16381472strong, and of good friends.

16391473Fal. Is thy name Mouldie?

16401474Moul. Yea, and't please you.

16411475 Fal. Tis the more time thou wert vsde.

16421476Shal. Ha, ha, ha, most excellent yfaith, things that are moul-

16431477dy lacke vse: very singular good, infaith well said sir Iohn, very

16441478well said. Iohn prickes him.

16461479Moul. I was prickt wel enough before, and you could haue

16471480let me alone, my old dame will be vndone now for one to doe

16481481her husbandrie, and her drudgery, you need not to haue prickt

16491482me, there are other men fitter to go out then I.

16511483Fal. Go to, peace Mouldy, you shall go, Mouldy it is time

16521484you were spent.

16531485Moul. Spent?

16541486Shal. Peace fellow, peace, stand aside, know you where you

16551487are? for th'other sir Iohn: let me see Simon Shadow.

16571488 Fal. Yea mary, let me haue him to sit vnder, hees like to be

16581489a cold soldiour.

16591490Shal. Wheres Shadow?

16601491Shad. Here sir.

16611492Fal. Shadow, whose sonne art thou?

16621493Shad. My mothers sonne sir.

16631494Fal. Thy mothers sonne! like enough, and thy fathers sha-

16641495dow, so the sonne of the female is the shadow of the male: it is

16651496often so indeede, but much of the fathers substance.

16671497Shal. Do you like him sir Iohn?

16681498Fal. Shadow wil serue for summer, pricke him, for we haue

16691499a number of shadowes, fill vp the muster booke.

16711500Shal. Thomas Wart.

16721501Fal. Wheres he?

16731502Wart Here sir.

16741503Fal. Is thy name Wart?

16751504Wart Yea sir.

16761505Fal. Thou art a very ragged wart.

16771506Shal. Shall I pricke him sir Iohn?

16791507Fal. It were superfluous, for apparell is built vpon his back,

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