24341604Cade. Let them come, hees but a knight is he?

24371605Tom. No, no, hees but a knight.

24381606Cade. Why then to equall him, ile make my selfe knight.

24391607Kneele downe Iohn Mortemer,

2439.11608Rise vp sir Iohn Mortemer.

2439.21609Is there any more of them that be Knights?

2439.31610Tom. I his brother.

2439.51612Cade. Then kneele downe Dicke Butcher,

2439.61613Rise vp sir Dicke Butcher.

24481617Cade. As for these silken coated slaues I passe not a pinne,

24491618Tis to you good people that I speake.

2449.11619Stafford. Why country-men, what meane you thus in troopes,

2449.21620To follow this rebellious Traitor Cade?

24521621Why his father was but a Brick-laier.

24541622Cade. Well, and Adam was a Gardner, what then?

2454.11623But I come of the Mortemers.

24741624Stafford. I, the Duke of Yorke hath taught you that.

24751625Cade. The Duke of York, nay, I learnt it my selfe,

24561626For looke you, Roger Mortemer the Earle of March,

24571627Married the Duke of Clarence daughter.

24581628Stafford. Well, thats true: But what then?

24591629Cade. And by her he had two children at a birth.

24601630Stafford. Thats false.

24611631Cade. I, but I say, tis true.

2461.11632All. Why then tis true.

24631633Cade. And one of them was stolne away by a begger-woman,

24641634And that was my father, and I am his sonne,

24661635Deny it and you can.

24671636Nicke. Nay looke you, I know twas true,

24681637For his father built a chimney in my fathers house,

24691638And the brickes are aliue at this day to testifie.

24761639Cade. But doest thou heare Stafford, tell the King, that for his

24771640fathers sake, in whose time boyes plaide at spanne-counter with

24781641Frenche Crownes, I am content that hee shall be King as long