664636break the pate on thee, I am a very villaine, come and be hangd,

665637hast no faith in thee?

667639Gadshill. Good morrow Cariers, whats a clocke?

668640Car. I thinke it be two a clocke.

669641Gad. I prethe lend me thy lanterne, to see my gelding in the

670642stable.

6716431 Car. Nay by God soft, I knowe a tricke worth two of that

672644I faith.

673645Gad. I pray thee lend me thine.

6746462 Car. I when canst tell? lend me thy lanterne (quoth he) mar-

675647ry ile see thee hangd first.

676648Gad. Sirrha Carrier, what time doe you meane to come to

677649London?

6786502 Car. Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant

679651thee, come neighbour Mugs, weele call vp the Gentlemen,

680652they will along with company, 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 laiest the plot how.

689659Cham. Good morrow maister Gadshill, it holdes currant that

690660I tolde you yesternight, ther's a Frankelin in the wilde 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 already, and cal for Egges and butter, they wil

695665away presently.

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

698667ile giue thee this necke.

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

700669man, for I know thou worshippest Saint Nicholas, as trulie as

701670a 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 hee is no starueling: tut, there are other