11681090Prince. I, and marke thee to iacke.

11691091Falst. Do so, for it is worth the listning to, these nine in Buck-

1092rom that I told thee of.

11711093Prince. So, two more alreadie.

11721094Falst. Their points being broken.

11731095Poy. Downe fell their hose.

11741096Falst. Began to giue me ground: but I followed me close, came

11751097in, foot, and hand, and with a thought, seuen of the eleuen I paid.

11771098Prin. O monstrous! eleuen Buckrom men growne out of two.

11791099Fal. But as the diuell would haue it, three misbegotten knaues

11801100in Kendall greene came at my backe, and let driue at mee, for it

11811101was so darke Hal, that thou couldest not see thy hand.

11831102Prin. These lies are like their father that begets them, grosse as

11841103a mountaine, open, palpable. Why thou clay-braind guts, thou

11851104knotty-pated foole, thou horeson obscene greasie tallow-catch.

11871105Falst. What art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the truth the

11881106truth?

11891107Pr. Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal greene

11901108when it was so darke thou couldst not see thy hand, come tell vs

11911109your reason. What sayest thou to this?

11931110Po. Come your reason, Iacke, your reason.

11941111Falst. What, vppon compulsion: Zoundes, and I were at the

11951112strappado, or all the rackes in the worlde, I would not tell you on

11961113compulsion. Giue you a reason on compulsion? if reasons were

11971114as plentifull as blackberries, I would giue no man a reason vppon

11981115compulsion, I.

11991116Prin. Ile be no longer guiltie of this sinne. This sanguine co-

12001117ward, this bed-presser, this horse-backe-breaker, this huge hill

12011118of flesh.

12021119Fa. Zbloud you starueling, you elsskin, you dried neatstong, you

12031120bulspizzle, you stockfish: O for breath to vtter what is like thee,

12041121you tailers yard, you sheath, you bowcase, you vile standing tuck.

12061122Prin. Wel, breath a while, and then to it againe, and when thou

12071123hast tired thy selfe in base comparisons heare mee speake but this.

12091124Po. Marke iacke.

12101125Prin. We two saw you foure set on foure, and bound them and

12111126were maisters of their wealth: marke now how a plaine tale shall

12121127put you downe, then did wee two set on you foure, and with a