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Lingua, or, The combat of the tongue, and the five senses for superiority a pleasant comoedy.

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Lingua, or, The combat of the tongue, and the five senses for superiority a pleasant comoedy.
Author
Tomkis, Thomas, fl. 1604-1615.
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London :: Printed for Simon Miller ...,
1657.
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ACT. 5. SCEN. 9.
APPETITUS, AUDITUS, with a Candlestick.
AP.

What, more anger? Auditus got abroad too?

AUD.
Take this abuse at base Olfactus hands! What did he challenge me to meet me here And is not come? well Ile proclaim the slave The vilest dastard that ere broke his word; But stay, yonder's Appetitus.
AP.

I pray you Auditus what ails you?

AUD.

Ha, ha!

AP.

What ails you?

AUD.

Ha! what sayst thou?

AP.

Who hath abused you thus?

AUD.

Why dost thou whisper thus? Canst not speak out?

AP.

Save me, I had clean forgotten; why are you so angry Auditus?

AUD.

Bite us, who dares bite us?

AP.

I talke of no biting, I say, what's the matter between Olfactus and you?

AUD.

Will Olfactus bite me? do if he dares, would he would meet me here according to his promise: Mine ears are somewhat thick of late, I pray thee speak out louder.

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AP.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, this is fine in faith; ha, ha, ha. Hear you, have you lost your ears at Supper.
AUD.
Excellent chear at supper, I confesse it: But when 'tis sawc'd with sowre contentions, And breeds such quarrels 'tis intolerable.
AP.

Pish, pish, this is my question. Hath your supper spoil'd your hearing?

AUD.
Hearing at supper, tel not me of hearing: But if thou sawest Olfactus, bring me to him.
AP.

I ask you whether you have lost your hearing?

AUD.
O, dost hear them ring? what a grief is this Thus to be deaf, and lose such harmony? Wretched Auditus now shalt thou never hear The pleasing changes that a well tuned Cord Of trowling bells will make, when they are rung.
AP.

Here's a do indeed, I think he is mad, as well as drunk or deaf.

AUD.

Ha, what's that?

AP.

I say, you have made me hoarse with spea∣king so loud.

AUD.

Ha, what sayst thou of a creaking Croud?

AP.

I am hoarse I tell you, and my head akes.

AUD.
Oh, I understand thee, the first croud was made of a horse head. 'Tis true, the finding of a dead horse-head, Was the first invention of string instruments, Whence rose the Gittern, Vial, and the Lute: Though other think the Lute was first devis'd In imitation of a Tortesse back,

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Whose sinews parched by Apollo's beames, Ecchoed about the concave of the shell; And seeing the shortest and smallest gave shrillest sound; They found out frets whose sweet diversity (Well couched by the skill-full learned fingers) Raiseth so strange a multitude of Cords: Which their opinion many do confirme, Because Testudo signifies a Lute. But if I by no means.—
AP.

Nay if you begin to criticke once, we shall never have done.

Exit Appetitus and carries away Auditus perforce.

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