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Author: Anonymous
Editors: Karen Sawyer Marsalek, Mathew Martin
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The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth (Quarto, 1598)

The famous victories
Iohn. Oh sir, I haue a great many shooes at home to
Cobble.
1000Wife. I pray you let him go home againe.
Cap. Tush I care not, thou shalt go.
Iohn. Oh wife, and you had beene a louing wife to me,
This had not bene, forI haue said many times,
That I would go away, and now I must go
1005Against my will.
He weepeth.
Enters Dericke.
Der. How now ho, Busillus Manus, for an old codpeece,
Maister Captaine shall we away?
1010Sownds how now Iohn, what a crying?
What make you and my dame there?
I maruell whose head you will throw the stooles at,
Now we are gone.
Wife. Ile tell you, come ye cloghead,
1015What do you with my potlid? heare you,
Will you haue it rapt about your pate?
She beateth him with her potlid.
Der. Oh good dame, here he shakes her,
And I had my dagger here, I wold worie you al to peeces
1020That I would.
Wife. Would you so, Ile trie that.
She beateth him.
Der. Maister Captaine wil ye suffer her?
Go too dame, I will go backe as far as I can,
1025But and you come againe,
Ile clap the law on your backe thats flat:
Ile tell you maister Captaine what you shall do?
Presse her for a souldier, I warrant you,
She will do as much good as her husband and I too.
1030Enters the Theefe.
Sownes, who comes yonder?
Cap. How now good fellow, doest thou want a maister?
Theefe.