Bian. Why,[421] to bed, to bed.

Mal. Do your husbands lie with ye?

Bian. That were country fashion, i’faith.

Mal. Ha’ ye no foregoers about you? come, whither in good deed, la, now?

Maq.[422] In good indeed, la, now, to eat the most

miraculously, admirably, astonishable composed posset with three curds, without any drink. Will ye help me with a he-fox?—Here’s the duke.    33

Mal.[423] Fried frogs are very good, and French-like, too.

[Exeunt Ladies.

Enter Pietro, Celso, Equato, Bilioso, Ferrardo, and Mendoza.

Pietro. The night grows deep and foul: what hour is’t?