680652[t]hey will along with companie, for they haue great charge.

683654Gad. What ho: Chamberlaine.

684655Cham. At hand quoth pickepurse.

685656Gad. Thats euen as faire as at hand quoth the Chamberlaine:

686657for thou variest no more from picking of purses, then giuing di-

687658rection doth from labouring: thou layest the plot how.

689659Cham: Good morrow maister Gadshil, it holdes currant that

690660I tolde you yesternight, ther's a Frankelin in the wild of Kent

691661hath brought three hundred Markes with him in golde, I heard

692662him tell it to one of his company last night at supper, a kinde of

693663Auditor, one that hath abundance of charge too, God knowes

694664what, they are vp alreadie, and call for Egges and Butter, they

695665will away presently.

697666Gad: Sirrha, if they meete not with Saint Nicholas clearkes,

698667[ile] giue thee this necke.

699668Cham. No, ile none of it, I pray thee keepe that for the hang-

700669[ma]n, for I know thou worshippest Saine Nicholas, as trulie as

701670[a] man of falshood may.

702671Ga. What talkest thou to me of the hãgman? if I hang, ile make

703672a fat paire of Gallowes: for if I hang, olde sir Iohn hangs with

704673me, and thou knowest he is no starueling: tut, there are other

705674Troyans that thou dreamst not of, the which for sport sake

706675are content to do the profession, some grace, that would (if mat-

707676ters should be lookt into) for their owne credit sake make all

709677whole.I am ioyned with no footland rakers, no long-staffe six-

710678pennie strikers, none of these mad mustachio purplehewd malt-

711679worms, but with nobilitie, & tranquilitie, Burgomasters & great

712680Oneyres, such as can hold in such as wil strike sooner then speak,

713681and speake sooner then drinke, and drinke sooner then pray, and

714682yet (zoundes) I lie, for they pray continually to their Saint the

715683Common-wealth, or rather not pray to her, but pray on her, for

717684they ride vp and downe on her, and make her their bootes.

718685Cham. What, the Common-wealth their bootes? will shee

719686hold out water in foule way?

720687Gad. She will, she will, Iustice hath liquord her: wee steale as

721688in a Castell cocksure: we haue the receyte of Ferneseede, wee

Ciii. walke