6351. Car. Heigh-ho, an't be not foure by the day, Ile be

636hang'd. Charles waine is ouer the new Chimney, and yet

637our horse not packt. What Ostler?

638Ost. Anon, anon.

6391. Car. I prethee Tom, beate Cuts Saddle, put a few

640Flockes in the point: the poore Iade is wrung in the wi-

641thers, out of all cesse.

6432. Car. Pease and Beanes are as danke here as a Dog,

644and this is the next way to giue poore Iades the Bottes:

645This house is turned vpside downe since Robin the Ostler

646dyed.

6471. Car. Poore fellow neuer ioy'd since the price of oats

648rose, it was the death of him.

6492. Car. I thinke this is the most villanous house in al

650London rode for Fleas: I am stung like a Tench.

6511. Car. Like a Tench? There is ne're a King in Chri-

652stendome, could be better bit, then I haue beene since the

653first Cocke.

6542. Car. Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and

655then we leake in your Chimney: and your Chamber-lye

656breeds Fleas like a Loach.

6571. Car. What Ostler, come away, and be hangd: come

658away.

6592. Car. I haue a Gammon of Bacon, and two razes of

660Ginger, to be deliuered as farre as Charing-crosse.

6611. Car. The Turkies in my Pannier are quite starued.

662What Ostler? A plague on thee, hast thou neuer an eye in

663thy head? Can'st not heare? And t'were not as good a

664deed as drinke, to break the pate of thee, I am a very Vil-

665laine. Come and be hang'd, hast no faith in thee?

667Gad. Good-morrow Carriers. What's a clocke?

668Car. I thinke it be two a clocke.

669Gad. I prethee lend me thy Lanthorne to see my Gel-

670ding in the stable.

6711. Car. Nay soft I pray ye, I know a trick worth two

672of that.

673Gad. I prethee lend me thine.

6742. Car. I, when, canst tell? Lend mee thy Lanthorne

675(quoth-a) marry Ile see thee hang'd first.

676Gad. Sirra Carrier: What time do you mean to come

677to London?

6782. Car. Time enough to goe to bed with a Candle, I

679warrant thee. Come neighbour Mugges, wee'll call vp

680the Gentlemen, they will along with company, for they

681haue great charge. Exeunt

683Gad. What ho, Chamberlaine?

684Cham. At hand quoth Pick-purse.

685Gad. That's euen as faire, as at hand quoth the Cham-

686berlaine: For thou variest no more from picking of Pur-

687ses, then giuing direction, doth from labouring. Thou

688lay'st the plot, how.

689Cham. Good morrow Master Gads-Hill, it holds cur-

690rant that I told you yesternight. There's a Franklin in the

691wilde of Kent, hath brought three hundred Markes with

692him in Gold: I heard him tell it to one of his company last

693night at Supper; a kinde of Auditor, one that hath abun-

694dance of charge too (God knowes what) they are vp al-

695ready, and call for Egges and Butter. They will away

696presently.

697Gad. Sirra, if they meete not with S. Nicholas Clarks,

698Ile giue thee this necke.

699Cham. No, Ile none of it: I prythee keep that for the

700Hangman, for I know thou worshipst S. Nicholas as tru-

701ly as a man of falshood may.

702Gad. What talkest thou to me of the Hangman? If I

703hang, Ile make a fat payre of Gallowes. For, if I hang,

704old Sir Iohn hangs with mee, and thou know'st hee's no

705Starueling. Tut, there are other Troians that y^u dream'st

706not of, the which (for sport sake) are content to doe the

707Profession some grace; that would (if matters should bee

708look'd into) for their owne Credit sake, make all Whole.

709I am ioyned with no Foot-land-Rakers, no Long-staffe

710six-penny strikers, none of these mad Mustachio-purple-

711hu'd-Maltwormes, but with Nobility, and Tranquilitie;

712Bourgomasters, and great Oneyers, such as can holde in,

713such as will strike sooner then speake; and speake sooner

714then drinke, and drinke sooner then pray: and yet I lye,

715for they pray continually vnto their Saint the Common-

716wealth; or rather, not to pray to her, but prey on her: for

717they ride vp & downe on her, and make hir their Boots.

718Cham. What, the Commonwealth their Bootes? Will

719she hold out water in foule way?

720Gad. She will, she will; Iustice hath liquor'd her. We

721steale as in a Castle, cocksure: we haue the receit of Fern-

722seede, we walke inuisible.

723Cham. Nay, I thinke rather, you are more beholding

724to the Night, then to the Fernseed, for your walking in-

725uisible.

726Gad. Giue me thy hand.

727Thou shalt haue a share in our purpose,

728As I am a true man.

729Cham. Nay, rather let mee haue it, as you are a false

730Theefe.

731Gad. Goe too: Homo is a common name to all men.

732Bid the Ostler bring the Gelding out of the stable. Fare-

733well, ye muddy Knaue. Exeunt.