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CALISTO AND MELEBEA
<2The players' names>2
Melebea
Calisto
Sempronio his servant
Celestina the bawd
Farmeno, servant of Calisto
Danio, Melebea's father
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<2A NEW COMMODYE IN ENGLYSH IN MANER OF AN ENTERLUDE,>2
<2ryght elygant and full of craft of rethoryk, wherein is shewd and dyscrybyd as well>2
<2the bewte and good propertes of women, as theyr vycys and evyll condicions, with>2
<2a morall conclusion and exhortacyon to vertew>2
<2Melebea>2 Franciscus Petrarcus the poet lawreate
Sayth that Nature, whych is mother of all thing,
Without stryff can gyve lyfe to nothing create;
And Eraclito the wyse clerk, in his wrytyng
Sayth in all thyngis create, stryff is theyre workyng,
And ther is no thing under the firmament
With any other in all poyntes equivalent.
And accordyng to theyre dictys rehersyd as thus, . . .
