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Mac, as who would say, when men be wilfu!l in loue, wo men mußt then be witletle in choife.

Cr. Milfull fooles in-deede arc fayze gamữers, pittyfull Soldiers, and faithfull Loue:s, and(vuder your Lavylhipps correction bee it spoken) fo wife in their chople oftentimes are women, that whilft they defire to be worn and silvaine to bee wone, it fareth with them as with Hobbies, that turning taile to the Larke make winge to the Dore.

Mar. Aub what of it, Crifippus feeing to effect what we ef fect fuffleth, as fwete a mojlcil ywis to luno (hab their loue been allowable) was Ixon as lupiter, and to loue lo as Iuno, and the reason is, loue fceleth no lacke: howbeit (uch do ings make not to vs for documentes ? you speake of vildayne but where I pray you were constancie to any, should wee bee alike curteous to all ? and year foploath if we remoue any for canlynelle we anon are rebùked for cornes : when(credit me Crifippus) in loue diucrfe thinges maye diuerfly hinder, as mongst which not alwayes Dblinacie, but fometimes and chiefly want of Dppoztunui? : my life, for example, may & perhaps doc beare an especiall liking to fame one man, but Looke nat (thinke you) my parents and friendes to lyke of milike of the match pes, Crifippus, put cafe pour felfe might win me without their Confent, peat Igelle it woulde greene you fo baungeroully to conclube.

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Cr. Bet this coynes, or bee it comlynes, fure I am that Lone it is not: for loue caineth curtefle with frendes & parentes, shaketh handes with wealth and pleasures, yca it biobeth life and all farewell, loxe (if loue it be in beede) is of Sach efficacie.

Mar, Cu, Crifippus, you nowe talke of Apollo his Laughter'.

Cr. And why not, bame, of Apollo his loue ? hee with Infinit e others haue done the like,my filfe, were a louer, mould doc no telie : but whar better pzcfident then that of

my Löyde, who presently is at a point to përforme fullyë as much roz might anything be moze than lotle of vzeach, `rea die allo for your loue to fulfill that more. It therefore (not offending good manners) I might gelle in iclk at what If with in earnest, I would leuell át my Lozd to hit your Louer, that one efpeciall man I meane Wanding (as is partlye confelled) la highly in your Ladylhips fauonr: becaulethan be no man hath better deferned the good happeof to gracists a Lot as is the prize of your Loue.

When Marpifla had thus pzinily felt Crifippus his pulles, although not beating so amozsully as thee did with,year bzínging opportunitie to veter what thee woulde, not omitting therefore fo good anoccafion the layth.

I cannot tell (Crifippus) tohether Inaye thinke you Cai ailous in threatning kindneffe where none is, credulent, in belceuing what at no time was,oz conftant in pursuing what thali neuer be: but me-thtakes your labours alreadie folt fu the Duke his behalle, might long lince haue villwaded both him and you from groping after a Shadowe, as much more howe, Staurobates being a Comp:titoz, from gaping after á Subftance: neuerthelelle not tyzed with a deade effect you harpe still to a deaffe hope. That I may therfor remove fach errois, besides that my Father no longer agoethen peafterDape lask promised mee in marriage to Staurobates (whiche Banes allo I meane to fozbyd) and I affure your I have been, am, and meane to bee lo farre off from inarching with the Duke, that hence-foorth I protefl ncuer może to talke with him, or with anye other soliciting his lone; wherefoze (good Crifippus )ceale to counfell him oz to intreate me any further herein, and let him allo suffer himfelteto digeft this & finall aunfwere. But because (ah feilence I knowe woulde bee moze feentelye) I am viged by laue violemlye, by your des maunde willingly, and by posting occalion of ascellicie to detect you as it were by the hande to my heart, I will not in Baunger be batutie but reueale to you the man faite to haue fubdued my libertie. What thoulve I lay mozer naye what

might I with modeftie leffe lay, og at the least suffer you to ayme before I name, then that (here teares dzowning her words gaue a short pause to this chat followeth) thy felfe, my Dere Crifippus,arty one who long time haue loued, do loue, & will loue&And if this thing semeth ábiguous foz likeli-hood, frange for loue, then for further triall commaunde mee, yea presently commaund me(for that the shortnes of the time promiling an ouer (peedy marryage betwixt Staurobates & mce can fuffer no long delay)to disrobe my selfe of this rich attire, and fo, difguiled, to follow thee wherloeyer my Conductor. Doubt not,but ý making an calle escape from hence we may liue as contentedly elle where, being lawfull wesded (for that is the bounds of my loue)mutually haue fruition of loues Delight,and that not in want, I being provided of Jewels, a light cariage, worth aboundance of wealth, neither may they want that faithfully loue much is it that I leaue, but much would I loole anely to win thee to my felfe: for, Crifippus, from the first day that I viewed (God grayne I may lay luckely viewed)thy person, I wholy haue fecled my felfe onelye thineowne: wherefoze neither scozne noz feare to enjoy what only is thine, op at the leaff-wise let her presently understand thy pleasure, whose good oz hadde vaies wholy confiist on thy good or bad answere.

The teares thus ftopping her mordes, thee wringeth his hands amozoully betwirthers, & hauing pzied her eyes thus proceedeth, if happily, Crifippus,you find ought of immodelky escaping my tongue, impute the same to ý integritie of loue, that neceffitte of speedy dispatch, the aunfwere of your owne quefion, and to your owne late speech against copnelle. So Haideniye bathfulncffe hardlye roftraining a coniunction of lippes, thee endeth to speake, and beginneth againe to weepe,

CHAP.

XXIIII.

Of Crifippus his timerous anfwere,to Marpiffas kind offer.

Crifippus

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