23201529George. Come away Nick, and put a long staffe in thy pike, and

23211530prouide thy selfe, for I Can tell thee, they haue bene vp this two

2321.11531daies.

23221532Nicke. Then they had more need to go to bed now,

2322.11533But sirrha George whats the matter?

23231534George. Why sirrha, Iack Cade the Diar of Ashford here,

23241535He meanes to turne this land, and set a new nap on it.

23261536Nick. I marry he had need so, for tis growne threedbare,

23271537Twas neuer merry world with vs, since these gentle men came vp.

23311538George. I warrant thee, thou shalt neuer see a Lord weare a lea-

23321539ther aperne now a-daies.

2332.11540Nick. But sirrha, who comes more beside Iacke Cade?

23401541George. Why theres Dicke the Butcher, and Robin the Sadler,

23411542and Will that came a wooing to our Nan last Sunday, and Harry

23441543and Tom, and Gregory that should haue your Parnill, and a great

23471544sort more is come from Rochester, and from Maydstone, and Can-

2347.11545terbury, and all the Townes here abouts, and we must all be Lords

2347.21546or squires, assoone as Iacke Cade is King.

2347.31547Nicke. Harke, harke, I here the Drum, they be comming.

2351.11550Cade. Proclaime silence.

2351.21551All. Silence.

23521552Cade. I Iohn Cade so named for my valiancie.

23541553Dicke. Or rather for stealing of a Cade of Sprats.

23591554Cade. My father was a Mortemer.

23601555Nicke. He was an honest man and a good Brick-laier.

23611556Cade. My mother came of the Brases.

23641557VVill. She was a Pedlers daughter indeed, and sold many lases.

23661558Robin. And now being not able to occupie her furd packe,

23671559She washeth buckes vp and downe the country.

23681560Cade. Therefore I am honourably borne.

23691561Harry. I for the field is honourable, for he was borne

23701562Vnder a hedge, for his father had no house but the Cage.

23741563Cade. I am able to endure much.

23751564George. Thats true, I know he can endure any thing,

23761565For I haue seene him whipt two market daies togither.

F3 Cade.

23771566Cade. I feare neither sword nor fire

23781567VVill. He need not feare the sword, for his coate is of proofe.

23801568Dicke. But mee thinkes he should feare the fire, being so often

23811569burnt in the hand, for stealing of sheepe.

23821570Cade. Therefore be braue, for your Captain is braue, and vowes

23831571reformation: you shall haue seuen half-penny loaues for a penny,

23841572and the three hoopt pot, shall haue ten hoopes, and it shall be felo-

23851573ny to drinke small beere, and if I be king, as king I will be.

23891574All. God saue your maiestie.

23901575Cade. I thanke you good people, you shall all eate and drinke of

23911576my score, and go all in my liuerie, and weele haue no writing, but

2391.11577the score & the Tally, and there shalbe no lawes but such as comes

2391.21578from my mouth.

2391.31579Dicke. We shall haue sore lawes then, for he was thrust into the

2391.41580mouth the other day.

2391.51581George. I and stinking law too, for his breath stinks so, that one

2391.61582cannot abide it.

2402.11584Will. Oh Captaine a pryze.

24071585Cade. Whose that Will?

24031586VVill. The Clarke of Chattam, he can write and reade and cast

24041587account, I tooke him setting of boyes coppies, and hee has a booke

24081588in his pocket with red letters.

24091589Cade. Sonnes, hees a coniurer bring him hither.

24141590Now sir, whats your name?

24161591Clarke. Emanuell sir, and it shall please you.

24171592Dicke. It will go hard with you, I can tell you,

24181593For they vse to write that oth top of letters.

24191594Cade. And what do you vse to write your name?

24201595Or do you as auncient forefathers haue done,

24211596Vse the score and the Tally?

24221597Clarke. Nay, true sir, I praise God I haue bene so well brought

24231598vp, that I can write mine owne name.

24261599Cade. Oh hes confest, go hang him with his penny-inckhorne

24271600about his necke. Exet one with the Clarke.

24321602Tom. Captaine. Newes, newes, sir Humphrey Stafford and his

24331603brother are comming with the kings power, and mean to kil vs all.

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

24791642as he liues Marry alwaies prouided, ile be Protector ouer him.

24881643Stafford. O monstrous simplicitie.

24801644Cade. And tell him, weele haue the Lorde Sayes head, and the

24811645Duke of Somersets, for deliuering vp the Dukedomes of Anioy

24821646and Mayne, and selling the Townes in France, by which meanes

24831647England hath bene maimde euer since, and gone as it were with a

2483.11648crouch, but that my puissance held it vp. And besides, they can

24861649speake French, and therefore they are traitors.

2486.11650Stafford. As how I prethie?

24891651Cade. Why the French men are our enemies be they not?

24901652And then can hee that speakes with the tongue of an enemy be a

24911653good subiect?

24921654Answere me to that.

2492.11655Stafford. Well sirrha, wilt thou yeeld thy selfe vnto the Kings

2492.21656mercy, and he will pardon thee and these, their outrages and rebel-

2492.31657lious deeds?

2492.41658Cade. Nay, bid the King come to me and he will, and then ile

2492.51659pardon him, or otherwaies ile haue his Crowne tell him, ere it be

2492.61660long.

24961661Stafford. Go Herald, proclaime in all the Kings Townes,

24971662That those that will forsake the Rebell Cade,

24981663Shall haue free pardon from his Maiestie.

25021665Cade. Come sirs, saint George for vs and Kent.