The chief Elizabethan dramatists, excluding Shakespeare

SCENE V.[3636

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_Enter_ MIRABEL, PINAC, _and_ BELLEUR.

_Pin._ Is she so glorious handsome?

_Mir._ You would wonder; Our women look like gipsies, like gills[3637] to her; Their clothes and fashions beggarly and bankrupt, Base, old, and scurvy.

_Bel._ How looks her face?

_Mir._ Most heavenly; 5 And the becoming motion of her body So sets her off!

_Bel._ Why then, we shall stay.

_Mir._ Pardon me, That ’s more than I know. If she be that woman She appears to be——

_Bel._ As ’t is impossible.

_Mir._ I shall then tell ye more.

_Pin._ Did ye speak to her? 10

_Mir._ No, no. I only saw her; she was busy. Now I go for that end; and mark her, gentlemen, If she appear not to ye one of the sweetest, The handsomest, the fairest in behaviour! We shall meet the two wenches there too; they come to visit her, 15 To wonder, as we do.

_Pin._ Then we shall meet ’em.

_Bel._ I had rather meet two bears.

_Mir._ There you may take your leaves, despatch that business, And, as ye find their humours——

_Pin._ Is your love there too?

_Mir._ No, certain; she has no great heart to set out again. 20 This is the house; I ’ll usher ye.

_Bel._ I ’ll bless me, And take a good-heart, if I can.

_Mir._ Come, nobly. _Exeunt_ [_into the house_].