Authors: Anonymous, Michael Drayton, Richard Hathway, Antony Munday, William Shakespeare, Robert Wilson

Editor: Michael Best

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The History of Sir John Oldcastle (Folio 3, 1664)

 2523Enter Rochester, Constable of S. Albans, with Priest,
 2524Doll, and the Irishman in Harpool's apparel.
 2525Bish. What intricate confusion have we here?
 2526Not two hours since, we apprehended one
 2527In habit Irish, but in speech not so; 
 2528And now you bring another, that in speech is Irish,
 2529But in habit English : yea, and more then so,
 2530The servant of that heretick Lord Cobham.
 2531Irish. Fait me be no servant of de Lort Cobham,
 2532Me be Mack Chane of Ulster.
 2533Bish. Otherwise call'd Harpool of Kent, go too, sir,
 2534You cannot blind us with your broken Irish.
 2535Pri. Trust me, Lord Bishop, whether Irish or English.
 2536Harpool or not Harpool, that I leave to the trial:
 2537But sure I am, this man by face and speech,
 2538Is he that murdred young Sir Richard Lee:
 2539I met him presently upon the fact,
 2540And that he slew his Master for that gold,
 2541Those Jewels, and that chain I took from him.
 2542Bish. Well, our affairs do call us back to London,
 2543So that we cannot prosecute the cause
 2544As we desire to do, therefore we leave
 2545The charge with you, to see they be convey'd
 2546To Hartford Size: both this counterfeit,
 2547And you Sir John of Wrotham, and your wench,
 2548For you are culpable as well as they,
 2549Though not for murther, yet for fellony.
 2550But since you are the means to bring to light
 2551This graceless murther, ye shall bear with you
 2552Our Letters to the Judges of the Bench,
 2553To be your friends in what they lawfull may.
 2554Priest. I thank you Lordship.

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The History of Sir John Oldcastle (Folio 3, 1664)