Scene 3.
Women that love the Courtship of men, must change themselves into as many several humours as Protheus shapes; as sometimes gay and merry, sometimes grave and majestical, sometimes me∣lancholy, sometimes bashful and coy, sometimes free and confident, some∣times patient, and sometimes cholerick, sometimes silent, and sometimes dis∣coursive, according as they find those humours they meet with.
Let me tell you, Wanton, they must love Courtship well, that will take such pains to transform themselves so often, to please, or rather to get Lovers.
You say well, Ease, but they rather lose than gain by the bar∣gain; for the charge of troublesome observance, is more than the profit they receive therefrom.
Truly, Mistris Temperance, there is no delight in pains-taking, ask my Lady Pleasure.
No truly Ease; but a sweet civility, a modest behaviour and countenance, and a pleasing speech, gains more Lovers than a metamor∣phos'd humour.
In truth a well-temper'd humour is easie to themselves, and delightful to others.
You speak for Lovers, but there is a difference betwixt Court∣ship and Love; for dull Love is contented to be entertained only with plain truth, and is constant to an honest heart, but sprightly Courtship delights in extravagancies, lives in varieties, but dies in particulars or singularities.
True delight lives in true love.