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  • Title: Henry VI, Part 2 (Quarto 1, 1594)

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    Author: William Shakespeare
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    Henry VI, Part 2 (Quarto 1, 1594)

    Alarmes, and then Mathew Goffe is slaine, and all the
    rest vvith him. Then enter Iacke Cade a-
    2634.1gain, and his company.
    2635Cade. So, sirs novv go some and pull dovvn the Sauoy,
    Others to the Innes of the Court, dovvne vvith them all.
    Dicke. I haue a sute vnto your Lordship.
    Cade. Be it a Lordship Dicke, and thou shalt haue it
    For that vvord.
    2640Dicke. That vve may go burne all the Records,
    And that all vvriting may be put dovvne,
    And nothing vsde but the score and the Tally.
    Cade. Dicke it shall be so, and henceforvvard all things shall be
    2651.1in common, and in Cheapeside shall my palphrey go to grasse.
    Why
    Houses, of Yorke and Lancaster.
    Why ist not a miserable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb
    should parchment be made, & then with a litle blotting ouer with
    inke, a man should vndo himselfe.
    2651.5 Some saies tis the bees that sting, but I say, tis their waxe, for I
    am sure I neuer seald to any thing but once, and I was neuer mine
    owne man since.
    Nicke. But when shall we take vp those commodities
    Which you told vs of.
    2651.10Cade. Marry he that will lustily stand to it,
    Shall go with me, and take vp these commodities following:
    Item, a gowne, a kirtle, a petticoate, and a smocke.
    Enter George.
    2657.1George. My Lord, a prize, a prize, heres the Lord Say,
    Which sold the Townes in France.
    Cade. Come hither thou Say, thou George, thou buckrum lord,
    What answere canst thou make vnto my mightinesse,
    For deliuering vp the townes in France to Mounsier bus mine cue,
    the Dolphin of France?
    And more then so, thou hast most traitorously erected a grammer
    schoole, to infect the youth of the realme, and against the Kings
    2670Crowne and dignitie, thou hast built vp a paper-mill, nay it wil be
    said to thy face, that thou kepst men in thy house that daily reades
    of bookes with red letters, and talkes of a Nowne and a Verbe, and
    such abhominable words as no Christian eare is able to endure it.
    And besides all that, thou hast appointed certaine Iustises of peace
    2675in euery shire to hang honest men that steale for their liuing, and
    because they could not reade, thou hast hung them vp: Onely for
    which cause they were most worthy to liue. Thou ridest on a foot-
    2680cloth doest thou not?
    Say. Yes, what of that?
    Cade. Marry I say, thou oughtest not to let thy horse weare a
    cloake, when an honester man then thy selfe, goes in his hose and
    doublet.
    Say. You men of Kent.
    All. Kent, what of Kent?
    Say. Nothing but bona, terra.
    2690Cade. Bonum terum, sounds whats that?
    2690.1Dicke. He speakes French.
    G2 VVill
    The first part of the contention of the two famous
    VVill. No tis Dutch.
    Nicke. No tis outtalian, I know it well inough.
    Say. Kent, in the Commentaries Caesar wrote,
    2695Termde it the ciuel'st place of all this land,
    Then noble Country-men, heare me but speake,
    I sold not France, I lost not Normandie.
    2725Cade. But wherefore doest thou shake thy head so?
    Say. It is the palsie and not feare that makes me.
    Cade. Nay thou nodst thy head, as who say, thou wilt be euen
    with me, if thou getst away, but ile make the sure inough, now I
    haue thee. Go take him to the standerd in Cheapeside and chop of
    his head, and then go to milende-greene, to sir Iames Cromer his
    sonne in law, and cut off his head too, and bring them to me vpon
    two poles presently. (Away with him.
    Exet one or two, with the Lord Say.
    There shall not a noble man weare a head on his shoulders,
    But he shall paie me tribute for it.
    Nor there shal not a mayd be married, but he shal fee to me for her.
    2755Maydenhead or else, ile haue it my selfe,
    2755.1Marry I will that married men shall hold of me in capitie,
    And that their wiues shalbe as free as hart can thinke, or toong can
    2756.1Enter Robin. (tell.
    Robin. O Captaine, London bridge is afire.
    Cade. Runne to Billingsgate, and fetche pitch and flaxe and
    squench it.
    2756.5Enter Dicke and a Sargiant.
    Sargiant. Iustice, iustice, I pray you sir, let me haue iustice of this
    fellow here.
    Cade. Why what has he done?
    Sarg. Alasse sir he has rauisht my wife.
    2756.10Dicke. Why my Lord he would haue rested me,
    And I went and and entred my Action in his wiues paper house.
    Cade. Dicke follow thy sute in her common place,
    You horson villaine, you are a Sargiant youle,
    Take any man by the throate for twelue pence,
    2756.15And rest a man when hees at dinner,
    And haue him to prison ere the meate be out of his mouth.
    Go Dicke take him hence, cut out his toong for cogging,
    Hough
    Houses, of Yorke and Lancaster.
    Hough him for running, and to conclude,
    Braue him with his owne mace.
    2756.20Exet with the Sargiant.
    Enter two with the Lord Sayes head, and sir Iames
    2763.1Cromers, vpon two poles.
    2770So, come carry them before me, and at euery lanes ende, let them
    kisse togither.
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