[Scene 18]
Drum and trumpet sounds.
Enters Derrick roaming. After him a Frenchman, and takes him prisoner.
1540DERRICK
¶O good Mounser!
¶FRENCHMAN
¶Come, come, you viliaco.
¶DERRICK
1545Oh, I will sir, I will.
¶FRENCHMAN
¶Come quickly, you peasant.
¶DERRICK
¶I will sir. What shall I give you?
1550FRENCHMAN
¶Marry, thou shalt give me
¶One, to, tree, four hundred crowns.
¶DERRICK
¶Nay, sir, I will give you more.
1555I will give you as many crowns as will lie on your sword.
¶FRENCHMAN
¶Wilt thou give me as many crowns
¶As will lie on my sword?
¶DERRICK
1560Aye, marry will I. Aye, but you must lay down your
¶Sword, or else they will not lie on your sword.
Here the Frenchman lays down his sword, and the clown takes it up and hurls him down.
¶DERRICK
¶Thou villain, darest thou look up?
¶FRENCHMAN
1565O good Monsieur, compatis vous!
Monsieur, pardon me!
¶DERRICK
¶O you villain, now you lie at my mercy!
¶Dost thou remember since thou lammed'st me in thy short ell?
¶O villain, now I will strike off thy head!
Here whiles he turns his back, the Frenchman runs his ways.
1570What, is he gone? Mass, I am glad of it,
¶For if he had stayed, I was afraid he would have stirred again,
¶And then I should have been spilt.
¶But I will away, to kill more Frenchmen.