ACT IV.
Scene 21.
Methinks the womens Lectural discourse is better than the mens; for in my opinion, the mens discourses are simple, childish, and foolish, in comparison of the womens,
Why, the subject of the discourse is of women, which are simple, foolish, and childish.
There is no sign of their simplicity or folly, in their discourse or Speeches, I know not what may be in their Actions.
Now you come to the point, for the weaknesse of women lyes in their Actions, not in their VVords; for they have sharp Wits and blunt Judgements.
Scene 22.
Lady, let the Theam of your discourse to day be of a Theatre.
A Theatre is a publick place for publick Actions, Orations, Disputations, Presentations, whereunto is a publick resort; but there are only two Theatres, which are the chief, and the most frequented; the one is of War, the other of Peace; the Theatre of Warr is the Field; and the Battels they sight, are the Plays they Act, and the Souldiers are the Trage∣dan••s, and the Theatre of Peace is the stage, and the Plays there Acted are the Humours, Manners, Dispositions, Natures, Customes of men thereon descri∣bed and acted, whereby the Theatres are as Schools to teach Youth good Principles, and instruct them in the Nature and Customes of the World and Mankind, and learn men to know themselves better than by any other way of instruction; and upon these Theatres•• they may learn what is noble and good, what base and wicked, what is ridiculous and misbecoming, what gracefull and best becoming, what to avoid and what to imitate; the Ge∣nius that belongs to the Theatre of Warr is Valour, and the Genius that