Cha.
Is't possible, the spells of France should juggle
Men into such strange mysteries?14Q0918

San.
New customs,
Though they be never so ridiculous,
Nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are follow'd.

Cha.
As far as I see, all the good, our English
Have got by the late voyage, is but meerly
A fit or two o'the face; but they are shrew'd ^note ones;
For, when they hold 'em, you would swear directly,
Their very noses had been counsellors
To Pepin, or Clotharius, they keep state so.

San.
They have all new legs, and lame ones; one would take it,
That never saw them ^note pace before, the spavin
And spring ^note-halt reign'd ^note among 'em.

Cha.
Death! my lord,
Their cloaths are after such a pagan cut too ^note,
That, sure, they have worn out christendom.—How now? Enter Sir Thomas Lovel.
What news, sir Thomas Lovel?

Lov.
'Faith, my lord,
I hear of none, but the new proclamation

That's clap'd upon the court gate.

Cha.
What is't for?

Lov.
The reformation of our travel'd gallants,
That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.

Cha.
I am glad, 'tis there; now I would pray our monsieurs
To think an English courtier may be wise,
And never see the Louvre.

Lov.
They must either
(For so run the conditions) leave those remnants
Of fool, and feather, that they got in France,
With all their honourable points of ignorance
Pertaining thereunto, (as fights, and fire-works;
Abusing better men than they can be,
Out of a foreign wisdom) renouncing clean ^note
The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings,
Short bolster'd ^note breeches, and those types ^note of travel,
And understand again like honest men;
Or pack to their old play-fellows: there, I take it,
They may, cum privilegio, wear away ^note
The lag end of their lewdness, and be laugh'd at.

San.
'Tis time to give 'em physick ^note, their diseases
Are grown so catching.

Cha.
What a loss our ladies
Will have of these trim vanities!

Lov.
Ay, marry,
There will be woe indeed, lords: the sly whorsons
Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies;
A French song, and a fiddle, has no fellow.

San.
The devil fiddle 'em! I am glad, they're going;
(For, sure, there's no converting of 'em) now
An honest country lord, as I am, beaten
A long time out of play, may bring his pain-song,

And have an hour of hearing; and, by'r-lady,
Held current musick too.

Cha.
Well said, lord Sands;
Your colt's tooth is not cast yet.

San.
No, my lord;
Nor shall not ^note, while I have a stump.

Cha.
Sir Thomas,
Whither were you a going?

Lov.
To the cardinal's;
Your lordship is a guest too.

Cha.
O, 'tis true:
This night he makes a supper, and a great one,
To many lords and ladies; there will be
The beauty of this kingdom, I'll assure you.

Lov.
That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed,
A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us;
His dews fall every where.

Cha.
No doubt, he's noble;
He had a black mouth, that said other of him.

San.
He may, my lord, he has where-withal; in him,
Sparing would shew a worse sin than ill doctrine:
Men of his way should be most liberal,
They are set here for examples.

Cha.
True, they are so;
But few now give so great ones. My barge stays;
Your lordship shall along:—Come, good sir Thomas,
We shall be late else; which I would not be,
For I was spoke to, with sir Henry Guilford,
This night to be comptrollers.

San.
I am your lordship's. [Exeunt.

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