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News from all parts o’th’world; then would I make
A carrack of a cockleshell, and sail
By east and north-east to the King of Pygmies, [15]
For he tells fortunes rarely. Now my father,

Twenty to one, is trussed up in a trice
Tomorrow morning; I’ll say never a word.
[She sings]
For I’ll cut my green coat, a foot above my knee,

And I’ll clip my yellow locks, an inch below mine ee; [20]
Hey, nonny, nonny, nonny.
He s’ buy me a white cut, forth for to ride,
And I’ll go seek him, through the world that is so wide;

Hey, nonny, nonny, nonny.
O for a prick now, like a nightingale, [25]
To put my breast against; I shall sleep like a top else.
Exit.

Scene V IT

Enter a Schoolmaster, six Countrymen one dressed as a bavian, and five
wenches, with a Taborer.

SCHOOLMASTER
Fie, fie,

What tediosity and disinsanity
Is here among ye! Have my rudiments
Been laboured so long with ye, milked unto ye,
And, by a figure, even the very plum-broth [5]

And marrow of my understanding laid upon ye?
And do you still cry ‘Where?’ and ‘How?’ and ‘Wherefore?’
You most coarse frieze capacities, ye jean judgements,
Have I said ‘Thus let be’, and ‘There let be’,

And ‘Then let be’, and no man understand me? [10]
Proh deum, medius fidius, ye are all dunces!
Forwhy, here stand I; here the Duke comes; there are you
Close in the thicket. The Duke appears; I meet him,

And unto him I utter learnèd things,