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Famous Victories of Henry V (Modern)

[Scene 7] [Video Sc.7]
Enter Derrick.
Derrick
[Shouts to offstage] Thou art a stinking whore, and a whoreson stinking whore! Dost think I'll take it at thy hands?
650Enter John Cobbler running.
John
Derrick, Derrick, Derrick! Hearest a? Do, Derrick, never while thou livest use that! Why, what will my neighbors say an thou go away so?
Derrick
She's a narrant whore, and I'll have the law on you, John.
655John
Why, what hath she done?
Derrick
Marry, mark thou, John. I will prove it, that I will!
John
What wilt thou prove?
Derrick
That she called me in to dinner -- 660John, mark the tale well, John â€"- and, when I was set, she brought me a dish of roots and a piece of barrel butter therein. And she is a very knave, and thou a drab if thou take her part.
John
Hearest a, Derrick, is this the matter? 665Nay, an it be no worse, we will go home again, and all shall be amended.
Derrick
O John, hearest a, John, is all well?
John
Ay, all is well.
Derrick
Then I'll go home before and break all the glass 670windows.