The chief Elizabethan dramatists, excluding Shakespeare

SCENE I.[2629

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_The vilest out-of-tune music being heard, enter_ BILIOSO _and_ PREPASSO.

_Bil._ Why, how now! Are ye mad, or drunk, or both, or what?

_Pre._ Are ye building Babylon there?

_Bil._ Here’s a noise in court? You think you are in a tavern, do you not? 5

_Pre._ You think you are in a brothel-house, do you not?—This room is ill-scented. _Enter One with a perfume._ So, perfume, perfume: some upon me, I pray thee. The duke is upon instant entrance; so, make place there!