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With ruffs and cuffs, and fardingales, and things,

With scarfs and fans, and double change of brav’ry,

With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav’ry.

What, hast thou din’d? The tailor stays thy leisure,

To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure.

Enter Tailor.

Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments;

Lay forth the gown.

Enter Haberdasher.

What news with you, sir?

[Hab.]

Here is the cap your worship did bespeak.

Pet.

Why, this was moulded on a porringer—

A velvet dish. Fie, fie, ’tis lewd and filthy.

Why, ’tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,

A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby’s cap.

Away with it! come let me have a bigger.

Kath.

I’ll have no bigger, this doth fit the time,

And gentlewomen wear such caps as these.

Pet.

When you are gentle, you shall have one too,

And not till then.

Hor. [Aside.]

That will not be in haste.

Kath.

Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak,

And speak I will. I am no child, no babe;

Your betters have endur’d me say my mind,

And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.