"For, to worke a comedie kindly, grave olde men should instruct, yonge men should showe the imperfections of youth, Strumpets should be lascivious, Boyes unhappy, and Clownes should speake disorderlye.

Shall I bee that Germane Fencer and beat all the knocking boyes before me?

Stood o're my body with Colossus thighes Whilst all the Thunder-bolts which warre could throw Fell on his head; and, Baltazar, thou canst not Be now but honest still and valiant still Not to kill boyes and women.

Hast thou seene fields pav'd o're with carkasses Now to be tender-footed, not to tread On a boyes mangled quarters and a womans? Bal.

Now is my Love all ready forth to come: 110 Let all the virgins therefore well awayt, And ye fresh boyes, that tend upon her groome, Prepare your selves, for he is comming strayt. Set all your things in seemely good aray, Fit for so ioyfull day, 115 The ioyfulst day that ever sunne did see.

Do the Boyes carry it away? Rosin.

I wish'd heartily some of our London roaring Boyes had bene in the heate of't.

It was a fine ambition; they would have thought Themselves as famous as their Countryman That putt a girdle round about the world, Could they have said, at their returne to England, Unto their Sons, "Looke Boyes; this fruite your father With his adventurous hands in Spayne did gather.

No, no, you shall pardon me for that, Tim; no, no; no boyes play.

A] We shall have some of the Court boyes heat you shortly.

The love of boyes unto their Lords is strange, I have read wonders of it; yet this boy For my sake, (if a man may judge by looks, And speech) would out-do story.

He would have weapons would he? give him a Broad-side my brave boyes with your pikes, branch me his skin in Flowers like a Satin, and between every Flower a mortal cut, your Royalty shall ravel, jag him Gentlemen, I'le have him cut to the kell, then down the seames, oh for a whip To make him Galoone-Laces, I'le have a Coach-whip.

How doe you like this, my Lord prisoner? These are mad boyes I can tell you, These bee things that will not strike top-sayle to a Foyst, And let a Man of warre, an Argosea, Stoope to carry coales.

BG] four lines ending boyes, top-sailes, Argosie, Cockels.

B, C, D, E] two lines ending kils, Boyes.

We found mariages great store both in townes and villages in many places where wee passed, of boyes of eight or ten yeeres, and girles of fiue or six yeeres old.

The coward will not long be after ye; I scorn to say I saw you fall, sigh for ye, And tell a whining tale, some ten years after To boyes and girles in an old chimney corner, Of what a Prince we had, how bravely spirited; How young and fair he fell: we'l all go with ye, And ye shall see us all, like sacrifices In our best trim, fill up the mouth of ruine.

I'le tell ye who does best boyes.

I shall love drink the better whilst I live boyes.

C] who doth best: (Boyes.)

two-pence a piece boyes, two-pence a piece.

cit. i. 455; The Denham Tracts, edited by Dr. James Hardy (London, 1892-1895), ii. 25 sq. Herrick, Hesperides, "Ceremonies for Christmasse": "Come, bring with a noise, My merrie merrie boyes, The Christmas log to the firing;...

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"They make all their schollers play-boyes!