2279By such a lowly Vassall as thy selfe.

2280Thy words moue Rage, and not remorse in me:

2281I go of Message from the Queene to France:

2282I charge thee waft me safely crosse the Channell.

2283Lieu. Water: W.Come Suffolke, I must waft thee

2284to thy death.

2285Suf. Pine gelidus timor occupat artus, it is thee I feare.

2286Wal. Thou shalt haue cause to feare before I leaue thee.

2287What, are ye danted now? Now will ye stoope.

22881. Gent. My gracious Lord intreat him, speak him fair.

2289Suf. Suffolkes Imperiall tongue is sterne and rough:

2290Vs'd to command, vntaught to pleade for fauour.

2291Farre be it, we should honor such as these

2292With humble suite: no, rather let my head

2293Stoope to the blocke, then these knees bow to any,

2294Saue to the God of heauen, and to my King:

2295And sooner dance vpon a bloody pole,

2296Then stand vncouer'd to the Vulgar Groome.

2297True Nobility, is exempt from feare:

2298More can I beare, then you dare execute.

2299Lieu. Hale him away, and let him talke no more:

2300Come Souldiers, shew what cruelty ye can.

2301Suf. That this my death may neuer be forgot.

2302Great men oft dye by vilde Bezonions.

2303A Romane Sworder, and Bandetto slaue

2304Murder'd sweet Tully. Brutus Bastard hand

2305Stab'd Iulius Caesar. Sauage Islanders

2306Pompey the Great, and Suffolke dyes by Pyrats.

2308Lieu. And as for these whose ransome we haue set,

2309It is our pleasure one of them depart:

2310Therefore come you with vs, and let him go.

2313Wal. There let his head, and liuelesse bodie lye,

2314Vntill the Queene his Mistris bury it. Exit Walter.

23151. Gent. O barbarous and bloudy spectacle,

2316His body will I beare vnto the King:

2317If he reuenge it not, yet will his Friends,

2318So will the Queene, that liuing, held him deere.

2320Beuis. Come and get thee a sword, though made of a

2321Lath, they haue bene vp these two dayes.

2322Hol. They haue the more neede to sleepe now then.

2323Beuis. I tell thee, Iacke Cade the Cloathier, meanes to

2324dresse the Common-wealth and turne it, and set a new

2325nap vpon it.

2326Hol. So he had need, for 'tis thred-bare. Well, I say,

2327it was neuer merrie world in England, since Gentlemen

2328came vp.

2329Beuis. O miserable Age: Vertue is not regarded in

2330Handy-crafts men.

2331Hol. The Nobilitie thinke scorne to goe in Leather

2332Aprons.

2333Beuis. Nay more, the Kings Councell are no good

2334Workemen.

2335Hol. True: and yet it is said, Labour in thy Vocati-

2336on: which is as much to say, as let the Magistrates be la-

2337bouring men, and therefore should we be Magistrates.

2338Beuis. Thou hast hit it: for there's no better signe of a

2339braue minde, then a hard hand.

2340Hol. I see them, I see them: There's Bests Sonne, the

2341Tanner of Wingham.

2342Beuis. Hee shall haue the skinnes of our enemies, to

2343make Dogges Leather of.

2344Hol. And Dicke the Butcher.

2345Beuis. Then is sin strucke downe like an Oxe, and ini-

2346quities throate cut like a Calfe.

2347Hol. And Smith the Weauer.

2348Beu. Argo, their thred of life is spun.

2349Hol. Come, come, let's fall in with them.

2352Cade. Wee Iohn Cade, so tearm'd of our supposed Fa-

2353ther.

2354But. Or rather of stealing a Cade of Herrings.

2355Cade. For our enemies shall faile before vs, inspired

2356with the spirit of putting down Kings and Princes. Com-

2357mand silence.

2358But. Silence.

2359Cade. My Father was a Mortimer.

2360But. He was an honest man, and a good Bricklayer.

2361Cade. My mother a Plantagenet.

2362Butch. I knew her well, she was a Midwife.

2363Cade. My wife descended of the Lacies.

2364But. She was indeed a Pedlers daughter, & sold many

2365Laces.

2366Weauer. But now of late, not able to trauell with her

2367furr'd Packe, she washes buckes here at home.

2368Cade. Therefore am I of an honorable house.

2369But. I by my faith, the field is honourable, and there

2370was he borne, vnder a hedge: for his Father had neuer a

2371house but the Cage.

2372Cade. Valiant I am.

2373Weauer. A must needs, for beggery is valiant.

2374Cade. I am able to endure much.

2375But. No question of that: for I haue seene him whipt

2376three Market dayes together.

2377Cade. I feare neither sword, nor fire.

2378Wea. He neede not feare the sword, for his Coate is of

2379proofe.

2380But. But me thinks he should stand in feare of fire, be-

2381ing burnt i'th hand for stealing of Sheepe.

2382Cade. Be braue then, for your Captaine is Braue, and

2383Vowes Reformation. There shall be in England, seuen

2384halfe peny Loaues sold for a peny: the three hoop'd pot,

2385shall haue ten hoopes, and I wil make it Fellony to drink

2386small Beere. All the Realme shall be in Common, and in

2387Cheapside shall my Palfrey go to grasse: and when I am

2388King, as King I will be.

2389All. God saue your Maiesty.

2390Cade. I thanke you good people. There shall bee no

2391mony, all shall eate and drinke on my score, and I will

2392apparrell them all in one Liuery, that they may agree like

2393Brothers, and worship me their Lord.

2394But. The first thing we do, let's kill all the Lawyers.

2395Cade. Nay, that I meane to do. Is not this a lamenta-

2396ble thing, that of the skin of an innocent Lambe should

2397be made Parchment; that Parchment being scribeld ore,

2398should vndoe a man. Some say the Bee stings, but I say,

2399'tis the Bees waxe: for I did but seale once to a thing, and

2400I was neuer mine owne man since. How now? Who's

2401there?

2403Weauer. The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and

2404reade, and cast accompt.

2405Cade. O monstrous.

2406Wea. We tooke him setting of boyes Copies.