Scene 24.
You hear of the great Mariages that are concluded on, and they are to be dispatch'd out of hand.
Hear of them (say you) I must stop my Ears, and shut my Eyes, if I did not both hear and see their preparations: for all the Tradesmen are so busily imploy'd, as if they were never to sell or work more after these Ma∣riages.
What Tradesmen are those?
Why Taylors, Shoomakers, Hosiers, Seamstresses, Feather-men, Periwig-makers, Perfumers, Clothiers, Linnengers, Silk men, Mercers, Mil∣leners, Haberdashers, Curlers, Spurriers, Sadlers, Coach-makers, Uphol∣storers, besides Confectioners, Cooks, Bakers, Brewers, Butchers, Poulterers, and twenty more I cannot think of.
They will kill and destroy so many creatures for their Feasts, that they will make a massacre.
A Famine I think:
But there will be great dancings at the Court they say: for three will be Masks, Plays, Balls, and such braveries as never was.
These publick Weddings, and such publick Revellings, put the Gentry to more charges, than many times they are able to spare; which if it were not for Revelling, there would be no need of such vain and idle Ex∣pences.
I mean to be at some charges, as to make me a new Suit or two of Cloaths.
Faith I will spare my purse, and stay at home.