The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth (Quarto, 1598)

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 The famous victories
 998Iohn. Oh sir, I haue a great many shooes at home to 
 999Cobble.
 1000Wife. I pray you let him go home againe.
 1001Cap.  Tush I care not, thou shalt go.
 1002Iohn.  Oh wife, and you had beene a louing wife to me,
 1003This had not bene, forI haue said many times,
 1004That I would go away, and now I must go
 1005Against my will.
 1006He weepeth.
 1007 Enters Dericke.
 1008Der. How now ho, Busillus Manus, for an old codpeece,
 1009Maister Captaine shall we away?
 1010Sownds how now Iohn, what a crying?
 1011What make you and my dame there?
 1012I maruell whose head you will throw the stooles at,
 1013Now we are gone.
 1014Wife. Ile tell you, come ye cloghead,
 1015What do you with my potlid? heare you,
 1016Will you haue it rapt about your pate?
 1017She beateth him with her potlid.
 1018Der. Oh good dame, here he shakes her,
 1019And I had my dagger here, I wold worie you al to peeces
 1020That I would.
 1021Wife. Would you so, Ile trie that.
 1022 She beateth him.
 1023Der. Maister Captaine wil ye suffer her?
 1024Go too dame, I will go backe as far as I can,
 1025But and you come againe,
 1026Ile clap the law on your backe thats flat:
 1027Ile tell you maister Captaine what you shall do?
 1028Presse her for a souldier, I warrant you,
 1029She will do as much good as her husband and I too. 
 1030Enters the Theefe.
 1031Sownes, who comes yonder?
 1032Cap.  How now good fellow, doest thou want a maister?
 Theefe.

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