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Madam, I am an humble Suter to your Ladyship.
What is your sute?
That you will be pleased to take a young Maiden into your ser∣vice of my preferring.
In what place?
To wait and attend on your person.
Let me tell you, that those servants that attend on my person, do usually accompany me in all my Pastimes, Exercises, and sometimes in Con∣versation:
Wherefore they must be such as are well born, well bred, well behav'd, modest, and of sweet dispositions, virtuous, and of strict life, other∣wise they are not for me; and if I find them not so, I shall soon turn them away.
Why Madam, even Diana her self, as severe and strict as she was, had some wanton Nymphs, that would commit errours; although they seem∣ed all sober and modest, and profess'd chastity, yet they would slip out of the way and her presence sometimes.
But she never failed to turn them out of her service, and some she cruelly punished; so that what her severity could not prevent, yet her severity did punish; for Diana's practice was not to watch her wanton Nymphs, nor to hunt out their evil haunts, or lurking-places, to see their evil actions, but her practice was to hunt the more modest and temperate creatures, which were the beasts of the Fields and Forests: So, like as Diana, I shall not watch my Maids, nor pardon their rude or dishonourable actions.
Pray Madam try this Maid, for she is very honourably born, and well bred, but poor.
I shall not refuse her for poverty: But as I will have some bound for the truth and trust of my vulgar servants, so I will have some bound for the behaviour, virtue, and modesty of my honourable servants, or else I will not take them.