¶Hostesse Ma
ster Phang, haue you entred the action?
¶Host. Wheres your yeoman? i
st a lu
sty yeoman? wil a
stand
620Phang Sirra, wheres Snare?
¶Host. O Lord I, good ma
ster Snare.
¶Phang Snare, we mu
st are
st
sir Iohn Fal
staffe.
¶Host. Yea good ma
ster Snare, I haue entred him and all.
625Snare It may chaunce co
st
some of vs our liues, for he will
stabbe.
¶Host. Alas the day, take heed of him, he
stabd me in mine
¶owne hou
se, mo
st bea
stly in good faith, a cares not what mi
s-
¶chiefe he does, if his weapon be out, he will foyne like any di-
¶uell, he will
spare neither man, woman, nor child.
¶Phang If I can clo
se with him, I care not for his thru
st.
¶Host. No nor I neither, Ile be at your elbow.
¶Phang And I but fi
st him once, and a come but within my
635Host. I am vndone by his going, I warrant you, hees an in-
¶finitiue thing vppon my
score, good mai
ster Phang holde him
¶sure, good ma
ster Snare let him not
scape, a comes continually
¶to Pie corner (
sauing your manhoods) to buy a
saddle, and he
¶is indited to dinner to the Lubbers head in Lumbert
streete to
640ma
ster Smooths the
silk man, I pray you
since my exion is en-
¶tred, and my ca
se
so openly knowne to the worlde, let him be
¶brought in to his an
swer, a hundred marke is a long one, for a
¶poore lone woman to beare, and I haue borne, and borne, and
¶borne, and haue bin fubd off, and fubd off, and fubd off, from
645this day to that day, that it is a
shame to be thought on, there is
¶no hone
sty in
such dealing, vnle
sse a woman
should be made
¶an a
sse, and a bea
st, to beare euery knaues wrong: yonder he
¶comes, and that arrant malm
sie-no
se knaue Bardolfe with him,
650do your offices do your offices ma
ster Phāg, & ma
ster Snare,
¶do me, do me, do me your offices.
651.1Enter sir Iohn, and Bardolfe, and the boy.