Freely, unask'd, or unintreated.
CORVINO.
Well.
MOSCA.
As the true fervent instance of his love,
His own most fair and proper wife; the beauty
Only of price in Venice.
CORVINO.
'Tis well urged.
(Ibid.)
Take these,
And wear, and lose them; yet remains an ear ring,
To purchase them again, and this whole state.
A gem but worth a private patrimony
Is nothing. We will eat such at a meal.
The heads of parrots, tongues of nightingales,
The brains of peacocks and of estriches
Shall be our food....
Conscience? 'Tis the beggar's virtue....
Thy bathes shall be the juice of july-flower,
Spirit of roses and violets,
The milk of unicorns and panther's breath
Gather'd in bags, and mixt with Cretan wines.
Our drink shall be prepared gold and amber,
Which we will take, until my roof whirl round
With the vertigo; and my dwarf shall dance,
My eunuch sing, my fool make up the antic,
Whilst we, in changed shapes, act Ovid's tales,
Thou like Europa now, and I like Jove,
Then I like Mars, and thou like Erycine,
So of the rest, till we have quite run through,
And wearied all the fables of the Gods.