There growes a Sauin-tree next it, forsooth. Cata. Forsooth you are a little too wittie in that. Enter Sebastian. Seba. But this Honisuckle windes about this whitethorne very prettily and louingly, sweet Mistresse Cataplasma. Cata. Monsieur Sebastian! in good sooth very uprightly welcome this euening. Seba. What, moralizing upon this Gentlewoman's needleworke? Let's see. Cata. No, sir, Onely examining whether it be done to the true nature and life o' the thing. Seba. Heere y' haue set a Medlar with a Batcheler's button o' one side and a snaile o' th' tother. The Batcheler's button should haue held his head up more pertly towards the Medlar: the snaile o' th' tother side should ha' beene wrought with an artificiall lazinesse, doubling his taile and putting out his home but halfe the length. And then the Medlar falling (as it were) from the lazie Snaile and ending towards the pert..
