of Henrie the fourth.
680652[t]hey will along with companie, for they haue great charge.
682653Enter Chamberlaine, Exeunt. 683654Gad. What ho: Chamberlaine.
684655Cham. At hand quoth pickepur
se.
685656Gad. Thats euen as faire as at hand quoth the Chamberlaine:
686657for thou varie
st no more from picking of pur
ses, then giuing di
- 687658re
ction doth from labouring: thou laye
st the plot how.
689659Cham: Good morrow mai
ster Gad
shil, it holdes currant that
690660I tolde you ye
sternight, 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 la
st 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
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 wor
shippe
st Saine Nicholas, as trulie as
701670[a] man of fal
shood may.
702671Ga. What talke
st 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 knowe
st he is no
starueling: tut, there are other
705674Troyans that thou dream
st not of, the which for
sport
sake
706675are content to do the profe
ssion,
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-
sta
ffe
six
- 710678pennie
strikers, none of the
se mad mu
stachio purplehewd malt
- 711679worms, but with nobilitie, & tranquilitie, Burgoma
sters & 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, Iu
stice hath liquord her: wee
steale as
721688in a Ca
stell cock
sure: we haue the receyte of Ferne
seede, wee
Ciii. walke