Ped. Shows seldom alter me, Sir;
Pray ye speak it, and then shew it.
Gent. 'Tis a house here
Where people of all sorts, that have been visited
With Lunacies, and Follies wait their cures,
There's fancies of a thousand stamps and fashions,
Like flies in several shapes buz round about ye,
And twice as many gestures; some of pity,
That it would make ye melt to see their passions:
And some as light again, that would content ye.
But I see, Sir, your temper is too modest,
Too much inclin'd to contemplation,
To meet with these?
Ped. You could not please me better;
And I beseech you, Sir, do me the honour
To let me wait upon ye.
Gent. Since ye are willing,
To me it shall be a pleasure to conduct ye.
Ped. I never had such a mind yet to see misery. [Exe.
SCENE VI.
Enter two Keepers.
1 Keep. Carry mad Bess some meat, she roars like Thunder;
And tie the Parson short, the Moon's i'th' full,
H'as a thousand Pigs in's brains: Who looks to the Prentice?
Keep him from Women, he thinks h'as lost his Mistris;
And talk of no silk stuffs, 'twill run him horn mad.
2 Keep. The Justice keeps such a stir yonder with his Charges,
And such a coil with warrants.
1 Keep. Take away his Statutes;
The Devil has possest him in the likeness
Of penal Laws: keep him from Aqua vitæ,
For if that spirit creep into his Quorum,
He will commit us all: how is it with the Scholar?