His turne came: quoth the Ordinary, Go forth man and
shew thy selfe. The gentleman steps out vpon the stage, and like a
bad Clarke in scripture matters, cleauing more to the letter then the
sense, pronounced those words aloud. Oh (sayes the fellowe softly in
his eare) you marre all the play. And with this his passion, the
Actor makes the audience in like sort acquainted. Hereon the prompter
falles to flat rayling & cursing in the bitterest termes he could
deuise: which the Gentleman with a set gesture and countenance still
soberly related, vntill the Ordinary, driuen at last into a madde
rage, was faine to giue ouer all. Which trousse though it brake off
the Enterlude, yet defrauded not the beholders, but dismissed them
with a great deale more sport and laughter, then 20. such Guaries
could haue affoorded.
They haue also Cornish three mens songs, cunningly contriued for
the ditty, and pleasantly for the note.
Amongst bodily pastimes, shooting carrieth the preeminence; to which
in mine yonger yeeres I caried such affection, as I induced Archery,
perswading others to the like liking, by this ensuing Prosopopeia:
My deare friends, I come to complaine vpon you, but to your selues:
to blame you, but for your good: to expostulate with you, but in the
way of reconciliation.
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