20541888How now dame Partlet the hen, haue you enquird

20551889yet who pickt my pocket?

20561890Hostesse. Why sir Iohn, what do you thinke sir Iohn, doe you

20571891thinke I keepe theeues in my house, I haue searcht, I haue en-

20581892quired, so has my husband, man by man, boy by boy, seruant by

20591893seruant, the tight of a haire, was neuer lost in my house before.

20611894Fal. Yee lie Hostesse, Bardoll was shau'd, and lost manie a

20621895haire, and ile be sworne my pocket was pickt: go to, you are a

20631896woman, go.

20641897Ho. Who I. No, I defie thee: Gods light I was neuer cald so in

20651898mine owne house before.

20661899Fal. Go to. I know you well inough.

20671900Ho. No, sir Iohn, you do not know me, sir Iohn, I knowe you

20681901sir Iohn, you owe me mony sir Iohn, and now you picke a quar-

20691902rell to beguile me of it, I bought you a douzen of shirts to your

20701903backe.

20711904Falst. Doulas, filthie Doulas. I haue giuen them away to Ba-

20721905kers wiues, they haue made boulters of them.

20741906Host. Now as I am a true woman, holland of viii s. an ell, you

20751907owe mony here, besides sir Iohn, for your diet, and bydrinkings,

20761908and money lent you xxiiii. pound.

20781909Falst. He had his part of it, let him pay.

20791910Host. He, alas he is poore, he hath nothing.

20811911Fal. How? poore? looke vpon his face. What call you rich? let

20821912them coyne his nose, let them coyne his cheekes, ile not pay a

20831913denyer: what will you make a yonker of mee? shall I not take

20841914mine ease in mine Inne, but I shall haue my pocket pickt? I haue

20851915lost a seale ring of my grandfathers worth fortie marke.

20871916Ho. O Iesu, I haue heard the Prince tell him I know not how

20881917oft, that that ring was copper.

20891918Falst. How? the prince is a iacke, a sneakeup, Zbloud and hee

20901919were here, I would cudgell him like a dog if he would say so.

20951922Falst. How now lad, is the winde in that doore ifaith, must we

20961923all march?

20971924Bar. Yea, two, and two, Newgate fashion.

20981925Host. My Lord, I pray you heare me.

G.iii Prin.