[Technogamia]: or the marriage of the arts / A comedie Written by Barten Holiday, Master of Arts, and Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and acted by the Students of the same House before the Uniuersitie, at Shroue-tide. [Ornament].

  • Barten Holyday
Date:
1630
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Technogamia]: or the marriage of the arts / A comedie Written by Barten Holiday, Master of Arts, and Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and acted by the Students of the same House before the Uniuersitie, at Shroue-tide. [Ornament]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forbade?me her honfc, and chat her mother Vhyftca did Co re« ioycc at it, which anger’d tnee moft ofaii. Indeed I doe not like the effcft Which I fee the heauens likely to produce ere l°ng,againft fome-body, but I hope *c\v ill not beto vs. Chare. In good faith, I had the precticft drcamcthace’re you heard, rwe thought as I whs about to picke a fcllovvcs pocket, hec ftreke nice quite thorow thehand with a knife, andleauing the knife in my hand, thruft his hand into my pocket and pickt it, and fopunifhtmc, as I hauc punifhto*- thersmany a time. •? , jq ; , ^ Phyfiog. froth, and as I was going to bed laft night, there flood in the chamber window a looking-glaffc, and as I came by,chance to lay my hand downe their, the candle not (lan¬ ding farre off, ] fa vy my face in the glaffc, but in good faith methoughc I look’c fo wanly and fo leuruily——and indeed I haue heard them often fay, \is ill luckc to fee ones face in a glaffe by candle-light. Sr^i*&ps*' Well,let tlfcn all our illlutke come togcther,if it will: indeed J(Irwomia'sperfc61Iy rccouer’d, and I faw but now Cjeographus and her with Pelites; which can bode no good rand afterwards I met with G cometres ^and he palled by, ' without feinting me, but look’c fullcnly to wards me: I know not what’s the matter; but 1 fear erne, hec hasfcarcckarn’d the Kviicof friendship, tokccpcfccrcts. Well; come what will, wc will not acaifeour felues by afoolifh retirednefle or feare: and lfwcfhould chance tobeconucnted, weemuftbe very obedient,and that will argue an innoccncyrand let them prone what they can, it may he they can proue nothing, and then we arc fre^eif they preue the woift they can, and con- demne vs to death, wc’il patiently hcare our fcntcncc of con¬ demnation ; but when4 they arc about to carry vs to prifon, tl^nyou {lull fee my art: [he takes foure rivgs out (f ins pocket.] See, hcie are fourerings^hcre’s each of you one, and bcre?sa fourthfor my fclfe : put them in your pockets, and when your condemnation is pronounc’d, and they thinkc to carry vs away, priuily flip thofc rings on your lttlc- fingers, and then cric aloud GlajfialxboUs three times,and wc fhall all foure immediately become inuifiblc. ; sijlro!.