Tyse. If you will be mine, you shall be your own:—my purse, my body, my heart, is yours,—only be silent in my house, modest at my table, and wanton in my bed;—and the Empress of Europe cannot content, and shall not be contented, better. 89
Cris. Can any kind heart speak more discreetly affectionately? My father’s consent; and as for mine——
Tyse. Then thus, and thus, so Hymen should begin; Sometimes a falling out proves falling in.
[Exeunt.
[76] The word is used in the double sense of (1) babble, (2) bauble (which was frequently written bable).
[77] Euphues and his England is the title of the second part (first published in 1580) of John Lyly’s famous and tedious romance.
[78] One of the romances published in the series that bears the general title of The Mirrour of Knighthood.
[79] The Legend of Lies is, of course, a fictitious book.
[80] Candle-ends floating in lighted brandy.
[81] This nasty feat of gallantry is mentioned by Middleton, ii. 351.