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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Every Man In His Humor, by Ben Jonson
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+Title: Every Man In His Humor
+       (The Anglicized Edition)
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+Author: Ben Jonson
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+Release Date: March, 2004 [EBook #5333]
+Posting Date: March 28, 2009
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+EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOR
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+(The Anglicized Edition)
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+By Ben Jonson
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+INTRODUCTION
+
+THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first
+literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire,
+and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the
+subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such
+his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at
+least in his age.
+
+Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the
+world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over
+the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his
+estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited."
+He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was
+born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was
+Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly
+ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better
+born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His
+mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a
+time apprenticed to the trade. As a youth he attracted the attention of
+the famous antiquary, William Camden, then usher at Westminster School,
+and there the poet laid the solid foundations of his classical learning.
+Jonson always held Camden in veneration, acknowledging that to him he
+owed,
+
+"All that I am in arts, all that I know:"
+
+and dedicating his first dramatic success, "Every Man in His Humour,"
+to him. It is doubtful whether Jonson ever went to either university,
+though Fuller says that he was "statutably admitted into St. John's
+College, Cambridge." He tells us that he took no degree, but was later
+"Master of Arts in both the universities, by their favour, not his
+study." When a mere youth Jonson enlisted as a soldier trailing his pike
+in Flanders in the protracted wars of William the Silent against the
+Spanish. Jonson was a large and raw-boned lad; he became by his own
+account in time exceedingly bulky. In chat with his friend William
+Drummond of Hawthornden, Jonson told how "in his service in the Low
+Countries he had, in the face of both the camps, killed an enemy, and
+taken 'opima spolia' from him;" and how "since his coming to England,
+being appealed to the fields, he had killed his adversary which had hurt
+him in the arm and whose sword was ten inches longer than his." Jonson's
+reach may have made up for the lack of his sword; certainly his prowess
+lost nothing in the telling. Obviously Jonson was brave, combative, and
+not averse to talking of himself and his doings.
+
+In 1592, Jonson returned from abroad penniless. Soon after he married,
+almost as early and quite as imprudently as Shakespeare. He told
+Drummond curtly that "his wife was a shrew, yet honest"; for some
+years he lived apart from her in the household of Lord Albany. Yet two
+touching epitaphs among Jonson's 'Epigrams', "On my first daughter," and
+"On my first son," attest the warmth of the poet's family affections.
+The daughter died in infancy, the son of the plague; another son grew up
+to manhood little credit to his father whom he survived. We know nothing
+beyond this of Jonson's domestic life.
+
+How soon Jonson drifted into what we now call grandly "the theatrical
+profession" we do not know. In 1593 Marlowe made his tragic exit from
+life, and Greene, Shakespeare's other rival on the popular stage,
+had preceded Marlowe in an equally miserable death the year before.
+Shakespeare already had the running to himself. Jonson appears first in
+the employment of Philip Henslowe, the exploiter of several troupes of
+players, manager, and father-in-law of the famous actor, Edward Alleyn.
+From entries in 'Henslowe's Diary', a species of theatrical account book
+which has been handed down to us, we know that Jonson was connected with
+the Admiral's men; for he borrowed 4 pounds of Henslowe, July 28, 1597,
+paying back 3s. 9d. on the same day on account of his "share" (in what
+is not altogether clear); while later, on December 3, of the same year,
+Henslowe advanced 20s. to him "upon a book which he showed the plot unto
+the company which he promised to deliver unto the company at Christmas
+next." In the next August Jonson was in collaboration with Chettle and
+Porter in a play called "Hot Anger Soon Cold." All this points to an
+association with Henslowe of some duration, as no mere tyro would be
+thus paid in advance upon mere promise. From allusions in Dekker's play,
+"Satiromastix," it appears that Jonson, like Shakespeare, began life as
+an actor, and that he "ambled in a leather pitch by a play-wagon" taking
+at one time the part of Hieronimo in Kyd's famous play, "The Spanish
+Tragedy." By the beginning of 1598, Jonson, though still in needy
+circumstances, had begun to receive recognition. Francis Meres--well
+known for his "Comparative Discourse of our English Poets with the
+Greek, Latin, and Italian Poets," printed in 1598, and for his mention
+therein of a dozen plays of Shakespeare by title--accords to Ben Jonson
+a place as one of "our best in tragedy," a matter of some surprise, as
+no known tragedy of Jonson from so early a date has come down to us.
+That Jonson was at work on tragedy, however, is proved by the entries in
+Henslowe of at least three tragedies, now lost, in which he had a
+hand. These are "Page of Plymouth," "King Robert II. of Scotland,"
+and "Richard Crookback." But all of these came later, on his return to
+Henslowe, and range from August 1599 to June 1602.
+
+Returning to the autumn of 1598, an event now happened to sever for
+a time Jonson's relations with Henslowe. In a letter to Alleyn, dated
+September 26 of that year, Henslowe writes: "I have lost one of my
+company that hurteth me greatly; that is Gabriel [Spencer], for he is
+slain in Hogsden fields by the hands of Benjamin Jonson, bricklayer."
+The last word is perhaps Henslowe's thrust at Jonson in his displeasure
+rather than a designation of his actual continuance at his trade up to
+this time. It is fair to Jonson to remark however, that his adversary
+appears to have been a notorious fire-eater who had shortly before
+killed one Feeke in a similar squabble. Duelling was a frequent
+occurrence of the time among gentlemen and the nobility; it was an
+imprudent breach of the peace on the part of a player. This duel is the
+one which Jonson described years after to Drummond, and for it Jonson
+was duly arraigned at Old Bailey, tried, and convicted. He was sent to
+prison and such goods and chattels as he had "were forfeited." It is
+a thought to give one pause that, but for the ancient law permitting
+convicted felons to plead, as it was called, the benefit of clergy,
+Jonson might have been hanged for this deed. The circumstance that the
+poet could read and write saved him; and he received only a brand of the
+letter "T," for Tyburn, on his left thumb. While in jail Jonson became a
+Roman Catholic; but he returned to the faith of the Church of England a
+dozen years later.
+
+On his release, in disgrace with Henslowe and his former associates,
+Jonson offered his services as a playwright to Henslowe's rivals,
+the Lord Chamberlain's company, in which Shakespeare was a prominent
+shareholder. A tradition of long standing, though not susceptible
+of proof in a court of law, narrates that Jonson had submitted the
+manuscript of "Every Man in His Humour" to the Chamberlain's men and had
+received from the company a refusal; that Shakespeare called him back,
+read the play himself, and at once accepted it. Whether this story is
+true or not, certain it is that "Every Man in His Humour" was accepted
+by Shakespeare's company and acted for the first time in 1598, with
+Shakespeare taking a part. The evidence of this is contained in the list
+of actors prefixed to the comedy in the folio of Jonson's works, 1616.
+But it is a mistake to infer, because Shakespeare's name stands first
+in the list of actors and the elder Kno'well first in the 'dramatis
+personae', that Shakespeare took that particular part. The order of a
+list of Elizabethan players was generally that of their importance or
+priority as shareholders in the company and seldom if ever corresponded
+to the list of characters.
+
+"Every Man in His Humour" was an immediate success, and with it Jonson's
+reputation as one of the leading dramatists of his time was established
+once and for all. This could have been by no means Jonson's earliest
+comedy, and we have just learned that he was already reputed one of "our
+best in tragedy." Indeed, one of Jonson's extant comedies, "The Case
+is Altered," but one never claimed by him or published as his, must
+certainly have preceded "Every Man in His Humour" on the stage. The
+former play may be described as a comedy modelled on the Latin plays of
+Plautus. (It combines, in fact, situations derived from the "Captivi"
+and the "Aulularia" of that dramatist). But the pretty story of the
+beggar-maiden, Rachel, and her suitors, Jonson found, not among the
+classics, but in the ideals of romantic love which Shakespeare had
+already popularised on the stage. Jonson never again produced so fresh
+and lovable a feminine personage as Rachel, although in other respects
+"The Case is Altered" is not a conspicuous play, and, save for the
+satirising of Antony Munday in the person of Antonio Balladino and
+Gabriel Harvey as well, is perhaps the least characteristic of the
+comedies of Jonson.
+
+"Every Man in His Humour," probably first acted late in the summer of
+1598 and at the Curtain, is commonly regarded as an epoch-making play;
+and this view is not unjustified. As to plot, it tells little more than
+how an intercepted letter enabled a father to follow his supposedly
+studious son to London, and there observe his life with the gallants of
+the time. The real quality of this comedy is in its personages and in
+the theory upon which they are conceived. Ben Jonson had theories about
+poetry and the drama, and he was neither chary in talking of them nor in
+experimenting with them in his plays. This makes Jonson, like Dryden
+in his time, and Wordsworth much later, an author to reckon with;
+particularly when we remember that many of Jonson's notions came for
+a time definitely to prevail and to modify the whole trend of English
+poetry. First of all Jonson was a classicist, that is, he believed in
+restraint and precedent in art in opposition to the prevalent ungoverned
+and irresponsible Renaissance spirit. Jonson believed that there was a
+professional way of doing things which might be reached by a study of
+the best examples, and he found these examples for the most part among
+the ancients. To confine our attention to the drama, Jonson objected to
+the amateurishness and haphazard nature of many contemporary plays, and
+set himself to do something different; and the first and most striking
+thing that he evolved was his conception and practice of the comedy of
+humours.
+
+As Jonson has been much misrepresented in this matter, let us quote his
+own words as to "humour." A humour, according to Jonson, was a bias of
+disposition, a warp, so to speak, in character by which
+
+    "Some one peculiar quality
+    Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw
+    All his affects, his spirits, and his powers,
+    In their confluctions, all to run one way."
+
+But continuing, Jonson is careful to add:
+
+    "But that a rook by wearing a pied feather,
+    The cable hat-band, or the three-piled ruff,
+    A yard of shoe-tie, or the Switzers knot
+    On his French garters, should affect a humour!
+    O, it is more than most ridiculous."
+
+
+Jonson's comedy of humours, in a word, conceived of stage personages
+on the basis of a ruling trait or passion (a notable simplification
+of actual life be it observed in passing); and, placing these typified
+traits in juxtaposition in their conflict and contrast, struck the
+spark of comedy. Downright, as his name indicates, is "a plain squire";
+Bobadill's humour is that of the braggart who is incidentally, and with
+delightfully comic effect, a coward; Brainworm's humour is the finding
+out of things to the end of fooling everybody: of course he is fooled
+in the end himself. But it was not Jonson's theories alone that made the
+success of "Every Man in His Humour." The play is admirably written
+and each character is vividly conceived, and with a firm touch based on
+observation of the men of the London of the day. Jonson was neither in
+this, his first great comedy (nor in any other play that he wrote),
+a supine classicist, urging that English drama return to a slavish
+adherence to classical conditions. He says as to the laws of the old
+comedy (meaning by "laws," such matters as the unities of time and place
+and the use of chorus): "I see not then, but we should enjoy the same
+licence, or free power to illustrate and heighten our invention as they
+[the ancients] did; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms
+which the niceness of a few, who are nothing but form, would thrust upon
+us." "Every Man in His Humour" is written in prose, a novel practice
+which Jonson had of his predecessor in comedy, John Lyly. Even the word
+"humour" seems to have been employed in the Jonsonian sense by Chapman
+before Jonson's use of it. Indeed, the comedy of humours itself is only
+a heightened variety of the comedy of manners which represents life,
+viewed at a satirical angle, and is the oldest and most persistent
+species of comedy in the language. None the less, Jonson's comedy
+merited its immediate success and marked out a definite course in which
+comedy long continued to run. To mention only Shakespeare's Falstaff
+and his rout, Bardolph, Pistol, Dame Quickly, and the rest, whether in
+"Henry IV." or in "The Merry Wives of Windsor," all are conceived in
+the spirit of humours. So are the captains, Welsh, Scotch, and Irish
+of "Henry V.," and Malvolio especially later; though Shakespeare never
+employed the method of humours for an important personage. It was not
+Jonson's fault that many of his successors did precisely the thing
+that he had reprobated, that is, degrade the humour: into an oddity of
+speech, an eccentricity of manner, of dress, or cut of beard. There was
+an anonymous play called "Every Woman in Her Humour." Chapman wrote "A
+Humourous Day's Mirth," Day, "Humour Out of Breath," Fletcher later,
+"The Humourous Lieutenant," and Jonson, besides "Every Man Out of His
+Humour," returned to the title in closing the cycle of his comedies in
+"The Magnetic Lady or Humours Reconciled."
+
+With the performance of "Every Man Out of His Humour" in 1599, by
+Shakespeare's company once more at the Globe, we turn a new page in
+Jonson's career. Despite his many real virtues, if there is one feature
+more than any other that distinguishes Jonson, it is his arrogance; and
+to this may be added his self-righteousness, especially under criticism
+or satire. "Every Man Out of His Humour" is the first of three
+"comical satires" which Jonson contributed to what Dekker called the
+'poetomachia' or war of the theatres as recent critics have named
+it. This play as a fabric of plot is a very slight affair; but as a
+satirical picture of the manners of the time, proceeding by means of
+vivid caricature, couched in witty and brilliant dialogue and sustained
+by that righteous indignation which must lie at the heart of all
+true satire--as a realisation, in short, of the classical ideal of
+comedy--there had been nothing like Jonson's comedy since the days of
+Aristophanes. "Every Man in His Humour," like the two plays that follow
+it, contains two kinds of attack, the critical or generally satiric,
+levelled at abuses and corruptions in the abstract; and the personal,
+in which specific application is made of all this in the lampooning of
+poets and others, Jonson's contemporaries. The method of personal attack
+by actual caricature of a person on the stage is almost as old as the
+drama. Aristophanes so lampooned Euripides in "The Acharnians" and
+Socrates in "The Clouds," to mention no other examples; and in English
+drama this kind of thing is alluded to again and again. What Jonson
+really did, was to raise the dramatic lampoon to an art, and make out
+of a casual burlesque and bit of mimicry a dramatic satire of literary
+pretensions and permanency. With the arrogant attitude mentioned above
+and his uncommon eloquence in scorn, vituperation, and invective, it
+is no wonder that Jonson soon involved himself in literary and even
+personal quarrels with his fellow-authors. The circumstances of the
+origin of this 'poetomachia' are far from clear, and those who have
+written on the topic, except of late, have not helped to make them
+clearer. The origin of the "war" has been referred to satirical
+references, apparently to Jonson, contained in "The Scourge of
+Villainy," a satire in regular form after the manner of the ancients by
+John Marston, a fellow playwright, subsequent friend and collaborator
+of Jonson's. On the other hand, epigrams of Jonson have been discovered
+(49, 68, and 100) variously charging "playwright" (reasonably identified
+with Marston) with scurrility, cowardice, and plagiarism; though the
+dates of the epigrams cannot be ascertained with certainty. Jonson's
+own statement of the matter to Drummond runs: "He had many quarrels with
+Marston, beat him, and took his pistol from him, wrote his 'Poetaster'
+on him; the beginning[s] of them were that Marston represented him on
+the stage."*
+
+      *The best account of this whole subject is to be
+      found in the edition of 'Poetaster' and 'Satiromastrix' by
+      J. H. Penniman in 'Belles Lettres Series' shortly to appear.
+      See also his earlier work, 'The War of the Theatres', 1892,
+      and the excellent contributions to the subject by H. C. Hart
+      in 'Notes and Queries', and in his edition of Jonson, 1906.
+
+Here at least we are on certain ground; and the principals of the
+quarrel are known. "Histriomastix," a play revised by Marston in 1598,
+has been regarded as the one in which Jonson was thus "represented on
+the stage"; although the personage in question, Chrisogonus, a poet,
+satirist, and translator, poor but proud, and contemptuous of the common
+herd, seems rather a complimentary portrait of Jonson than a caricature.
+As to the personages actually ridiculed in "Every Man Out of His
+Humour," Carlo Buffone was formerly thought certainly to be Marston,
+as he was described as "a public scurrilous, and profane jester," and
+elsewhere as "the grand scourge or second untruss [that is, satirist],
+of the time" (Joseph Hall being by his own boast the first, and
+Marston's work being entitled "The Scourge of Villainy"). Apparently we
+must now prefer for Carlo a notorious character named Charles Chester,
+of whom gossipy and inaccurate Aubrey relates that he was "a bold
+impertinent fellow...a perpetual talker and made a noise like a drum in
+a room. So one time at a tavern Sir Walter Raleigh beats him and seals
+up his mouth (that is his upper and nether beard) with hard wax. From
+him Ben Jonson takes his Carlo Buffone ['i.e.', jester] in 'Every Man
+in His Humour' ['sic']." Is it conceivable that after all Jonson was
+ridiculing Marston, and that the point of the satire consisted in an
+intentional confusion of "the grand scourge or second untruss" with "the
+scurrilous and profane" Chester?
+
+We have digressed into detail in this particular case to exemplify the
+difficulties of criticism in its attempts to identify the allusions in
+these forgotten quarrels. We are on sounder ground of fact in recording
+other manifestations of Jonson's enmity. In "The Case is Altered" there
+is clear ridicule in the character Antonio Balladino of Anthony Munday,
+pageant-poet of the city, translator of romances and playwright as well.
+In "Every Man in His Humour" there is certainly a caricature of Samuel
+Daniel, accepted poet of the court, sonneteer, and companion of men of
+fashion. These men held recognised positions to which Jonson felt his
+talents better entitled him; they were hence to him his natural enemies.
+It seems almost certain that he pursued both in the personages of his
+satire through "Every Man Out of His Humour," and "Cynthia's Revels,"
+Daniel under the characters Fastidious Brisk and Hedon, Munday as
+Puntarvolo and Amorphus; but in these last we venture on quagmire once
+more. Jonson's literary rivalry of Daniel is traceable again and again,
+in the entertainments that welcomed King James on his way to London, in
+the masques at court, and in the pastoral drama. As to Jonson's personal
+ambitions with respect to these two men, it is notable that he became,
+not pageant-poet, but chronologer to the City of London; and that, on
+the accession of the new king, he came soon to triumph over Daniel as
+the accepted entertainer of royalty.
+
+"Cynthia's Revels," the second "comical satire," was acted in 1600, and,
+as a play, is even more lengthy, elaborate, and impossible than "Every
+Man Out of His Humour." Here personal satire seems to have absorbed
+everything, and while much of the caricature is admirable, especially in
+the detail of witty and trenchantly satirical dialogue, the central idea
+of a fountain of self-love is not very well carried out, and the persons
+revert at times to abstractions, the action to allegory. It adds to our
+wonder that this difficult drama should have been acted by the Children
+of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel, among them Nathaniel Field with whom Jonson
+read Horace and Martial, and whom he taught later how to make plays.
+Another of these precocious little actors was Salathiel Pavy, who died
+before he was thirteen, already famed for taking the parts of old men.
+Him Jonson immortalised in one of the sweetest of his epitaphs. An
+interesting sidelight is this on the character of this redoubtable
+and rugged satirist, that he should thus have befriended and tenderly
+remembered these little theatrical waifs, some of whom (as we know) had
+been literally kidnapped to be pressed into the service of the theatre
+and whipped to the conning of their difficult parts. To the caricature
+of Daniel and Munday in "Cynthia's Revels" must be added Anaides
+(impudence), here assuredly Marston, and Asotus (the prodigal),
+interpreted as Lodge or, more perilously, Raleigh. Crites, like
+Asper-Macilente in "Every Man Out of His Humour," is Jonson's
+self-complaisant portrait of himself, the just, wholly admirable, and
+judicious scholar, holding his head high above the pack of the yelping
+curs of envy and detraction, but careless of their puny attacks on his
+perfections with only too mindful a neglect.
+
+The third and last of the "comical satires" is "Poetaster," acted, once
+more, by the Children of the Chapel in 1601, and Jonson's only avowed
+contribution to the fray. According to the author's own account, this
+play was written in fifteen weeks on a report that his enemies had
+entrusted to Dekker the preparation of "Satiromastix, the Untrussing of
+the Humorous Poet," a dramatic attack upon himself. In this attempt to
+forestall his enemies Jonson succeeded, and "Poetaster" was an immediate
+and deserved success. While hardly more closely knit in structure than
+its earlier companion pieces, "Poetaster" is planned to lead up to
+the ludicrous final scene in which, after a device borrowed from the
+"Lexiphanes" of Lucian, the offending poetaster, Marston-Crispinus, is
+made to throw up the difficult words with which he had overburdened his
+stomach as well as overlarded his vocabulary. In the end Crispinus with
+his fellow, Dekker-Demetrius, is bound over to keep the peace and never
+thenceforward "malign, traduce, or detract the person or writings of
+Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Jonson] or any other eminent man transcending
+you in merit." One of the most diverting personages in Jonson's comedy
+is Captain Tucca. "His peculiarity" has been well described by Ward as
+"a buoyant blackguardism which recovers itself instantaneously from the
+most complete exposure, and a picturesqueness of speech like that of a
+walking dictionary of slang."
+
+It was this character, Captain Tucca, that Dekker hit upon in his reply,
+"Satiromastix," and he amplified him, turning his abusive vocabulary
+back upon Jonson and adding "An immodesty to his dialogue that did not
+enter into Jonson's conception." It has been held, altogether plausibly,
+that when Dekker was engaged professionally, so to speak, to write
+a dramatic reply to Jonson, he was at work on a species of chronicle
+history, dealing with the story of Walter Terill in the reign of William
+Rufus. This he hurriedly adapted to include the satirical characters
+suggested by "Poetaster," and fashioned to convey the satire of his
+reply. The absurdity of placing Horace in the court of a Norman king is
+the result. But Dekker's play is not without its palpable hits at the
+arrogance, the literary pride, and self-righteousness of Jonson-Horace,
+whose "ningle" or pal, the absurd Asinius Bubo, has recently been shown
+to figure forth, in all likelihood, Jonson's friend, the poet Drayton.
+Slight and hastily adapted as is "Satiromastix," especially in a
+comparison with the better wrought and more significant satire of
+"Poetaster," the town awarded the palm to Dekker, not to Jonson; and
+Jonson gave over in consequence his practice of "comical satire." Though
+Jonson was cited to appear before the Lord Chief Justice to answer
+certain charges to the effect that he had attacked lawyers and soldiers
+in "Poetaster," nothing came of this complaint. It may be suspected that
+much of this furious clatter and give-and-take was pure playing to the
+gallery. The town was agog with the strife, and on no less an authority
+than Shakespeare ("Hamlet," ii. 2), we learn that the children's company
+(acting the plays of Jonson) did "so berattle the common stages...that
+many, wearing rapiers, are afraid of goose-quills, and dare scarce come
+thither."
+
+Several other plays have been thought to bear a greater or less part
+in the war of the theatres. Among them the most important is a college
+play, entitled "The Return from Parnassus," dating 1601-02. In it a
+much-quoted passage makes Burbage, as a character, declare: "Why here's
+our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down; aye and Ben Jonson, too. O
+that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow; he brought up Horace, giving the
+poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that
+made him bewray his credit." Was Shakespeare then concerned in this
+war of the stages? And what could have been the nature of this "purge"?
+Among several suggestions, "Troilus and Cressida" has been thought by
+some to be the play in which Shakespeare thus "put down" his friend,
+Jonson. A wiser interpretation finds the "purge" in "Satiromastix,"
+which, though not written by Shakespeare, was staged by his company,
+and therefore with his approval and under his direction as one of the
+leaders of that company.
+
+The last years of the reign of Elizabeth thus saw Jonson recognised as
+a dramatist second only to Shakespeare, and not second even to him as
+a dramatic satirist. But Jonson now turned his talents to new fields.
+Plays on subjects derived from classical story and myth had held the
+stage from the beginning of the drama, so that Shakespeare was making
+no new departure when he wrote his "Julius Caesar" about 1600.
+Therefore when Jonson staged "Sejanus," three years later and with
+Shakespeare'scompany once more, he was only following in the elder
+dramatist's footsteps. But Jonson's idea of a play on classical history,
+on the one hand, and Shakespeare's and the elder popular dramatists, on
+the other, were very different. Heywood some years before had put five
+straggling plays on the stage in quick succession, all derived from
+stories in Ovid and dramatised with little taste or discrimination.
+Shakespeare had a finer conception of form, but even he was contented
+to take all his ancient history from North's translation of Plutarch and
+dramatise his subject without further inquiry. Jonson was a scholar and
+a classical antiquarian. He reprobated this slipshod amateurishness,
+and wrote his "Sejanus" like a scholar, reading Tacitus, Suetonius,
+and other authorities, to be certain of his facts, his setting, and
+his atmosphere, and somewhat pedantically noting his authorities in the
+margin when he came to print. "Sejanus" is a tragedy of genuine dramatic
+power in which is told with discriminating taste the story of the
+haughty favourite of Tiberius with his tragical overthrow. Our drama
+presents no truer nor more painstaking representation of ancient
+Roman life than may be found in Jonson's "Sejanus" and "Catiline his
+Conspiracy," which followed in 1611. A passage in the address of the
+former play to the reader, in which Jonson refers to a collaboration
+in an earlier version, has led to the surmise that Shakespeare may have
+been that "worthier pen." There is no evidence to determine the matter.
+
+In 1605, we find Jonson in active collaboration with Chapman and Marston
+in the admirable comedy of London life entitled "Eastward Hoe." In
+the previous year, Marston had dedicated his "Malcontent," in terms
+of fervid admiration, to Jonson; so that the wounds of the war of the
+theatres must have been long since healed. Between Jonson and Chapman
+there was the kinship of similar scholarly ideals. The two continued
+friends throughout life. "Eastward Hoe" achieved the extraordinary
+popularity represented in a demand for three issues in one year. But
+this was not due entirely to the merits of the play. In its earliest
+version a passage which an irritable courtier conceived to be derogatory
+to his nation, the Scots, sent both Chapman and Jonson to jail; but the
+matter was soon patched up, for by this time Jonson had influence at
+court.
+
+With the accession of King James, Jonson began his long and successful
+career as a writer of masques. He wrote more masques than all his
+competitors together, and they are of an extraordinary variety
+and poetic excellence. Jonson did not invent the masque; for such
+premeditated devices to set and frame, so to speak, a court ball had
+been known and practised in varying degrees of elaboration long before
+his time. But Jonson gave dramatic value to the masque, especially in
+his invention of the antimasque, a comedy or farcical element of relief,
+entrusted to professional players or dancers. He enhanced, as well, the
+beauty and dignity of those portions of the masque in which noble lords
+and ladies took their parts to create, by their gorgeous costumes and
+artistic grouping and evolutions, a sumptuous show. On the mechanical
+and scenic side Jonson had an inventive and ingenious partner in
+Inigo Jones, the royal architect, who more than any one man raised
+the standard of stage representation in the England of his day. Jonson
+continued active in the service of the court in the writing of masques
+and other entertainments far into the reign of King Charles; but,
+towards the end, a quarrel with Jones embittered his life, and the two
+testy old men appear to have become not only a constant irritation to
+each other, but intolerable bores at court. In "Hymenaei," "The Masque
+of Queens," "Love Freed from Ignorance," "Lovers made Men," "Pleasure
+Reconciled to Virtue," and many more will be found Jonson's aptitude,
+his taste, his poetry and inventiveness in these by-forms of the drama;
+while in "The Masque of Christmas," and "The Gipsies Metamorphosed"
+especially, is discoverable that power of broad comedy which, at court as
+well as in the city, was not the least element of Jonson's contemporary
+popularity.
+
+But Jonson had by no means given up the popular stage when he turned to
+the amusement of King James. In 1605 "Volpone" was produced, "The Silent
+Woman" in 1609, "The Alchemist" in the following year. These comedies,
+with "Bartholomew Fair," 1614, represent Jonson at his height, and for
+constructive cleverness, character successfully conceived in the manner
+of caricature, wit and brilliancy of dialogue, they stand alone in
+English drama. "Volpone, or the Fox," is, in a sense, a transition play
+from the dramatic satires of the war of the theatres to the purer comedy
+represented in the plays named above. Its subject is a struggle of
+wit applied to chicanery; for among its 'dramatis personae', from
+the villainous Fox himself, his rascally servant Mosca, Voltore (the
+vulture), Corbaccio and Corvino (the big and the little raven), to Sir
+Politic Would-be and the rest, there is scarcely a virtuous character in
+the play. Question has been raised as to whether a story so forbidding
+can be considered a comedy, for, although the plot ends in the
+discomfiture and imprisonment of the most vicious, it involves no moral
+catastrophe. But Jonson was on sound historical ground, for "Volpone"
+is conceived far more logically on the lines of the ancients' theory
+of comedy than was ever the romantic drama of Shakespeare, however
+repulsive we may find a philosophy of life that facilely divides the
+world into the rogues and their dupes, and, identifying brains
+with roguery and innocence with folly, admires the former while
+inconsistently punishing them.
+
+"The Silent Woman" is a gigantic farce of the most ingenious
+construction. The whole comedy hinges on a huge joke, played by a
+heartless nephew on his misanthropic uncle, who is induced to take to
+himself a wife, young, fair, and warranted silent, but who, in the end,
+turns out neither silent nor a woman at all. In "The Alchemist," again,
+we have the utmost cleverness in construction, the whole fabric building
+climax on climax, witty, ingenious, and so plausibly presented that we
+forget its departures from the possibilities of life. In "The Alchemist"
+Jonson represented, none the less to the life, certain sharpers of
+the metropolis, revelling in their shrewdness and rascality and in the
+variety of the stupidity and wickedness of their victims. We may object
+to the fact that the only person in the play possessed of a scruple
+of honesty is discomfited, and that the greatest scoundrel of all is
+approved in the end and rewarded. The comedy is so admirably written and
+contrived, the personages stand out with such lifelike distinctness
+in their several kinds, and the whole is animated with such verve and
+resourcefulness that "The Alchemist" is a new marvel every time it is
+read. Lastly of this group comes the tremendous comedy, "Bartholomew
+Fair," less clear cut, less definite, and less structurally worthy
+of praise than its three predecessors, but full of the keenest and
+cleverest of satire and inventive to a degree beyond any English comedy
+save some other of Jonson's own. It is in "Bartholomew Fair" that we are
+presented to the immortal caricature of the Puritan, Zeal-in-the-Land
+Busy, and the Littlewits that group about him, and it is in this
+extraordinary comedy that the humour of Jonson, always open to this
+danger, loosens into the Rabelaisian mode that so delighted King James
+in "The Gipsies Metamorphosed." Another comedy of less merit is "The
+Devil is an Ass," acted in 1616. It was the failure of this play that
+caused Jonson to give over writing for the public stage for a period of
+nearly ten years.
+
+"Volpone" was laid as to scene in Venice. Whether because of the success
+of "Eastward Hoe" or for other reasons, the other three comedies declare
+in the words of the prologue to "The Alchemist":
+
+"Our scene is London, 'cause we would make known No country's mirth is
+better than our own."
+
+
+Indeed Jonson went further when he came to revise his plays for
+collected publication in his folio of 1616, he transferred the scene
+of "Every Man in His Humou r" from Florence to London also, converting
+Signior Lorenzo di Pazzi to Old Kno'well, Prospero to Master Welborn,
+and Hesperida to Dame Kitely "dwelling i' the Old Jewry."
+
+In his comedies of London life, despite his trend towards caricature,
+Jonson has shown himself a genuine realist, drawing from the life about
+him with an experience and insight rare in any generation. A happy
+comparison has been suggested between Ben Jonson and Charles Dickens.
+Both were men of the people, lowly born and hardly bred. Each knew
+the London of his time as few men knew it; and each represented it
+intimately and in elaborate detail. Both men were at heart moralists,
+seeking the truth by the exaggerated methods of humour and caricature;
+perverse, even wrong-headed at times, but possessed of a true pathos and
+largeness of heart, and when all has been said--though the Elizabethan
+ran to satire, the Victorian to sentimentality--leaving the world better
+for the art that they practised in it.
+
+In 1616, the year of the death of Shakespeare, Jonson collected his
+plays, his poetry, and his masques for publication in a collective
+edition. This was an unusual thing at the time and had been attempted
+by no dramatist before Jonson. This volume published, in a carefully
+revised text, all the plays thus far mentioned, excepting "The Case is
+Altered," which Jonson did not acknowledge, "Bartholomew Fair," and "The
+Devil is an Ass," which was written too late. It included likewise a
+book of some hundred and thirty odd 'Epigrams', in which form of brief
+and pungent writing Jonson was an acknowledged master; "The Forest," a
+smaller collection of lyric and occasional verse and some ten 'Masques'
+and 'Entertainments'. In this same year Jonson was made poet laureate
+with a pension of one hundred marks a year. This, with his fees and
+returns from several noblemen, and the small earnings of his plays
+must have formed the bulk of his income. The poet appears to have done
+certain literary hack-work for others, as, for example, parts of the
+Punic Wars contributed to Raleigh's 'History of the World'. We know
+from a story, little to the credit of either, that Jonson accompanied
+Raleigh's son abroad in the capacity of a tutor. In 1618 Jonson was
+granted the reversion of the office of Master of the Revels, a post
+for which he was peculiarly fitted; but he did not live to enjoy its
+perquisites. Jonson was honoured with degrees by both universities,
+though when and under what circumstances is not known. It has been said
+that he narrowly escaped the honour of knighthood, which the satirists
+of the day averred King James was wont to lavish with an indiscriminate
+hand. Worse men were made knights in his day than worthy Ben Jonson.
+
+From 1616 to the close of the reign of King James, Jonson produced
+nothing for the stage. But he "prosecuted" what he calls "his wonted
+studies" with such assiduity that he became in reality, as by report,
+one of the most learned men of his time. Jonson's theory of authorship
+involved a wide acquaintance with books and "an ability," as he put it,
+"to convert the substance or riches of another poet to his own use."
+Accordingly Jonson read not only the Greek and Latin classics down to
+the lesser writers, but he acquainted himself especially with the Latin
+writings of his learned contemporaries, their prose as well as their
+poetry, their antiquities and curious lore as well as their more solid
+learning. Though a poor man, Jonson was an indefatigable collector of
+books. He told Drummond that "the Earl of Pembroke sent him 20 pounds
+every first day of the new year to buy new books." Unhappily, in 1623,
+his library was destroyed by fire, an accident serio-comically described
+in his witty poem, "An Execration upon Vulcan." Yet even now a book
+turns up from time to time in which is inscribed, in fair large Italian
+lettering, the name, Ben Jonson. With respect to Jonson's use of his
+material, Dryden said memorably of him: "[He] was not only a professed
+imitator of Horace, but a learned plagiary of all the others; you track
+him everywhere in their snow. ... But he has done his robberies so
+openly that one sees he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades
+authors like a monarch, and what would be theft in other poets is
+only victory in him." And yet it is but fair to say that Jonson prided
+himself, and justly, on his originality. In "Catiline," he not only uses
+Sallust's account of the conspiracy, but he models some of the speeches
+of Cicero on the Roman orator's actual words. In "Poetaster," he lifts
+a whole satire out of Horace and dramatises it effectively for his
+purposes. The sophist Libanius suggests the situation of "The Silent
+Woman"; a Latin comedy of Giordano Bruno, "Il Candelaio," the relation
+of the dupes and the sharpers in "The Alchemist," the "Mostellaria" of
+Plautus, its admirable opening scene. But Jonson commonly bettered his
+sources, and putting the stamp of his sovereignty on whatever bullion he
+borrowed made it thenceforward to all time current and his own.
+
+The lyric and especially the occasional poetry of Jonson has a peculiar
+merit. His theory demanded design and the perfection of literary finish.
+He was furthest from the rhapsodist and the careless singer of an
+idle day; and he believed that Apollo could only be worthily served in
+singing robes and laurel crowned. And yet many of Jonson's lyrics will
+live as long as the language. Who does not know "Queen and huntress,
+chaste and fair." "Drink to me only with thine eyes," or "Still to be
+neat, still to be dressed"? Beautiful in form, deft and graceful in
+expression, with not a word too much or one that bears not its part
+in the total effect, there is yet about the lyrics of Jonson a
+certain stiffness and formality, a suspicion that they were not quite
+spontaneous and unbidden, but that they were carved, so to speak,
+with disproportionate labour by a potent man of letters whose habitual
+thought is on greater things. It is for these reasons that Jonson is
+even better in the epigram and in occasional verse where rhetorical
+finish and pointed wit less interfere with the spontaneity and emotion
+which we usually associate with lyrical poetry. There are no such
+epitaphs as Ben Jonson's, witness the charming ones on his own children,
+on Salathiel Pavy, the child-actor, and many more; and this even though
+the rigid law of mine and thine must now restore to William Browne of
+Tavistock the famous lines beginning: "Underneath this sable hearse."
+Jonson is unsurpassed, too, in the difficult poetry of compliment,
+seldom falling into fulsome praise and disproportionate similtude, yet
+showing again and again a generous appreciation of worth in others, a
+discriminating taste and a generous personal regard. There was no man in
+England of his rank so well known and universally beloved as Ben Jonson.
+The list of his friends, of those to whom he had written verses, and
+those who had written verses to him, includes the name of every man of
+prominence in the England of King James. And the tone of many of these
+productions discloses an affectionate familiarity that speaks for the
+amiable personality and sound worth of the laureate. In 1619, growing
+unwieldy through inactivity, Jonson hit upon the heroic remedy of a
+journey afoot to Scotland. On his way thither and back he was hospitably
+received at the houses of many friends and by those to whom his friends
+had recommended him. When he arrived in Edinburgh, the burgesses met to
+grant him the freedom of the city, and Drummond, foremost of Scottish
+poets, was proud to entertain him for weeks as his guest at Hawthornden.
+Some of the noblest of Jonson's poems were inspired by friendship.
+Such is the fine "Ode to the memory of Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry
+Moryson," and that admirable piece of critical insight and filial
+affection, prefixed to the first Shakespeare folio, "To the memory of
+my beloved master, William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us." to
+mention only these. Nor can the earlier "Epode," beginning "Not to know
+vice at all," be matchedin stately gravity and gnomic wisdom in its own
+wise and stately age.
+
+But if Jonson had deserted the stage after the publication of his folio
+and up to the end of the reign of King James, he was far from inactive;
+for year after year his inexhaustible inventiveness continued to
+contribute to the masquing and entertainment at court. In "The Golden
+Age Restored," Pallas turns from the Iron Age with its attendant
+evils into statues which sink out of sight; in "Pleasure Reconciled to
+Virtue," Atlas figures represented as an old man, his shoulders covered
+with snow, and Comus, "the god of cheer or the belly," is one of the
+characters, a circumstance which an imaginative boy of ten, named John
+Milton, was not to forget. "Pan's Anniversary," late in the reign
+of James, proclaimed that Jonson had not yet forgotten how to write
+exquisite lyrics, and "The Gipsies Metamorphosed" displayed the old
+drollery and broad humorous stroke still unimpaired and unmatchable.
+These, too, and the earlier years of Charles were the days of the Apollo
+Room of the Devil Tavern where Jonson presided, the absolute monarch of
+English literary Bohemia. We hear of a room blazoned about with Jonson's
+own judicious 'Leges Convivales' in letters of gold, of a company made
+up of the choicest spirits of the time, devotedly attached to their
+veteran dictator, his reminiscences, opinions, affections, and enmities.
+And we hear, too, of valorous potations; but in the words of Herrick
+addressed to his master, Jonson, at the Devil Tavern, as at the Dog, the
+Triple Tun, and at the Mermaid,
+
+    "We such clusters had
+     As made us nobly wild, not mad,
+     And yet each verse of thine
+     Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine."
+
+
+But the patronage of the court failed in the days of King Charles,
+though Jonson was not without royal favours; and the old poet returned
+to the stage, producing, between 1625 and 1633, "The Staple of News,"
+"The New Inn," "The Magnetic Lady," and "The Tale of a Tub," the last
+doubtless revised from a much earlier comedy. None of these plays met
+with any marked success, although the scathing generalisation of Dryden
+that designated them "Jonson's dotages" is unfair to their genuine
+merits. Thus the idea of an office for the gathering, proper dressing,
+and promulgation of news (wild flight of the fancy in its time) was
+an excellent subject for satire on the existing absurdities among the
+newsmongers; although as much can hardly be said for "The Magnetic
+Lady," who, in her bounty, draws to her personages of differing humours
+to reconcile them in the end according to the alternative title, or
+"Humours Reconciled." These last plays of the old dramatist revert to
+caricature and the hard lines of allegory; the moralist is more than
+ever present, the satire degenerates into personal lampoon, especially
+of his sometime friend, Inigo Jones, who appears unworthily to have used
+his influence at court against the broken-down old poet. And now disease
+claimed Jonson, and he was bedridden for months. He had succeeded
+Middleton in 1628 as Chronologer to the City of London, but lost the
+post for not fulfilling its duties. King Charles befriended him, and
+even commissioned him to write still for the entertainment of the court;
+and he was not without the sustaining hand of noble patrons and devoted
+friends among the younger poets who were proud to be "sealed of the
+tribe of Ben."
+
+Jonson died, August 6, 1637, and a second folio of his works, which
+he had been some time gathering, was printed in 1640, bearing in its
+various parts dates ranging from 1630 to 1642. It included all the plays
+mentioned in the foregoing paragraphs, excepting "The Case is Altered;"
+the masques, some fifteen, that date between 1617 and 1630; another
+collection of lyrics and occasional poetry called "Underwoods, including
+some further entertainments"; a translation of "Horace's Art of Poetry"
+(also published in a vicesimo quarto in 1640), and certain fragments and
+ingatherings which the poet would hardly have included himself. These
+last comprise the fragment (less than seventy lines) of a tragedy called
+"Mortimer his Fall," and three acts of a pastoral drama of much beauty
+and poetic spirit, "The Sad Shepherd." There is also the exceedingly
+interesting 'English Grammar' "made by Ben Jonson for the benefit of all
+strangers out of his observation of the English language now spoken and
+in use," in Latin and English; and 'Timber, or discoveries' "made upon
+men and matter as they have flowed out of his daily reading, or had
+their reflux to his peculiar notion of the times." The 'Discoveries',
+as it is usually called, is a commonplace book such as many literary
+men have kept, in which their reading was chronicled, passages that took
+their fancy translated or transcribed, and their passing opinions noted.
+Many passage of Jonson's 'Discoveries' are literal translations from the
+authors he chanced to be reading, with the reference, noted or not, as
+the accident of the moment prescribed. At times he follows the line
+of Macchiavelli's argument as to the nature and conduct of princes; at
+others he clarifies his own conception of poetry and poets by recourse
+to Aristotle. He finds a choice paragraph on eloquence in Seneca the
+elder and applies it to his own recollection of Bacon's power as an
+orator; and another on facile and ready genius, and translates it,
+adapting it to his recollection of his fellow-playwright,
+Shakespeare. To call such passages--which Jonson never intended for
+publication--plagiarism, is to obscure the significance of words.
+To disparage his memory by citing them is a preposterous use of
+scholarship. Jonson's prose, both in his dramas, in the descriptive
+comments of his masques, and in the 'Discoveries', is characterised by
+clarity and vigorous directness, nor is it wanting in a fine sense of
+form or in the subtler graces of diction.
+
+When Jonson died there was a project for a handsome monument to his
+memory. But the Civil War was at hand, and the project failed. A
+memorial, not insufficient, was carved on the stone covering his grave
+in one of the aisles of Westminster Abbey:
+
+"O rare Ben Jonson."
+
+FELIX E. SCHELLING.
+
+THE COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.
+
+
+
+The following is a complete list of his published works:--
+
+DRAMAS. --
+
+    Every Man in his Humour, 4to, 1601;
+    The Case is Altered, 4to, 1609;
+    Every Man out of his Humour, 4to, 1600;
+    Cynthia's Revels, 4to, 1601;
+    Poetaster, 4to, 1602;
+    Sejanus, 4to, 1605;
+    Eastward Ho (with Chapman and Marston), 4to, 1605;
+    Volpone, 4to, 1607;
+    Epicoene, or the Silent Woman, 4to, 1609 (?), fol., 1616;
+    The Alchemist, 4to, 1612;
+    Catiline, his Conspiracy, 4to, 1611;
+    Bartholomew Fayre, 4to, 1614 (?), fol., 1631;
+    The Divell is an Asse, fol., 1631;
+    The Staple of Newes, fol., 1631;
+    The New Sun, 8vo, 1631, fol., 1692;
+    The Magnetic Lady, or Humours Reconcild, fol., 1640;
+    A Tale of a Tub, fol., 1640;
+    The Sad Shepherd, or a Tale of Robin Hood, fol., 1641;
+    Mortimer his Fall (fragment), fol., 1640.
+
+
+To Jonson have also been attributed additions to Kyd's Jeronymo, and
+collaboration in The Widow with Fletcher and Middleton, and in the
+Bloody Brother with Fletcher.
+
+POEMS. --
+
+    Epigrams, The Forrest, Underwoods, published in fols., 1616,
+       1640;
+    Selections:  Execration against Vulcan, and Epigrams, 1640;
+    G. Hor. Flaccus his art of Poetry, Englished by Ben Jonson,
+       1640;
+    Leges Convivialis, fol., 1692.
+    Other minor poems first appeared in Gifford's edition of Works.
+
+PROSE. --
+
+   Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter, fol., 1641;
+   The English Grammar, made by Ben Jonson for the benefit of
+      Strangers, fol., 1640.
+
+Masques and Entertainments were published in the early folios.
+
+WORKS. --
+
+    Fol., 1616, vol. 2, 1640 (1631-41);
+    fol., 1692, 1716-19, 1729;
+       edited by P. Whalley, 7 vols., 1756;
+       by Gifford (with Memoir), 9 vols., 1816, 1846;
+       re-edited by F. Cunningham, 3 vols., 1871;
+          in 9 vols., 1875;
+    by Barry Cornwall (with Memoir), 1838;
+    by B. Nicholson (Mermaid Series),
+       with Introduction by C. H. Herford, 1893, etc.;
+    Nine Plays, 1904; ed. H. C. Hart (Standard Library), 1906, etc;
+    Plays and Poems, with Introduction by H. Morley (Universal
+       Library), 1885;
+    Plays (7) and Poems (Newnes), 1905;
+    Poems, with Memoir by H. Bennett (Carlton Classics), 1907;
+    Masques and Entertainments, ed. by H. Morley, 1890.
+
+
+SELECTIONS. --
+
+    J. A. Symonds, with Biographical and Critical Essay,
+       (Canterbury Poets), 1886;
+    Grosart, Brave Translunary Things, 1895;
+    Arber, Jonson Anthology, 1901;
+    Underwoods, Cambridge University Press, 1905;
+    Lyrics (Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher), the Chap Books,
+       No. 4, 1906;
+    Songs (from Plays, Masques, etc.), with earliest known setting,
+       Eragny Press, 1906.
+
+
+LIFE. --
+
+   See Memoirs affixed to Works;
+   J. A. Symonds (English Worthies), 1886;
+   Notes of Ben Jonson Conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden;
+       Shakespeare Society, 1842;
+   ed. with Introduction and Notes by P. Sidney, 1906;
+   Swinburne, A Study of Ben Jonson, 1889.
+
+
+
+
+
+EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR
+
+
+TO THE MOST LEARNED, AND MY HONOURED FRIEND
+
+MASTER CAMDEN
+
+CLARENCIEUX
+
+
+SIR,--There are, no doubt, a supercilious race in the world, who will
+esteem all office, done you in this kind, an injury; so solemn a vice it
+is with them to use the authority of their ignorance, to the crying down
+of Poetry, or the professors: but my gratitude must not leave to correct
+their error; since I am none of those that can suffer the benefits
+conferred upon my youth to perish with my age. It is a frail memory
+that remember s but present things: and, had the favour of the times so
+conspired with my disposition, as it could have brought forth other, or
+better, you had had the same proportion, and number of the fruits,
+the first. Now I pray you to accept this; such wherein neither the
+confession of my manners shall make you blush; nor of my studies,
+repent you to have been the instructor: and for the profession of my
+thankfulness, I am sure it will, with good men, find either praise or
+excuse. Your true lover,
+
+                                            BEN JONSON.
+
+
+
+                           DRAMATIS PERSONAE
+ KNOWELL, an old Gentleman:          OLIVER COB, a Water-bearer.
+ EDWARD KNOWELL, his Son.            JUSTICE CLEMENT, an old merry
+ BRAINWORM, the Father's Man                 Magistrate.
+ GEORGE DOWNRIGHT, a plain Squire.   ROGER FORMAL, his Clerk.
+ WELLBRED, his Half-Brother.         Wellbred's Servant
+ KITELY, a merchant.                 DAME KITELY, KITELY'S Wife.
+ CAPTAIN BOBADILL, a Paul's Man.     MRS. BRIDGET his Sister.
+ MASTER STEPHEN, a Country Gull.     TIB Cob's Wife
+ MASTER MATHEW, the Town Gull.
+ THOMAS CASH, KITELY'S Cashier.      Servants, etc.
+
+
+                       SCENE,---LONDON
+                           PROLOGUE.
+
+   Though need make many poets, and some such
+   As art and nature have not better'd much;
+   Yet ours for want hath not so loved the stage,
+   As he dare serve the ill customs of the age,
+   Or purchase your delight at such a rate,
+   As, for it, he himself must justly hate:
+   To make a child now swaddled, to proceed
+   Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and weed,
+   Past threescore years; or, with three rusty swords,
+   And help of some few foot and half-foot words,
+   Fight over York and Lancaster's king jars,
+   And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars.
+   He rather prays you will be pleas'd to see
+   One such to-day, as other plays should be;
+   Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas,
+   Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please;
+   Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard
+   The gentlewomen; nor roll'd bullet heard
+   To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous drum
+   Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come;
+   But deeds, and language, such as men do use,
+   And persons, such as comedy would choose,
+   When she would shew an image of the times,
+   And sport with human follies, not with crimes.
+   Except we make them such, by loving still
+   Our popular errors, when we know they're ill.
+   I mean such errors as you'll all confess,
+   By laughing at them, they deserve no less:
+   Which when you heartily do, there's hope left then,
+   You, that have so grac'd monsters, may like men.
+
+
+
+
+
+ACT I
+
+                             SCENE I.---A Street.
+
+                   Enter KNOWELL, at the door of his house.
+
+
+  Know.
+     A goodly day toward, and a fresh morning.--Brainworm!
+                                                    Enter Brainworm.
+     Call up your young master: bid him rise, sir.
+     Tell him, I have some business to employ him.
+
+  Brai. I will, sir, presently.
+
+  Know.
+     But hear you, sirrah,
+     If he be at his book, disturb him not.
+
+  Brai. Very good, sir.
+
+  Know.
+     How happy yet should I esteem myself,
+     Could I, by any practice, wean the boy
+     From one vain course of study he affects.
+     He is a scholar, if a man may trust
+     The liberal voice of fame in her report,
+     Of good account in both our Universities,
+     Either of which hath favoured him with graces:
+     But their indulgence must not spring in me
+     A fond opinion that he cannot err.
+     Myself was once a student, and indeed,
+     Fed with the self-same humour he is now,
+     Dreaming on nought but idle poetry,
+     That fruitless and unprofitable art,
+     Good unto none, but least to the professors;
+     Which then I thought the mistress of all knowledge:
+     But since, time and the truth have waked my judgment.
+     And reason taught me better to distinguish T
+     he vain from the useful learnings.
+                                          Enter Master STEPHEN.
+  Cousin Stephen, What news with you, that you are here so early?
+
+  Step. Nothing, but e'en come to see how you do, unclo.
+
+  Know. That's kindly done; you are welcome, coz.
+
+  Step.
+     Ay, I know that, sir; I would not have come else.
+     How does my cousin Edward, uncle?
+
+  Know.
+     O, well, coz; go in and see; I doubt he be scarce stirring yet.
+
+  Step. Uncle, afore I go in, can you tell me, an he have e'er a book
+  of the science of hawking and hunting; I would fain borrow it.
+
+  Know. Why, I hope you will not a hawking now, will you?
+
+  Step. No, wusse; but I'll practise against next year, uncle. I have
+  bought me a hawk, and a hood, and bells and all; I lack nothing
+  but a book to keep it by.
+
+  Know. Oh, most ridiculous!
+
+  Step. Nay, look you now, you are angry, uncle:--Why, you know an a
+  man have not skill in the hawking and hunting languages now-a-days,
+  I'll not give a rush for him: they are more studied than the Greek,
+  or the Latin. He is for no gallant's company without them; and by
+  gadslid I scorn it, I, so I do, to be a consort for every humdrum:
+  hang them, scroyles! there's nothing in them i' the world. What do
+  you talk on it? Because I dwell at Hogsden, I shall keep company
+  with none but the archers of Finsbury, or the citizens that come a
+  ducking to Islington ponds! A fine jest, i' faith! 'Slid, a
+  gentleman mun shew himself like a gentleman. Uncle, I pray you be
+  not angry; I know what I have to do, I trow. I am no novice.
+
+
+  Know.
+     You are a prodigal, absurd coxcomb, go to!
+     Nay, never look at me, 'tis I that speak;
+     Take't as you will, sir, I'll not flatter you.
+     Have you not yet found means enow to waste
+     That which your friends have left you, but you must
+     Go cast away your money on a buzzard,
+     And know not how to keep it, when you have done?
+     O, it is comely! this will make you a gentleman!
+     Well, cousin, well, I see you are e'en past hope
+     Of all reclaim:---ay, so; now you are told on't,
+     You look another way.
+
+  Step. What would you ha' me do?
+
+  Know.
+     What would I have you do? I'll tell you, kinsman;
+     Learn to be wise, and practise how to thrive;
+     That would I have you do: and not to spend
+     Your coin on every bauble that you fancy,
+     Or every foolish brain that humours you.
+     I would not have you to invade each place,
+     Nor thrust yourself on all societies,
+     Till men's affections, or your own desert,
+     Should worthily invite you to your rank.
+     He that is so respectless in his courses,
+     Oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
+     Nor would I, you should melt away yourself
+     In flashing bravery, lest, while you affect
+     To make a blaze of gentry to the world,
+     A little puff of scorn extinguish it;
+     And you be left like an unsavoury snuff,
+     Whose property is only to offend.
+     I'd have you sober, and contain yourself,
+     Not that your sail be bigger than your boat;
+     But moderate your expenses now, at first,
+     As you may keep the same proportion still:
+     Nor stand so much on your gentility,
+     Which is an airy and mere borrow'd thing,
+     From dead men's dust and bones; and none of yours,
+     Except you make, or hold it.
+                                                Enter a Servant.
+     Who comes here?
+
+  Serv. Save you, gentlemen!
+
+  Step. Nay, we do not stand much on our gentility, friend; yet you
+  are welcome: and I assure you mine uncle here is a man of a
+  thousand a year, Middlesex land. He has but one son in all the
+  world, I am his next heir, at the common law, master Stephen, as
+  simple as I stand here, if my cousin die, as there's hope he will:
+  I have a pretty living O' mine own too, beside, hard by here.
+
+  Serv. In good time, sir.
+
+  Step. In good time, sir! why, and in very good time, sir! You  do
+  not flout, friend, do you?
+
+  Servo Not I, sir.
+
+  Step. Not you, sir! you were best not, sir; an you should; here be
+  them can perceive it, and that quickly too; go to: and they can
+  give it again soundly too, an need be.
+
+  Servo Why, sir, let this satisfy you; good faith, I had no such
+  intent.
+
+  Step. Sir, an I thought you had, I would talk with you, and that
+  presently.
+
+  Serv. Good master Stephen, so you may, sir, at your pleasure.
+
+  Step. And so I would, sir, good my saucy companion! an you were out
+  O' mine uncle's ground, I can tell you; though I do not stand upon
+  my gentility neither, in't.
+
+  Know. Cousin, cousin, will this ne'er be left?
+
+  Step. Whoreson, basefellow! a mechanical serving-man! By this
+  cudgel, an 'twere not for shame, I would--
+
+  Know.
+     What would you do, you peremptory gull?
+     If you cannot be quiet, get you hence.
+     You see the honest man demeans himself
+     Modestly tow'rds you, giving no reply
+     To your unseason'd, quarrelling, rude fashion;
+     And still you huff it, with a kind of carriage
+     As void of wit, as of humanity.
+     Go, get you in; 'fore heaven, I am ashamed
+     Thou hast a kinsman's interest in me.        [Exit Master Stephen.
+
+  Serv. I pray, sir, is this master Knowell's house?
+
+  Know. Yes, marry is it, sir.
+
+  Serv. I should inquire for a gentleman here, one master Edward
+  Knowell; do you know any such, sir, I pray you?
+
+  Know. I should forget myself else, sir.
+
+  Serv. Are you the gentleman? cry you mercy, sir: I was required by
+  a gentleman in the city, as I rode out at this end O' the town, to
+  deliver you this letter, sir.
+
+  Know. To me, sir! What do you mean? pray you remember your
+  court'sy.   [Reads.]   To his most selected friend, master Edward
+  Knowell. What might the gentleman's name be, sir, that sent it?
+  Nay, pray you be covered.
+
+  Serv. One master Wellbred, sir.
+
+  Know. Master Wellbred! a young gentleman, is he not?
+
+  Serv. The same, sir; master Kitely married his sister; the rich
+  merchant in the Old Jewry.
+
+  Know. You say very true.---Brainworm!               [Enter Brainworm.
+
+  Brai. Sir.
+
+  Know. Make this honest friend drink here: pray you, go in.
+                                         [Exeunt Brainworm and Servant.
+     This letter is directed to my son;
+     Yet I am Edward Knowell too, and may,
+     With the safe conscience of good manners, use
+     The fellow's error to my satisfaction.
+     Well, I will break it ope (old men are curious),
+     Be it but for the style's sake and the phrase;
+     To see if both do answer my son's praises,
+     Who is almost grown the idolater
+     Of this young Wellbred. What have we here?
+     What's this? [Reads]
+
+  Why, Ned, I beseech thee, hast thou forsworn all thy friends in the
+  Old Jewry? or dost thou think us all Jews that inhabit there? yet,
+  if thou dost, come over, and but see our frippery; change an old
+  shirt for a whole smock with us: do not conceive that antipathy
+  between  us and Hogsden, as was between Jews and hogs-flesh. Leave
+  thy vigilant father alone, to number over his green apricots,
+  evening and morning, on the north-west wall: an I had been his son,
+  I had saved him the labour long since, if taking in all the young
+  wenches that pass by at the back-door, and codling every kernel of
+  the fruit for them, would have served, But, pr'ythee, come over to
+  me quickly this morning; I have such a present for thee!--our
+  Turkey company never sent the like to the Grand Signior.
+  One is a rhymer, sir, of your own batch, your own leaven;
+  but doth think himself poet-major of the town, willing to be shewn,
+  and worthy to be seen. The other--I will not venture his
+  description with you, till you come, because I would have you make
+  hither with an appetite. If the worst of 'em be not worth your
+  journey draw your bill of charges, as unconscionable as any
+  Guildhall verdict will give it you, and you shall be allowed your
+  viaticum.                                   From the Windmill.
+
+     From the Bordello it might come as well,
+     The Spittle, or Pict-hatch. Is this the man
+     My son hath sung so, for the happiest wit,
+     The choicest brain, the times have sent us forth!
+     I know not what he may be in the arts,
+     Nor what in schools; but, surely, for his manners,
+     I judge him a profane and dissolute wretch;
+     Worse by possession of such great good gifts,
+     Being the master of so loose a spirit.
+     Why, what unhallowed ruffian would have writ
+     In such a scurrilous manner to a friend!
+     Why should he think I tell my apricots,
+     Or play the Hesperian dragon with my fruit,
+     To watch it? Well, my son, I had thought you
+     Had had more judgment to have made election
+     Of your companions, than t' have ta'en on trust
+     Such petulant, jeering gamesters, that can spare
+     No argument or subject from their jest.
+     But I perceive affection makes a fool
+     Of any man too much the father.---Brainworm!
+                                              Enter BRAINWORM.
+  Brai. Sir.
+
+  Know. Is the fellow gone that brought this letter?
+
+  Brai. Yea, sir, a pretty while since.
+
+  Know. And where is your young master?
+
+  Brai. In his chamber, sir.
+
+  Know. He spake not with the fellow, did he?
+
+  Brai. No, sir, he saw him not.
+
+  Know. Take you this letter, and deliver it my son;
+     but with no notice that I have opened it, on your life.
+
+  Brai. O Lord, sir! that were a jest indeed.             [Exit.
+
+  Know.
+     I am resolved I will not stop his journey,
+     Nor practise any violent means to stay
+     The unbridled course of youth in him; for that
+     Restrain'd, grows more impatient; and in kind
+     Like to the eager, but the generous greyhound,
+     Who ne'er so little from his game withheld,
+     Turns head, and leaps up at his holder's throat.
+     There is a way of winning more by love,
+     And urging of tho modesty, than fear:
+     Force works on servile natures, not the free.
+     He that's compell'd to goodness may be good,
+     But 'tis but for that fit; where others, drawn
+     By softness and example, get a habit.
+     Then, if they stray, but warn them, and the same
+     They should for virtue have done, they'll do for shame. [Exit.
+
+
+
+                  SCENE II.-A Room in KNOWELL.'S House.
+        Enter E. KNOWELL, with a letter in his hand, followed by
+                              BRAINWORM.
+
+  E. Know. Did he open it, say'st thou?
+
+  Brai. Yes, O' my word, sir, and read the contents.
+
+  E. Know. That scarce contents me. What countenance, prithee, made
+  he in the reading of it? was he angry, or pleased?
+
+  Brai. Nay, sir, I saw him not read it, nor open it, I assure your
+  worship.
+
+  E. Know. No! how know'st thou then that he did either?
+
+  Brai. Marry, sir, because he charged me, on my life, to tell nobody
+  that he open'd it; which, unless he had done, he would never fear
+  to have it revealed.
+
+  E. Know. That's true: well, I thank thee, Brainworm.
+                                                Enter STEPHEN.
+
+  Step. O, Brainworm, didst thou not see a fellow here in
+  what-sha-call-him doublet? he brought mine uncle a letter e'en now.
+
+  Brai. Yes, master Stephen; what of him?
+
+  Step. O, I have such a mind to beat him--where is he, canst thou
+  tell?
+
+  Brai. Faith, he is not of that mind: he is gone, master Stephen.
+
+  Step. Gone! which way? when went he? how long since?
+
+  Brai. He is rid hence; he took horse at the street-door.
+
+  Step. And I staid in the fields! Whoreson scanderbag rogue! O that
+  I had but a horse to fetch him back again!
+
+  Brai. Why, you may have my master's gelding, to save your longing,
+  sir.
+
+  Step. But I have no boots, that's the spite on't.
+
+  Brai. Why, a fine wisp of hay, roll'd hard, master Stephen.
+
+  Step. No, faith, it's no boot to follow him now: let him e'en go
+  and hang. Prithee, help to truss me a little: he does so vex me--
+
+  Brai. You'll be worse vexed when you are trussed, master Stephen.
+  Best keep unbraced, and walk yourself till you be cold; your choler
+  may founder you else.
+
+  Step. By my faith, and so I will, now thou tell'st me on't: how
+  dost thou like my leg, Brainworm?
+
+  Brai. A very good leg, master Stephen; but the woollen stocking
+  does not commend it so well.
+
+  Step. Foh! the stockings be good enough, now summer is coming on,
+  for the dust: I'll have a pair of silk against winter, that I go to
+  dwell in the town. I think my leg would shew in a silk hose--
+
+  Brai. Believe me, master Stephen, rarely well.
+
+  Step. In sadness, I think it would: I have a reasonable good leg.
+
+  Brai. You have an excellent good leg, master Stephen; but I can not
+  stay to praise it longer now, and I am very sorry for it.
+                                                            [Exit.
+  Step. Another time will serve, Brainworm. Gramercy for this.
+
+  E. Know. Ha, ha, ha.
+
+  Step. 'Slid, I hope he laughs not at me; an he do--
+
+  E. Know. Here was a letter indeed, to be intercepted by a man's
+  father, and do him good with him! He cannot but think most
+  virtuously, both of me, and the sender, sure, that make the careful
+  costermonger of him in our familiar epistles. Well, if he read this
+  with patience I'll be gelt, and troll ballads for master John
+  Trundle yonder, the rest of my mortality. It is true, and likely,
+  my father may have as much patience as another man, for he takes
+  much physic; and oft taking physic makes a man very patient. But
+  would your packet, master Wellbred, had arrived at him in such a
+  minute of his patience! then we had known the end of it, which now
+  is doubtful, and threatens--[Sees Master Stephen.] What, my wise
+  cousin! nay, then I'll furnish our feast with one gull more toward
+  the mess. He writes to me of a brace, and here's one, that's three:
+  oh, for a fourth, Fortune, if ever thou' It use thine eyes, I
+  entreat thee--
+
+  Step. Oh, now I see who he laughed at: he laughed at somebody in
+  that letter. By this good light, an he had laughed at me--
+
+  E. Know. How now, cousin Stephen, melancholy?
+
+  Step. Yes, a little: I thought you had laughed at me, cousin.
+
+  E. Know. Why, what an I had, coz? what would you have done?
+
+  Step. By this light, I would have told mine uncle.
+
+  E. Know. Nay, if you would have told your uncle, I did laugh at
+  you, coz.
+
+  Step. Did you, indeed?
+
+  E. Know. Yes, indeed.
+
+  Step. Why then
+
+  E. Know. What then?
+
+  Step. I am satisfied; it is sufficient.
+
+  E. Know. Why, be so, gentle coz: and, I pray you, let me entreat a
+  courtesy of you. I am sent for this morning by a friend in the Old
+  Jewry, to come to him; it is but crossing over the fields to
+  Moorgate: Will you bear me company? I protest it is not to draw you
+  into bond or any plot against the state, coz.
+
+  Step. Sir, that's all one an it were; you shall command me twice so
+  far as Moorgate, to do you good in such a matter. Do you think I
+  would leave you? I protest--
+
+  E. Know. No, no, you shall not protest, coz.
+
+  Step. By my fackings, but I will, by your leave:--I'll protest more
+  to my friend, than I'll speak of at this time.
+
+  E. Know. You speak very well, coz.
+
+  Step. Nay, not so neither, you shall pardon me: but I speak to
+  serve my turn.
+
+  E. Know. Your turn, coz! do you know what you say? A gentleman
+  of your sorts, parts, carriage, and estimation, to talk of your
+  turn in this company, and to me alone, like a tankard-bearer
+  at a conduit! fie! A wight that, hitherto, his every step
+  hath left the stamp of a great foot behind him, as every word
+  the savour of a strong spirit, and he! this man! so graced, gilded,
+  or, to use a more fit metaphor, so tenfold by nature, as not ten
+  housewives' pewter, again a good time, shews more bright to the
+  world than he! and he! (as I said last, so I say again, and still
+  shall say it) this man! to conceal such real ornaments as these,
+  and shadow their glory, as a milliner's wife does her wrought
+  stomacher, with a smoaky lawn, or a black cyprus! O, coz! it cannot
+  be answered; go not about it: Drake's old ship at Deptford may
+  sooner circle the world again. Come, wrong not the quality of your
+  desert, with looking downward, coz; but hold up your head, so: and
+  let the idea of what you are be portrayed in your face, that men
+  may read in your physnomy, here within this place is to be seen the
+  true, rare, and accomplished monster, or miracle of nature, which
+  is all one. What think you of this, coz?
+
+  Step. Why, I do think of it: and I will be more proud, and
+  melancholy, and gentlemanlike, than I have been, I'll insure you.
+
+  E. Know. Why, that's resolute, master Stephen!--Now, if I can but
+  hold him up to his height, as it is happily begun, it will do well
+  for a suburb humour: we may hap have a match with the city, and
+  play him for forty pound.--Come, coz.
+
+  Step. I'll follow you.
+
+  E. Know. Follow me! you must go before.
+
+  Step. Nay, an I must, I will. Pray you shew me, good cousin.
+                                                         [Exeunt.
+
+
+                   SCENE III.-The Lane before Cob's House.
+                          Enter Master MATHEW:
+
+
+  Mat. I think this be the house: what ho!
+                                                        Enter COB.
+  Cob. Who's there? O, master Mathew! give your worship good morrow.
+
+  Mat. What, Cob! how dost thou, good Cob? dost thou inhabit here,
+  Cob?
+
+  Cob. Ay, sir, I and my lineage have kept a poor house here, in Our
+  days.
+
+  Mat. Thy lineage, monsieur Cob! what lineage, what lineage?
+
+  Cob. Why, sir, an ancient lineage, and a princely. Mine ance'try
+  came from a king's belly, no worse man; and yet no man either, by
+  your worship's leave, I did lie in that, but herring, the king of
+  fish (from his belly I proceed), one of the monarchs of the world,
+  I assure you. The first red herring that was broiled in Adam and
+  Eve's kitchen, do I fetch my pedigree from, by the harrot's book.
+  His cob was my great, great, mighty great grandfather.
+
+  Mat. Why mighty, why mighty, I pray thee?
+
+  Cob. O, it was a mighty while ago, sir, and a mighty great cob.
+
+  Mat. How know'st thou that?
+
+  Cob. How know I! why, I smell his ghost ever and anon.
+
+  Mat. Smell a ghost! O unsavoury jest! and the ghost of a herring
+  cob?
+
+  Cob. Ay, sir: With favour of your worship's nose, master Mathew,
+  why not the ghost of a herring cob, as well as the ghost of Rasher
+  Bacon?
+
+  Mat. Roger Bacon, thou would'st say.
+
+  Cob. I say Rasher Bacon. They were both broiled on the coals; and a
+  man may smell broiled meat, I hope! you are a scholar, upsolve me
+  that now.
+
+  Mat. O raw ignorance!--Cob, canst thou shew me of a gentleman, one
+  captain Bobadill, where his lodging is?
+
+  Cob. O, my guest, sir, you mean.
+
+  Mat. Thy guest! alas, ha, ha, ha!
+
+  Cob. Why do you laugh, sir? do you not mean captain Bobadill?
+
+  Mat. Cob, pray thee advise thyself well; do not wrong the
+  gentleman, and thyself too. I dare be sworn, he scorns thy house;
+  he! he lodge in such a base obscure place as thy house! Tut, I know
+  his disposition so well, he would not lie in thy bed if thou'dst
+  give it him.
+
+  Cob. I will not give it him though, sir. Mass, I thought somewhat
+  was in it, we could not get him to bed all night: Well, sir, though
+  he lie not on my bed, he lies on my bench: an't please you to go
+  up, sir, you shall find him with two cushions under his head, and
+  his cloak wrapped about him, as though he had neither won nor lost,
+  and yet, I warrant, he ne'er cast better in his life, than he has
+  done to-night.
+
+  Mat. Why, was he drunk?
+
+  Cob. Drunk, sir! you hear not me say so: perhaps he swallowed a
+  tavern-token, or some such device, sir, I have nothing to do
+  withal. I deal with water and not with wine--Give me my tankard
+  there, ho!--God be wi' you, sir. It's six o'clock: I should have
+  carried two turns by this. What ho! my stopple! come.
+                                   Enter Tib with a water-tankard.
+  Mat. Lie in a water-bearer's house! a gentleman of his havings!
+  Well, I'll tell him my mind.
+
+  Cob. What, Tib; shew this gentleman up to the captain.[Exit Tib
+  with Master Mathew.] Oh, an my house were the Brazen-head now!
+  faith it would e'en speak Moe fools yet. You should have some now
+  would take this master Mathew to be a gentleman, at the least. His
+  father's an honest man, a worshipful fishmonger, and so forth; and
+  now does he creep and wriggle into acquaintance with all the brave
+  gallants about the town, such as my guest is (O, my guest is a fine
+  man!), and they flout him invincibly. He useth every day to a
+  merchant's house where I serve water, one master Kitely's, in the
+  Old Jewry; and here's the jest, he is in love with
+  my master's sister, Mrs. Bridget, and calls her mistress; and there
+  he will sit you a whole afternoon sometimes, reading of these same
+  abominable, vile (a pox on 'em! I cannot abide them), rascally
+  verses, poetrie, poetrie, and speaking of interludes; 'twill make a
+  man burst to hear him. And the wenches, they do so jeer, and ti-he
+  at him--Well, should they do so much to me, I'd forswear them all,
+  by the foot of Pharaoh! There's an oath! How many water-bearers
+  shall you hear swear such an oath? O, I have a guest--he teaches
+  me-he does swear the legiblest of any man christened: By St.
+  George! the foot of Pharaoh! the body of me! as I am a gentleman
+  and a soldier! such dainty oaths! and withal he does take this same
+  filthy roguish tobacco, the finest and cleanliest! it would do a
+  man good to see the fumes come forth at's tonnels.--Well, he owes
+  me forty shillings, my wife lent him out of her purse, by sixpence
+  at a time, besides his lodging: I would I had it! I shall have it,
+  he says, the next action. Helterskelter, hang sorrow, care'll kill
+  a cat, up-tails all, and a louse for the hangman.
+                                                        [Exit.
+
+
+                         SCENE IV.-A Room in COB'S House.
+                        BOBADILL discoved lying on a bench.
+
+  Bob. Hostess, hostess!
+                                                    Enter TIB.
+  Tib. What say you, sir?
+
+  Bob. A cup of thy small beer, sweet hostess.
+
+  Tib. Sir, there's a gentleman below would speak with you.
+
+  Bob. A gentleman! 'odso, I am not within.
+
+  Tib. My husband told him you were, sir.
+
+  Bob. What a plague-what meant he?
+
+  Mat. [below.] Captain Bobadill!
+
+  Bob. Who's there!-Take away the bason, good hostess;--Come up, sir.
+
+  Tib. He would desire you to come up, cleanly house, here!
+                                                    Enter MATHEW.
+  Mat. Save you, sir; save you, captain!
+
+  Bob. Gentle master Mathew! Is it you, sir? down.
+
+  Mat. Thank you, good captain; you may see I am somewhat audacious.
+
+  Bob. Not so, sir. I was requested to supper last night by a sort of
+  gallants, where you were wished for, and drunk to, I assure you.
+
+  Mat. Vouchsafe me, by whom, good captain?
+
+  Bob. Marry, by young Wellbred, and others.--Why, hostess, stool
+  here for this gentleman.
+
+  Mat. No haste, sir, 'tis very well.
+
+  Bob. Body O' me! it was so late ere we parted last night, I can
+  scarce open my eyes yet; I was but new risen, as you came; how
+  passes the day abroad, sir? you can tell.
+
+  Mat. Faith, some half hour to seven; Now, trust me, you have an
+  exceeding fine lodging here, very neat, and private.
+
+  Bob. Ay, sir: sit down, I pray you. Master Mathew, in any case
+  possess no gentlemen of our acquaintance with notice of my lodging.
+
+  Mat. Who? I, sir; no.
+
+  Bob. Not that I need to care who know it, for the cabin is
+  convenient; but in regard I would not be too popular, and generally
+  visited, as some are.
+
+  Mat. True, captain, I conceive you.
+
+  Bob. For, do you see, sir, by the heart of valour in me, except it
+  be to some peculiar and choice spirits, to whom I am
+  extraordinarily engaged, as yourself, or so, I could not extend
+  thus far.
+
+  Mat. O Lord, sir! I resolve so.
+
+  Bob. I confess I love a cleanly and quiet privacy, above all the
+  tumult and roar of fortune. What new book have you there? What! Go
+  by, Hieronymo?
+
+  Mat. Ay: did you ever see it acted? Is't not well penned?
+            [While Master Mathew reads, Bobadill makes himself ready.
+
+  Bob. Well penned! I would fain see all the poets of these times pen
+  such another play as that was: they'll prate and swagger, and keep
+  a stir of art and devices, when, as I am a gentleman, read 'em,
+  they are the most shallow, pitiful, barren fellows, that live upon
+  the: face of the earth again.
+
+  Mat. Indeed here are a number of fine speeches in this book. O
+  eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears! there's a conceit!
+  fountains fraught with tears! O life, no life, but lively form of
+  death! another. O world, no world, but mass of public wrongs! a
+  third. Confused and fill'd with murder and misdeeds! a fourth. O,
+  the muses! Is't not excellent? Is't not simply the best that ever
+  you heard, captain? Ha! how do you like it?
+
+  Bob. 'Tis good.
+
+  Mat.
+        To thee, the purest object to my sense,
+           The most refined essence heaven covers,
+        Send I these lines, wherein I do commence
+           The happy state of turtle-billing lovers.
+        If they prove rough, unpolish'd, harsh, and rude,
+           Haste made the waste: thus mildly I conclude.
+
+  Bob. Nay, proceed, proceed. Where's this?
+
+  Mat. This, sir! a toy of mine own, in my non-age; the infancy of my
+  muses. But when will you come and see my study? good faith, I can
+  shew you some very good things I have done of late.--That boot
+  becomes your leg passing well, captain, methinks.
+
+  Bob. So, so; it's the fashion gentlemen now use.
+
+  Mat. Troth, captain, and now you speak of the fashion, master
+  Wellbred's elder brother and I are fallen out exceedingly: This
+  other day, I happened to enter into some discourse of a hanger,
+  which, I assure you, both for fashion and workmanship, was most
+  peremptory beautiful and gentlemanlike: yet he condemned, and cried
+  it down for the most pied and ridiculous that ever he saw.
+
+  Bob. Squire Downright, the half brother, was't not?
+
+  Mat. Ay, sir, he.
+
+  Bob. Hang him, rook! he! why he-has no more judgment than a malt
+  horse: By St. George, I wonder you'd lose a thought upon such an
+  animal; the most peremptory absurd clown of Christendom, this day,
+  he is holden. I protest to you, as I am a gentleman and a soldier,
+  I ne'er changed with his like. By his discourse, he should eat
+  nothing but hay; he was born for the manger, pannier, or
+  pack-saddle. He has not so much as a good phrase in his belly, but
+  all old iron and rusty proverbs: a good commodity for some smith to
+  make hob-nails of.
+
+  Mat. Ay, and he thinks to carry it away with his manhood still,
+  where he comes: he brags he will give me the bastinado, as I hear.
+
+  Bob. How! he the bastinado! how came he by that word, trow?
+
+  Mat. Nay, indeed, he said cudgel me; I termed it so, for my more
+  grace.
+
+  Bob. That may be: for I was sure it was none of his word; but when,
+  when said he so?
+
+  Mat. Faith, yesterday, they say; a young gallant, a friend of mine,
+  told me so.
+
+  Bob. By the foot of Pharaoh, an 'twere my case now, I should send
+  him a chartel presently. The bastinado! a most proper and
+  sufficient dependence, warranted by the great Caranza. Come hither,
+  you shall chartel him; I'll shew you a trick or two you shall kill
+  him with at pleasure; the first stoccata, if you will, by this air.
+
+  Mat. Indeed, you have absolute knowledge in the mystery, I have
+  heard, sir.
+
+  Bob. Of whom, of whom, have you heard it, I beseech you?
+
+  Mat. Troth, I have heard it spoken of divers, that you have very
+  rare, and un-in-one-breath-utterable skill, sir.
+
+  Bob. By heaven, no, not I; no skill in the earth; some small
+  rudiments in the science, as to know my time, distance, or so. I
+  have professed it more for noblemen and gentlemen's use, than mine
+  own practice, I assure you.--Hostess, accommodate us with another
+  bed-staff here quickly. Lend us another bed-staff--the woman does
+  not understand the words of action.--Look you, sir: exalt not your
+  point above this state, at any hand, and let your poniard maintain
+  your defence, thus:--give it the gentleman, and leave us. [Exit Tib.]
+  So, sir. Come on: O, twine your body more about, that you may
+  fall to a more sweet, comely, gentlemanlike guard; so! indifferent:
+  hollow your body more, sir, thus: now, stand fast O' your left leg,
+  note your distance, keep your due proportion of time--oh, you
+  disorder your point most i rregularly.
+
+  Mat. How is the bearing of it now, sir?
+
+  Bob. O, out of measure ill: a well-experienced hand would pass upon
+  you at pleasure.
+
+  Mat. How mean you, sir, pass upon me?
+
+  Bob. Why, thus, sir,--make a thrust at me--[Master Mathew pushes at
+  Bobadill] come in upon the answer, control your point, and make a
+  full career at the body: The best-practised gallants of the time
+  name it the passado; a most desperate thrust, believe it.
+
+  Mat. Well, come, sir.
+
+  Bob. Why, you do not manage your weapon with any facility or grace
+  to invite me. I have no spirit to play with you; your dearth of
+  judgment renders you tedious.
+
+  Mat. But one venue, sir.
+
+  Bob. Venue! fie; the most gross denomination as ever I heard: O,
+  the stoccata, while you live, sir; note that.--Come, put on your
+  cloke, and we'll go to some private place where you are acquainted;
+  some tavern, or so--and have a bit. I'll send for one of these
+  fencers, and he shall breathe you, by my direction; and then I will
+  teach you your trick: you shall kill him with it at the first, if
+  you please. Why, I will learn you, by the true judgment of the eye,
+  hand, and foot, to control any enemy's point in the world. Should
+  your adversary confront you with a pistol, 'twere nothing, by this
+  hand! you should, by the same rule, control his bullet, in a line,
+  except it were hail shot, and spread. What money have you about
+  you, master Mathew?
+
+  Mat. Faith, I have not past a two shilling or so.
+
+  Bob. 'Tis somewhat with the least; but come; we will have a bunch
+  of radish and salt to taste our wine, and a pipe of tobacco to
+  close the orifice of the stomach: and then we'll call upon young
+  Wellbred: perhaps we shall meet the Corydon his brother there, and
+  put him to the question.
+
+
+
+
+
+ACT II
+
+
+          SCENE I.-The Old Jewry. A Hall in KITELY'S House.
+               Enter KITELY, CASH, and DOWNRIGHT.
+
+  Kit.
+     Thomas, come hither.
+     There lies a note within upon my desk;
+     Here take my key: it is no matter neither.---
+     Where is the boy?
+
+  Cash. Within, sir, in the warehouse.
+
+  Kit.
+     Let him tell over straight that Spanish gold,
+     And weigh it, with the pieces of eight. Do you
+     See the delivery of those silver stuffs
+     To Master Lucar: tell him, if he will,
+     He shall have the grograns, at the rate I told him,
+     And I. will meet him on the Exchange anon.
+
+  Cash. Good, sir.                                        [Exit.
+
+  Kit. Do you see that fellow, brother Downright?
+
+  Dow. Ay, what of him?
+
+  Kit.                  He is a jewel, brother.
+     I took him of a child up at my door,
+     And christen'd him, gave him mine own name, Thomas:
+     Since bred him at the Hospital; where proving
+     A toward imp, I call'd him home, and taught him
+     So much, as I have made him my cashier,
+     And giv'n him, who had none, a surname, Cash:
+     And find him in his place so full of faith,
+     That I durst trust my life into his hands.
+
+  Dow.
+     So would not I in any bastard's, brother,
+     As it is like he is, although I knew
+     Myself his father. But you said you had somewhat
+     To tell me, gentle brother: what is't, what is't?
+
+  Kit.
+     Faith, I am very loath to utter it,
+     As fearing it may hurt your patience:
+     But that I know your judgment is of strength,
+     Against the nearness of affection---
+
+  Dow.
+     What need this circumstance? pray you, be direct.
+
+  Kit.
+     I will not say how much I do ascribe
+     Unto your friendship, nor in what regard
+     I hold your love; but let my past behaviour,
+     And usage of your sister, [both] confirm
+     How well I have been affected to your---
+
+  Dow.
+     You are too tedious; come to the matter, the matter.
+
+  Kit.
+     Then, without further ceremony, thus.
+     My brother Wellbred, sir, I know not how,
+     Of late is much declined in what he was,
+     And greatly alter'd in his disposition.
+     When he came first to lodge here in my house,
+     Ne'er trust me if I were not proud of him:
+     Methought he bare himself in such a fashion,
+     So full of man, and sweetness in his carriage,
+     And what was chief, it shew'd not borrow'd in him,
+     But all he did became him as his own,
+     And seem'd as perfect, proper, and possest,
+     As breath with life, or colour with the blood.
+     But now, his course is so irregular,
+     So loose, affected, and deprived of grace,
+     And he himself withal so far fallen off
+     From that first place, as scarce no note remains,
+     To tell men's judgments where he lately stood.
+     He's grown a stranger to all due respect,
+     Forgetful of his friends; and not content
+     To stale himself in all societies,
+     He makes my house here common as a mart,
+     A theatre, a public receptacle
+     For giddy humour, and deceased riot;
+     And here, as in a tavern or a stews,
+     He and his wild associates spend their hours,
+     In repetition of lascivious jests,
+     Swear, leap, drink, dance, and revel night by night,
+     Control my servants; and, indeed, what not?
+
+  Dow. 'Sdeins, I know not what I should say to him, in the whole
+  world! He values me at a crack'd three-farthings, for aught I  see.
+  It will never out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.  I have
+  told him enough, one would think, if that would serve;  but counsel
+  to him is as good as a shoulder of mutton to a  sick horse. Well!
+  he knows what to trust to, for George: let  him spend, and spend,
+  and domineer, till his heart ake; an he  think to be relieved by
+  me, when he is got into one O' your  city pounds, the counters, he
+  has the wrong sow by the ear,  i'faith; and claps his dish at the
+  wrong man's door: I'll  lay my hand on my halfpenny, ere I part
+  with it to fetch  him out, I'll assure him.'
+
+  Kit. Nay, good brother, let it not trouble you thus.
+
+  Dow. 'Sdeath!  he mads me; I could eat my very spur leathers  for
+  anger! But, why are you so tame? why do you not speak to  him, and
+  tell him how he disquiets your house?
+
+  Kit.
+     O, there are divers reasons to dissuade me.
+     But, would yourself vouchsafe to travail in it
+     (Though but with plain and easy circumstance),
+     It would both come much better to his sense,
+     And savour less of stomach, or of passion.
+     You are his elder brother, and that title
+     Both gives and warrants your authority,
+     Which, by your presence seconded, must breed
+     A kind of duty in him, and regard:
+     Whereas, if I should intimate the least,
+     It would but add contempt to his neglect,
+     Heap worse on ill, make up a pile of hatred,
+     That in the rearing would come tottering down,
+     And in the ruin bury all our love.
+     Nay, more than this, brother; if I should speak,
+     He would be ready, from his heat of humour,
+     And overflowing of the vapour in him,
+     To blow the ears of his familiars
+     With the false breath of telling what disgraces,
+     And low disparagement's, I had put upon him.
+     Whilst they, sir, to relieve him in the fable,
+     Make their loose comments upon every word,
+     Gesture, or look, I use; mock me all over,
+     From my flat cap unto my shining shoes;
+     And, out of their impetuous rioting phant'sies,
+     Beget some slander that shall dwell with me.
+     And what would that be, think you? marry, this:
+     They would give out, because my wife is fair,
+     Myself but lately married; and my sister '.
+     Here sojourning a virgin in my house,
+     That I were jealous I---nay, as sure as death,
+     That they would say: and, how that I had quarrell'd,
+     My brother purposely, thereby to find
+     An apt pretext to banish them my house.
+
+  Dow. Mass, perhaps so; they're like enough to do it.
+
+  Kit.
+     Brother, they would, believe it; so should I,
+     Like one of these penurious quack-salvers,
+     But set the bills up to mine own disgrace,
+     And try experiments upon myself;
+     Lend scorn and envy opportunity
+     To stab my reputation and good name--
+                       Enter Master MATHEW struggling with BOBADILL.
+
+  Mat. I will speak to him.
+
+  Bob. Speak to him! away! By the foot of Pharaoh, you shall not! you
+  shall not do him that grace.--The time of day to you, gentleman O'
+  the house. Is master Wellbred stirring?
+
+  Dow. How then? what should he do?
+
+  Bob. Gentleman of the house, it is to you: is he within, sir?
+
+  Kit. He came not to his lodging to-night, sir, I assure you.
+
+  Dow. Why, do you hear? you!
+
+  Bob.
+     The gentleman citizen hath satisfied me;
+     I'll talk to no scavenger.                [Exeunt Bob. and Mat.
+
+   Dow. How! scavenger! stay, sir, stay!
+
+  Kit. Nay, brother Downright.
+
+  Dow. 'Heart! stand you away, an you love me.
+
+  Kit. You shall not follow him now, I pray you, brother, good faith
+  you shall not; I will overrule you.
+
+  Dow. Ha! scavenger! well, go to, I say little: but, by this good
+  day (God forgive me I should swear), if I put it up so, say I am
+  the rankest cow that ever pist. 'Sdeins, an I swallow this, I'll
+  ne'er draw my sword in the sight of Fleet-street again while I
+  live; I'll sit in a barn with madge-howlet, and catch mice first.
+  Scavenger! heart!--and I'll go near to fill that huge tumbrel-slop
+  of yours with somewhat, an I have good luck: your Garagantua breech
+  cannot carry it away so.
+
+  Kit. Oh, do not fret yourself thus: never think on't.
+
+  Dow. These are my brother's consorts, these! these are his
+  camerades, his walking mates! he's a gallant, cavaliero too,
+  right hangman cut! Let me not live, an I could not find in my heart
+  to swinge the whole gang of 'em, one after another, and begin with
+  him first. I am grieved it should be said he is my brother, and
+  take these courses: Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for
+  George, again. Yet he shall hear on't, and that tightly too, an I
+  live, i'faith.
+
+  Kit.
+     But, brother, let your reprehension, then,
+     Run in an easy current, not o'er high
+     Carried with rashness, or devouring choler;
+     But rather use the soft persuading way,
+     Whose powers will work more gently, and compose
+     The imperfect thoughts you labour to reclaim;
+     More winning, than enforcing the consent.
+
+  Dow. Ay, ay, let me alone for that, I warrant you.
+
+  Kit.
+    How now!  [Bell rings.] Oh, the bell rings to breakfast.
+    Brother, I pray you go in, and bear my wife company till I come;
+    I'll but give order for some despatch of business to my servants.
+                          [Exit Downright. Enter COB, with his tankard.
+
+  Kit.
+     What, Cob! our maids will have you by the back, i'faith, for
+     coming so late this morning.
+
+  Cob.
+     Perhaps so, sir; take heed somebody have not them by the belly,
+     for walking so late in the evening.                 [Exit.
+
+  Kit.
+     Well; yet my troubled spirit's somewhat eased,
+     Though not reposed in that security
+     As I could wish: but I must be content,
+     Howe'er I set a face on't to the world.
+     Would I had lost this finger at a venture,
+     So Wellbred had ne'er lodged within my house.
+     Why't cannot be, where there is such resort
+     Of wanton gallants, and young revellers,
+     That any woman should be honest long.
+     Is't like, that factious beauty will preserve
+     The public weal of chastity unshaken,
+     When such strong motives muster, and make head
+     Against her single peace? No, no: beware.
+     When mutual appetite doth meet to treat,
+     And spirits of one kind and quality
+     Come once to parley in the pride of blood,
+     It is no slow conspiracy that follows.
+     Well, to be plain, if I but thought the time
+     Had answer'd their affections, all the world
+     Should not persuade me but I were a cuckold.
+     Marry, I hope they have not got that start;
+     For opportunity hath balk'd them yet,
+     And shall do still, while I have eyes and ears
+     To attend the impositions of my heart.
+     My presence shall be as an iron bar,
+     'Twixt the conspiring motions of desire:
+     Yea, every look or glance mine eye ejects
+     Shall check occasion, as one doth his slave,
+     When he forgets the limits of prescription.
+                                   Enter Dame KITELY and BRIDGET.
+
+  Dame K. Sister Bridget, pray you fetch down the rose-water,
+     above in the closet.---
+                                                   [Exit Bridget.
+                      Sweet-heart, will you come in to breakfast?
+
+  Kit. An she have overheard me now!---
+
+  Dame K. I pray thee, good muss, we stay for you.
+
+  Kit. By heaven, I would not for a thousand angels.
+
+  Dame K. What ail you, sweet-heart? are you not well? speak, good
+  muss.
+
+  Kit. Troth my head akes extremely on a sudden.
+
+  Dame K. [putting her hand to his forehead.] O, the Lord!
+
+  Kit. How now! What?
+
+  Dame K. Alas, how it burns! Muss, keep you warm; good truth it is
+  this new disease. There's a number are troubled withal. For love's
+  sake, sweetheart, come in, out of the air.
+
+  Kit.
+     How simple, and how subtle are her answers!
+     A new disease, and many troubled with it?
+     Why true; she heard me, all the world to nothing.
+
+  Dame K. I pray thee, good sweet-heart, come in; the air will do you
+  harm, in troth.
+
+  Kit. The air! she has me in the wind.--Sweet-heart, I'll come to
+  you presently; 'twill away, I hope.
+
+  Dame K. Pray Heaven it do.            [Exit.
+
+  Kit.
+     A new disease! I. know not, new or old,
+     But it may well be call'd poor mortals' plague;
+     For, like a pestilence, it doth infect
+     The houses of the brain. First it begins
+     Solely to work upon the phantasy,
+     Filling her seat with such pestiferous air,
+     As soon corrupts the judgment; and from thence,
+     Sends like contagion to the memory:
+     Still each to other giving the infection.
+     Which as a subtle vapour spreads itself
+     Confusedly through every sensive part,
+     Till not a thought or motion in the mind
+     Be free from the black poison of suspect.
+     Ah! but what misery is it to know this?
+     Or, knowing it, to want the mind's erection
+     In such extremes? Well, I will once more strive,
+     In spite of this black cloud, myself to be,
+     And shake the fever off that thus shakes me.         [Exit.
+
+
+
+                   SCENE II.---Moorfields.
+      Enter BRAINWORM disguised like a maimed Soldier.
+
+  Brai. 'Slid, I cannot choose but laugh to see myself translated
+  thus, from a poor creature to a creator; for now must I create an
+  intolerable sort of lies, or my present profession loses the grace:
+  and yet the lie, to a man of my coat, is as ominous a fruit as the
+  fico. O, sir, it holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly
+  in vilest estimation, that inwardly is most dear to us: so much for
+  my borrowed shape. Well, the troth is, my old master intends to
+  follow my young master, dry-foot, over Moorfields to London, this
+  morning; now, I knowing of this hunting-match, or rather conspiracy,
+  and to insinuate with my young master (for so must we that are blue
+  waiters, and men of hope and service do, or perhaps we may wear
+  motley at the year's end, and who wears motley, you know), have got
+  me afore in this disguise, determining here to lie in ambuscado,
+  and intercept him in the mid-way. If I can but get his cloke, his
+  purse, and his hat, nay, any thing to cut him off, that is, to stay
+  his journey, Veni, vidi, vici, I may say with captain Caesar, I am
+  made for ever, i'faith. Well, now I must practise to get the true
+  garb of one of these lance-knights, my arm here, and my--Odso! my
+  young master, and his cousin, master Stephen, as I am true
+  counterfeit man of war, and no soldier!
+
+                   Enter E. KNOWELL and STEPHEN.
+
+  E. Know. So, sir! and how then, coz?
+
+  Step. 'Sfoot! I have lost my purse, I think.
+
+  E. Know. How! lost your purse? where? when had you it?
+
+  Step. I cannot tell; stay.
+
+  Brai. 'Slid, I am afraid they will know me: would I could get by
+  them!
+
+  E. Know. What, have you it?
+
+  Step. No; I think I was bewitched, I--       [Cries.
+
+  E. Know. Nay, do not weep the loss: hang it, let it go.
+
+  Step. Oh, it's here: No, an it had been lost, I had not cared, but
+  for a jet ring mistress Mary sent me.
+
+  E. Know. A jet ring! O the poesie, the poesie?
+
+  Step. Fine, i'faith.
+
+                 Though Fancy sleep,
+                 My love is deep.
+
+  Meaning, that though I did not fancy her, yet she loved me dearly.
+
+  E. Know. Most excellent!
+
+  Step. And then I sent her another, and my poesie was,
+
+                The deeper the sweeter,
+                I'll be judg'd by St. Peter.
+
+  E. Know. How, by St. Peter? I do not conceive that.
+
+  Step. Marry, St. Peter, to make up the metre.
+
+  E. Know. Well, there the saint was your good patron, he help'd you
+  at your need; thank him, thank him.
+
+  Brai. I cannot take leave on 'em so; I will venture, come what
+  will. [Comes forward.] Gentlemen, please you change a few crowns
+  for a very excellent blade here? I am a poor gentleman, a soldier,
+  one that, in the better state of my fortunes, scorned so mean a
+  refuge; but now it is the humour of necessity to have it so. You
+  seem to be gentlemen well affected to martial men, else I should
+  rather die with silence, than live with shame: however, vouchsafe
+  to remember it is my want speaks, not myself; this condition agrees
+  not with my spirit--
+
+  E. Know. Where hast thou served?
+
+  Brai. May it please you, sir, in all the late wars of Bohemia,
+  Hungary, Dalmatia, Poland, where not, sir? I have been a poor
+  servitor by sea and land any time this fourteen years, and followed
+  the fortunes of the best commanders in Christendom. I was twice,
+  shot at the taking of Aleppo, once at the relief of Vienna; I have
+  been at Marseilles, Naples, and the Adriatic gulf, a
+  gentleman-slave in the gallies, thrice; where I was most
+  dangerously shot in the head, through both the thighs; and yet,
+  being thus maimed, I am void of maintenance, nothing left me but my
+  scars, the noted marks of my resolution.
+
+  Step. How will you sell this rapier, friend?
+
+  Brai. Generous sir, I refer it to your own judgment; you are a
+  gentleman, give me what you please.
+
+  Step. True, I am a gentleman, I know that, friend; but what though!
+  I pray you say, what would you ask?
+
+  Brai. I assure you, the blade may become the side or thigh of the
+  best prince in Europe.
+
+  E. Know. Ay, with a velvet scabbard, I think.
+
+  Step. Nay, an't be mine, it shall have a velvet scapbard, coz,
+  that's flat; I'd not wear it, as it is, an you would give me an
+  angel,
+
+  Brai. At your worship's pleasure, sir; nay, 'tis a most pure
+  Toledo.
+
+  Step. I had rather it were a Spaniard. But tell me, what shall I
+  give you for it? An it had a silver hilt
+
+  E. Know. Come, come, you shall not buy it: hold, there's a
+  shilling, fellow; take thy rapier.
+
+  Step. Why, but I will buy it now, because you say so; and there's
+  another shilling, fellow; I scorn to be out-bidden. What, shall I
+  walk with a cudgel, like Higginbottom, and may have a rapier for
+  money.
+
+  E. Know. You may buy one in the city.
+
+  Step. Tut! I'll buy this i' the field, so I will: I have a mind
+  to't, because 'tis a field rapier. Tell me your lowest price.
+
+  E. Know. You shall not buy it, I. say.
+
+  Step. By this money, but I will, though I give more than 'tis
+  worth.
+
+  E. Know. Come away, you are a fool.
+
+  Step. Friend, I am a fool, that's granted; but I'll have it, for
+  that word's sake. Follow me for your money.
+
+  Brai. At your service, sir.
+                                                       [Exeunt.
+
+
+               SCENE III.---Another Part of Moorfields.
+                          Enter KNOWELL.
+
+  Know.
+     I cannot lose the thought yet of this letter,
+     Sent to my son; nor leave t' admire the change
+     Of manners, and the breeding of our youth
+     Within the kingdom, since myself was one---
+     When I was young, he lived not in the stews
+     Durst have conceived a scorn, and utter'd it,
+     On a gray head; age was authority
+     Against a buffoon, and a man had then
+     A certain reverence paid unto his years,
+     That had none due unto his life: so much
+     The sanctity of some prevail'd for others.
+     But now we all are fallen; youth, from their fear,
+     And age, from that which bred it, good example.
+     Nay, would ourselves were not the first, even parents,
+     That did destroy the hopes in our own children;
+     Or they not learn'd our vices in their cradles,
+     And suck'd in our ill customs with their milk;
+     Ere all their teeth be born, or they can speak,
+     We make their palates cunning; the first words
+     We form their tongues with, are licentious jests:
+     Can it call whore? cry bastard? O, then, kiss it!
+     A witty child! can't swear? the father's darling!
+     Give it two plums. Nay, rather than't shall learn
+     No bawdy song, the mother herself will teach it!---
+     But this is in the infancy, the days
+     Of the long coat; when it puts on the breeches,
+     It will put off all this: Ay, it is like,
+     When it is gone into the bone already!
+     No, no; this dye goes deeper than the coat,
+     Or shirt, or skin; it stains into the liver,
+     And heart, in some; and, rather than it should not,
+     Note what we fathers do! look how we live!
+     What mistresses we keep! at what expense,
+     In our sons' eyes! where they may handle our gifts,
+     Hear our lascivious courtships, see our dalliance,
+     Taste of the same provoking meats with us,
+     To ruin of our states! Nay, when our own
+     Portion is fled, to prey on the remainder,
+     We call them into fellowship of vice;
+     Bait 'em with the young chamber-maid, to seal,
+     And teach 'em all bad ways to buy affliction.
+     This is one path: but there are millions more,
+     In which we spoil our own, with leading them.
+     Well, I thank heaven, I never yet was he
+     That travell'd with my son, before sixteen,
+     To shew him the Venetian courtezans;
+     Nor read the grammar of cheating I had made,
+     To my sharp boy, at twelve; repeating still
+     The rule, Get money; still, get money, boy;
+     No matter by what means; money will do
+     More, boy, than my lord's letter. Neither have I
+     Drest snails or mushrooms curiously before him,
+     Perfumed my sauces, and taught him how to make them;
+     Preceding still, with my gray gluttony,
+     At all the ord'naries, and only fear'd
+     His palate should degenerate, not his manners.
+     These are the trade of fathers now; however,
+     My son, I hope, hath met within my threshold
+     None of these household precedents, which are strong,
+     And swift, to rape youth to their precipice.
+     But let the house at home be ne'er so clean
+     Swept, or kept sweet from filth, nay dust and cobwebs,
+     If he will live abroad with his companions,
+     In dung and leystals, it is worth a fear;
+     Nor is the danger of conversing less
+     Than all that I have mention'd of example.
+                            Enter BRAIN WORM, disguised as before.
+
+  Brai. My master! nay, faith, have at you; I am flesh'd now, I have
+  sped so well. [Aside.] Worshipful sir, I beseech you, respect the
+  estate of a poor soldier; lam ashamed of this base course of
+  life,--God's my comfort--but extremity provokes me to't: what
+  remedy?
+
+  Know. I have not for you, now.
+
+  Brai. By the faith I bear unto truth, gentleman, it is no ordinary
+  custom in me, but only to preserve manhood. I protest to you, a man
+  I have been: a man I may be, by your sweet bounty.
+
+  Know. Pray thee, good friend, be satisfied.
+
+  Brai. Good sir, by that hand, you may do the part of a kind
+  gentleman, in lending a poor soldier the price of two cans of beer,
+  a matter of small value: the king of heaven shall pay you, and I
+  shall rest thankful: Sweet worship--
+
+  Know. Nay, an you be so importunate
+
+  Brai. Oh, tender sir! need will have its course: I was not made to
+  this vile use. Well, the edge of the enemy could not have abated me
+  so much: it's hard when a man hath served in his prince's cause,
+  and be thus. [Weeps.] Honourable worship, let me derive a small
+  piece of silver from you, it shall not be given in the course of
+  time. By this good ground, I was fain to pawn my rapier last night
+  for a poor supper; I had suck'd the hilts long before, am a pagan
+  else: Sweet honour--
+
+  Know.
+     Believe me, I am taken with some wonder,
+     To think a fellow of thy outward presence,
+     Should, in the frame and fashion of his mind,
+     Be so degenerate, and sordid-base.
+     Art thou a man? and sham'st thou not to beg,
+     To practise such a servile kind of life?
+     Why, were thy education ne'er so mean,
+     Having thy limbs, a thousand fairer courses
+     Offer themselves to thy election.
+     Either the wars might still supply thy wants,
+     Or service of some virtuous gentleman,
+     Or honest labour; nay, what can I name,
+     But would become thee better than to beg:
+     But men of thy condition feed on sloth,
+     As cloth the beetle on the dung she breeds in;
+     Nor caring how the metal of your minds
+     Is eaten with the rust of idleness.
+     Now, afore me, whate'er he be, that should
+     Relieve a person of thy quality,
+     While thou insist'st in this loose desperate course,
+     I  would esteem the sin not thine, but his.
+
+  Brai. Faith, sir, I would gladly find some other course, if so---
+
+  Know.
+     Ay,
+     You'd gladly find it, but you will not seek it.
+
+  Brai. Alas, sir, where should a man seek? in the wars; there's no
+  ascent by desert in these days; but--and for service, would it
+  were as soon purchased, as wished for! the air's my comfort.---
+  [Sighs.]---l know what I would say.
+
+  Know. What's thy name?
+
+  Brai.               Please you, Fitz-Sword, sir.
+
+  Know.                                       Fitz-Sword!
+     Say that a man should entertain thee now,
+     Wouldst thou be honest, humble, just, and true?
+
+  Brai. Sir, by the place and honour of a soldier---
+
+  Know. Nay, nay, I like not these affected oaths; speak plainly,
+  man, what think'st thou of my words?
+
+  Brai. Nothing, sir, but wish my fortunes were as happy as my
+  service should be honest.
+
+  Know.
+     Well, follow me; I'll prove thee, if thy deeds
+     Will carry a proportion to thy words.                  [Exit.
+
+  Brai. Yes, sir, straight; I'll but garter my hose. Oh that my belly
+  were hoop'd now, for I am ready to burst with laughing! never was
+  bottle or bagpipe fuller. 'Slid, was there ever seen a fox in years
+  to betray himself thus! now shall I be possest of all his counsels;
+  and, by that conduit, my young master. Well, he is resolved to
+  prove my honesty; faith, and I'm resolved to prove his patience:
+  Oh, I shall abuse him intolerably. This small piece of service will
+  bring him clean out of love with the soldier for ever. He will
+  never come within the sign of it, the sight of a cassock, or a
+  musket-rest again. He will hate the musters at Mile-end for it, to
+  his dying day. It's no matter, let the world think me a bad
+  counterfeit, if I cannot give him the slip at an instant: why, this
+  is better than to have staid his journey: well, I'll follow him.
+  Oh, how I long to be employed!
+                                                             [Exit.
+
+
+
+
+
+ACT III
+
+          SCENE I.-The Old Jewry. A Room in the Windmill Tavern.
+               Enter Master MATHEW, WELLBRED, and BOBADILL.
+
+
+
+  Mat. Yes, faith, sir, we were at your lodging to seek you too.
+
+  Wel; Oh, I came not there to-night.
+
+  Bob. Your brother delivered us as much.
+
+  Wel. Who, my brother Downright?
+
+  Bob. He. Mr. Wellbred, I know not in what kind you hold me; but let
+  me say to you this: as sure as honour, I esteem it So much out of
+  the sunshine of reputation, to throw the least beam of regard upon
+  such a--
+
+  Wel. Sir, I must hear no ill words of my brother.
+
+  Bob. I protest to you, as I have a thing to be saved about me, I
+  never saw any gentlemanlike part--
+
+  Wel. Good captain, faces about to some other discourse.
+
+  Bob. With your leave, sir, an there were no more men living upon
+  th' face of the earth, I should not fancy him, by St. George!
+
+  Mat. Troth, nor I; he is of a rustical cut, I know not how: he doth
+  not carry himself like a gentleman of fashion.
+
+  Wel. Oh, master Mathew, that's a grace peculiar but to a few, quos
+  aequus amavit Jupiter.
+
+  Mat. I understand you, sir.
+
+  Wel. No question, you do,--or do you not, sir.
+                               Enter E. KNOWELL and Master STEPHEN.
+  Ned Knowell! by my soul, welcome: how dost thou, sweet spirit, my
+  genius? 'Slid, I shall love Apollo and the mad Thespian girls the
+  better, while I live, for this, my dear Fury; now, I see there's
+  some love in thee. Sirrah, these be the two I writ to thee of: nay,
+  what a drowsy humour is this now! why dost thou not speak?
+
+  E. Know. Oh, you are a fine gallant; you sent me a rare letter.
+
+  Wel. Why, was't not rare?
+
+  E. Know. Yes, I'll be sworn, I was ne'er guilty of reading the
+  like; match it in all Pliny, or Symmachus's epistles, and I'll have
+  my judgment burn'd in the ear for a rogue: make much of thy vein,
+  for it is inimitable. But I marle what camel it was, that had the
+  carriage of it; for, doubtless, he was no ordinary beast that
+  brought it.
+
+  Wel. Why?
+
+  E. Know. Why, say'st thou! why, dost thou think that any reasonable
+  creature, especially in the morning, the sober time of the day too,
+  could have mistaken my father for me?
+
+  Wel. 'Slid, you jest, I hope.
+
+  E. Know. Indeed, the best use we can turn it to, is to make a jest
+  on't; now: but I'll assure you, my father had the full view of your
+  flourishing style some hour before I saw it.
+
+  Wel. What a dull slave was this! but, sirrah, what said he to it,
+  i'faith?
+
+  E. Know. Nay, I know not what he said; but I have a shrewd guess
+  what he thought.
+
+  Wel. What, what?
+
+  E. Know. Marry, that thou art some strange, dissolute young fellow,
+  and I--a grain or two better, for keeping thee company.
+
+  Wel. Tut! that thought is like the moon in her last quarter, 'twill
+  change shortly: but, sirrah, I pray thee be acquainted with my two
+  hang-by's here; thou wilt take exceeding pleasure in them if thou
+  hear'st 'em once go; my wind-instruments; I'll wind them up--But
+  what strange piece of silence is this, the sign of the Dumb Man?
+
+  E. Know. Oh, sir, a kinsman of mine, one that may make your music
+  the fuller, an he please; he has his humour, sir.
+
+  Wel. Oh, what is't, what is't?
+
+  E. Know. Nay, I'll neither do your judgment nor his folly that
+  wrong, as to prepare your apprehension: I'll leave him to the mercy
+  of your search; if you can take him, so!
+
+  Wel. Well, captain Bobadill, master Mathew, pray you know this
+  gentleman here; he is a friend of mine, and one that will deserve
+  your affection. I know not your name, sir, [to Stephen.] but I
+  shall be glad of any occasion to render me more familiar to you.
+
+  Step. My name is master Stephen, sir; I am this gentleman's own
+  cousin, sir; his father is mine uncle, sir: I am somewhat
+  melancholy, but you shall command me, sir, in whatsoever is
+  incident to a gentleman.
+
+  Bob. Sir, I must tell you this, I am no general man; but for master
+  Wellbred's sake, (you may embrace it at what height of favour you
+  please,) I do communicate with you, and conceive you to be a
+  gentleman of some parts; I love few words.
+
+  E. Know. And I fewer, sir; I have scarce enough to thank you.
+
+  Mat. But are you, indeed, sir, so given to it?
+
+  Step. Ay, truly, sir, I am mightily given to melancholy.
+
+  Mat. Oh, it's your only fine humour, sir: your true melancholy
+  breeds your perfect fine wit, sir. I am melancholy myself, diver
+  times, sir, and then do I no more but take pen and paper,
+  presently, and overflow you half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at
+  a sitting.
+
+  E. Know. Sure he utters them then by the gross. [Aside.
+
+  Step. Truly, sir, and I love such things out of measure.
+
+  E. Know. I'faith, better than in measure, I'll undertake.
+
+  Mat. Why, I pray you, sir, make use of my study, it's at your
+  service.
+
+  Step. I thank you, sir, I shall be bold I warrant you; have you a
+  stool there to be melancholy upon?
+
+  Mat. That I have, sir, and some papers there of mine own doing, at
+  idle hours, that you'll say there's some sparks of wit in 'em, when
+  you see them,
+
+  Wel. Would the sparks would kindle once, and become a fire amongst
+  them! I might see self-love burnt for her heresy. [Aside.
+
+  Step. Cousin, is it well? am I melancholy enough?
+
+  E. Know, Oh ay, excellent.
+
+  Wel. Captain Bobadill, why muse you so?
+
+  E. Know. He is melancholy too.
+
+  Bob. Faith, sir, I was thinking of a most honourable piece of
+  service, was performed to-morrow, being St. Mark's day, shall be
+  some ten years now.
+
+  E. Know. In what place, captain?
+
+  Bob. Why, at the beleaguering of Strigonium, where, in less than
+  two hours, seven hundred resolute gentlemen, as any were in Europe,
+  lost their lives upon the breach. I'll tell you, gentlemen, it was
+  the first, but the best leaguer that ever I beheld with these eyes,
+  except the taking in of--what do you call it?--last year, by the
+  Genoways; but that, of all other, was the most fatal and dangerous
+  exploit that ever I was ranged in, since I first bore arms before
+  the face of the enemy, as I am a gentleman and a soldier!
+
+  Step. So! I had as lief as an angel I could swear as well as that
+  gentleman.
+
+  E. Know. Then, you were a servitor at both, it seems; at
+  Strigonium, and what do you call't?
+
+  Bob. O lord, sir! By St. George, I was the first man that entered
+  the breach; and had I not effected it with resolution, I had been
+  slain if I had had a million of lives.
+
+  E. Know. 'Twas pity you had not ten; a cat's and your own, i'faith.
+  But, was it possible?
+
+  Mat. Pray you mark this discourse, sir.
+
+  Step. So I do.
+
+  Bob. I assure' you, upon my reputation, 'tis true, and you shall
+  confess.
+
+  E. Know. You must bring me to the rack, first. [Aside.
+
+  Bob. Observe me judicially, sweet sir; they had planted me three
+  demi-culverins just in the mouth of the breach; now, sir, as we
+  were to give on, their master-gunner (a man of no mean skill and
+  mark, you must think,) confronts me with his linstock, ready to
+  give fire; I, spying his intendment, discharged my petronel in his
+  bosom, and with these single arms, my poor rapier, ran violently
+  upon the Moors that guarded the ordnance, and put them pell-mell,
+  to the sword.
+
+  Wel. To the sword! To the rapier, captain.
+
+  E. Know. Oh, it was a good figure observed, sir: but did you all
+  this, captain, without hurting your blade?
+
+  Bob. Without any impeach O' the earth: you shall perceive, sir.
+  [Shews his rapier.] It is the most fortunate weapon that ever rid
+  on poor gentleman's thigh. Shall I tell you, sir? You talk of
+  Morglay, Excalibur, Durindana, or so; tut! I lend no credit to that
+  is fabled of 'em: I know the virtue of mine own, and therefore I
+  dare the boldlier maintain it.
+
+  Step. I marle whether it be a Toledo or no.
+
+  Bob. A most perfect Toledo, I assure you, sir. Step. I have a
+  countryman of his here.
+
+  Mat. Pray you, let's see, sir; yes, faith, it is.
+
+  Bob. This a Toledo! Pish!
+
+  Step. Why do you pish, captain?
+
+  Bob. A Fleming, by heaven! I'll buy them for a guilder a-piece. An
+  I would have a thousand of them.
+
+  E. Know. How say you, cousin? I told you thus much.
+
+  Wel. Where bought you it, master Stephen?
+
+  Step. Of a scurvy rogue soldier: a hundred of lice go with him! He
+  swore it was a Toledo.
+
+  Bob. A poor provant rapier, no better.
+
+  Mat. Mass, I think it be indeed, now I look on't better.
+
+  E. Know. Nay, the longer you look on't, the worse. Put it up, put
+  it up.
+
+  Step. Well, I will put it up; but by--I have forgot the captain's
+  oath, I thought to have sword! by it,--an e'er I meet him--
+
+  Wel. O, it is past help now, sir; you must have patience.
+
+  Step. Whoreson, coney-hatching rascal! I could eat the very hilts
+  for anger.
+
+  E. Know. A sign of good digestion; you have an ostrich stomach,
+  Cousin.
+
+  Step. A stomach! would I had him here, you should see an I had a
+  stomach.
+
+  Wel. It's better as it is.--Come, gentlemen, shall we go?
+                             Enter BRAINWORM, disguised as before.
+  E. Know. A miracle, cousin; look here, look here!
+
+  Step. Oh--'Od's lid. By your leave, do you know me, sir?
+
+  Brai. Ay, sir, I know you by sight.
+
+  Step. You sold me a rapier, did you not?
+
+  Brai. Yes, marry did I, sir.
+
+  Step. You said it was a Toledo, ha?
+
+  Brai. True, I did so.
+
+  Step. But it is none.
+
+  Brai. No, sir, I confess it; it is none.
+
+  Step. Do you confess it? Gentlemen, bear witness, he has confest
+  it:--'Od's will, an you had not confest it.===
+
+  E. Know. Oh, cousin, forbear, forbear! Step. Nay, I have done,
+  cousin.
+
+  Wel. Why, you have done like a gentleman; he has confest it, what
+  would you more?
+
+  Step. Yet, by his leave, he is a rascal, under his favour, do you
+  see.
+
+  E. Know. Ay, by his leave, he is, and under favour: a pretty piece
+  of civility! Sirrah, how dost thou like him?
+
+  Wel. Oh, it's a most precious fool, make much on him: I can compare
+  him to nothing more happily than a drum; for every one may play
+  upon him.
+
+  E. Know. No, no, a child's whistle were far the fitter.
+
+  Brai. Shall I intreat a word with you?
+
+  E. Know. With me, sir? you have not another Toledo to sell, have
+  you?
+
+  Brai. You are conceited, sir: Your name is Master Knowell, as I
+  take it?
+
+  E. Know. You are in the right; you mean not to proceed in the
+  catechism, do you?
+
+  Brai. No, sir; I am none of that coat.
+
+  E. Know. Of as bare a coat, though: well, say, sir.
+
+  Brai. [taking E. Know. aside.] Faith, sir, I am but servant to the
+  drum extraordinary, and indeed, this smoky varnish being washed
+  off, and three or four patches removed, I appear your worship's in
+  reversion, after the decease of your good father, Brainworm.
+
+  E. Know. Brainworm'! 'Slight, what breath of a conjurer hath blown
+  thee hither in this shape?
+
+  Brai. The breath of your letter, sir, this morning; the same that
+  blew you to the Windmill, and your father after you.
+
+  E. Know. My father!
+
+  Brai. Nay, never start, 'tis true; he has followed you over the
+  fields by the foot, as you would do a hare in the snow.
+
+  E. Know. Sirrah Wellbred, what shall we do, sirrah? my father is
+  come over after me.
+
+  Wel. Thy father! Where is he?
+
+  Brai. At justice Clement's house, in Coleman-street, where he but
+  stays my return; and then--
+
+  Wel. Who's this? Brainworm!
+
+  Brai. The same, sir.
+
+  Wel. Why how, in the name of wit, com'st thou transmuted thus?
+
+  Brai. Faith, a device, a device; nay, for the love of reason,
+  gentlemen, and avoiding the danger, stand not here; withdraw, and
+  I'll tell you all.
+
+  Wel. But art thou sure he will stay thy return?
+
+  Brai. Do I live, sir? what a question is that!
+
+  Wel. We'll prorogue his expectation, then, a little: Brainworm,
+  thou shalt go with us.--Come on, gentlemen.==-Nay, I pray thee,
+  sweet Ned, droop not; 'heart, an our wits be so wretchedly dull,
+  that one old plodding brain can outstrip us all, would we were e'en
+  prest to make porters of, and serve out the remnant of our days in
+  Thames-street, or at Custom-house key, in a civil war against the
+  carmen!
+
+  Brai. Amen, amen, amen, say I.                        [Exeunt.
+
+
+
+             SCENE II---The Old Jewry. KITELY'S Warehouse.
+                       Enter KITELY and CASH.
+
+  Kit. What says he, Thomas? did you speak with him?
+
+  Cash. He will expect you, sir, within this half hour.
+
+  Kit. Has he the money ready, can you tell?
+
+  Cash. Yes, sir, the money was brought in last night.
+
+  Kit.
+     O, that is well; fetch me my cloak, my cloak!---    [Exit Cash.
+     Stay, let me see, an hour to go and come;
+     Ay, that will be the least; and then 'twill be
+     An hour before I can dispatch with him,
+     Or very near; well, I will say two hours.
+     Two hours! ha! things never dreamt of yet,
+     May be contrived, ay, and effected too,
+     In two hours' absence; well, I will not go.
+     Two hours! No, fleering Opportunity,
+     I will not give your subtilty that scope.
+     Who will not judge him worthy to be robb'd,
+     That sets his doors wide open to a thief,
+     And shews the felon where his treasure lies?
+     Again, what earthly spirit but will attempt
+     To taste the fruit of beauty's golden tree,
+     When leaden sleep seals up the dragon's eyes?
+     I will not go. Business, go by for once.
+     No, beauty, no; you are of too good caract,
+     To be left so, without a guard, or open,
+     Your lustre, too, 'll inflame at any distance,
+     Draw courtship to you, as a jet doth straws;
+     Put motion in a stone, strike fire from ice,
+     Nay, make a porter leap you with his burden.
+     You must be then kept up, close, and well watch'd,
+     For, give you opportunity, no quick-sand
+     Devours or swallows swifter! He that lends
+     His wife, if she be fair, or time or place,
+     Compels her to be false. I will not go!
+     The dangers are too many;---and then the dressing
+     Is a most main attractive! Our great heads
+     Within this city never were in safety
+     Since our wives wore these little caps: I'll change 'em;
+     I'll change 'em straight in mine: mine shall no more
+     Wear three-piled acorns, to make my horns ake.
+     Nor will I go; I am resolved for that.
+                                      Re-enter CASH with a cloak.
+     Carry in my cloak again. Yet stay. Yet do, too:
+     I will defer going, on all occasions.
+
+  Cash.
+     Sir, Snare, your scrivener, will be there with the bonds.
+
+  Kit.
+     That's true: fool on me! I had clean forgot it;
+     I must go. What's a clock?
+
+  Cash.                        Exchange-time, sir.
+
+  Kit.
+     'Heart, then will Wellbred presently be here too,
+     With one or other of his loose consorts.
+     I am a knave, if I know what to say,
+     What course to take, or which way to resolve.
+     My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass,
+     Wherein my imaginations run like sands,
+     Filling up time; but then are turn'd and turn'd:
+     So that I know not what to stay upon,
+     And less, to put in act.---It shall be so.
+     Nay, I dare build upon his secrecy,
+     He knows not to deceive me.---Thomas!
+
+  Cash. Sir.
+
+  Kit.
+     Yet now I have bethought me too, I will not.---
+     Thomas, is Cob within?
+
+  Cash. I think he be, sir.
+
+  Kit.
+     But he'll prate too, there is no speech of him.
+     No, there were no man on the earth to Thomas,
+     If I durst trust him; there is all the doubt.
+     But should he have a clink in him, I were gone.
+     Lost in my fame for ever, talk for th' Exchange!
+     The manner he hath stood with, till this present,
+     Doth promise no such change: what should I fear then?
+     Well, come what will, I'll tempt my fortune once.
+     Thomas---you may deceive me, but, I hope---
+     Your love to me is more---
+
+  Cash.                        Sir, if a servant's
+    Duty, with faith, may be call'd love, you are
+    More than in hope, you are possess'd of it.
+
+  Kit.
+     I thank you heartily, Thomas: give me your hand:
+     With all my heart, good Thomas. I have, Thomas,
+     A secret to impart unto you---but,
+     When once you have it, I must seal your lips up;
+     So far I tell you, Thomas.
+
+  Cash.                         Sir, for that---
+
+  Kit.
+     Nay, hear me out. Think I esteem you, Thomas,
+     When I will let you in thus to my private.
+     It is a thing sits nearer to my crest,
+     Than thou art 'ware of, Thomas; if thou should'st
+     Reveal it, but---
+
+  Cash.               How, I reveal it?
+
+  Kit.                                     Nay,
+     I do not think thou would'st; but if thou should'st,
+     'Twere a great weakness.
+
+  Cash.                      A great treachery:
+     Give it no other name.
+
+  Kit.                      Thou wilt not do't, then?
+
+  Cash.
+     Sir, if I do, mankind disclaim me ever!
+
+  Kit.
+     He will not swear, he has some reservation,
+     Some conceal'd purpose, and close meaning sure;
+     Else, being urg'd so much, how should he choose
+     But lend an oath to all this protestation?
+     He's no precisian, that I'm certain of,
+     Nor rigid Roman Catholic: he'll play
+     At fayles, and tick-tack; I have heard him swear.
+     What should I think of it? urge him again,
+     And by some other way! I will do so.
+     Well, Thomas, thou hast sworn not to disclose:---
+     Yes, you did swear?
+
+  Cash.
+     Not yet, sir, but I will,
+     Please you---
+
+  Kit.
+                               No, Thomas, I dare take thy word,
+     But, if thou wilt swear, do as thou think'st; good;
+     I am resolv'd without It; at thy pleasure.
+
+  Cash.
+     By my soul's safety then, sir, I protest,
+     My tongue shall ne'er take knowledge of a word
+     Deliver'd me in nature of your trust.
+
+  Kit.
+     It is too much; these ceremonies need not:
+     I know thy faith to be as firm as rock.
+     Thomas, come hither, near; we cannot be
+     Too private in this business. So it is,---
+     Now he has sworn, I dare the safelier venture.       [Aside.
+     I have of late, by divers observations---
+     But whether his oath can bind him, yea, or no,
+     Being not taken lawfully? ha! say you?
+     I will ask council ere I do proceed:----             [Aside.
+     Thomas, it will be now too long to stay,
+     I'll spy some fitter time soon, or to-morrow.
+
+  Cash. Sir, at your pleasure.
+
+  Kit.                        I will think:-and, Thomas,
+     I pray you search the books 'gainst my return,
+     For the receipts 'twixt me and Traps.
+
+  Cash. I will, sir.
+
+  Kit.
+     And hear you, if your mistress's brother, Wellbred,
+     Chance to bring hither any gentleman,
+     Ere I come back, let one straight bring me word.
+
+  Cash. Very well, sir.
+
+  Kit.
+                       To the Exchange, do you hear?
+     Or here in Coleman-street, to justice Clement's.
+     Forget it not, nor be not out of the way.
+
+  Cash. I will not, sir.
+
+  Kit.                    I pray you have a care on't.
+     Or, whether he come or no, if any other,
+     Stranger, or else; fail not to send me word.
+
+  Cash. I shall not, sir.
+
+  Kit.                     Be it your special business
+     Now to remember it.
+
+  Cash. Sir, I warrant you.
+
+  Kit.
+     But, Thomas, this is not the secret, Thomas,
+     I told you of.
+
+  Cash.              No, sir; I do suppose it.
+
+  Kit. Believe me, it is not.
+
+  Cash.                       Sir, I do believe you.
+
+  Kit.
+     By heaven it is not, that's enough: but, Thomas,
+     I would not you should utter it, do you see,
+     To any creature living; yet I care not.
+     Well, I must hence. Thomas, conceive thus much;
+     It was a trial of you, when I meant
+     So deep a secret to you, I mean not this,
+     But that I have to tell you; this is nothing, this.
+     But, Thomas, keep this from my wife, I charge you,
+     Lock'd up in silence, midnight, buried here.---
+     No greater hell than to be slave to fear.           [Exit.
+
+  Cash.
+     Lock'd up in silence, midnight, buried here!
+     Whence should this flood of passion, trow, take head? ha!
+     Best dream no longer of this running humour,
+     For fear I sink; the violence of the stream
+     Already hath transported me so far,
+     That I can feel no ground at all: but soft---
+     Oh, 'tis our water-bearer: somewhat has crost him now.
+                                         Enter COB, hastily.
+
+
+  Cob. Fasting-days! what tell you me of fasting days? 'Slid, would
+  they were all on a light fire for me! they say the whole world
+  shall be consumed with fire one day, but would I had these
+  Ember-weeks and villanous Fridays burnt in the mean time, and
+  then--
+
+  Cash. Why, how now, Cob? what moves thee to this choler, ha?
+
+  Cob. Collar, master Thomas! I scorn your collar, I, sir; I am none
+  O' your cart-horse, though I carry and draw water. An you offer to
+  ride me with your collar or halter either, I may hap shew you a
+  jade's trick, sir.
+
+  Cash. O, you'll slip your head out of the collar? why, goodman Cob,
+  you mistake me.
+
+  Cob. Nay, I have my rheum, and I can be angry as well as another,
+  sir.
+
+  Cash. Thy rheum, Cob! thy humour, thy humour--thou misstak'st.
+
+  Cob. Humour! mack, I think it be so indeed; what is that humour?
+  some rare thing, I warrant.
+
+  Cash. Marry I'll tell thee, Cob: it is a gentlemanlike monster,
+  bred in the special gallantry of our time, by affectation; and fed
+  by folly.
+
+  Cob. How! must it be fed?
+
+  Cash. Oh ay, humour is nothing if it be not fed: didst thou never
+  hear that? it's a common phrase, feed my humour.
+
+  Cob. I'll none on it: humour, avaunt! I know you not, be gone! let
+  who will make hungry meals for your monstership, it shall not be I.
+  Feed you, quoth he! 'slid, I have much ado to feed myself;
+  especially on these lean rascally days too; an't had been any other
+  day but a fasting-day--a plague on them all for me! By this light,
+  one might have done the commonwealth good service, and have drown'd
+  them all in the flood, two or three hundred thousand years ago. O,
+  I do stomach them hugely. I have a maw now, and 'twere for sir
+  Bevis his horse, against them.
+
+  Cash. I pray thee, good Cob, what makes thee so out of love with
+  fasting days?
+
+  Cob. Marry, that which will make any man out of love with 'em, I
+  think; their bad conditions, an you will needs know. First they are
+  of a Flemish breed, I am sure on't, for they raven up more butter
+  than all the days of the week beside; next, they stink of fish and
+  leek-porridge miserably; thirdly, they'll keep a man devoutly
+  hungry all day, and at night send him supperless to bed.
+
+  Cash. Indeed, these are faults, Cob.
+
+  Cob. Nay, an this were all, 'twere something; but they are the only
+  known enemies to my generation. A fasting-day no sooner comes, but
+  my lineage goes to wrack; poor cobs! they smoak for it, they are
+  made martyrs O' the gridiron, they melt in passion: and your maids
+  to know this, and yet would have me turn Hannibal, and eat my own
+  flesh and blood. My princely coz, [pulls out a red herring] fear
+  nothing; I have not the heart to devour you, an I might be made as
+  rich as king Cophetua. O that I had room for my tears, I could weep
+  salt-water enough now to preserve the lives of ten thousand
+  thousand of my kin! But I may curse none but these filthy
+  almanacks; for an't were not for them, these days of persecution
+  would never be known. I'll be hang'd an some fish-monger's son do
+  not make of 'em, and puts in more fasting-days than he should do,
+  because he would utter his father's dried stock--fish and stinking
+  conger.
+
+  Cash. 'Slight peace! thou'lt be beaten like a stock-fish else:
+  here's master Mathew.
+                     Enter WELLIBRED, E. KNOWELL, BRAINWORM,
+                              MATHEW, BOBADILL, and STEPHEN.
+  Now must I look out for a messenger to my master.
+                                                [Exit with Cob.
+  Wel, Beshrew me, but it was an absolute good jest, and exceedingly
+  well carried!
+
+  E. Know. Ay, and our ignorance maintain'd it as well, did it not?
+
+  Wel. Yes, faith; but was it possible thou shouldst not know him? I
+  forgive master Stephen, for he is stupidity itself.
+
+  E. Know. 'Fore God, not I, an I might have been join'd patten with
+  one of the seven wise masters for knowing him. He had so writhen
+  himself into the habit of one of your poor infantry, your decayed;
+  ruinous, worm-eaten gentlemen of the round; such as have vowed to
+  sit on the skirts of the city, let your provost and his half-dozen
+  of halberdiers do what they can; and have translated begging out of
+  the old hackney-pace to a fine easy amble, and made it run as
+  smooth off the tongue as a shove-groat shilling. Into the likeness
+  of one of these reformados had he moulded himself so perfectly,
+  observing every trick of their action, as, varying the accent,
+  swearing with an emphasis, indeed, all with so special and
+  exquisite a grace, that, hadst thou seen him, thou wouldst have
+  sworn he might have been sergeant-major, if not lieutenant-colonel
+  to the regiment.
+
+  Wel. Why, Brainworm, who would have thought thou hadst been such an
+  artificer?
+
+  E. Know. An artificer! an architect. Except a man had studied
+  begging all his life time, and been a weaver of language from his
+  infancy for the cloathing of it, I never saw his rival.
+
+  Wel. Where got'st thou this coat, I marle?
+
+  Brai. Of a Hounsditch man, sir, one of the devil's near kinsmen, a
+  broker.
+
+  Wel. That cannot be, if the proverb hold; for 'A crafty knave needs
+  no broker.'
+
+  Brai. True, sir; but I did need a broker, ergo--
+
+  Wel. Well put off:--no crafty knave, you'll say.
+
+  E. Know. Tut, he has more of these shifts.
+
+  Brai. And yet, where I have one the broker has ten, sir.
+                                                  Reenter CASH
+  Cash. Francis! Martin! ne'er a one to be found now? what a spite's
+  this!
+
+  Wel. How now, Thomas? Is my brother Kitely within?
+
+  Cash. No, sir, my master went forth e'en now; but master Downright
+  is within.--Cob! what, Cob! Is he gone too?
+
+  Wel. Whither went your master, Thomas, canst thou tell?
+
+  Cash. I know not: to justice Clement's, I think, sir--Cob!
+                                                        [Exit
+  E. Know. Justice Clement! what's he? Wel.
+
+  Why, dost thou not know him? He is a city-magistrate, a justice
+  here, an excellent good lawyer, and a great scholar; but the only
+  mad, merry old fellow in Europe. I shewed him you the other day.
+
+  E. Know. Oh, is that he? I remember him now. Good faith, and he is
+  a very strange presence methinks; it shews as if he stood out of
+  the rank from other men: I have heard many of his jests in the
+  University. They say he will commit a man for taking the wall of
+  his horse.
+
+  Wel. Ay, or wearing his cloak on one shoulder, or serving of God;
+  any thing, indeed, if it come in the way of his humour.
+
+                         Re-enter CASH.
+
+  Cash. Gasper! Martin! Cob! 'Heart, where should they be trow?
+
+  Bob. Master Kitely's man, pray thee vouchsafe us the lighting of
+  this match.
+                                                             [Exit.
+  Cash. Fire on your match! no time but now to vouchsafe?--Francis!
+  Cob!
+
+  Bob. Body O' me! here's the remainder of seven pound since
+  yesterday was seven-night. 'Tis your right Trinidado: did you never
+  take any master Stephen?
+
+  Step. No, truly, sir; but I'll learn to take it now, since you
+  commend it so.
+
+  Bob. Sir, believe me, upon my relation for what I tell you, the
+  world shall not reprove. I have been in the Indies, where this herb
+  grows, where neither myself, nor a dozen gentlemen more of my
+  knowledge, have received the taste of any other nutriment in the
+  world, for the space of one and twenty weeks, but the fume of this
+  simple only: therefore, it cannot be, but 'tis most divine.
+  Further, take it in the nature, in the true kind; so, it makes an
+  antidote, that, had you taken the most deadly poisonous plant in
+  all Italy, it should expel it, and clarify you, with as much ease
+  as I speak. And for your green wound,--your Balsamum and your St.
+  John's wort, are all mere gulleries and trash to it, especially
+  your Trinidado: your Nicotian is good too. I could say what I know
+  of the virtue of it, for the expulsion of rheums, raw humours,
+  crudities, obstructions, with a thousand of this kind; but I
+  profess myself no quack-salver. Only thus much; by Hercules, I do
+  hold it, and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, to be the
+  most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth tendered to
+  the use of man.
+
+  E. Know. This speech would have done decently in a tobacco-trader's
+  mouth.
+
+                           Re-enter CASH with COB.
+
+  Cash. At justice Clement's he is, in the middle of Coleman-street.
+
+  Cob. Oh, oh!
+
+  Bob. Where's the match I gave thee, master Kitely's man?
+
+  Cash. Would his match and he, and pipe and all, were at Sancto
+  Domingo! I had forgot it.
+                                                    [Exit.
+  Cob. 'Od's me, I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in
+  taking this roguish tobacco. It's good for nothing but to choke a
+  man, and fill him full of smoke and embers: there were four died
+  out of one house last week with taking of it, and two more the bell
+  went for yesternight; one of them, they say, will never scape it;
+  he voided a bushel of soot yesterday, upward and downward. By the
+  stocks, an there were no wiser men than I, I'd have it present
+  whipping, man or woman, that should but deal with a tobacco pipe:
+  why, it will stifle them all in the end, as many as use it; it's
+  little better than ratsbane or rosaker.
+                                          [Bobadill beats him.
+  All. Oh, good captain, hold, hold!
+
+  Bob. You base cullion, you!
+
+                              Re-enter CASH.
+
+  Cash. Sir, here's your match. Come, thou must needs be talking too,
+  thou'rt well enough served.
+
+  Cob. Nay, he will not meddle with his match, I warrant you: well,
+  it shall be a dear beating, an I live.
+
+  Bob. Do you prate, do you murmur?
+
+  E. Know. Nay, good captain, will you regard the humour of a fool?
+  Away, knave.
+
+  Wel. Thomas, get him away.               [Exit Cash with Cob.
+
+  Bob. A whoreson filthy slave, a dung-worm, an excrement! Body O'
+  Caesar, but that I scorn to let forth so mean a spirit, I'd have
+  stabb'd him to the earth.
+
+  Wel. Marry, the law forbid, sir!
+
+  Bob. By Pharaoh's foot, I would have done it.
+
+  Step. Oh, he swears most admirably! By Pharaoh's foot! Body O'
+  Caesar!--I shall never do it, sure. Upon mine honour, and by St.
+  George!--No, I have not the right grace.
+
+  Mat. Master Stephen, will you any? By this air, the most divine
+  tobacco that ever I drunk.
+                                              [Practises at the post.
+  As I am a gentleman! By--                   [Exeunt Bob. and Mat.
+
+  Step. None, I thank you, sir. O, this gentleman does it rarely,
+  too: but nothing like the other. By this air!
+
+  Brai. [pointing to Master Stephen.] Master, glance, glance! master
+  Wellbred!
+
+  Step. As I have somewhat to be saved, I protest--
+
+  Wel. You are a fool; it needs no affidavit.
+
+  E. Know. Cousin, will you any tobacco?
+
+  Step. I, sir! Upon my reputation--
+
+  E. Know. How now, cousin!
+
+  Step. I protest, as I am a gentleman, but no soldier, indeed--
+
+  Wel. No, master Stephen! As I remember, your name is entered in the
+  artillery-garden.
+
+  Step. Ay, sir, that's true. Cousin, may I swear, as I am a soldier,
+  by that?
+
+  E. Know. O yes, that you may; it is all you have for your money.
+
+  Step. Then, as I am a gentleman, and a soldier, it is "divine
+  tobacco!"
+
+  Wel. But soft, where's master Mathew! Gone?
+
+  Brai. No, sir; they went in here.
+
+  Wel. O let's follow them: master Mathew is gone to salute his
+  mistress in verse; we shall have the happiness to hear some of his
+  poetry now; he never comes unfinished.--Brainworm!
+
+  Step. Brainworm! Where? Is this Brainworm?
+
+  E. Know. Ay, cousin; no words of it, upon your gentility.
+
+  Step. Not I, body of me! By this air! St. George! and the foot of
+  Pharaoh!
+
+  Wel. Rare! Your cousin's discourse is simply drawn out with oaths.
+
+  E. Know. 'Tis larded with them; a kind of French dressing, if you
+  love it.
+                                                          [Exeunt.
+
+
+
+          SCENE III-Coleman-Street. A Room in Justice CLEMENT'S House.
+                         Enter KITELY and COB.
+
+
+  Kit. Ha! how many are there, say'st thou?
+
+  Cob. Marry, sir, your brother, master Wellbred--
+
+  Kit. Tut, beside him: what strangers are there, man?
+
+  Cob. Strangers? let me see, one, two; mass; I know not well,--
+  there are so many.
+
+  Kit. How! so many?
+
+  Cob. Ay, there's some five or six of them at the most.
+
+  Kit.
+     A swarm, a swarm!
+     Spite of the devil...how they sting my head
+     With forked stings, thus wide and large!
+     But, Cob, How long hast thou been coming hither, Cob?
+
+  Cob. A little while, sir.
+
+  Kit. Didst thou come running?
+
+  Cob. No, sir.
+
+  Kit.
+     Nay, then I am familiar with thy haste.
+     Bane to my fortunes! what meant I to marry?
+     I, that before was rank'd in such content,
+     My mind at rest too, in so soft a peace,
+     Being free master of mine own free thoughts,
+     And now become a slave? What! never sigh;
+     Be of good cheer, man; for thou art a cuckold:
+     'Tis done, 'tis done! Nay, when such flowing-store,
+     Plenty itself, falls into my wife's lap,
+     The cornucopiae will be mine, I know.--But, Cob,
+     What entertainment had they? I am sure
+     My sister and my wife would bid them welcome: ha?
+
+  Cob. Like enough, sir; yet I heard not a word of it.
+
+  Kit.
+     No;
+     Their lips were seal'd with kisses, and the voice,
+     Drown'd in a flood of joy at their arrival,
+     Had lost her motion, state and faculty.--
+     Cob,
+     Which of them was it that first kiss'd my wife,
+     My sister, I should say?--My wife, alas!
+     I fear not her: ha! who was it say'st thou?
+
+  Cob. By my troth, sir, will you have the truth of it?
+
+  Kit. Oh, ay, good Cob, I pray thee heartily.
+
+
+  Cob. Then I am a vagabond, and fitter for Bridewell than your
+  worship's company, if I saw any body to be kiss'd, unless they
+  would have kiss'd the post in the middle of the warehouse; for
+  there I left them all at their tobacco, with a pox!
+
+  Kit. How! were they not gone in then ere thou cam'st?
+
+  Cob. O no, sir.
+
+  Kit. Spite of the devil! what do I stay here then? Cob, follow me.
+                                                               [Exit.
+  Cob. Nay, soft and fair; I have eggs on the spit; I cannot go yet,
+  sir. Now am I, for some five and fifty reasons, hammering,
+  hammering revenge: oh for three or four gallons of vinegar, to
+  sharpen my wits! Revenge, vinegar revenge, vinegar and mustard
+  revenge! Nay, an he had not lien in my house, 'twould never have
+  grieved me; but being my guest, one that, I'll be sworn, my wife
+  has lent him her smock off her back, while his own shirt has been
+  at washing; pawned her neck-kerchers for clean bands for him; sold
+  almost all my platters, to buy him tobacco; and he to turn monster
+  of ingratitude, and strike his lawful host! Well, I hope to raise
+  up an host of fury for't: here comes justice Clement.
+
+              Enter Justice CLEMENT, KNOWELL, and FORMAL.
+
+  Clem. What's master Kitely gone, Roger?
+
+  Form. Ay, sir.
+
+  Clem. 'Heart O' me! what made him leave us so abruptly?--How now,
+  sirrah! what make you here? what would you have, ha?
+
+  Cob. An't please your worship, I am a poor neighbour of your
+  worship's--
+
+  Clem. A poor neighbour of mine! Why, speak, poor neighbour.
+
+  Cob. I dwell, sir, at the sign of the Water-tankard, hard by the
+  Green Lattice: I have paid scot and lot there any time this
+  eighteen years.
+
+  Clem. To the Green Lattice?
+
+  Cob. No, sir, to the parish: Marry, I have seldom scaped scot-free
+  at the Lattice.
+
+  Clem. O, well; what business has my poor neighbour with me?
+
+  Cob. An't like your worship, I am come to crave the peace of your
+  worship.
+
+  Clem. Of me, knave! Peace of me, knave! Did I ever hurt thee, or
+  threaten thee, or wrong thee, ha?
+
+  Cob. No, sir; but your worship's warrant for one that has wrong'd
+  me, sir: his arms are at too much liberty, I would fain have them
+  bound to a treaty of peace, an my credit could compass it with your
+  worship.
+
+  Clem. Thou goest far enough about for't, I am sure.
+
+  Kno. Why, dost thou go in danger of thy life for him, friend?
+
+  Cob. No, sir; but I go in danger of my death every hour, by his
+  means; an I die within a twelve-month and a day, I may swear by the
+  law of the land that he killed me.
+
+  Clem. How, how, knave, swear he killed thee, and by the law? What
+  pretence, what colour hast thou for that?
+
+  Cob. Marry, an't please your worship, both black and blue; colour
+  enough, I warrant you. I have it here to shew your worship.
+
+  Clem. What is he that gave you this, sirrah?
+
+  Cob. A gentleman and a soldier, he says, he is, of the city here.
+
+  Clem. A soldier of the city! What call you him?
+
+  Cob. Captain Bobadill.
+
+  Clem. Bobadill! and why did he bob and beat you, sirrah?  How began
+  the quarrel betwixt you, ha? speak truly, knave, I advise you.
+
+  Cob. Marry, indeed, an't please your worship, only because I spake
+  against their vagrant tobacco, as I came by them when they were
+  taking on't; for nothing else.
+
+  Clem. Ha! you speak against tobacco? Formal, his name.
+
+  Form. What's your name, sirrah?
+
+  Cob. Oliver, sir, Oliver Cob, sir.
+
+  Clem. Tell Oliver Cob he shall go to the jail, Formal.
+
+  Form. Oliver Cob, my master, justice Clement, says you shall go to
+  the jail.
+
+  Cob. O, I beseech your worship, for God's sake, dear master
+  justice!
+
+  Clem. 'Sprecious! an such drunkards and tankards as you are, come
+  to dispute of tobacco once, I have done: away with him!
+
+  Cob, O, good master justice! Sweet old gentleman! [To Knowell.
+
+  Know. "Sweet Oliver," would I could do thee any good!--justice
+  Clement, let me intreat you, sir.
+
+  Clem. What! a thread-bare rascal, a beggar, a slave that never
+  drunk out of better than piss-pot metal in his life! and he to
+  deprave and abuse the virtue of an herb so generally received in
+  the courts of princes, the chambers of nobles, the bowers of sweet
+  ladies, the cabins of soldiers!--Roger, away with him! 'Od's
+  precious--I say, go to.
+
+  Cob. Dear master justice, let me be beaten again, I have deserved
+  it: but not the prison, I beseech you.
+
+  Know. Alas, poor Oliver!
+
+  Clem. Roger, make him a warrant:--he shall not go,  but I fear the
+  knave.
+
+  Form. Do not stink, sweet Oliver, you shall not go; my master will
+  give you a warrant.
+
+  Cob. O, the Lord maintain his worship, his worthy worship!
+
+  Clem. Away, dispatch him. [Exeunt Formal and Cob;] How now, master
+  Knowell, in dumps, in dumps! Come, this becomes not.
+
+  Know. Sir, would I could not feel my cares.
+
+  Clem. Your cares are nothing: they are like my cap, soon put on,
+  and as soon put off. What! your son is old enough to govern
+  himself: let him run his course, it's the only way to make him a
+  staid man. If he were an unthrift, a ruffian, a drunkard, or a
+  licentious liver, then you had reason; you had reason to take care:
+  but, being none of these, mirth's my witness, an I had twice so
+  many cares as you have, I'd drown them all in a cup of sack. Come,
+  come, let's try it: I muse your parcel of a soldier returns not all
+  this while.
+                                                          [Exeunt.
+
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV
+
+                    SCENE I---A Room in KITELY'S House.
+                     Enter DOWNRIGTIT and Dame KITELY.
+
+
+  Dow. Well, sister, I tell you true; and you'll find it so in the
+  end.
+
+  Dame K. Alas, brother, what would you have me to do? I cannot help
+  it; you see my brother brings them in here; they are his friends.
+
+  Dow. His friends! his fiends. 'Slud! they do nothing but haunt him
+  up and down like a sort of unlucky spirits, and tempt him to all
+  manner of villainy that can be thought of. Well, by this light, a
+  little thing would make me play the devil with some of them: an
+  'twere not more for your husband's sake than anything else, I'd
+  make the house too hot for the best on 'em; they should say, and
+  swear, hell were broken loose, ere they went hence. But, by God's
+  will, 'tis nobody's fault but yours; for an you had done as you
+  might have done, they should have been parboiled, and baked too,
+  every mother's son, ere they should have come in, e'er a one of
+  them.
+
+  Dame K. God's my life! did you ever hear the like? what a strange
+  man is this! Could I keep out all them, think you? I should put
+  myself against half a dozen men, should I? Good faith, you'd mad
+  the patien'st body in the world; to hear you talk so, without any
+  sense or reason.
+
+               Enter Mistress BRIDGET, Master MATHEW, and BOBADILL;
+               followed, at a distance, by WELLBRED, E. KNOWELL,
+               STEPHEN, and BRAINWORM.
+
+  Brid.
+     Servant, in troth you are too prodigal
+     Of your wit's treasure, thus fu pour it forth
+     Upon so mean a subject as my worth.
+
+
+  Mat. You say well, mistress, and I mean as well.
+
+  Dow. Hoy-day, here is stuff!
+
+  Wel. O, now stand close; pray Heaven, she can get him to read! he
+  should do it of his own natural impudency.
+
+  Brid. Servant, what is this same, I pray you?
+
+  Mat. Marry, an elegy, an elegy, an odd toy--
+
+  Dow. To mock an ape withal! O, I could sew up his mouth, now.
+
+  Dame K. Sister, I pray you let's hear it.
+
+  Dow. Are you rhyme-given too?
+
+  Mat. Mistress, I'll read it if you please.
+
+  Brid. Pray you do, servant.
+
+  Dow. O, here's no foppery! Death! I can endure the stocks better.
+                                                          [Exit.
+
+  E. Know. What ails thy brother? can he not hold his water at
+  reading of a ballad?
+
+  Wel. O, no; a rhyme fu him is worse than cheese, or a bag-pipe; but
+  mark; you lose the protestation.
+
+  Mat. Faith, I did it in a humour; I know not how it is; but please
+  you come near, sir. This gentleman has judgment, he knows how to
+  censure of a--pray you, sir, you can judge?
+
+  Step. Not I, sir; upon my reputation, and by the foot of Pharaoh!
+
+  Wel. O, chide your cousin for swearing.
+
+  E. Know. Not I, so long as he does not forswear himself.
+
+  Bob. Master Mathew, you abuse the expectation of your dear
+  mistress, and her fair sister: fie! while you live avoid this
+  prolixity.
+
+  Mat. I shall, sir, well; incipere dulce.
+
+  E. Know. How, insipere duke! a sweet thing to be a fool, indeed!
+
+  Wel. What, do you take incipere in: that sense?
+
+  E. Know. You do not, you! This was your villainy, to gull him with
+  a motte.
+
+  Wel. O, the benchers' phrase: pauca verba, pauca verba!
+
+  Mat.
+     Rare creature, let me speak without offence,
+     Would God my rude words had the influence
+     To rule thy thoughts, as thy fair looks do mine,
+     Then shouldst thou be his prisoner, who is thine.
+
+  E. Know. This is Hero and Leander.
+
+  Wel. O, ay: peace, we shall have more of this.
+
+  Mat.
+     Be not unkind and fair: misshapen stuff
+     Is of behaviour boisterous and rough.
+
+  Wel. How like you that, sir?     [Master Stephen shakes his head.
+
+  E. Know. 'Slight, he shakes his head like a bottle, to feel an there
+  be any brain in it.
+
+  Mat. But observe the catastrophe, now:
+     And I in duty will exceed all other,
+     As you in beauty do excel Love's mother.
+
+  E. Know. Well, I'll have him free of the wit-brokers, for he
+  utters nothing but stolen remnants.
+
+  Wel. O, forgive it him.
+
+  E. Know. A filching rogue, hang him!---and from the dead! it's
+  worse than sacrilege.
+           WELLBRED, E. KNOWELL, and Master STEPHEN, come forward.
+
+  Wel. Sister, what have you here, verses? pray you let's see: who
+  made these verses? they are excellent good.
+
+  Mat. O, Master Wellbred, 'tis your disposition to say so, sir. They
+  were good in the morning: I made them ex tempore this morning.
+
+  Wel. How! ex tempore?
+
+  Mat. Ay, would I might be hanged else; ask Captain Bobadill: he saw
+  me write them, at the--pox on it!--the Star, yonder.
+
+  Brai. Can he find in his heart to curse the stars so?
+
+  E. Know. Faith, his are even with him; they have curst him enough
+  already.
+
+  Step. Cousin, how do you like this gentleman's verses?
+
+  E. Know. O, admirable! the best that ever I heard, coz.
+
+  Step. Body O' Caesar, they are admirable! the best that I ever
+  heard, as I am a soldier!
+
+                          Re-enter DOWNRIGHT.
+
+  Dow. I am vext, I can hold ne'er a bone of me still: 'Heart, I
+  think they mean to build and breed here.
+
+  Wet. Sister, you have a simple servant here, that crowns your
+  beauty with such encomiums and devices; you may see what it is to
+  be the mistress of a wit, that can make your perfections so
+  transparent, that every blear eye may look through them, and see
+  him drowned over head and ears in the deep well of desire: Sister
+  Kitely. I marvel you get you not a servant that can rhyme, and do
+  tricks too.
+
+  Dow. O monster! impudence itself! tricks!
+
+  Dame K. Tricks, brother! what tricks?
+
+  Brid. Nay, speak, I pray you what tricks?
+
+  Dame K. Ay, never spare any body here; but say, what tricks.
+
+  Brid. Passion of my heart, do tricks!
+
+  Wel. 'Slight, here's a trick vied and revied! Why, you monkeys,
+  you, what a cater-wauling do you keep! has he not given you rhymes
+  and verses and tricks?
+
+  Dow. O, the fiend!
+
+  Wel. Nay, you lamp of virginity, that take it in snuff so, come,
+  and cherish this tame poetical fury in your servant; you'll be
+  begg'd else shortly for a concealment: go to, reward his muse. You
+  cannot give him less than a shilling in conscience, for the book he
+  had it out of cost him a teston at least. How now, gallants! Master
+  Mathew! Captain! what, all sons of silence, no spirit?
+
+  Dow. Come, you might practise your ruffian tricks somewhere else,
+  and not here, I wuss; this is no tavern or drinking-school, to vent
+  your exploits in.
+
+  Wel. How now; whose cow has calved?
+
+  Dow. Marry, that has mine, sir.
+
+  Nay, boy, never look askance at me for the matter; I'll tell you of
+  it, I, sir; you and your companions mend yourselves when I have
+  done.
+
+  Wel. My companions!
+
+  Dow. Yes, sir, your companions, so I say; I am not afraid of you,
+  nor them neither; your hang-byes here. You must have your poets and
+  your potlings, your soldados and foolados to follow you up and down
+  the city; and here they must come to domineer and swagger. Sirrah,
+  you ballad-singer, and slops your fellow there, get you out, get
+  you home; or by this steel, I'll cut off your ears, and that
+  presently.
+
+  Wel. 'Slight, stay, let's see what he dare do; cut off his ears!
+  cut a whetstone. You are an ass, do you see; touch any man here,
+  and by this hand I'll run my rapier to the hilts in you.
+
+  Dow. Yea, that would I fain see, boy.
+                                           [They all draw.
+  Dame K. O Jesu! murder! Thomas! Gasper!
+
+  Brid. Help, help! Thomas!
+
+                   Enter CASH and some of the house to part them.
+
+  E. Know. Gentlemen, forbear, I pray' you.
+
+  Bob. Well, sirrah, you Holofernes; by my hand, I will pink your
+  flesh full of holes with my rapier for this; I will, by this good
+  heaven! nay, let him come, let him come, gentlemen; by the body of
+  St. George, I'll not kill him.
+                               [Offer to fight again, and are parted.
+  Gash. Hold, hold, good gentlemen. Dow. You whoreson, bragging
+  coystril!
+
+                               Enter KITELY.
+
+  Kit.
+     Why, how now! what's the matter, what's the stir here?
+     Whence springs the quarrel? Thomas! where is he?
+     Put up your weapons, and put off this rage:
+     My wife and sister, they are the cause of this.
+     What, Thomas! where is the knave?
+
+
+  Gash. Here, sir.
+
+  Wel. Come, let's go: this is one of my brother's ancient humours,
+  this.
+
+  Step. I am glad nobody was hurt by his ancient humour.
+
+      [Exeunt Wellbred, Stephen, E. Knowell, Bobadill, and Brainworm.
+
+
+  Kit. Why, how now, brother, who enforced this brawl?
+
+  Dow. A sort of lewd rake-hells, that care neither for God nor the
+  devil And they must come here to read ballads, and roguery, and
+  trash! I'll mar the knot of 'em ere I sleep, perhaps; especially
+  Bob there, he that's all manner of shapes: and songs and sonnets,
+  his fellow.
+
+  Brid.
+     Brother, indeed you are too violent,
+     Too sudden in your humour: and you know
+     My brother Wellbred's temper will not bear
+     Any reproof, chiefly in such a presence,
+     Where every slight disgrace he should receive
+     Might wound him in opinion and respect.
+
+
+  Dow. Respect! what talk you of respect among such, as have no spark
+  of manhood, nor good manners? 'Sdeins, I am ashamed to hear you'!
+  respect!
+                                                        [Exit.
+  Brid.
+     Yes, there was one a civil gentleman,
+     And very worthily demeaned himself.
+
+  Kit. O, that was some love of yours, sister.
+
+  Brid.
+     A love of mine! I would it were no worse, brother;
+     You'd pay my portion sooner than you think for.
+
+  Dame K. Indeed he seem'd to be a gentleman of a very exceeding
+  fair disposition, and of excellent good parts.
+                                [Exeunt Dame Kitely and Bridget.
+
+  Kit.
+     Her love, by heaven! my wife's minion.
+     Fair disposition! excellent good parts!
+     Death! these phrases are intolerable.
+     Good parts! how should she know his parts?
+     His parts! Well, well, well, well, well, well;
+     It is too plain, too clear: Thomas, come hither.
+     What, are they gone?
+
+  Cash.                   Ay, sir, they went in.
+
+     My mistress and your sister--
+
+  Kit. Are any of the gallants within?
+
+  Cash. No, sir, they are all gone.
+
+  Kit. Art thou sure of it---?
+
+  Cash. I can assure you, sir.
+
+  Kit. What gentleman was that they praised so, Thomas?
+
+  Cash. One, they call him Master Knowell, a handsome young
+  gentleman, sir.
+
+  Kit.
+     Ay, I thought so; my mind gave me as much:
+     I'll die, but they have hid him in the house,
+     Somewhere, I'll go and search; go with me, Thomas:
+     Be true to me, and thou shalt find me a master.
+                                                          [Exeunt.
+
+
+
+              SCENE II.---The Lane before COB'S House.
+                         Enter COB
+
+  Cob. [knocks at the door.] What, Tib! Tib, I say!
+
+  Tib. [within.] How now, what cuckold is that knocks so hard?
+
+                          Enter Tib.
+
+  O, husband! is it you? What's the news?
+
+  Cob. Nay, you have stunn'd me, i'faith; you have, given me a
+  knock O' the forehead will stick by me. Cuckold! 'Slid, cuckold!
+
+  Tib. Away, you fool! did I know it was you that knocked?
+  Come, come, you may call me as bad when you list.
+
+  Cob. May I? Tib, you are a whore.
+
+  Tib. You lie in your throat, husband.
+
+  Cob. How, the lie! and in my throat tool do you long to be
+  stabb'd, ha?
+
+  Tib. Why, you are no soldier, I hope.
+
+  Cob. O, must you be stabbed by a soldier? Mass, that's true! when
+  was Bobadill here, your captain? that rogue, that foist, that
+  fencing Burgullion? I'll tickle him, i'faith.
+
+  Tib. Why, what's the matter, trow?
+
+  Cob. O, he has basted me rarely, sumptuously! but I have it here in
+  black and white, [pulls out the warrant.] for his black and blue
+  shall pay him. O, the justice, the honestest old brave Trojan in
+  London; I do honour the very flea of his dog. A plague on him,
+  though, he put me once in a villanous filthy fear; marry, it
+  vanished away like the smoke of tobacco; but I was smoked soundly
+  first. I thank the devil, and his good angel, my guest. Well, wife,
+  or Tib, which you will, get you in, and lock the door; I charge you
+  let nobody in to you, wife; nobody in to you; those are my words:
+  not Captain Bob himself, nor the fiend in his likeness. You are a
+  woman, you have flesh and blood enough in you to be tempted;
+  therefore keep the door shut upon all comers.
+
+  Tib. I warrant you, there shall nobody enter here without my
+  consent.
+
+  Cob. Nor with your consent, sweet Tib; and so I leave you.
+
+  Tib. It's more than you know, whether you leave me so.
+
+  Cob. How?
+
+  Tib. Why, sweet.
+
+  Cob.
+     Tut, sweet or sour, thou art a flower.
+     Keep close thy door, I ask no more.
+                                                      [Exeunt.
+
+
+                SCENE III.-A Room in the Windmill Tavern.
+          Enter E. KNOWELL, WELLBRED, STEPHEN, and BRAINWORM,
+                        disguised as before.
+
+  E. Know. Well, Brainworm, perform this business happily, and thou
+  makest a purchase of my love for ever.
+
+  Wel. I'faith, now let thy spirits use their best faculties: but, at
+  any hand, remember the message to my brother; for there's no other
+  means to start him.
+
+  Brai. I warrant you, sir; fear nothing; I have a nimble soul has
+  waked all forces of my phant'sie by this time, and put them in true
+  motion. What you have possest me withal, I'll discharge it amply,
+  sir; make it no question.
+                                                          [Exit.
+  Wel. Forth, and prosper, Brainworm. Faith, Ned, how dost thou
+  approve of my abilities in this device?
+
+  E. Know. Troth, well, howsoever; but it will come excellent if it
+  take.
+
+  Wel. Take, man! why it cannot choose but take, if the circumstances
+  miscarry not: but, tell me ingenuously, dost thou affect my sister
+  Bridget as thou pretend'st?
+
+  E. Know. Friend, am I worth belief?
+
+  Wel. Come, do not protest. In faith, she is a maid of good
+  ornament, and much modesty; and, except I conceived very worthily
+  of her, thou should'st not have her.
+
+  E. Know. Nay, that I am afraid, will be a question yet, whether I
+  shall have her, or no.
+
+  Wel. 'Slid, thou shalt have her; by this light thou shalt.
+
+  E. Know. Nay, do not swear.
+
+  Wel. By this hand thou shalt have her; I'll go fetch her presently.
+  'Point but where to meet, and as I am an honest man I'll bring her.
+
+  E. Know. Hold, hold, be temperate.
+
+  Wel. Why, by--what shall I swear by? thou shalt have her, as I am--
+
+  E. Know. Praythee, be at peace, I am satisfied; and do believe thou
+  wilt omit no offered occasion to make my desires complete.
+
+  Wel. Thou shalt see, and know, I will not.
+                                                 [Exeunt.
+
+
+
+                        SCENE IV.-The Old Jewry.
+                       Enter FORMAL and KNOWELL.
+
+  Form. Was your man a soldier, sir?
+
+  Know.                              Ay, a knave
+     I took him begging O' the way, this morning,
+     As I came over Moorfields.
+                           Enter BRAINWORM. disguised as before.
+     O, here he is!---you've made fair speed, believe me,
+     Where, in the name of sloth, could you be thus?
+
+  Brai. Marry, peace be my comfort, where I thought I should have
+  had little comfort of your worship's service.
+
+  Know. How so?
+
+  Brai. O, sir, your coming to the city, your entertainment of me,
+  and your sending me to watch---indeed all the circumstances either
+  of your charge, or my employment, are as open to your son, as to
+  yourself.
+
+  Know.
+     How should that be, unless that villain, Brainworm,
+     Have told him of the letter, and discover'd
+     All that I strictly charg'd him to conceal?
+     'Tis so.
+
+  Brai. I am partly O' the faith, 'tis so, indeed.
+
+  Know. But, how should he know thee to be my man?
+
+  Brai. Nay, sir, I cannot tell; unless it be by the black art. Is
+  not your son a scholar, sir?
+
+  Know.
+     Yes, but I hope his soul is not allied
+     Unto such hellish practice: if it were,
+     I had just cause to weep my part in him,
+     And curse the time of his creation.
+     But, where didst thou find them, Fitz-Sword?
+
+  Brai. You should rather ask where they found me, sir; for I'll
+  be sworn, I was going along in the street, thinking nothing, when,
+  of a sudden, a voice calls, Mr. Knowell's man! another cries,
+  Soldier! and thus half a dozen of them, till they had call'd me
+  within a house, where I no sooner came, but they seem'd men, and
+  out flew all their rapiers at my bosom, with some three or four
+  score oaths to accompany them; and all to tell me, I was but a
+  dead man, if I did not confess where you were, and how I was
+  employed, and about what; which when they could not get out of
+  me, (as, I protest, they must have dissected, and made an anatomy
+  of me first, and so I told them,) they lock'd me up into a room
+  in the top of a high house, whence by great miracle (having a
+  light heart) I slid down by a bottom of packthread into the
+  street, and so 'scaped. But, sir, thus much I can assure you,
+  for I heard it while I was lock'd up, there were a great many
+  rich merchants and brave citizens' wives with them at a feast;
+  and your son, master Edward, withdrew with one of them, and has
+  'pointed to meet her anon at one Cob's house a water-bearer
+  that dwells by the Wall. Now, there your worship shall be sure
+  to take him, for there he preys, and fail he will not.
+
+  Know.
+     Nor will I fail to break his match, I doubt not.
+     Go thoualong with justice Clement's man,
+     And stay there for me.    At one Cob's house, say'st thou?
+
+
+  Brai. Ay, sir, there you shall have him. [Exit Knowell.] Yes--
+  invisible! Much wench, or much son! 'Slight, when he has staid
+  there three or four hours, travailing with the expectation of
+  wonders, and at length be deliver'd of air!  O the sport that I
+  should then take to look on him, if I durst! But now, I mean to
+  appear no more afore him in this shape: I have another trick to act
+  yet. O that I were so happy as to light on a nupson now of this
+  justice's novice!--Sir, I make you stay somewhat long.
+
+  Form. Not a whit, sir. Pray you what do you mean, sir?
+
+  Brai. I was putting up some papers.
+
+  Form. You have been lately in the wars, sir, it seems.
+
+  Brai. Marry have I, sir, to my loss, and expense of all, almost.
+
+  Form. Troth, sir, I would be glad to bestow a bottle of wine on
+  you, if it please you to accept it--
+
+  Brai, O, sir
+
+  Form. But to hear the manner of your services, and your devices in
+  the wars; they say they be very strange, and not like those a man
+  reads in the Roman histories, or sees at Mile-end.
+
+  Brai. No, I assure you, sir; why at any time when it please you, I
+  shall be ready to discourse to you all I know;--and more too
+  somewhat.                     [Aside.
+
+  Form. No better time than now, sir; we'll go to the Windmill: there
+  we shall have a cup of neat grist, we call it. I pray you, sir, let
+  me request you to the Windmill.
+
+  Brai. I'll follow you, sir;--and make grist of you, if I have good
+  luck.          [Aside.]
+                                                      [Exeunt.
+
+
+                          SCENE V.-Moorfields.
+           Enter MATHEW, E. KNOWELL, BOBADILL, and STEPHEN.
+
+  Mat. Sir, did your eyes ever taste the like clown of him where we
+  were to-day, Mr. Wellbred's half-brother? I think the whole earth
+  cannot shew his parallel, by this daylight.
+
+  E. Know. We were now speaking of him: captain Bobadill tells me he
+  is fallen foul of you too.
+
+  Mat. O, ay, sir, he threatened me with the bastinado.
+
+  Bob. Ay, but I think, I taught you prevention this morning, for
+  that: You shall kill him beyond question; if you be so generously
+  minded.
+
+  Mat. Indeed, it is a most excellent trick.
+                                                     [Fences.
+  Bob: O, you do not give spirit enough to your motion, you are too
+  tardy, too heavy! O, it must be done like lightning, hay!
+                            [Practises at a post with his cudgel.
+  Mat. Rare, captain!
+
+  Bob. Tut! 'tis nothing, an't be not done in a--punto. E. Know.
+  Captain, did you ever prove yourself upon any of our masters of
+  defence here?
+
+  Mat. O good sir! yes, I hope he has.
+
+  Bob. I will tell you, sir. Upon my first coming to the city, after
+  my long travel for knowledge, in that mystery only, there came
+  three or four of them to me, at a gentleman's house, where it was
+  my chance to be resident at that time, to intreat my presence at
+  their schools: and withal so much importuned me, that I protest to
+  you, as I am a gentleman, I was ashamed of their rude demeanour out
+  of all measure: Well, I told them that to come to a public school,
+  they should pardon me, it was opposite, in diameter, to my humour;
+  but if so be they would give their attendance at my lodging, I
+  protested to do them what right or favour I could, as I was a
+  gentleman, and so forth.
+
+  E. Know. So, sir! then you tried their skill?
+
+  Bob. Alas, soon tried: you shall hear, sir. Within two or three
+  days after, they came; and, by honesty, fair sir, believe me, I
+  graced them exceedingly, shewed them some two or three tricks of
+  prevention have purchased them since a credit to admiration: they
+  cannot deny this; and yet now they hate me, and why? because I am
+  excellent; and for no other vile reason on the earth.
+
+  E. Know. This is strange and barbarous, as ever I heard.
+
+  Bob. Nay, for a more instance of their preposterous natures; but
+  note; sir. They have assaulted me some three, four, five, six of
+  them together, as I have walked alone in divers skirts it'll town,
+  as Turnbull, Whitechapel, Shoreditch, which were then my quarters;
+  and since, upon the Exchange, at my lodging, and at my ordinary:
+  where I have driven them afore me the whole length of a street, in
+  the open view of all our gallants, pitying to hurt them, believe
+  me. Yet all this lenity will not overcome their spleen; they will
+  be doing with the pismire, raising a hill a man may spurn abroad
+  with his foot at pleasure. By myself, I could have slain them all,
+  but I delight not in murder. I am loth to bear any other than this
+  bastinado for them: yet I hold it good polity not to go disarmed,
+  for though I be skilful, I may be oppressed with multitudes.
+
+  E. Know. Ay, believe me, may you, sir: and in my conceit, our whole
+  nation should sustain the loss by it, if it were so.
+
+  Bob. Alas, no? what's a peculiar man to a nation? not seen.
+
+  E. Know. O, but your skill, sir.
+
+  Bob. Indeed, that might be some loss; but who respects it? I will
+  tell you, sir, by the way of private, and under seal; I am a
+  gentleman, and live here obscure, and to myself; but were I known
+  to her majesty and the lords,--observe me,--I would undertake, upon
+  this poor head and life, for the public benefit of the state, not
+  only to spare the entire lives of her subjects in general; but to
+  save the one half, nay, three parts of her yearly charge in holding
+  war, and against what enemy soever. And how would I do it, think
+  you?
+
+  E. Know. Nay, I know not, nor can I conceive.
+
+  Bob. Why thus, sir. I would select nineteen more, to myself.
+  throughout the land; gentlemen they should be of good spirit,
+  strong and able constitution; I would choose them by an instinct, a
+  character that I have: and I would teach these nineteen the special
+  rules, as your punto, your reverso, your stoccata, your imbroccato,
+  your passada, your montanto; till they could all play very near, or
+  altogether as well as myself. This done, say the enemy were forty
+  thousand strong, we twenty would come into the field the tenth of
+  March, or thereabouts; and we would challenge twenty of the enemy;
+  they could not in their honour refuse us: Well, we would kill them;
+  challenge twenty more, kill them; twenty more, kill them; twenty
+  more, kill them too; and thus would we kill every man his twenty a
+  day, that's twenty score; twenty score that's two hundred; two
+  hundred a day, five days a thousand: forty thousand; forty times
+  five, five times forty, two hundred days kills them all up by
+  computation. And this will I venture my poor gentlemanlike carcase
+  to perform, provided there be no treason practised upon us, by fair
+  and discreet manhood; that is, civilly by the sword.
+
+  E. Know. Why, are you so sure of your hand, captain, at all times?
+
+  Bob. Tut! never miss thrust, upon my reputation with you.
+
+  E. Know. I would not stand in Downright's state then, an you meet
+  him, for the wealth of anyone street in London.
+
+  Bob. Why, sir, you mistake me: if he were here now, by this welkin,
+  I would not draw my weapon on him. Let this gentleman do his mind:
+  but I will bastinado him, by the bright sun, wherever I meet him.
+
+  Mat. Faith, and I'll have a fling at him, at my distance.
+
+  E. Know. 'Od's, so, look where he is! yonder he goes.
+                                       [Downright crosses the stage.
+  Dow. What peevish luck have I, I cannot meet with these bragging
+  rascals?
+
+  Bob. It is not he, is it?
+
+  E. Know. Yes, faith, it is he.
+
+  Mat. I'll be hang'd then if that were he.
+
+  E. Know. Sir, keep your hanging good for some greater matter, for I
+  assure you that were he.
+
+  Step. Upon my reputation, it was he.
+
+  Bob. Had I thought it had been he, he must not have gone so: but I
+  can hardly be induced to believe it was he yet.
+
+  E. Know. That I think, sir.
+                                            Re-enter DOWNRIGHT.
+  But see, he is come again.
+
+  Dow. O, Pharaoh's foot, have I found you? Come, draw to your tools;
+  draw, gipsy, or I'll thrash you.
+
+  Bob. Gentleman of valour, I do believe in thee; hear me--
+
+  Dow. Draw your weapon then.
+
+  Bob. Tall man, I never thought on it till now--Body of me, I had
+  a warrant of the peace served on me, even now as I came along, by
+  a water-bearer; this gentleman saw it, Master Mathew.
+
+  Dow. 'Sdeath! you will not draw then?
+                           [Disarms and beats him. Mathew runs away.
+  Bob. Hold, hold! under thy favour forbear!
+
+  Dow. Prate again, as you like this, you whoreson foist you! You'll
+  control the point, you! Your consort is gone; had he staid he had
+  shared with you, sir.
+                                               [Exit.
+
+
+  Bob. Well, gentlemen, bear witness, I was bound to the peace, by
+  this good day.
+
+  E. Know. No, faith, it's an ill day, captain, never reckon it
+  other: but, say you were bound to the peace, the law allows you to
+  defend yourself: that will prove but a poor excuse.
+
+  Bob. I cannot tell, sir; I desire good construction in fair sort. I
+  never sustain'd the like disgrace, by heaven! sure I was struck
+  with a planet thence, for I had no power to touch my weapon.
+
+  E. Know. Ay, like enough; I have heard of many that have been
+  beaten under a planet: go, get you to a surgeon. 'Slid! an these be
+  your tricks, your passadoes, and your montantos, I'll none of them.
+  [Exit Bobadill.] O, manners! that this age should bring forth such
+  creatures! that nature should be at leisure to make them! Come,
+  coz.
+
+  Step. Mass, I'll have this cloak.
+
+  E. Know. 'Od's will, 'tis Downright's.
+
+  Step. Nay, it's mine now, another might have ta'en it up as well:
+  I'll wear it, so I will.
+
+  E. Know. How an he see it? he'll challenge it, assure yourself.
+
+  Step. Ay, but he shall not have it: I'll say I bought it.
+
+  E. Know. Take heed you buy it not too dear, coz.
+                                                    [Exeunt.
+
+
+                  SCENE IV.-A Room in KITELY'S House.
+           Enter KITELY, WELLBRED, Dame KITELY, and BRIDGET,
+
+  Kit.
+     Now, trust me, brother, you were much to blame,
+     T' incense his anger, and disturb the peace
+     Of my poor house, where there are sentinels
+     That every minute watch to give alarms
+     Of civil war, without adjection
+     Of your assistance or occasion.
+
+
+  Wel. No harm done, brother, I warrant you: since there is no harm
+  done, anger costs a man nothing; and a tall man is never his own
+  man till he be angry. To keep his valour in obscurity, is to keep
+  himself as it were in a cloak bag. What's a musician, unless he
+  play? What's a tall man unless he fight? For, indeed, all this my
+  wise brother stands upon absolutely; and that made me fall in with
+  him so resolutely.
+
+  Dame K. Ay, but what harm might have come of it, brother?
+
+  Wel. Might, sister? so might the good warm clothes your husband
+  wears be poisoned, for any thing he knows: or the wholesome wine he
+  drank, even now at the table.
+
+  Kit.
+     Now, God forbid! O me! now I remember
+     My wife drank to me last, and changed the cup,
+     And bade me wear this cursed suit to-day.
+     See, if Heaven suffer murder undiscover'd!
+     I feel me ill; give me some mithridate,
+     Some mithridate and oil, good sister, fetch me:
+     O, I am Sick at heart, I burn. I burn.
+     If you will save my life, go fetch it me.
+
+  Wel. O strange humour! my very breath has poison'd him.
+
+  Brid.
+     Good brother be content, what do you mean?
+     The strength of these extreme conceits will kill you.
+
+  Dame K.
+     Beshrew your heart, blood, brother Wellbred, now,
+     For putting such a toy into his head!
+
+
+  Wel. Is a fit simile a toy? will he be poison'd with a simile?
+  Brother Kitely, what a strange and idle imagination is this! For
+  shame, be wiser. O' my soul there's no such matter.
+
+  Kit. Am I not sick? how am I then not poison'd? Am I not poison'd?
+  how am I then so sick?
+
+  Dame K. If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
+
+  Wel. His jealousy is the poison he has taken.
+                  Enter BRAINWORM, disguised in FORMAL'S clothes.
+
+  Brai. Master Kitely, my master, justice Clement salutes you; and
+  desires to speak with you with all possible speed.
+
+  Kit. No time but now, when I think I am sick, very sick! well, I
+  will wait upon his worship. Thomas! Cob! I must seek them out, and
+  set them sentinels till I return. Thomas! Cob! Thomas!
+                                                  [Exit. Wel.
+  This is perfectly rare, Brainworm; [takes him aside.] but how
+  got'st thou this apparel of the justice's man?
+
+  Brai. Marry, sir, my proper fine pen-man would needs bestow the
+  grist on me, at the Windmill, to hear some martial discourse; where
+  I so marshall'd him, that I made him drunk with admiration; and,
+  because too much heat was the cause of his distemper, I stript him
+  stark naked as he lay along asleep, and borrowed his suit to
+  deliver this counterfeit message in, leaving a rusty armour, and an
+  old brown bill to watch him till my return; which shall be, when I
+  have pawn'd his apparel, and spent the better part O' the money,
+  perhaps.
+
+  Wel. Well, thou art a successful merry knave, Brainworm: his
+  absence will be a good subject for more mirth. I pray thee return
+  to thy young master, and will him to meet me and my sister Bridget
+  at the Tower instantly; for here, tell him the house is so stored
+  with jealousy, there is no room for love to stand up'right in. We
+  must get our fortunes committed to some larger prison, say; and
+  than the Tower, I know no better air, nor where the liberty of the
+  house may do us more present service. Away.
+                                                   Exit Brai.
+
+                  Re-enter KITELY, talking aside to CASH.
+  Kit.
+     Come hither, Thomas. Now my secret's ripe,
+     And thou shalt have it: lay to both thine ears.
+     Hark what I say to thee. I must go forth, Thomas;
+     Be careful of thy promise, keep good watch,
+     Note every gallant, and observe him well,
+     That enters in my absence to thy mistress:
+     If she would shew him rooms, the jest is stale,
+     Follow them, Thomas, or else hang on him,
+     And let him not go after; mark their looks;
+     Note if she offer but to see his band,
+     Or any other amorous toy about him;
+     But praise his leg, or foot: or if she say
+     The day is hot, and bid him feel her hand,
+     How hot it is; O, that's a monstrous thing!
+     Note me all this, good Thomas, mark their sighs,
+     And if they do but whisper, break 'em off:
+     I'll bear thee out in it. Wilt thou do this?
+     Wilt thou be true, my Thomas?
+
+  Cash.                             As truth's self, sir.
+
+  Kit. Why, I believe thee: Where is Cob, now? Cob!
+                                                          [Exit.
+  Dame K. He's ever calling for Cob: I wonder how he employs Cob so.
+
+  Wel. Indeed, sister, to ask how he employs Cob, is a necessary
+  question for you that are his wife, and a thing not very easy for
+  you to be satisfied in; but this I'll assure you, Cob's wife is an
+  excellent bawd, sister, and oftentimes your husband haunts her
+  house; marry, to what end? I cannot altogether accuse him; imagine
+  you what you think convenient: but I have known fair hides have
+  foul hearts ere now, sister.
+
+  Dame K. Never said you truer than that, brother, so much I can tell
+  you for your learning. Thomas, fetch your cloak and go with me.
+  [Exit Gash.] I'll after him presently: I would to fortune I could
+  take him there, i'faith, I'd return him his own, I warrant him!
+                                                            [Exit.
+  Wel. So, let 'em go; this may make sport anon. Now, my fair
+  sister-in-law, that you knew but how happy a thing it were to be
+  fair and beautiful.
+
+  Brid. That touches not me, brother.
+
+  Wel. That's true; that's even the fault of it; for indeed, beauty
+  stands a woman in no stead, unless it procure her touching.--But,
+  sister, whether it touch you or no. It touches your beauties; and I
+  am sure they will abide the touch; an they do not, a plague of all
+  ceruse, say I! and it touches me too in part, though not in
+  the--Well, there's a dear and respected friend of mine, sister,
+  stands very strongly and worthily affected toward you, and hath
+  vowed to inflame whole bonfires of zeal at his heart, in honour of
+  your perfections. I have already engaged my promise to bring you
+  where you shall hear him confirm much more. Ned Knowell is the man,
+  sister: there's no exception against the party. You are ripe for a
+  husband; and a minute's loss to such all occasion, is a great
+  trespass in a wise beauty. What say you, sister? On 'my soul he
+  loves you; will you give him the meeting?
+
+  Brid. Faith, I had very little confidence in mine own constancy,
+  brother, if I durst not meet a man; but this motion of yours
+  savours of an old knight adventurer's servant a little too much,
+  methinks.
+
+  Wel. What' s that, sister?
+
+  Brid. Marry, of the squire.
+
+  Wel. No matter if it did, I would be such an one for my friend. But
+  see, who is return'd to hinder us!
+
+  Reenter KITELY.
+
+  Kit.
+     What villainy is this? call'd out on a false message!
+     This was some plot; I was not sent for.---Bridget,
+     Where is your sister?
+
+  Brid. I think she be gone forth, sir.
+
+  Kit. How! is my wife gone forth? whither, for God's sake?
+
+  Brid. She's gone abroad with Thomas.
+
+  Kit.
+     Abroad with Thomas! Oh, that villain dors me:
+     Beast that I was, to trust him! whither, I pray you,
+     Went she?
+
+  Brid. I know not, sir.
+
+  Wel. I'll tell you, brother, Whither I suspect she's gone;
+
+  Kit. Whither, good brother?
+
+  Wel. To Cob's house, I believe: but, keep my counsel.
+
+  Kit.
+     I will, I will: to Cob's house! doth she haunt Cob's?
+     She's gone a purpose now to cuckold me,
+     With that lewd rascal, who, to win her favour,
+     Hath told her all.
+                                                           [Exit.
+  Wel.                 Come, he is once more gone,
+  Sister, let's lose no time; the affair is worth it.     [Exeunt.
+
+
+
+                        SCENE VII.---A Street.
+                      Enter MATHEW and BOBADILL.
+
+  Mat. I wonder, captain, what they will say of my going away, ha?
+
+  Bob. Why, what should they say; but as of a discreet gentleman;
+  quick, wary, respectful of nature's fair lineaments? and that's
+  all.
+
+  Mat. Why so! but what can they say of your beating?
+
+  Bob. A rude part, a touch with soft wood, a kind of gross battery
+  used, laid on strongly, borne most patiently; and that's all.
+
+  Mat. Ay, but would any man have offered it in Venice, as you say?
+  Bob. Tut! I assure you, no: you shall have there your nobilis, your
+  gentilezza, come in bravely upon your reverse, stand you close,
+  stand you firm, stand you fair, save your retricato with his left
+  leg, come to the assalto with the right, thrust with brave steel,
+  defy your base wood! But wherefore do I awake this remembrance? I
+  was fascinated, by Jupiter; fascinated, but I will be unwitch'd
+  and revenged by law.
+
+  Mat. Do you hear? is it not best to get a warrant, and have him
+  arrested and brought before justice Clement?
+
+  Bob. It were not amiss; would we had it!
+                              Enter BRAINWORM disguised as FORMAL.
+
+  Mat. Why, here comes his man; let's speak to him.
+
+  Bob. Agreed, do you speak,
+
+  Mat. Save you, sir.
+
+  Brai. With all my heart, sir.
+
+  Mat. Sir, there is one Downright hath abused this gentleman and
+  myself, and we determine to make our amends by law: now, if you
+  would do us the favour to procure a warrant to bring him afore your
+  master, you shall be well considered, I assure you, sir.
+
+  Brai. Sir, you know my service is my living; such favours as these
+  gotten of my master is his only preferment, and therefore you must
+  consider me as I may make benefit of my place.
+
+  Mat. How is that, Sir?
+
+  Brai. Faith, sir, the thing is extraordinary, and the gentleman may
+  be of great account; yet, be he what he will, if you will lay me
+  down a brace of angels in my hand you shall have it, otherwise not.
+
+  Mat. How shall we do, captain? he asks a brace of angels, you have
+  no money?
+
+  Bob. Not a cross, by fortune.
+
+  Mat. Nor I, as I am a gentleman, but twopence left of my two
+  shillings in the morning for wine and radish: let's find him some
+  pawn.
+
+  Bob. Pawn! we have none to the value of his demand.
+
+  Mat. O, yes; I'll pawn this jewel in my ear, and you may pawn your
+  silk stockings, and pull up your boots, they will ne'er be mist: it
+  must be done now.
+
+  Bob. Well, an there be no remedy, I'll step aside and pull them
+  off.
+                                                      [Withdraws.
+  Mat. Do you hear, sir? we have no store of money at this time, but
+  you shall have good pawns; look you, sir, this jewel, and that
+  gentleman's silk stockings; because we would have it dispatch'd ere
+  we went to our chambers.
+
+  Brai. I am content, sir; I will get you the What's his name, say
+  you? Downright?
+
+  Mat. Ay, ay, George Downright.
+
+  Brai. What manner of man is he?
+
+  Mat. A tall big man, sir; he goes in a cloak most commonly of
+  silk-russet, laid about with russet lace.
+
+  Brai. 'Tis very good, sir.
+
+  Mat. Here, Sir, here's my jewel.
+
+  Bob. [returning.] And here are my stockings.
+
+  Brai. Well, gentlemen, I'll procure you this warrant presently; but
+  who will you have to serve it?
+
+  Mat. That's true, captain: that must be considered.
+
+  Bob. Body O' me, I know not; 'tis service of danger.
+
+  Brai. Why, you were best get one O' the varlets of the city, a
+  serjeant: I'll appoint you one, if you please.
+
+  Mat. Will you, sir? why, we can wish no better.
+
+  Bob. We'll leave it to you, sir.
+                                           [Exeunt Bob. and Mat.
+  Brai. This is rare! Now will I go and pawn this cloak of the
+  justice's man's at the broker's, for a varlet's suit, and be the
+  varlet myself; and get either more pawns, or more money of
+  Downright, for the arrest.
+                                                      [Exit.
+
+
+
+                SCENE VIII.-The Lane before COB'S House.
+                           Enter KNOWELL.
+
+  Know.
+     Oh, here it is; I am glad I have found it now;
+     Ho! who is within here?
+
+  Tib. [within.] I am within, sir; what's your pleasure?
+
+  Know. To know who is within beside yourself.
+
+  Tib. Why, sir, you are no constable, I hope?
+
+  Know.
+     O, fear you the constable? then I doubt not,
+     You have some guests within deserve that fear;
+     I'll fetch him straight.
+
+                               Enter TIB.
+
+  Tib.                           O' God's name, sir!
+
+  Know. Go to: come tell me, is not young Knowell here?
+
+  Tib. Young Knowell! I know none such, sir, o' mine honesty.
+
+  Know.
+     Your honesty, dame! it flies too lightly from you.
+     There is no way but fetch the constable.
+
+  Tib. The constable! the man is mad, I think.
+                                    [Exit, and claps to the door.
+
+                 Enter Dame KITELY and CASH.
+
+  Cash. Ho! who keeps house here?
+
+  Know.
+     O, this is the female copesmate of my son:
+     Now shall I meet him straight.
+
+  Dame K. Knock, Thomas, hard.
+
+  Cash. Ho, goodwife!
+                            Re-enter TIB.
+  Tib. Why, what's the matter with you?
+
+  Dame K.
+     Why, woman, grieves it you to ope your door?
+     Belike you get something to keep it shut.
+
+  Tib. What mean these questions, pray ye?
+
+  Dame K. So strange you make it! is not my husband here?
+
+  Know. Her husband!
+
+  Dame K. My tried husband, master Kitely?
+
+  Tib. I hope he needs not to be tried here.
+
+  Dame K. No, dame, he does it not for need, but pleasure.
+
+  Tib. Neither for need nor pleasure is he here.
+
+  Know. This is but a device to balk me withal:
+                               Enter KITELY, muffled in his cloak.
+  Soft, who is this? 'tis not my son disguised?
+
+  Dame K.           [spies her husband, and runs to him.]
+     O, sir, have I fore-stall'd your honest market,
+     Found your close walks? You stand amazed now, do you?
+     I'faith, I am glad I have smok'd you yet at last.
+     What is your jewel, trow? In, come, let's see her;
+     Fetch forth your housewife, dame; if she be fairer,
+     In any honest judgment, than myself,
+     I'll be content with it: but she is change,
+     She feeds you fat, she soothes your appetite,
+     And you are well! Your wife, an honest woman,
+     Is meat twice sod to you, sir! O, you treachour!
+
+  Know. She cannot counterfeit thus palpably.
+
+  Kit.
+     Out on thy more than strumpet impudence!
+     Steal'st thou thus to thy haunts? and have I taken
+     Thy bawd and thee, and thy companion,
+     This hoary-headed letcher, this old goat,
+     Close at your villainy, and would'st thou 'scuse it
+     With this stale harlot's jest, accusing me?
+     O, old incontinent, [to Knowell.] dost thou not shame,
+     When all thy powers in chastity are spent,
+     To have a mind so hot? and to entice,
+     And feed the enticements of a lustful woman?
+
+  Dame K. Out, I defy thee, I, dissembling wretch!
+
+  Kit.
+     Defy me, strumpet! Ask thy pander here,
+     Can he deny it; or that wicked elder?
+
+  Know. Why, hear you, sir.
+
+  Kit.
+     Tut, tut, tut; never speak:
+     Thy guilty conscience will discover thee.
+
+  Know. What lunacy is this, that haunts this man?
+  Kit.
+     Well, good wife bawd, Cob's wife, and you,
+     That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy;
+     And you, young apple-squire, and old cuckold-maker;
+     I'll have you every one before a justice:
+     Nay, you shall answer it, I charge you go.
+
+  Know.
+     Marry, with all my heart, sir, I go willingly;
+     Though I do taste this as a trick put on me,
+     To punish my impertinent search, and justly,
+     And half forgive my son for the device.
+
+  Kit. Come, will you go?
+
+  Dame K.                 Go! to thy shame believe it.
+
+                           Enter Cob.
+
+  Cob. Why, what's the matter here, 'what's here to do?
+
+  Kit.
+     O; Cob, art thou come? I have been abused,
+     And in thy house; was never man so wrong'd!
+
+  Cob. 'Slid, in my house, my master Kitely! who wrongs you in
+  my house? '
+
+  Kit.
+     Marry, young lust in old, and old in young here:
+     Thy wife's their bawd, here have I taken them.
+
+  Cob. How, bawd! is my house come to that? Am I preferr'd thither?
+  Did I not charge you to keep your doors shut, Isbel? and---you
+  let them lie open for all comers!          [Beats his wife.
+
+  Know. Friend, know some cause, before thou beat'st thy wife.
+  This is madness in thee.
+
+  Cob.                      Why, is there no cause?
+
+  Kit.
+     Yes, I'll shew cause before the justice, Cob:
+     Come, let her go with me.
+
+  Cob. Nay, she shall go.
+
+  Tib. Nay, I will go. I'll see an you may be allowed to make a
+  bundle of hemp of your right and lawful wife thus, at every
+  cuckoldy knave's pleasure. Why do you not go?
+
+  Kit. A bitter quean! Come, we will have you tamed.
+                                                    [Exeunt.
+
+
+                         SCENE IX.---A Street.
+             Enter BRAINWORM, disguised as a City Serjeant.
+
+  Brai. Well, of all my disguises yet, now am I most like myself,
+  being in this serjeant's gown. A man of my present profession never
+  counterfeits, till he lays hold upon a debtor, and says, he rests
+  him; for then he brings him to all manner of unrest. A kind of
+  little kings we are, bearing the diminutive of a mace, made like a
+  young artichoke, that always carries pepper and salt in itself.
+  Well, I know not what danger I undergo by this exploit; pray Heaven
+  I come well off!
+                    Enter MATHEW and BOBADILL.
+
+  Mat. See, I think, yonder is the varlet, by his gown.
+
+  Bob. Let's go in quest of him.
+
+  Mat. 'Save you, friend! 'are not you here by appointment of justice
+  Clement's man?
+
+  Brai. Yes, an't please you, sir; he told me, two gentlemen had
+  will'd him to procure a warrant from his master, which I have about
+  me, to be served on one Downright.
+
+  Mat. It is honestly done of you both; and see where the party comes
+  you must arrest; serve it upon him quickly afore he be aware.
+
+  Bob. Bear back, master Mathew.
+
+                 Enter STEPHEN in DOWNRIGHT'S cloak.
+
+  Brai. Master Downright, I arrest you in the queen's name, and must
+  carry you afore a justice by virtue of this warrant:
+
+  Step. Me, friend! I am no Downright, I; I am master Stephen; You do
+  not well to arrest me, I tell you, truly; I am in nobody's bonds
+  nor books, I would you should know it. A plague on you heartily,
+  for making me thus afraid afore my time!
+
+  Brai. Why, now you are deceived, gentlemen.
+
+  Bob. He wears such a cloak, and that deceived us: but see, here a'
+  comes indeed; this is he; officer.
+
+                         Enter DOWNRIGHT.
+
+  Dow. Why how now, signior gull! are you turn'd filcher of late!
+  Come, deliver my cloak.
+
+  Step. Your cloak, sir! I bought it even now, in open market.
+
+  Brai. Master Downright, I have a warrant I must serve upon you,
+  procured by these two gentlemen.
+
+  Dow. These gentlemen! these rascals!
+                                         [Offers to beat them.
+  Brai. Keep the peace, I charge you in her majesty's name.
+
+  Dow. I obey thee. What must I do, officer?
+
+  Brai. Go before master justice Clement; to answer that they can
+  object against you, sir: I will use you kindly, sir.
+
+  Mat. Come, let's before, and make the justice, captain.
+
+  Bob. The varlet's a tall man, afore heaven!
+                                          [Exeunt Bob. and Mat.
+
+  Dow. Gull, you'll give me my cloak.
+
+  Step. Sir, I bought it, and I'll keep it.
+
+  Dow. You will?
+
+  Step. Ay, that I will.
+
+  Dow. Officer, there's thy fee, arrest him.
+
+  Brai. Master Stephen I must arrest you.
+
+  Step. Arrest me! I scorn it. There, take your cloak, I'll none
+  on't.
+
+  Dow. Nay, that shall not serve your turn now, sir. Officer, I'll go
+  with thee to the justice's; bring him along.
+
+  Step. Why, is not here your cloak? what would you have?
+
+  Dow. I'll have you answer it, sir.
+
+  Brai. Sir, I'll take your word, and this gentleman's too, for his
+  appearance.
+
+  Dow. I'll have no words taken: bring him along.
+
+  Brai. Sir, I may choose to do that, I may take bail.
+
+  Dow. 'Tis true, you may take bail, and choose at another time: but
+  you shall not now, varlet: bring him along, or I'll swinge you.
+
+  Brai. Sir, I pity the gentleman's case: here's your money again.
+
+  Dow. 'Sdeins, tell not me of my money; bring him away, I say.
+
+  Brai. I warrant you he will go with you of himself, sir.
+
+  Dow. Yet more ado?
+
+  Brai. I have made a fair mash on't;
+                                                  Aside.
+
+
+  Step. Must I go?
+
+  Brai. I know no remedy, master Stephen.
+
+  Dow. Come along afore me here; I do not love your hanging look
+  behind.
+
+  Step. Why, sir, I hope you cannot hang me for it: can he, fellow?
+
+  Brai. I think not, sir; it is but a whipping matter, sure.
+                                                    [Exeunt.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ACT V
+
+                  SCENE I.-Coleman Street.
+              A Hall in Justice CLEMENT'S House.
+
+      Enter CLEMENT, KNOWELL, KITELY, Dame K., TIB., CASH,
+                     COB, and Servants.
+
+  Step. Why then let him do his worst, I am resolute.
+
+  Clem. Nay, but stay, stay, give me leave: my chair, sirrah. You,
+  master Knowell, say you went thither to meet your son?
+
+  Know. Ay, sir.
+
+  Clem. But who directed you thither? Know. That did mine own man,
+  sir.
+
+  Clem. Where is he?
+
+  Know. Nay, I know not now; I left him with your clerk, and
+  appointed him to stay here for me.
+
+  Clem. My clerk! about what time was this?
+
+  Know. Marry, between one and two, as I take it.
+
+  Clem. And what time came my man with the false message to you,
+  master Kitely?
+
+  Kit. After two, sir.
+
+  Clem. Very good: but, mistress Kitely, how chance that you were at
+  Cob's, ha?
+
+  Dame K. An't please you, sir, I'll tell you: my brother Wellbred
+  told me, that Cob's house was a suspected place--
+
+  Clem. So it appears, methinks: but on.
+
+  Dame K. And that my husband used thither daily.
+
+  Clem. No matter, so he used himself well, mistress.
+
+  Dame K. True, sir: but you know what grows by such haunts
+  oftentimes.
+
+  Clem. I see rank fruits of a jealous brain, mistress Kitely: but
+  did you find your husband there, in that case as you suspected?
+
+  Kit. I found her there, sir.
+
+  Clem. Did you, so! that alters the case. Who gave you knowledge of
+  your wife's being there?
+
+  Kit. Marry, that did my brother Wellbred.
+
+  Clem. How, Wellbred first tell her; then tell you after! Where is
+  Wellbred?
+
+  Kit. Gone with my sister, sir, I know not whither.
+
+  Clem. Why this is a mere trick, a device; you are gull'd in this
+  most grossly all. Alas, poor wench! wert thou beaten for this?
+
+  Tib. Yell, most pitifully, an't please you.
+
+  Cob. And worthily, I hope, if it shall prove so.
+
+  Clem. Ay, that's like, and a piece of a sentence.--
+                                Enter a Servant.
+
+  How now, sir! what's the matter?
+
+  Serv. Sir, there's a gentleman in the court without, desires to
+  speak with your worship.
+
+  Clem. A gentleman! what is he?
+
+  Serv. A soldier, sir, he says.
+
+  Clem. A soldier! take down my armour, my sword quickly. A soldier
+  speak with me! Why, when, knaves? Come on, come on; [arms himself]
+  hold my cap there, so; give me my gorget, my sword: stand by, I
+  will end your matters anon.--Let the soldier enter.
+                                              [Exit Servant.
+             Enter BOBADILL, followed by MATHEW.
+
+  Now, sir, what have you to say to me? Bob. By your worship's
+  favour--
+
+  Clem. Nay, keep out, sir; I know not your pretence. You send me
+  word, sir, you are a soldier: why, sir, you shall be answer'd here:
+  here be them that have been amongst soldiers. Sir, your pleasure.
+
+  Bob. Faith, sir, so it is, this gentleman and myself have been most
+  uncivilly wrong'd and beaten by one Downright, a coarse fellow,
+  about the town here; and for mine own part, I protest, being a man
+  in no sort given to this filthy humour of quarrelling, he hath
+  assaulted me in the way of my peace, despoiled me of mine honour,
+  disarmed me of my weapons, and rudely laid me along in the open
+  streets, when I not so much as once offered to resist him.
+
+  Clem. O, God's precious! is this the soldier? Here, take my armour
+  off quickly, 'twill make him swoon, I fear; he is not fit to look
+  on't, that will put up a blow.
+
+  Mat. An't please your worship, he was bound to the peace.
+
+  Clem. Why, an he were, sir, his hands were not bound, were they?
+                                          Re-enter Servant.
+
+  Serv. There's one of the varlets of the city, sir, has brought two
+  gentlemen here; one, upon your worship's warrant.
+
+  Clem. My warrant!
+
+  Serv. Yes, sir; the officer says, procured by these two.
+
+  Clem. Bid him come in. [Exit Servant.] Set by this picture.
+         Enter DOWNRIGHT, STEPHEN, and BRAINWORM, disguised as before.
+
+  What, Master Downright! are you brought in at Mr. Freshwater's suit
+  here?
+
+  Dow. I'faith, sir, and here's another brought at my suit.
+
+  Clem. What are you, sir?
+
+  Step. A gentleman, sir. O, uncle!
+
+  Clem. Uncle! who, Master Knowell?
+
+  Know. Ay, sir; this is a wise kinsman of mine.
+
+  Step. God's my witness, uncle, I am wrong'd here monstrously, he
+  charges me with stealing of his cloak, and would I might never
+  stir, if I did not find it in the street by chance.
+
+  Dow. O, did you find it now? You said you bought it erestwhile.
+
+  Step. And you said, I stole it: nay, now my uncle is here, I'll do
+  well enough with you.
+
+  Clem. Well, let this breathe awhile. You that have cause to
+  complain there, stand forth: Had you my warrant for this
+  gentleman's apprehension?
+
+  Bob. Ay, an't please your worship.
+
+  Clem. Nay, do not speak in passion so: where had you it?
+
+  Bob. Of your clerk, sir.
+
+  Clem. That's well! an my clerk can make warrants, and my hand not
+  at them! Where is the warrant-officer, have you it?
+
+  Brai. No, sir; your worship's man, Master Formal, bid me do it for
+  these gentlemen, and he would be my discharge.
+
+  Clem. Why, Master Downright, are you such a novice, to be ser'ved
+  and never see the warrant?
+
+  Dow. Sir, he did not serve it on me.
+
+  Clem. No! how then?
+
+  Dow. Marry, sir, he came to me, and said he must serve it, and he
+  would use me kindly, and so--
+
+  Clem. O, God's pity, was it so, sir? He must serve it! Give me my
+  long sword there, and help me off. So, come on, sir varlet, I must
+  cut off your legs, sirrah; [Brainworm kneels.] nay, stand up, I'll
+  use you kindly, I must cut off your legs, I say.
+                        [Flourishes over him with his long sword.
+
+  Brai. O, good sir, I beseech you; nay, good master justice!
+
+  Clem. I must do it, there is no remedy; I must cut off your legs,
+  sirrrah, I must cut off your ears, you rascal, I must do it: I must
+  cut off your nose, I must cut off your head.
+
+  Brai. O, good your worship!
+
+  Clem. Well, rise; how dost thou do now? dost thou feel thyself
+  well? hast thou no harm?
+
+  Brai. No, I thank your good worship, sir.
+
+  Clem. Why so! I said I must cut off thy legs, and I must cut off
+  thy arms, and I must cut off thy head; but I did not do it: so you
+  said you must serve this gentleman with my warrant, but you did not
+  serve him. You knave, you slave, you rogue, do you say you must,
+  sirrah! away with him to the jail; I'll teach you a trick for your
+  must, sir.
+
+  Brai. Good sir, I beseech you, be good to me.
+
+  Clem. Tell him he shall to the jail; away with him, I say.
+
+  Brai. Nay, sir, if you will commit me, it shall be for committing
+  more than this: I will not lose by my travail any grain of my fame,
+  certain.
+                 [Throws off his serjeant's gown.
+
+  Clem. How is this?
+
+  Know. My man Brainworm!
+
+  Step. O, yes, uncle; Brainworm has been with my cousin Edward and I
+  all this day.
+
+  Clem. I told you all there was some device.
+
+  Brai. Nay, excellent justice, since I have laid myself thus open to
+  you, now stand strong for me; both with your sword and your
+  balance.
+
+  Clem. Body O' me, a merry knave! give me a bowl of sack: if he
+  belong to you, Master Knowell, I bespeak your patience.
+
+  Brai. That is it I have most need of; Sir, if you'll pardon me,
+  only, I'll glory in all the rest of my exploits.
+
+  Know. Sir, you know I love not to have my favours come hard from
+  me. You have your pardon, though I suspect you shrewdly for being
+  of counsel with my son against me.
+
+  Brai. Yes, faith, I have, sir, though you retain'd me doubly this
+  morning for yourself: first as Brainworm; after, as Fitz-Sword. I
+  was your reform'd soldier, sir. 'Twas I sent you to Cob's upon the
+  errand without end.
+
+  Know. Is it possible? or that thou should'st disguise thy language
+  so as I should not know thee?
+
+  Brai. O, sir, this has been the day of my metamorphosis. It is not
+  that shape alone that I have run through to-day. I brought this
+  gentleman, master Kitely, a message too, in the form of master
+  Justice's man here, to draw him out O' the way, as well as your
+  worship, while master Wellbred might make a conveyance of mistress
+  Bridget to my young master.
+
+  Kit. How! My sister stolen away? Know. My son is not married, I
+  hope.
+
+  Brai. Faith, Sir, they are both as sure as love, a priest, and
+  three thousand pound, which is her portion, can make them; and by
+  this time are ready to bespeak their wedding-supper at the
+  Windmill, except some friend here prevent them, and invite them
+  home.
+
+  Clem. Marry, that will I; I thank thee for putting me in mind on't.
+  Sirrah, go you and fetch them hither upon my warrant. [Exit
+  Servant.] Neither's friends have cause to be sorry, if I know the
+  young couple aright. Here, I drink to thee for thy good news. But I
+  pray thee, what hast thou done with my man, Formal?
+
+  Brai. Faith, sir, after some ceremony past, as making him drunk,
+  first with story, and then with wine, (but all in kindness,) and
+  stripping him to his shirt, I left him in that cool vein; departed,
+  sold your worship's warrant to these two, pawn'd his livery for
+  that varlet's gown, to serve it in; and thus have brought myself by
+  my activity to your worship's consideration.
+
+  Clem. And I will consider thee in another cup of sack. Here's to
+  thee, which having drunk off this my sentence: Pledge me. Thou hast
+  done, or assisted to nothing, in my judgment, but deserves to be
+  pardon'd for the wit of the offence. If thy master, or any man
+  here, be angry with thee, I shall suspect his ingine, while I know
+  him, for't. How now, what noise is that?
+
+                             Enter Servant.
+
+  Serv. Sir, it is Roger is come home.
+
+  Clem. Bring him in, bring him in.
+                          Enter FORMAL in a suit of armour.
+
+  What! drunk? in arms against me? your reason, your reason for this?
+
+  Form. I beseech your worship to pardon me; I happened into ill
+  company by chance, that cast me into a sleep, and stript me of all
+  my clothes.
+
+  Clem. Well, tell him I am Justice Clement, and do pardon him: but
+  what is this to your armour? what may that signify?
+
+  Form. An't please you, sir, it hung up in the room where I was
+  stript; and I borrow'd it of one of the drawers to come home in,
+  because I was loth to do penance through the street in my shirt.
+
+  Clem. Well, stand by a while.
+                          Enter E. KNOWELL, WELLBRED, and BRIDGET.
+
+  Who be these? O, the young company; welcome, welcome! Give you joy.
+  Nay, mistress Bridget, blush not; you are not so fresh a bride, but
+  the news of it is come hither afore you. Master bridegroom, I have
+  made your peace, give me your hand: so will I for all the rest ere
+  you forsake my roof.
+
+  E. Know. We are the more bound to your humanity, sir.
+
+  Clem. Only these two have so little of man in them, they are no
+  part of my care.
+
+  Wel. Yes, sir, let me pray you for this gentleman, he belongs to my
+  sister the bride.
+
+  Clem. In what place, sir?
+
+  Wel. Of her delight, sir, below the stairs, and in public: her
+  poet, sir.
+
+  Clem. A poet! I will challenge him myself presently at extempore.
+
+      Mount up thy Phlegon, Muse, and testify,
+        How Saturn, sitting in an ebon cloud,
+      Disrobed his podex, white as ivory,
+        And through the welkin thunder'd all aloud.
+
+
+  Wel. He is not for extempore, sir: he is all for the pocket muse;
+  please you command a sight of it.
+
+  Clem. Yes, yes, search him for a taste of his vein. [They search
+  Mathew's pockets.
+
+  Wel. You must not deny the queen's justice, sir, under a writ of
+  rebellion.
+
+  Clem. What! all this verse? body O' me, he carries a whole realm, a
+  commonwealth of paper in his hose: let us see some of his subjects.
+
+                                                     [Reads.
+      Unto the boundless ocean of thy face,
+      Runs this poor river, charg'd with streams of eyes.
+
+  How! this is stolen.
+
+  E. Know. A parody! a parody! with a kind of miraculous gift, to
+  make it absurder than it was.
+
+  Clem. Is all the rest of this batch? bring me a torch; lay it
+  together, and give fire. Cleanse the air. [Sets the papers on
+  fire.] Here was enough to have infected the whole city, if it had
+  not been taken in time. See, see, how our poet's glory shines!
+  brighter and brighter! still it increases! O, now it is at the
+  highest; and now it declines as fast. You may see, sic transit
+  gloria mundi!
+
+  Know. There's an emblem for you, son, and your studies.
+
+  Clem. Nay, no speech or act of mine be drawn against such as
+  profess it worthily. They are not born every year, as an alderman.
+  There goes more to the making of a good poet, than a sheriff.
+  Master Kitely, you look upon me!--though I live in the city here,
+  amongst you, I will do more reverence to him, when I meet him, than
+  I will to the mayor out of his year. But these paper-pedlars! these
+  ink-dabblers! they cannot expect reprehension or reproach; they
+  have it with the fact,
+
+  E. Know. Sir, you have saved me the labour of a defence.
+
+  Clem. It shall be discourse for supper between your father and me,
+  if he dare undertake me. But to dispatch away these, you sign O'
+  the soldier, and picture of the poet, (but both so false, I will
+  not have you hanged out at my door till midnight,) while we are at
+  supper, you two shall penitently fast it out in my court without;
+  and, if you will, you may pray there that we may be so merry within
+  as to forgive or forget you when we come out. Here's a third,
+  because we tender your safety, shall watch you, he is provided for
+  the purpose. Look to your charge, sir.
+
+  Step. And what shall I do?
+
+  Clem. O! I had lost a sheep an he had not bleated: why, sir, you
+  shall give master Downright his cloak; and I will intreat him to
+  take it. A trencher and a napkin you shall have in the buttery, and
+  keep Cob and his wife company here; whom I will intreat first to be
+  reconciled; and you to endeavour with your wit to keep them so.
+
+  Step. I'll do my best.
+
+  Cob. Why, now I see thou art honest, Tib, I receive thee as my dear
+  and mortal wife again.
+
+  Tib. And I you, as my loving and obedient husband.
+
+  Clem. Good compliment! It will be their bridal night too. They are
+  married anew. Come, I conjure the rest to put off all discontent.
+  You, master Downright, your anger; you, master Knowell, your cares;
+  Master Kitely and his wife, their jealousy.
+
+   For, I must tell you both, while that is fed,
+   Horns in the mind are worse than on the head.
+
+
+  Kit. Sir, thus they go from me; kiss me, sweetheart.
+
+      See what a drove of horns fly in the air,
+      Wing'd with my cleansed and my credulous breath!
+      Watch' em suspicious eyes, watch where they fall.
+      See, see! on heads that think they have none at all!
+      O, what a plenteous world of this will come!
+      When air rains horns, all may be sure of some!
+
+  I have learn'd so much verse out of a jealous man's part in a play.
+
+  Clem. 'Tis well, 'tis well! This night we'll dedicate to
+  friendship, love, and laughter. Master bridegroom, take your bride
+  and lead; every one a fellow. Here is my mistress, Brainworm! to
+  whom all my addresses of courtship shall have their reference:
+  whose adventures this day, when our grandchildren shall hear to be
+  made a fable, I doubt not but it shall find both spectators and
+  applause.
+                                                   [Exeunt.
+
+
+
+
+
+GLOSSARY
+
+
+ABATE, cast down, subdue.
+
+ABHORRING, repugnant (to), at variance.
+
+ABJECT, base, degraded thing, outcast.
+
+ABRASE, smooth, blank.
+
+ABSOLUTE(LY), faultless(ly).
+
+ABSTRACTED, abstract, abstruse.
+
+ABUSE, deceive, insult, dishonour, make ill use of.
+
+ACATER, caterer.
+
+ACATES, cates.
+
+ACCEPTIVE, willing, ready to accept, receive.
+
+ACCOMMODATE, fit, befitting. (The word was a fashionable one and used on
+all occasions. See "Henry IV.," pt. 2, iii. 4).
+
+ACCOST, draw near, approach.
+
+ACKNOWN, confessedly acquainted with.
+
+ACME, full maturity.
+
+ADALANTADO, lord deputy or governor of a Spanish province.
+
+ADJECTION, addition.
+
+ADMIRATION, astonishment.
+
+ADMIRE, wonder, wonder at.
+
+ADROP, philosopher's stone, or substance from which obtained.
+
+ADSCRIVE, subscribe.
+
+ADULTERATE, spurious, counterfeit.
+
+ADVANCE, lift.
+
+ADVERTISE, inform, give intelligence.
+
+ADVERTISED, "be--," be it known to you.
+
+ADVERTISEMENT, intelligence.
+
+ADVISE, consider, bethink oneself, deliberate.
+
+ADVISED, informed, aware; "are you--?" have you found that out?
+
+AFFECT, love, like; aim at; move.
+
+AFFECTED, disposed; beloved.
+
+AFFECTIONATE, obstinate; prejudiced.
+
+AFFECTS, affections.
+
+AFFRONT, "give the--," face.
+
+AFFY, have confidence in; betroth.
+
+AFTER, after the manner of.
+
+AGAIN, AGAINST, in anticipation of.
+
+AGGRAVATE, increase, magnify, enlarge upon.
+
+AGNOMINATION. See Paranomasie.
+
+AIERY, nest, brood.
+
+AIM, guess.
+
+ALL HID, children's cry at hide-and-seek.
+
+ALL-TO, completely, entirely ("all-to-be-laden").
+
+ALLOWANCE, approbation, recognition.
+
+ALMA-CANTARAS (astronomy), parallels of altitude.
+
+ALMAIN, name of a dance.
+
+ALMUTEN, planet of chief influence in the horoscope.
+
+ALONE, unequalled, without peer.
+
+ALUDELS, subliming pots.
+
+AMAZED, confused, perplexed.
+
+AMBER, AMBRE, ambergris.
+
+AMBREE, MARY, a woman noted for her valour at the siege of Ghent, 1458.
+
+AMES-ACE, lowest throw at dice.
+
+AMPHIBOLIES, ambiguities.
+
+AMUSED, bewildered, amazed.
+
+AN, if.
+
+ANATOMY, skeleton, or dissected body.
+
+ANDIRONS, fire-dogs.
+
+ANGEL, gold coin worth 10 shillings, stamped with the figure of the
+archangel Michael.
+
+ANNESH CLEARE, spring known as Agnes le Clare.
+
+ANSWER, return hit in fencing.
+
+ANTIC, ANTIQUE, clown, buffoon.
+
+ANTIC, like a buffoon.
+
+ANTIPERISTASIS, an opposition which enhances the quality it opposes.
+
+APOZEM, decoction.
+
+APPERIL, peril.
+
+APPLE-JOHN, APPLE-SQUIRE, pimp, pander.
+
+APPLY, attach.
+
+APPREHEND, take into custody.
+
+APPREHENSIVE, quick of perception; able to perceive and appreciate.
+
+APPROVE, prove, confirm.
+
+APT, suit, adapt; train, prepare; dispose, incline.
+
+APT(LY), suitable(y), opportune(ly).
+
+APTITUDE, suitableness.
+
+ARBOR, "make the--," cut up the game (Gifford).
+
+ARCHES, Court of Arches.
+
+ARCHIE, Archibald Armstrong, jester to James I. and Charles I.
+
+ARGAILE, argol, crust or sediment in wine casks.
+
+ARGENT-VIVE, quicksilver.
+
+ARGUMENT, plot of a drama; theme, subject; matter in question; token,
+proof.
+
+ARRIDE, please.
+
+ARSEDINE, mixture of copper and zinc, used as an imitation of gold-leaf.
+
+ARTHUR, PRINCE, reference to an archery show by a society who assumed
+arms, etc., of Arthur's knights.
+
+ARTICLE, item.
+
+ARTIFICIALLY, artfully.
+
+ASCENSION, evaporation, distillation.
+
+ASPIRE, try to reach, obtain, long for.
+
+ASSALTO (Italian), assault.
+
+ASSAY, draw a knife along the belly of the deer, a ceremony of the
+hunting-field.
+
+ASSOIL, solve.
+
+ASSURE, secure possession or reversion of.
+
+ATHANOR, a digesting furnace, calculated to keep up a constant heat.
+
+ATONE, reconcile.
+
+ATTACH, attack, seize.
+
+AUDACIOUS, having spirit and confidence.
+
+AUTHENTIC(AL), of authority, authorised, trustworthy, genuine.
+
+AVISEMENT, reflection, consideration.
+
+AVOID, begone! get rid of.
+
+AWAY WITH, endure.
+
+AZOCH, Mercurius Philosophorum.
+
+BABION, baboon.
+
+BABY, doll.
+
+BACK-SIDE, back premises.
+
+BAFFLE, treat with contempt.
+
+BAGATINE, Italian coin, worth about the third of a farthing.
+
+BAIARD, horse of magic powers known to old romance.
+
+BALDRICK, belt worn across the breast to support bugle, etc.
+
+BALE (of dice), pair.
+
+BALK, overlook, pass by, avoid.
+
+BALLACE, ballast.
+
+BALLOO, game at ball.
+
+BALNEUM (BAIN MARIE), a vessel for holding hot water in which other
+vessels are stood for heating.
+
+BANBURY, "brother of--," Puritan.
+
+BANDOG, dog tied or chained up.
+
+BANE, woe, ruin.
+
+BANQUET, a light repast; dessert.
+
+BARB, to clip gold.
+
+BARBEL, fresh-water fish.
+
+BARE, meer; bareheaded; it was "a particular mark of state and grandeur
+for the coachman to be uncovered" (Gifford).
+
+BARLEY-BREAK, game somewhat similar to base.
+
+BASE, game of prisoner's base.
+
+BASES, richly embroidered skirt reaching to the knees, or lower.
+
+BASILISK, fabulous reptile, believed to slay with its eye.
+
+BASKET, used for the broken provision collected for prisoners.
+
+BASON, basons, etc., were beaten by the attendant mob when bad
+characters were "carted."
+
+BATE, be reduced; abate, reduce.
+
+BATOON, baton, stick.
+
+BATTEN, feed, grow fat.
+
+BAWSON, badger.
+
+BEADSMAN, prayer-man, one engaged to pray for another.
+
+BEAGLE, small hound; fig. spy.
+
+BEAR IN HAND, keep in suspense, deceive with false hopes.
+
+BEARWARD, bear leader.
+
+BEDPHERE. See Phere.
+
+BEDSTAFF, (?) wooden pin in the side of the bedstead for supporting
+the bedclothes (Johnson); one of the sticks or "laths"; a stick used in
+making a bed.
+
+BEETLE, heavy mallet.
+
+BEG, "I'd--him," the custody of minors and idiots was begged for;
+likewise property fallen forfeit to the Crown ("your house had been
+begged").
+
+BELL-MAN, night watchman.
+
+BENJAMIN, an aromatic gum.
+
+BERLINA, pillory.
+
+BESCUMBER, defile.
+
+BESLAVE, beslabber.
+
+BESOGNO, beggar.
+
+BESPAWLE, bespatter.
+
+BETHLEHEM GABOR, Transylvanian hero, proclaimed King of Hungary.
+
+BEVER, drinking.
+
+BEVIS, SIR, knight of romance whose horse was equally celebrated.
+
+BEWRAY, reveal, make known.
+
+BEZANT, heraldic term: small gold circle.
+
+BEZOAR'S STONE, a remedy known by this name was a supposed antidote to
+poison.
+
+BID-STAND, highwayman.
+
+BIGGIN, cap, similar to that worn by the Beguines; nightcap.
+
+BILIVE (belive), with haste.
+
+BILK, nothing, empty talk.
+
+BILL, kind of pike.
+
+BILLET, wood cut for fuel, stick.
+
+BIRDING, thieving.
+
+BLACK SANCTUS, burlesque hymn, any unholy riot.
+
+BLANK, originally a small French coin.
+
+BLANK, white.
+
+BLANKET, toss in a blanket.
+
+BLAZE, outburst of violence.
+
+BLAZE, (her.) blazon; publish abroad.
+
+BLAZON, armorial bearings; fig. all that pertains to good birth and
+breeding.
+
+BLIN, "withouten--," without ceasing.
+
+BLOW, puff up.
+
+BLUE, colour of servants' livery, hence "--order," "--waiters."
+
+BLUSHET, blushing one.
+
+BOB, jest, taunt.
+
+BOB, beat, thump.
+
+BODGE, measure.
+
+BODKIN, dagger, or other short, pointed weapon; long pin with which the
+women fastened up their hair.
+
+BOLT, roll (of material).
+
+BOLT, dislodge, rout out; sift (boulting-tub).
+
+BOLT'S-HEAD, long, straight-necked vessel for distillation.
+
+BOMBARD SLOPS, padded, puffed-out breeches.
+
+BONA ROBA, "good, wholesome, plum-cheeked wench" (Johnson) --not always
+used in compliment.
+
+BONNY-CLABBER, sour butter-milk.
+
+BOOKHOLDER, prompter.
+
+BOOT, "to--," into the bargain; "no--," of no avail.
+
+BORACHIO, bottle made of skin.
+
+BORDELLO, brothel.
+
+BORNE IT, conducted, carried it through.
+
+BOTTLE (of hay), bundle, truss.
+
+BOTTOM, skein or ball of thread; vessel.
+
+BOURD, jest.
+
+BOVOLI, snails or cockles dressed in the Italian manner (Gifford).
+
+BOW-POT, flower vase or pot.
+
+BOYS, "terrible--," "angry--," roystering young bucks. (See Nares).
+
+BRABBLES (BRABBLESH), brawls.
+
+BRACH, bitch.
+
+BRADAMANTE, a heroine in "Orlando Furioso."
+
+BRADLEY, ARTHUR OF, a lively character commemorated in ballads.
+
+BRAKE, frame for confining a horse's feet while being shod, or strong
+curb or bridle; trap.
+
+BRANCHED, with "detached sleeve ornaments, projecting from the shoulders
+of the gown" (Gifford).
+
+BRANDISH, flourish of weapon.
+
+BRASH, brace.
+
+BRAVE, bravado, braggart speech.
+
+BRAVE (adv.), gaily, finely (apparelled).
+
+BRAVERIES, gallants.
+
+BRAVERY, extravagant gaiety of apparel.
+
+BRAVO, bravado, swaggerer.
+
+BRAZEN-HEAD, speaking head made by Roger Bacon.
+
+BREATHE, pause for relaxation; exercise.
+
+BREATH UPON, speak dispraisingly of.
+
+BREND, burn.
+
+BRIDE-ALE, wedding feast.
+
+BRIEF, abstract; (mus.) breve.
+
+BRISK, smartly dressed.
+
+BRIZE, breese, gadfly.
+
+BROAD-SEAL, state seal.
+
+BROCK, badger (term of contempt).
+
+BROKE, transact business as a broker.
+
+BROOK, endure, put up with.
+
+BROUGHTON, HUGH, an English divine and Hebrew scholar.
+
+BRUIT, rumour.
+
+BUCK, wash.
+
+BUCKLE, bend.
+
+BUFF, leather made of buffalo skin, used for military and serjeants'
+coats, etc.
+
+BUFO, black tincture.
+
+BUGLE, long-shaped bead.
+
+BULLED, (?) bolled, swelled.
+
+BULLIONS, trunk hose.
+
+BULLY, term of familiar endearment.
+
+BUNGY, Friar Bungay, who had a familiar in the shape of a dog.
+
+BURDEN, refrain, chorus.
+
+BURGONET, closely-fitting helmet with visor.
+
+BURGULLION, braggadocio.
+
+BURN, mark wooden measures ("--ing of cans").
+
+BURROUGH, pledge, security.
+
+BUSKIN, half-boot, foot gear reaching high up the leg.
+
+BUTT-SHAFT, barbless arrow for shooting at butts.
+
+BUTTER, NATHANIEL ("Staple of News"), a compiler of general news. (See
+Cunningham).
+
+BUTTERY-HATCH, half-door shutting off the buttery, where provisions and
+liquors were stored.
+
+BUY, "he bought me," formerly the guardianship of wards could be bought.
+
+BUZ, exclamation to enjoin silence.
+
+BUZZARD, simpleton.
+
+BY AND BY, at once.
+
+BY(E), "on the __," incidentally, as of minor or secondary importance;
+at the side.
+
+BY-CHOP, by-blow, bastard.
+
+CADUCEUS, Mercury's wand.
+
+CALIVER, light kind of musket.
+
+CALLET, woman of ill repute.
+
+CALLOT, coif worn on the wigs of our judges or serjeants-at-law
+(Gifford).
+
+CALVERED, crimped, or sliced and pickled. (See Nares).
+
+CAMOUCCIO, wretch, knave.
+
+CAMUSED, flat.
+
+CAN, knows.
+
+CANDLE-RENT, rent from house property.
+
+CANDLE-WASTER, one who studies late.
+
+CANTER, sturdy beggar.
+
+CAP OF MAINTENCE, an insignia of dignity, a cap of state borne before
+kings at their coronation; also an heraldic term.
+
+CAPABLE, able to comprehend, fit to receive instruction, impression.
+
+CAPANEUS, one of the "Seven against Thebes."
+
+CARACT, carat, unit of weight for precious stones, etc.; value, worth.
+
+CARANZA, Spanish author of a book on duelling.
+
+CARCANET, jewelled ornament for the neck.
+
+CARE, take care; object.
+
+CAROSH, coach, carriage.
+
+CARPET, table-cover.
+
+CARRIAGE, bearing, behaviour.
+
+CARWHITCHET, quip, pun.
+
+CASAMATE, casemate, fortress.
+
+CASE, a pair.
+
+CASE, "in--," in condition.
+
+CASSOCK, soldier's loose overcoat.
+
+CAST, flight of hawks, couple.
+
+CAST, throw dice; vomit; forecast, calculate.
+
+CAST, cashiered.
+
+CASTING-GLASS, bottle for sprinkling perfume.
+
+CASTRIL, kestrel, falcon.
+
+CAT, structure used in sieges.
+
+CATAMITE, old form of "ganymede."
+
+CATASTROPHE, conclusion.
+
+CATCHPOLE, sheriff's officer.
+
+CATES, dainties, provisions.
+
+CATSO, rogue, cheat.
+
+CAUTELOUS, crafty, artful.
+
+CENSURE, criticism; sentence.
+
+CENSURE, criticise; pass sentence, doom.
+
+CERUSE, cosmetic containing white lead.
+
+CESS, assess.
+
+CHANGE, "hunt--," follow a fresh scent.
+
+CHAPMAN, retail dealer.
+
+CHARACTER, handwriting.
+
+CHARGE, expense.
+
+CHARM, subdue with magic, lay a spell on, silence.
+
+CHARMING, exercising magic power.
+
+CHARTEL, challenge.
+
+CHEAP, bargain, market.
+
+CHEAR, CHEER, comfort, encouragement; food, entertainment.
+
+CHECK AT, aim reproof at.
+
+CHEQUIN, gold Italian coin.
+
+CHEVRIL, from kidskin, which is elastic and pliable.
+
+CHIAUS, Turkish envoy; used for a cheat, swindler.
+
+CHILDERMASS DAY, Innocents' Day.
+
+CHOKE-BAIL, action which does not allow of bail.
+
+CHRYSOPOEIA, alchemy.
+
+CHRYSOSPERM, ways of producing gold.
+
+CIBATION, adding fresh substances to supply the waste of evaporation.
+
+CIMICI, bugs.
+
+CINOPER, cinnabar.
+
+CIOPPINI, chopine, lady's high shoe.
+
+CIRCLING BOY, "a species of roarer; one who in some way drew a man into
+a snare, to cheat or rob him" (Nares).
+
+CIRCUMSTANCE, circumlocution, beating about the bush; ceremony,
+everything pertaining to a certain condition; detail, particular.
+
+CITRONISE, turn citron colour.
+
+CITTERN, kind of guitar.
+
+CITY-WIRES, woman of fashion, who made use of wires for hair and dress.
+
+CIVIL, legal.
+
+CLAP, clack, chatter.
+
+CLAPPER-DUDGEON, downright beggar.
+
+CLAPS HIS DISH, a clap, or clack, dish (dish with a movable lid) was
+carried by beggars and lepers to show that the vessel was empty, and to
+give sound of their approach.
+
+CLARIDIANA, heroine of an old romance.
+
+CLARISSIMO, Venetian noble.
+
+CLEM, starve.
+
+CLICKET, latch.
+
+CLIM O' THE CLOUGHS, etc., wordy heroes of romance.
+
+CLIMATE, country.
+
+CLOSE, secret, private; secretive.
+
+CLOSENESS, secrecy.
+
+CLOTH, arras, hangings.
+
+CLOUT, mark shot at, bull's eye.
+
+CLOWN, countryman, clodhopper.
+
+COACH-LEAVES, folding blinds.
+
+COALS, "bear no--," submit to no affront.
+
+COAT-ARMOUR, coat of arms.
+
+COAT-CARD, court-card.
+
+COB-HERRING, HERRING-COB, a young herring.
+
+COB-SWAN, male swan.
+
+COCK-A-HOOP, denoting unstinted jollity; thought to be derived from
+turning on the tap that all might drink to the full of the flowing
+liquor.
+
+COCKATRICE, reptile supposed to be produced from a cock's egg and to
+kill by its eye--used as a term of reproach for a woman.
+
+COCK-BRAINED, giddy, wild.
+
+COCKER, pamper.
+
+COCKSCOMB, fool's cap.
+
+COCKSTONE, stone said to be found in a cock's gizzard, and to possess
+particular virtues.
+
+CODLING, softening by boiling.
+
+COFFIN, raised crust of a pie.
+
+COG, cheat, wheedle.
+
+COIL, turmoil, confusion, ado.
+
+COKELY, master of a puppet-show (Whalley).
+
+COKES, fool, gull.
+
+COLD-CONCEITED, having cold opinion of, coldly affected towards.
+
+COLE-HARBOUR, a retreat for people of all sorts.
+
+COLLECTION, composure; deduction.
+
+COLLOP, small slice, piece of flesh.
+
+COLLY, blacken.
+
+COLOUR, pretext.
+
+COLOURS, "fear no--," no enemy (quibble).
+
+COLSTAFF, cowlstaff, pole for carrying a cowl=tub.
+
+COME ABOUT, charge, turn round.
+
+COMFORTABLE BREAD, spiced gingerbread.
+
+COMING, forward, ready to respond, complaisant.
+
+COMMENT, commentary; "sometime it is taken for a lie or fayned tale"
+(Bullokar, 1616).
+
+COMMODITY, "current for--," allusion to practice of money-lenders, who
+forced the borrower to take part of the loan in the shape of worthless
+goods on which the latter had to make money if he could.
+
+COMMUNICATE, share.
+
+COMPASS, "in--," within the range, sphere.
+
+COMPLEMENT, completion, completement; anything required for the
+perfecting or carrying out of a person or affair; accomplishment.
+
+COMPLEXION, natural disposition, constitution.
+
+COMPLIMENT, See Complement.
+
+COMPLIMENTARIES, masters of accomplishments.
+
+COMPOSITION, constitution; agreement, contract.
+
+COMPOSURE, composition.
+
+COMPTER, COUNTER, debtors' prison.
+
+CONCEALMENT, a certain amount of church property had been retained at
+the dissolution of the monasteries; Elizabeth sent commissioners to
+search it out, and the courtiers begged for it.
+
+CONCEIT, idea, fancy, witty invention, conception, opinion.
+
+CONCEIT, apprehend.
+
+CONCEITED, fancifully, ingeniously devised or conceived; possessed of
+intelligence, witty, ingenious (hence well conceited, etc.); disposed to
+joke; of opinion, possessed of an idea.
+
+CONCEIVE, understand.
+
+CONCENT, harmony, agreement.
+
+CONCLUDE, infer, prove.
+
+CONCOCT, assimilate, digest.
+
+CONDEN'T, probably conducted.
+
+CONDUCT, escort, conductor.
+
+CONEY-CATCH, cheat.
+
+CONFECT, sweetmeat.
+
+CONFER, compare.
+
+CONGIES, bows.
+
+CONNIVE, give a look, wink, of secret intelligence.
+
+CONSORT, company, concert.
+
+CONSTANCY, fidelity, ardour, persistence.
+
+CONSTANT, confirmed, persistent, faithful.
+
+CONSTANTLY, firmly, persistently.
+
+CONTEND, strive.
+
+CONTINENT, holding together.
+
+CONTROL (the point), bear or beat down.
+
+CONVENT, assembly, meeting.
+
+CONVERT, turn (oneself).
+
+CONVEY, transmit from one to another.
+
+CONVINCE, evince, prove; overcome, overpower; convict.
+
+COP, head, top; tuft on head of birds; "a cop" may have reference to one
+or other meaning; Gifford and others interpret as "conical, terminating
+in a point."
+
+COPE-MAN, chapman.
+
+COPESMATE, companion.
+
+COPY (Lat. copia), abundance, copiousness.
+
+CORN ("powder--"), grain.
+
+COROLLARY, finishing part or touch.
+
+CORSIVE, corrosive.
+
+CORTINE, curtain, (arch.) wall between two towers, etc.
+
+CORYAT, famous for his travels, published as "Coryat's Crudities."
+
+COSSET, pet lamb, pet.
+
+COSTARD, head.
+
+COSTARD-MONGER, apple-seller, coster-monger.
+
+COSTS, ribs.
+
+COTE, hut.
+
+COTHURNAL, from "cothurnus," a particular boot worn by actors in Greek
+tragedy.
+
+COTQUEAN, hussy.
+
+COUNSEL, secret.
+
+COUNTENANCE, means necessary for support; credit, standing.
+
+COUNTER. See Compter.
+
+COUNTER, pieces of metal or ivory for calculating at play.
+
+COUNTER, "hunt--," follow scent in reverse direction.
+
+COUNTERFEIT, false coin.
+
+COUNTERPANE, one part or counterpart of a deed or indenture.
+
+COUNTERPOINT, opposite, contrary point.
+
+COURT-DISH, a kind of drinking-cup (Halliwell); N.E.D. quotes from Bp.
+Goodman's "Court of James I.": "The king...caused his carver to cut him
+out a court-dish, that is, something of every dish, which he sent him as
+part of his reversion," but this does not sound like short allowance or
+small receptacle.
+
+COURT-DOR, fool.
+
+COURTEAU, curtal, small horse with docked tail.
+
+COURTSHIP, courtliness.
+
+COVETISE, avarice.
+
+COWSHARD, cow dung.
+
+COXCOMB, fool's cap, fool.
+
+COY, shrink; disdain.
+
+COYSTREL, low varlet.
+
+COZEN, cheat.
+
+CRACK, lively young rogue, wag.
+
+CRACK, crack up, boast; come to grief.
+
+CRAMBE, game of crambo, in which the players find rhymes for a given
+word.
+
+CRANCH, craunch.
+
+CRANION, spider-like; also fairy appellation for a fly (Gifford, who
+refers to lines in Drayton's "Nimphidia").
+
+CRIMP, game at cards.
+
+CRINCLE, draw back, turn aside.
+
+CRISPED, with curled or waved hair.
+
+CROP, gather, reap.
+
+CROPSHIRE, a kind of herring. (See N.E.D.)
+
+CROSS, any piece of money, many coins being stamped with a cross.
+
+CROSS AND PILE, heads and tails.
+
+CROSSLET, crucible.
+
+CROWD, fiddle.
+
+CRUDITIES, undigested matter.
+
+CRUMP, curl up.
+
+CRUSADO, Portuguese gold coin, marked with a cross.
+
+CRY ("he that cried Italian"), "speak in a musical cadence," intone, or
+declaim (?); cry up.
+
+CUCKING-STOOL, used for the ducking of scolds, etc.
+
+CUCURBITE, a gourd-shaped vessel used for distillation.
+
+CUERPO, "in--," in undress.
+
+CULLICE, broth.
+
+CULLION, base fellow, coward.
+
+CULLISEN, badge worn on their arm by servants.
+
+CULVERIN, kind of cannon.
+
+CUNNING, skill.
+
+CUNNING, skilful.
+
+CUNNING-MAN, fortune-teller.
+
+CURE, care for.
+
+CURIOUS(LY), scrupulous, particular; elaborate, elegant(ly), dainty(ly)
+(hence "in curious").
+
+CURST, shrewish, mischievous.
+
+CURTAL, dog with docked tail, of inferior sort.
+
+CUSTARD, "quaking--," "--politic," reference to a large custard which
+formed part of a city feast and afforded huge entertainment, for the
+fool jumped into it, and other like tricks were played. (See "All's
+Well, etc." ii. 5, 40.)
+
+CUTWORK, embroidery, open-work.
+
+CYPRES (CYPRUS) (quibble), cypress (or cyprus) being a transparent
+material, and when black used for mourning.
+
+DAGGER ("--frumety"), name of tavern.
+
+DARGISON, apparently some person known in ballad or tale.
+
+DAUPHIN MY BOY, refrain of old comic song.
+
+DAW, daunt.
+
+DEAD LIFT, desperate emergency.
+
+DEAR, applied to that which in any way touches us nearly.
+
+DECLINE, turn off from; turn away, aside.
+
+DEFALK, deduct, abate.
+
+DEFEND, forbid.
+
+DEGENEROUS, degenerate.
+
+DEGREES, steps.
+
+DELATE, accuse.
+
+DEMI-CULVERIN, cannon carrying a ball of about ten pounds.
+
+DENIER, the smallest possible coin, being the twelfth part of a sou.
+
+DEPART, part with.
+
+DEPENDANCE, ground of quarrel in duello language.
+
+DESERT, reward.
+
+DESIGNMENT, design.
+
+DESPERATE, rash, reckless.
+
+DETECT, allow to be detected, betray, inform against.
+
+DETERMINE, terminate.
+
+DETRACT, draw back, refuse.
+
+DEVICE, masque, show; a thing moved by wires, etc., puppet.
+
+DEVISE, exact in every particular.
+
+DEVISED, invented.
+
+DIAPASM, powdered aromatic herbs, made into balls of perfumed paste.
+(See Pomander.)
+
+DIBBLE, (?) moustache (N.E.D.); (?) dagger (Cunningham).
+
+DIFFUSED, disordered, scattered, irregular.
+
+DIGHT, dressed.
+
+DILDO, refrain of popular songs; vague term of low meaning.
+
+DIMBLE, dingle, ravine.
+
+DIMENSUM, stated allowance.
+
+DISBASE, debase.
+
+DISCERN, distinguish, show a difference between.
+
+DISCHARGE, settle for.
+
+DISCIPLINE, reformation; ecclesiastical system.
+
+DISCLAIM, renounce all part in.
+
+DISCOURSE, process of reasoning, reasoning faculty.
+
+DISCOURTSHIP, discourtesy.
+
+DISCOVER, betray, reveal; display.
+
+DISFAVOUR, disfigure.
+
+DISPARAGEMENT, legal term applied to the unfitness in any way of a
+marriage arranged for in the case of wards.
+
+DISPENSE WITH, grant dispensation for.
+
+DISPLAY, extend.
+
+DIS'PLE, discipline, teach by the whip.
+
+DISPOSED, inclined to merriment.
+
+DISPOSURE, disposal.
+
+DISPRISE, depreciate.
+
+DISPUNCT, not punctilious.
+
+DISQUISITION, search.
+
+DISSOLVED, enervated by grief.
+
+DISTANCE, (?) proper measure.
+
+DISTASTE, offence, cause of offence.
+
+DISTASTE, render distasteful.
+
+DISTEMPERED, upset, out of humour.
+
+DIVISION (mus.), variation, modulation.
+
+DOG-BOLT, term of contempt.
+
+DOLE, given in dole, charity.
+
+DOLE OF FACES, distribution of grimaces.
+
+DOOM, verdict, sentence.
+
+DOP, dip, low bow.
+
+DOR, beetle, buzzing insect, drone, idler.
+
+DOR, (?) buzz; "give the--," make a fool of.
+
+DOSSER, pannier, basket.
+
+DOTES, endowments, qualities.
+
+DOTTEREL, plover; gull, fool.
+
+DOUBLE, behave deceitfully.
+
+DOXY, wench, mistress.
+
+DRACHM, Greek silver coin.
+
+DRESS, groom, curry.
+
+DRESSING, coiffure.
+
+DRIFT, intention.
+
+DRYFOOT, track by mere scent of foot.
+
+DUCKING, punishment for minor offences.
+
+DUILL, grieve.
+
+DUMPS, melancholy, originally a mournful melody.
+
+DURINDANA, Orlando's sword.
+
+DWINDLE, shrink away, be overawed.
+
+EAN, yean, bring forth young.
+
+EASINESS, readiness.
+
+EBOLITION, ebullition.
+
+EDGE, sword.
+
+EECH, eke.
+
+EGREGIOUS, eminently excellent.
+
+EKE, also, moreover.
+
+E-LA, highest note in the scale.
+
+EGGS ON THE SPIT, important business on hand.
+
+ELF-LOCK, tangled hair, supposed to be the work of elves.
+
+EMMET, ant.
+
+ENGAGE, involve.
+
+ENGHLE. See Ingle.
+
+ENGHLE, cajole; fondle.
+
+ENGIN(E), device, contrivance; agent; ingenuity, wit.
+
+ENGINER, engineer, deviser, plotter.
+
+ENGINOUS, crafty, full of devices; witty, ingenious.
+
+ENGROSS, monopolise.
+
+ENS, an existing thing, a substance.
+
+ENSIGNS, tokens, wounds.
+
+ENSURE, assure.
+
+ENTERTAIN, take into service.
+
+ENTREAT, plead.
+
+ENTREATY, entertainment.
+
+ENTRY, place where a deer has lately passed.
+
+ENVOY, denouement, conclusion.
+
+ENVY, spite, calumny, dislike, odium.
+
+EPHEMERIDES, calendars.
+
+EQUAL, just, impartial.
+
+ERECTION, elevation in esteem.
+
+ERINGO, candied root of the sea-holly, formerly used as a sweetmeat and
+aphrodisiac.
+
+ERRANT, arrant.
+
+ESSENTIATE, become assimilated.
+
+ESTIMATION, esteem.
+
+ESTRICH, ostrich.
+
+ETHNIC, heathen.
+
+EURIPUS, flux and reflux.
+
+EVEN, just equable.
+
+EVENT, fate, issue.
+
+EVENT(ED), issue(d).
+
+EVERT, overturn.
+
+EXACUATE, sharpen.
+
+EXAMPLESS, without example or parallel.
+
+EXCALIBUR, King Arthur's sword.
+
+EXEMPLIFY, make an example of.
+
+EXEMPT, separate, exclude.
+
+EXEQUIES, obsequies.
+
+EXHALE, drag out.
+
+EXHIBITION, allowance for keep, pocket-money.
+
+EXORBITANT, exceeding limits of propriety or law, inordinate.
+
+EXORNATION, ornament.
+
+EXPECT, wait.
+
+EXPIATE, terminate.
+
+EXPLICATE, explain, unfold.
+
+EXTEMPORAL, extempore, unpremeditated.
+
+EXTRACTION, essence.
+
+EXTRAORDINARY, employed for a special or temporary purpose.
+
+EXTRUDE, expel.
+
+EYE, "in--," in view.
+
+EYEBRIGHT, (?) a malt liquor in which the herb of this name was infused,
+or a person who sold the same (Gifford).
+
+EYE-TINGE, least shade or gleam.
+
+FACE, appearance.
+
+FACES ABOUT, military word of command.
+
+FACINOROUS, extremely wicked.
+
+FACKINGS, faith.
+
+FACT, deed, act, crime.
+
+FACTIOUS, seditious, belonging to a party, given to party feeling.
+
+FAECES, dregs.
+
+FAGIOLI, French beans.
+
+FAIN, forced, necessitated.
+
+FAITHFUL, believing.
+
+FALL, ruff or band turned back on the shoulders; or, veil.
+
+FALSIFY, feign (fencing term).
+
+FAME, report.
+
+FAMILIAR, attendant spirit.
+
+FANTASTICAL, capricious, whimsical.
+
+FARCE, stuff.
+
+FAR-FET. See Fet.
+
+FARTHINGAL, hooped petticoat.
+
+FAUCET, tapster.
+
+FAULT, lack; loss, break in line of scent; "for--," in default of.
+
+FAUTOR, partisan.
+
+FAYLES, old table game similar to backgammon.
+
+FEAR(ED), affright(ed).
+
+FEAT, activity, operation; deed, action.
+
+FEAT, elegant, trim.
+
+FEE, "in--" by feudal obligation.
+
+FEIZE, beat, belabour.
+
+FELLOW, term of contempt.
+
+FENNEL, emblem of flattery.
+
+FERE, companion, fellow.
+
+FERN-SEED, supposed to have power of rendering invisible.
+
+FET, fetched.
+
+FETCH, trick.
+
+FEUTERER (Fr. vautrier), dog-keeper.
+
+FEWMETS, dung.
+
+FICO, fig.
+
+FIGGUM, (?) jugglery.
+
+FIGMENT, fiction, invention.
+
+FIRK, frisk, move suddenly, or in jerks; "--up," stir up, rouse; "firks
+mad," suddenly behaves like a madman.
+
+FIT, pay one out, punish.
+
+FITNESS, readiness.
+
+FITTON (FITTEN), lie, invention.
+
+FIVE-AND-FIFTY, "highest number to stand on at primero" (Gifford).
+
+FLAG, to fly low and waveringly.
+
+FLAGON CHAIN, for hanging a smelling-bottle (Fr. flacon) round the neck
+(?). (See N.E.D.).
+
+FLAP-DRAGON, game similar to snap-dragon.
+
+FLASKET, some kind of basket.
+
+FLAW, sudden gust or squall of wind.
+
+FLAWN, custard.
+
+FLEA, catch fleas.
+
+FLEER, sneer, laugh derisively.
+
+FLESH, feed a hawk or dog with flesh to incite it to the chase; initiate
+in blood-shed; satiate.
+
+FLICKER-MOUSE, bat.
+
+FLIGHT, light arrow.
+
+FLITTER-MOUSE, bat.
+
+FLOUT, mock, speak and act contemptuously.
+
+FLOWERS, pulverised substance.
+
+FLY, familiar spirit.
+
+FOIL, weapon used in fencing; that which sets anything off to advantage.
+
+FOIST, cut-purse, sharper.
+
+FOND(LY), foolish(ly).
+
+FOOT-CLOTH, housings of ornamental cloth which hung down on either side
+a horse to the ground.
+
+FOOTING, foothold; footstep; dancing.
+
+FOPPERY, foolery.
+
+FOR, "--failing," for fear of failing.
+
+FORBEAR, bear with; abstain from.
+
+FORCE, "hunt at--," run the game down with dogs.
+
+FOREHEAD, modesty; face, assurance, effrontery.
+
+FORESLOW, delay.
+
+FORESPEAK, bewitch; foretell.
+
+FORETOP, front lock of hair which fashion required to be worn upright.
+
+FORGED, fabricated.
+
+FORM, state formally.
+
+FORMAL, shapely; normal; conventional.
+
+FORTHCOMING, produced when required.
+
+FOUNDER, disable with over-riding.
+
+FOURM, form, lair.
+
+FOX, sword.
+
+FRAIL, rush basket in which figs or raisins were packed.
+
+FRAMPULL, peevish, sour-tempered.
+
+FRAPLER, blusterer, wrangler.
+
+FRAYING, "a stag is said to fray his head when he rubs it against a tree
+to...cause the outward coat of the new horns to fall off" (Gifford).
+
+FREIGHT (of the gazetti), burden (of the newspapers).
+
+FREQUENT, full.
+
+FRICACE, rubbing.
+
+FRICATRICE, woman of low character.
+
+FRIPPERY, old clothes shop.
+
+FROCK, smock-frock.
+
+FROLICS, (?) humorous verses circulated at a feast (N.E.D.); couplets
+wrapped round sweetmeats (Cunningham).
+
+FRONTLESS, shameless.
+
+FROTED, rubbed.
+
+FRUMETY, hulled wheat boiled in milk and spiced.
+
+FRUMP, flout, sneer.
+
+FUCUS, dye.
+
+FUGEAND, (?) figent: fidgety, restless (N.E.D.).
+
+FULLAM, false dice.
+
+FULMART, polecat.
+
+FULSOME, foul, offensive.
+
+FURIBUND, raging, furious.
+
+GALLEY-FOIST, city-barge, used on Lord Mayor's Day, when he was sworn
+into his office at Westminster (Whalley).
+
+GALLIARD, lively dance in triple time.
+
+GAPE, be eager after.
+
+GARAGANTUA, Rabelais' giant.
+
+GARB, sheaf (Fr. gerbe); manner, fashion, behaviour.
+
+GARD, guard, trimming, gold or silver lace, or other ornament.
+
+GARDED, faced or trimmed.
+
+GARNISH, fee.
+
+GAVEL-KIND, name of a land-tenure existing chiefly in Kent; from
+16th century often used to denote custom of dividing a deceased man's
+property equally among his sons (N.E.D.).
+
+GAZETTE, small Venetian coin worth about three-farthings.
+
+GEANCE, jaunt, errand.
+
+GEAR (GEER), stuff, matter, affair.
+
+GELID, frozen.
+
+GEMONIES, steps from which the bodies of criminals were thrown into the
+river.
+
+GENERAL, free, affable.
+
+GENIUS, attendant spirit.
+
+GENTRY, gentlemen; manners characteristic of gentry, good breeding.
+
+GIB-CAT, tom-cat.
+
+GIGANTOMACHIZE, start a giants' war.
+
+GIGLOT, wanton.
+
+GIMBLET, gimlet.
+
+GING, gang.
+
+GLASS ("taking in of shadows, etc."), crystal or beryl.
+
+GLEEK, card game played by three; party of three, trio; side glance.
+
+GLICK (GLEEK), jest, gibe.
+
+GLIDDER, glaze.
+
+GLORIOUSLY, of vain glory.
+
+GODWIT, bird of the snipe family.
+
+GOLD-END-MAN, a buyer of broken gold and silver.
+
+GOLL, hand.
+
+GONFALIONIER, standard-bearer, chief magistrate, etc.
+
+GOOD, sound in credit.
+
+GOOD-YEAR, good luck.
+
+GOOSE-TURD, colour of. (See Turd).
+
+GORCROW, carrion crow.
+
+GORGET, neck armour.
+
+GOSSIP, godfather.
+
+GOWKED, from "gowk," to stand staring and gaping like a fool.
+
+GRANNAM, grandam.
+
+GRASS, (?) grease, fat.
+
+GRATEFUL, agreeable, welcome.
+
+GRATIFY, give thanks to.
+
+GRATITUDE, gratuity.
+
+GRATULATE, welcome, congratulate.
+
+GRAVITY, dignity.
+
+GRAY, badger.
+
+GRICE, cub.
+
+GRIEF, grievance.
+
+GRIPE, vulture, griffin.
+
+GRIPE'S EGG, vessel in shape of.
+
+GROAT, fourpence.
+
+GROGRAN, coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk.
+
+GROOM-PORTER, officer in the royal household.
+
+GROPE, handle, probe.
+
+GROUND, pit (hence "grounded judgments").
+
+GUARD, caution, heed.
+
+GUARDANT, heraldic term: turning the head only.
+
+GUILDER, Dutch coin worth about 4d.
+
+GULES, gullet, throat; heraldic term for red.
+
+GULL, simpleton, dupe.
+
+GUST, taste.
+
+HAB NAB, by, on, chance.
+
+HABERGEON, coat of mail.
+
+HAGGARD, wild female hawk; hence coy, wild.
+
+HALBERD, combination of lance and battle-axe.
+
+HALL, "a--!" a cry to clear the room for the dancers.
+
+HANDSEL, first money taken.
+
+HANGER, loop or strap on a sword-belt from which the sword was
+suspended.
+
+HAP, fortune, luck.
+
+HAPPILY, haply.
+
+HAPPINESS, appropriateness, fitness.
+
+HAPPY, rich.
+
+HARBOUR, track, trace (an animal) to its shelter.
+
+HARD-FAVOURED, harsh-featured.
+
+HARPOCRATES, Horus the child, son of Osiris, figured with a finger
+pointing to his mouth, indicative of silence.
+
+HARRINGTON, a patent was granted to Lord H. for the coinage of tokens
+(q.v.).
+
+HARROT, herald.
+
+HARRY NICHOLAS, founder of a community called the "Family of Love."
+
+HAY, net for catching rabbits, etc.
+
+HAY! (Ital. hai!), you have it (a fencing term).
+
+HAY IN HIS HORN, ill-tempered person.
+
+HAZARD, game at dice; that which is staked.
+
+HEAD, "first--," young deer with antlers first sprouting; fig. a
+newly-ennobled man.
+
+HEADBOROUGH, constable.
+
+HEARKEN AFTER, inquire; "hearken out," find, search out.
+
+HEARTEN, encourage.
+
+HEAVEN AND HELL ("Alchemist"), names of taverns.
+
+HECTIC, fever.
+
+HEDGE IN, include.
+
+HELM, upper part of a retort.
+
+HER'NSEW, hernshaw, heron.
+
+HIERONIMO (JERONIMO), hero of Kyd's "Spanish Tragedy."
+
+HOBBY, nag.
+
+HOBBY-HORSE, imitation horse of some light material, fastened round the
+waist of the morrice-dancer, who imitated the movements of a skittish
+horse.
+
+HODDY-DODDY, fool.
+
+HOIDEN, hoyden, formerly applied to both sexes (ancient term for
+leveret? Gifford).
+
+HOLLAND, name of two famous chemists.
+
+HONE AND HONERO, wailing expressions of lament or discontent.
+
+HOOD-WINK'D, blindfolded.
+
+HORARY, hourly.
+
+HORN-MAD, stark mad (quibble).
+
+HORN-THUMB, cut-purses were in the habit of wearing a horn shield on the
+thumb.
+
+HORSE-BREAD-EATING, horses were often fed on coarse bread.
+
+HORSE-COURSER, horse-dealer.
+
+HOSPITAL, Christ's Hospital.
+
+HOWLEGLAS, Eulenspiegel, the hero of a popular German tale which relates
+his buffooneries and knavish tricks.
+
+HUFF, hectoring, arrogance.
+
+HUFF IT, swagger.
+
+HUISHER (Fr. huissier), usher.
+
+HUM, beer and spirits mixed together.
+
+HUMANITIAN, humanist, scholar.
+
+HUMOROUS, capricious, moody, out of humour; moist.
+
+HUMOUR, a word used in and out of season in the time of Shakespeare and
+Ben Jonson, and ridiculed by both.
+
+HUMOURS, manners.
+
+HUMPHREY, DUKE, those who were dinnerless spent the dinner-hour in a
+part of St. Paul's where stood a monument said to be that of the duke's;
+hence "dine with Duke Humphrey," to go hungry.
+
+HURTLESS, harmless.
+
+IDLE, useless, unprofitable.
+
+ILL-AFFECTED, ill-disposed.
+
+ILL-HABITED, unhealthy.
+
+ILLUSTRATE, illuminate.
+
+IMBIBITION, saturation, steeping.
+
+IMBROCATA, fencing term: a thrust in tierce.
+
+IMPAIR, impairment.
+
+IMPART, give money.
+
+IMPARTER, any one ready to be cheated and to part with his money.
+
+IMPEACH, damage.
+
+IMPERTINENCIES, irrelevancies.
+
+IMPERTINENT(LY), irrelevant(ly), without reason or purpose.
+
+IMPOSITION, duty imposed by.
+
+IMPOTENTLY, beyond power of control.
+
+IMPRESS, money in advance.
+
+IMPULSION, incitement.
+
+IN AND IN, a game played by two or three persons with four dice.
+
+INCENSE, incite, stir up.
+
+INCERATION, act of covering with wax; or reducing a substance to
+softness of wax.
+
+INCH, "to their--es," according to their stature, capabilities.
+
+INCH-PIN, sweet-bread.
+
+INCONVENIENCE, inconsistency, absurdity.
+
+INCONY, delicate, rare (used as a term of affection).
+
+INCUBEE, incubus.
+
+INCUBUS, evil spirit that oppresses us in sleep, nightmare.
+
+INCURIOUS, unfastidious, uncritical.
+
+INDENT, enter into engagement.
+
+INDIFFERENT, tolerable, passable.
+
+INDIGESTED, shapeless, chaotic.
+
+INDUCE, introduce.
+
+INDUE, supply.
+
+INEXORABLE, relentless.
+
+INFANTED, born, produced.
+
+INFLAME, augment charge.
+
+INGENIOUS, used indiscriminantly for ingenuous; intelligent, talented.
+
+INGENUITY, ingenuousness.
+
+INGENUOUS, generous.
+
+INGINE. See Engin.
+
+INGINER, engineer. (See Enginer).
+
+INGLE, OR ENGHLE, bosom friend, intimate, minion.
+
+INHABITABLE, uninhabitable.
+
+INJURY, insult, affront.
+
+IN-MATE, resident, indwelling.
+
+INNATE, natural.
+
+INNOCENT, simpleton.
+
+INQUEST, jury, or other official body of inquiry.
+
+INQUISITION, inquiry.
+
+INSTANT, immediate.
+
+INSTRUMENT, legal document.
+
+INSURE, assure.
+
+INTEGRATE, complete, perfect.
+
+INTELLIGENCE, secret information, news.
+
+INTEND, note carefully, attend, give ear to, be occupied with.
+
+INTENDMENT, intention.
+
+INTENT, intention, wish.
+
+INTENTION, concentration of attention or gaze.
+
+INTENTIVE, attentive.
+
+INTERESSED, implicated.
+
+INTRUDE, bring in forcibly or without leave.
+
+INVINCIBLY, invisibly.
+
+INWARD, intimate.
+
+IRPE (uncertain), "a fantastic grimace, or contortion of the body:
+(Gifford)."
+
+JACK, Jack o' the clock, automaton figure that strikes the hour;
+Jack-a-lent, puppet thrown at in Lent.
+
+JACK, key of a virginal.
+
+JACOB'S STAFF, an instrument for taking altitudes and distances.
+
+JADE, befool.
+
+JEALOUSY, JEALOUS, suspicion, suspicious.
+
+JERKING, lashing.
+
+JEW'S TRUMP, Jew's harp.
+
+JIG, merry ballad or tune; a fanciful dialogue or light comic act
+introduced at the end or during an interlude of a play.
+
+JOINED (JOINT)-STOOL, folding stool.
+
+JOLL, jowl.
+
+JOLTHEAD, blockhead.
+
+JUMP, agree, tally.
+
+JUST YEAR, no one was capable of the consulship until he was
+forty-three.
+
+KELL, cocoon.
+
+KELLY, an alchemist.
+
+KEMB, comb.
+
+KEMIA, vessel for distillation.
+
+KIBE, chap, sore.
+
+KILDERKIN, small barrel.
+
+KILL, kiln.
+
+KIND, nature; species; "do one's--," act according to one's nature.
+
+KIRTLE, woman's gown of jacket and petticoat.
+
+KISS OR DRINK AFORE ME, "this is a familiar expression, employed
+when what the speaker is just about to say is anticipated by another"
+(Gifford).
+
+KIT, fiddle.
+
+KNACK, snap, click.
+
+KNIPPER-DOLING, a well-known Anabaptist.
+
+KNITTING CUP, marriage cup.
+
+KNOCKING, striking, weighty.
+
+KNOT, company, band; a sandpiper or robin snipe (Tringa canutus);
+flower-bed laid out in fanciful design.
+
+KURSINED, KYRSIN, christened.
+
+LABOURED, wrought with labour and care.
+
+LADE, load(ed).
+
+LADING, load.
+
+LAID, plotted.
+
+LANCE-KNIGHT (Lanzknecht), a German mercenary foot-soldier.
+
+LAP, fold.
+
+LAR, household god.
+
+LARD, garnish.
+
+LARGE, abundant.
+
+LARUM, alarum, call to arms.
+
+LATTICE, tavern windows were furnished with lattices of various colours.
+
+LAUNDER, to wash gold in aqua regia, so as imperceptibly to extract some
+of it.
+
+LAVE, ladle, bale.
+
+LAW, "give--," give a start (term of chase).
+
+LAXATIVE, loose.
+
+LAY ABOARD, run alongside generally with intent to board.
+
+LEAGUER, siege, or camp of besieging army.
+
+LEASING, lying.
+
+LEAVE, leave off, desist.
+
+LEER, leering or "empty, hence, perhaps, leer horse, a horse without
+a rider; leer is an adjective meaning uncontrolled, hence 'leer
+drunkards'" (Halliwell); according to Nares, a leer (empty) horse meant
+also a led horse; leeward, left.
+
+LEESE, lose.
+
+LEGS, "make--," do obeisance.
+
+LEIGER, resident representative.
+
+LEIGERITY, legerdemain.
+
+LEMMA, subject proposed, or title of the epigram.
+
+LENTER, slower.
+
+LET, hinder.
+
+LET, hindrance.
+
+LEVEL COIL, a rough game...in which one hunted another from his seat.
+Hence used for any noisy riot (Halliwell).
+
+LEWD, ignorant.
+
+LEYSTALLS, receptacles of filth.
+
+LIBERAL, ample.
+
+LIEGER, ledger, register.
+
+LIFT(ING), steal(ing); theft.
+
+LIGHT, alight.
+
+LIGHTLY, commonly, usually, often.
+
+LIKE, please.
+
+LIKELY, agreeable, pleasing.
+
+LIME-HOUND, leash-, blood-hound.
+
+LIMMER, vile, worthless.
+
+LIN, leave off.
+
+Line, "by--," by rule.
+
+LINSTOCK, staff to stick in the ground, with forked head to hold a
+lighted match for firing cannon.
+
+LIQUID, clear.
+
+LIST, listen, hark; like, please.
+
+LIVERY, legal term, delivery of the possession, etc.
+
+LOGGET, small log, stick.
+
+LOOSE, solution; upshot, issue; release of an arrow.
+
+LOSE, give over, desist from; waste.
+
+LOUTING, bowing, cringing.
+
+LUCULENT, bright of beauty.
+
+LUDGATHIANS, dealers on Ludgate Hill.
+
+LURCH, rob, cheat.
+
+LUTE, to close a vessel with some kind of cement.
+
+MACK, unmeaning expletive.
+
+MADGE-HOWLET or OWL, barn-owl.
+
+MAIM, hurt, injury.
+
+MAIN, chief concern (used as a quibble on heraldic term for "hand").
+
+MAINPRISE, becoming surety for a prisoner so as to procure his release.
+
+MAINTENANCE, giving aid, or abetting.
+
+MAKE, mate.
+
+MAKE, MADE, acquaint with business, prepare(d), instruct(ed).
+
+MALLANDERS, disease of horses.
+
+MALT HORSE, dray horse.
+
+MAMMET, puppet.
+
+MAMMOTHREPT, spoiled child.
+
+MANAGE, control (term used for breaking-in horses); handling,
+administration.
+
+MANGO, slave-dealer.
+
+MANGONISE, polish up for sale.
+
+MANIPLES, bundles, handfuls.
+
+MANKIND, masculine, like a virago.
+
+MANKIND, humanity.
+
+MAPLE FACE, spotted face (N.E.D.).
+
+MARCHPANE, a confection of almonds, sugar, etc.
+
+MARK, "fly to the--," "generally said of a goshawk when, having 'put
+in' a covey of partridges, she takes stand, marking the spot where they
+disappeared from view until the falconer arrives to put them out to her"
+(Harting, Bibl. Accip. Gloss. 226).
+
+MARLE, marvel.
+
+MARROW-BONE MAN, one often on his knees for prayer.
+
+MARRY! exclamation derived from the Virgin's name.
+
+MARRY GIP, "probably originated from By Mary Gipcy" = St. Mary of Egypt,
+(N.E.D.).
+
+MARTAGAN, Turk's cap lily.
+
+MARYHINCHCO, stringhalt.
+
+MASORETH, Masora, correct form of the scriptural text according to
+Hebrew tradition.
+
+MASS, abb. for master.
+
+MAUND, beg.
+
+MAUTHER, girl, maid.
+
+MEAN, moderation.
+
+MEASURE, dance, more especially a stately one.
+
+MEAT, "carry--in one's mouth," be a source of money or entertainment.
+
+MEATH, metheglin.
+
+MECHANICAL, belonging to mechanics, mean, vulgar.
+
+MEDITERRANEO, middle aisle of St. Paul's, a general resort for business
+and amusement.
+
+MEET WITH, even with.
+
+MELICOTTON, a late kind of peach.
+
+MENSTRUE, solvent.
+
+MERCAT, market.
+
+MERD, excrement.
+
+MERE, undiluted; absolute, unmitigated.
+
+MESS, party of four.
+
+METHEGLIN, fermented liquor, of which one ingredient was honey.
+
+METOPOSCOPY, study of physiognomy.
+
+MIDDLING GOSSIP, go-between.
+
+MIGNIARD, dainty, delicate.
+
+MILE-END, training-ground of the city.
+
+MINE-MEN, sappers.
+
+MINION, form of cannon.
+
+MINSITIVE, (?) mincing, affected (N.E.D.).
+
+MISCELLANY MADAM, "a female trader in miscellaneous articles; a dealer
+in trinkets or ornaments of various kinds, such as kept shops in the New
+Exchange" (Nares).
+
+MISCELLINE, mixed grain; medley.
+
+MISCONCEIT, misconception.
+
+MISPRISE, MISPRISION, mistake, misunderstanding.
+
+MISTAKE AWAY, carry away as if by mistake.
+
+MITHRIDATE, an antidote against poison.
+
+MOCCINIGO, small Venetian coin, worth about ninepence.
+
+MODERN, in the mode; ordinary, commonplace.
+
+MOMENT, force or influence of value.
+
+MONTANTO, upward stroke.
+
+MONTH'S MIND, violent desire.
+
+MOORISH, like a moor or waste.
+
+MORGLAY, sword of Bevis of Southampton.
+
+MORRICE-DANCE, dance on May Day, etc., in which certain personages were
+represented.
+
+MORTALITY, death.
+
+MORT-MAL, old sore, gangrene.
+
+MOSCADINO, confection flavoured with musk.
+
+MOTHER, Hysterica passio.
+
+MOTION, proposal, request; puppet, puppet-show; "one of the small
+figures on the face of a large clock which was moved by the vibration of
+the pendulum" (Whalley).
+
+MOTION, suggest, propose.
+
+MOTLEY, parti-coloured dress of a fool; hence used to signify pertaining
+to, or like, a fool.
+
+MOTTE, motto.
+
+MOURNIVAL, set of four aces or court cards in a hand; a quartette.
+
+MOW, setord hay or sheaves of grain.
+
+MUCH! expressive of irony and incredulity.
+
+MUCKINDER, handkerchief.
+
+MULE, "born to ride on--," judges or serjeants-at-law formerly rode on
+mules when going in state to Westminster (Whally).
+
+MULLETS, small pincers.
+
+MUM-CHANCE, game of chance, played in silence.
+
+MUN, must.
+
+MUREY, dark crimson red.
+
+MUSCOVY-GLASS, mica.
+
+MUSE, wonder.
+
+MUSICAL, in harmony.
+
+MUSS, mouse; scramble.
+
+MYROBOLANE, foreign conserve, "a dried plum, brought from the Indies."
+
+MYSTERY, art, trade, profession.
+
+NAIL, "to the--" (ad unguem), to perfection, to the very utmost.
+
+NATIVE, natural.
+
+NEAT, cattle.
+
+NEAT, smartly apparelled; unmixed; dainty.
+
+NEATLY, neatly finished.
+
+NEATNESS, elegance.
+
+NEIS, nose, scent.
+
+NEUF (NEAF, NEIF), fist.
+
+NEUFT, newt.
+
+NIAISE, foolish, inexperienced person.
+
+NICE, fastidious, trivial, finical, scrupulous.
+
+NICENESS, fastidiousness.
+
+NICK, exact amount; right moment; "set in the--," meaning uncertain.
+
+NICE, suit, fit; hit, seize the right moment, etc., exactly hit on, hit
+off.
+
+NOBLE, gold coin worth 6s. 8d.
+
+NOCENT, harmful.
+
+NIL, not will.
+
+NOISE, company of musicians.
+
+NOMENTACK, an Indian chief from Virginia.
+
+NONES, nonce.
+
+NOTABLE, egregious.
+
+NOTE, sign, token.
+
+NOUGHT, "be--," go to the devil, be hanged, etc.
+
+NOWT-HEAD, blockhead.
+
+NUMBER, rhythm.
+
+NUPSON, oaf, simpleton.
+
+OADE, woad.
+
+OBARNI, preparation of mead.
+
+OBJECT, oppose; expose; interpose.
+
+OBLATRANT, barking, railing.
+
+OBNOXIOUS, liable, exposed; offensive.
+
+OBSERVANCE, homage, devoted service.
+
+OBSERVANT, attentive, obsequious.
+
+OBSERVE, show deference, respect.
+
+OBSERVER, one who shows deference, or waits upon another.
+
+OBSTANCY, legal phrase, "juridical opposition."
+
+OBSTREPEROUS, clamorous, vociferous.
+
+OBSTUPEFACT, stupefied.
+
+ODLING, (?) "must have some relation to tricking and cheating" (Nares).
+
+OMINOUS, deadly, fatal.
+
+ONCE, at once; for good and all; used also for additional emphasis.
+
+ONLY, pre-eminent, special.
+
+OPEN, make public; expound.
+
+OPPILATION, obstruction.
+
+OPPONE, oppose.
+
+OPPOSITE, antagonist.
+
+OPPRESS, suppress.
+
+ORIGINOUS, native.
+
+ORT, remnant, scrap.
+
+OUT, "to be--," to have forgotten one's part; not at one with each
+other.
+
+OUTCRY, sale by auction.
+
+OUTRECUIDANCE, arrogance, presumption.
+
+OUTSPEAK, speak more than.
+
+OVERPARTED, given too difficult a part to play.
+
+OWLSPIEGEL. See Howleglass.
+
+OYEZ! (O YES!), hear ye! call of the public crier when about to make a
+proclamation.
+
+PACKING PENNY, "give a--," dismiss, send packing.
+
+PAD, highway.
+
+PAD-HORSE, road-horse.
+
+PAINED (PANED) SLOPS, full breeches made of strips of different colour
+and material.
+
+PAINFUL, diligent, painstaking.
+
+PAINT, blush.
+
+PALINODE, ode of recantation.
+
+PALL, weaken, dim, make stale.
+
+PALM, triumph.
+
+PAN, skirt of dress or coat.
+
+PANNEL, pad, or rough kind of saddle.
+
+PANNIER-ALLY, inhabited by tripe-sellers.
+
+PANNIER-MAN, hawker; a man employed about the inns of court to bring in
+provisions, set the table, etc.
+
+PANTOFLE, indoor shoe, slipper.
+
+PARAMENTOS, fine trappings.
+
+PARANOMASIE, a play upon words.
+
+PARANTORY, (?) peremptory.
+
+PARCEL, particle, fragment (used contemptuously); article.
+
+PARCEL, part, partly.
+
+PARCEL-POET, poetaster.
+
+PARERGA, subordinate matters.
+
+PARGET, to paint or plaster the face.
+
+PARLE, parley.
+
+PARLOUS, clever, shrewd.
+
+PART, apportion.
+
+PARTAKE, participate in.
+
+PARTED, endowed, talented.
+
+PARTICULAR, individual person.
+
+PARTIZAN, kind of halberd.
+
+PARTRICH, partridge.
+
+PARTS, qualities, endowments.
+
+PASH, dash, smash.
+
+PASS, care, trouble oneself.
+
+PASSADO, fencing term: a thrust.
+
+PASSAGE, game at dice.
+
+PASSINGLY, exceedingly.
+
+PASSION, effect caused by external agency.
+
+PASSION, "in--," in so melancholy a tone, so pathetically.
+
+PATOUN, (?) Fr. Paton, pellet of dough; perhaps the "moulding of the
+tobacco...for the pipe" (Gifford); (?) variant of Petun, South American
+name of tobacco.
+
+PATRICO, the recorder, priest, orator of strolling beggars or gipsies.
+
+PATTEN, shoe with wooden sole; "go--," keep step with, accompany.
+
+PAUCA VERBA, few words.
+
+PAVIN, a stately dance.
+
+PEACE, "with my master's--," by leave, favour.
+
+PECULIAR, individual, single.
+
+PEDANT, teacher of the languages.
+
+PEEL, baker's shovel.
+
+PEEP, speak in a small or shrill voice.
+
+PEEVISH(LY), foolish(ly), capricious(ly); childish(ly).
+
+PELICAN, a retort fitted with tube or tubes, for continuous
+distillation.
+
+PENCIL, small tuft of hair.
+
+PERDUE, soldier accustomed to hazardous service.
+
+PEREMPTORY, resolute, bold; imperious; thorough, utter, absolute(ly).
+
+PERIMETER, circumference of a figure.
+
+PERIOD, limit, end.
+
+PERK, perk up.
+
+PERPETUANA, "this seems to be that glossy kind of stuff now called
+everlasting, and anciently worn by serjeants and other city officers"
+(Gifford).
+
+PERSPECTIVE, a view, scene or scenery; an optical device which gave a
+distortion to the picture unless seen from a particular point; a relief,
+modelled to produce an optical illusion.
+
+PERSPICIL, optic glass.
+
+PERSTRINGE, criticise, censure.
+
+PERSUADE, inculcate, commend.
+
+PERSWAY, mitigate.
+
+PERTINACY, pertinacity.
+
+PESTLING, pounding, pulverising, like a pestle.
+
+PETASUS, broad-brimmed hat or winged cap worn by Mercury.
+
+PETITIONARY, supplicatory.
+
+PETRONEL, a kind of carbine or light gun carried by horsemen.
+
+PETULANT, pert, insolent.
+
+PHERE. See Fere.
+
+PHLEGMA, watery distilled liquor (old chem. "water").
+
+PHRENETIC, madman.
+
+PICARDIL, stiff upright collar fastened on to the coat (Whalley).
+
+PICT-HATCH, disreputable quarter of London.
+
+PIECE, person, used for woman or girl; a gold coin worth in Jonson's
+time 20s. or 22s.
+
+PIECES OF EIGHT, Spanish coin: piastre equal to eight reals.
+
+PIED, variegated.
+
+PIE-POUDRES (Fr. pied-poudreux, dusty-foot), court held at fairs to
+administer justice to itinerant vendors and buyers.
+
+PILCHER, term of contempt; one who wore a buff or leather jerkin, as did
+the serjeants of the counter; a pilferer.
+
+PILED, pilled, peeled, bald.
+
+PILL'D, polled, fleeced.
+
+PIMLICO, "sometimes spoken of as a person--perhaps master of a house
+famous for a particular ale" (Gifford).
+
+PINE, afflict, distress.
+
+PINK, stab with a weapon; pierce or cut in scallops for ornament.
+
+PINNACE, a go-between in infamous sense.
+
+PISMIRE, ant.
+
+PISTOLET, gold coin, worth about 6s.
+
+PITCH, height of a bird of prey's flight.
+
+PLAGUE, punishment, torment.
+
+PLAIN, lament.
+
+PLAIN SONG, simple melody.
+
+PLAISE, plaice.
+
+PLANET, "struck with a--," planets were supposed to have powers of
+blasting or exercising secret influences.
+
+PLAUSIBLE, pleasing.
+
+PLAUSIBLY, approvingly.
+
+PLOT, plan.
+
+PLY, apply oneself to.
+
+POESIE, posy, motto inside a ring.
+
+POINT IN HIS DEVICE, exact in every particular.
+
+POINTS, tagged laces or cords for fastening the breeches to the doublet.
+
+POINT-TRUSSER, one who trussed (tied) his master's points (q.v.).
+
+POISE, weigh, balance.
+
+POKING-STICK, stick used for setting the plaits of ruffs.
+
+POLITIC, politician.
+
+POLITIC, judicious, prudent, political.
+
+POLITICIAN, plotter, intriguer.
+
+POLL, strip, plunder, gain by extortion.
+
+POMANDER, ball of perfume, worn or hung about the person to prevent
+infection, or for foppery.
+
+POMMADO, vaulting on a horse without the aid of stirrups.
+
+PONTIC, sour.
+
+POPULAR, vulgar, of the populace.
+
+POPULOUS, numerous.
+
+PORT, gate; print of a deer's foot.
+
+PORT, transport.
+
+PORTAGUE, Portuguese gold coin, worth over 3 or 4 pounds.
+
+PORTCULLIS, "--of coin," some old coins have a portcullis stamped on
+their reverse (Whalley).
+
+PORTENT, marvel, prodigy; sinister omen.
+
+PORTENTOUS, prophesying evil, threatening.
+
+PORTER, references appear "to allude to Parsons, the king's porter, who
+was...near seven feet high" (Whalley).
+
+POSSESS, inform, acquaint.
+
+POST AND PAIR, a game at cards.
+
+POSY, motto. (See Poesie).
+
+POTCH, poach.
+
+POULT-FOOT, club-foot.
+
+POUNCE, claw, talon.
+
+PRACTICE, intrigue, concerted plot.
+
+PRACTISE, plot, conspire.
+
+PRAGMATIC, an expert, agent.
+
+PRAGMATIC, officious, conceited, meddling.
+
+PRECEDENT, record of proceedings.
+
+PRECEPT, warrant, summons.
+
+PRECISIAN(ISM), Puritan(ism), preciseness.
+
+PREFER, recommend.
+
+PRESENCE, presence chamber.
+
+PRESENT(LY), immediate(ly), without delay; at the present time;
+actually.
+
+PRESS, force into service.
+
+PREST, ready.
+
+PRETEND, assert, allege.
+
+PREVENT, anticipate.
+
+PRICE, worth, excellence.
+
+PRICK, point, dot used in the writing of Hebrew and other languages.
+
+PRICK, prick out, mark off, select; trace, track; "--away," make off
+with speed.
+
+PRIMERO, game of cards.
+
+PRINCOX, pert boy.
+
+PRINT, "in--," to the letter, exactly.
+
+PRISTINATE, former.
+
+PRIVATE, private interests.
+
+PRIVATE, privy, intimate.
+
+PROCLIVE, prone to.
+
+PRODIGIOUS, monstrous, unnatural.
+
+PRODIGY, monster.
+
+PRODUCED, prolonged.
+
+PROFESS, pretend.
+
+PROJECTION, the throwing of the "powder of projection" into the crucible
+to turn the melted metal into gold or silver.
+
+PROLATE, pronounce drawlingly.
+
+PROPER, of good appearance, handsome; own, particular.
+
+PROPERTIES, stage necessaries.
+
+PROPERTY, duty; tool.
+
+PRORUMPED, burst out.
+
+PROTEST, vow, proclaim (an affected word of that time); formally declare
+non-payment, etc., of bill of exchange; fig. failure of personal credit,
+etc.
+
+PROVANT, soldier's allowance--hence, of common make.
+
+PROVIDE, foresee.
+
+PROVIDENCE, foresight, prudence.
+
+PUBLICATION, making a thing public of common property (N.E.D.).
+
+PUCKFIST, puff-ball; insipid, insignificant, boasting fellow.
+
+PUFF-WING, shoulder puff.
+
+PUISNE, judge of inferior rank, a junior.
+
+PULCHRITUDE, beauty.
+
+PUMP, shoe.
+
+PUNGENT, piercing.
+
+PUNTO, point, hit.
+
+PURCEPT, precept, warrant.
+
+PURE, fine, capital, excellent.
+
+PURELY, perfectly, utterly.
+
+PURL, pleat or fold of a ruff.
+
+PURSE-NET, net of which the mouth is drawn together with a string.
+
+PURSUIVANT, state messenger who summoned the persecuted seminaries;
+warrant officer.
+
+PURSY, PURSINESS, shortwinded(ness).
+
+PUT, make a push, exert yourself (N.E.D.).
+
+PUT OFF, excuse, shift.
+
+PUT ON, incite, encourage; proceed with, take in hand, try.
+
+QUACKSALVER, quack.
+
+QUAINT, elegant, elaborated, ingenious, clever.
+
+QUAR, quarry.
+
+QUARRIED, seized, or fed upon, as prey.
+
+QUEAN, hussy, jade.
+
+QUEASY, hazardous, delicate.
+
+QUELL, kill, destroy.
+
+QUEST, request; inquiry.
+
+QUESTION, decision by force of arms.
+
+QUESTMAN, one appointed to make official inquiry.
+
+QUIB, QUIBLIN, quibble, quip.
+
+QUICK, the living.
+
+QUIDDIT, quiddity, legal subtlety.
+
+QUIRK, clever turn or trick.
+
+QUIT, requite, repay; acquit, absolve; rid; forsake, leave.
+
+QUITTER-BONE, disease of horses.
+
+QUODLING, codling.
+
+QUOIT, throw like a quoit, chuck.
+
+QUOTE, take note, observe, write down.
+
+RACK, neck of mutton or pork (Halliwell).
+
+RAKE UP, cover over.
+
+RAMP, rear, as a lion, etc.
+
+RAPT, carry away.
+
+RAPT, enraptured.
+
+RASCAL, young or inferior deer.
+
+RASH, strike with a glancing oblique blow, as a boar with its tusk.
+
+RATSEY, GOMALIEL, a famous highwayman.
+
+RAVEN, devour.
+
+REACH, understand.
+
+REAL, regal.
+
+REBATU, ruff, turned-down collar.
+
+RECTOR, RECTRESS, director, governor.
+
+REDARGUE, confute.
+
+REDUCE, bring back.
+
+REED, rede, counsel, advice.
+
+REEL, run riot.
+
+REFEL, refute.
+
+REFORMADOES, disgraced or disbanded soldiers.
+
+REGIMENT, government.
+
+REGRESSION, return.
+
+REGULAR ("Tale of a Tub"), regular noun (quibble) (N.E.D.).
+
+RELIGION, "make--of," make a point of, scruple of.
+
+RELISH, savour.
+
+REMNANT, scrap of quotation.
+
+REMORA, species of fish.
+
+RENDER, depict, exhibit, show.
+
+REPAIR, reinstate.
+
+REPETITION, recital, narration.
+
+REREMOUSE, bat.
+
+RESIANT, resident.
+
+RESIDENCE, sediment.
+
+RESOLUTION, judgment, decision.
+
+RESOLVE, inform; assure; prepare, make up one's mind; dissolve; come to
+a decision, be convinced; relax, set at ease.
+
+RESPECTIVE, worthy of respect; regardful, discriminative.
+
+RESPECTIVELY, with reverence.
+
+RESPECTLESS, regardless.
+
+RESPIRE, exhale; inhale.
+
+RESPONSIBLE, correspondent.
+
+REST, musket-rest.
+
+REST, "set up one's--," venture one's all, one's last stake (from game
+of primero).
+
+REST, arrest.
+
+RESTIVE, RESTY, dull, inactive.
+
+RETCHLESS(NESS), reckless(ness).
+
+RETIRE, cause to retire.
+
+RETRICATO, fencing term.
+
+RETRIEVE, rediscovery of game once sprung.
+
+RETURNS, ventures sent abroad, for the safe return of which so much
+money is received.
+
+REVERBERATE, dissolve or blend by reflected heat.
+
+REVERSE, REVERSO, back-handed thrust, etc., in fencing.
+
+REVISE, reconsider a sentence.
+
+RHEUM, spleen, caprice.
+
+RIBIBE, abusive term for an old woman.
+
+RID, destroy, do away with.
+
+RIFLING, raffling, dicing.
+
+RING, "cracked within the--," coins so cracked were unfit for currency.
+
+RISSE, risen, rose.
+
+RIVELLED, wrinkled.
+
+ROARER, swaggerer.
+
+ROCHET, fish of the gurnet kind.
+
+ROCK, distaff.
+
+RODOMONTADO, braggadocio.
+
+ROGUE, vagrant, vagabond.
+
+RONDEL, "a round mark in the score of a public-house" (Nares); roundel.
+
+ROOK, sharper; fool, dupe.
+
+ROSAKER, similar to ratsbane.
+
+ROSA-SOLIS, a spiced spirituous liquor.
+
+ROSES, rosettes.
+
+ROUND, "gentlemen of the--," officers of inferior rank.
+
+ROUND TRUNKS, trunk hose, short loose breeches reaching almost or quite
+to the knees.
+
+ROUSE, carouse, bumper.
+
+ROVER, arrow used for shooting at a random mark at uncertain distance.
+
+ROWLY-POWLY, roly-poly.
+
+RUDE, RUDENESS, unpolished, rough(ness), coarse(ness).
+
+RUFFLE, flaunt, swagger.
+
+RUG, coarse frieze.
+
+RUG-GOWNS, gown made of rug.
+
+RUSH, reference to rushes with which the floors were then strewn.
+
+RUSHER, one who strewed the floor with rushes.
+
+RUSSET, homespun cloth of neutral or reddish-brown colour.
+
+SACK, loose, flowing gown.
+
+SADLY, seriously, with gravity.
+
+SAD(NESS), sober, serious(ness).
+
+SAFFI, bailiffs.
+
+ST. THOMAS A WATERINGS, place in Surrey where criminals were executed.
+
+SAKER, small piece of ordnance.
+
+SALT, leap.
+
+SALT, lascivious.
+
+SAMPSUCHINE, sweet marjoram.
+
+SARABAND, a slow dance.
+
+SATURNALS, began December 17.
+
+SAUCINESS, presumption, insolence.
+
+SAUCY, bold, impudent, wanton.
+
+SAUNA (Lat.), a gesture of contempt.
+
+SAVOUR, perceive; gratify, please; to partake of the nature.
+
+SAY, sample.
+
+SAY, assay, try.
+
+SCALD, word of contempt, implying dirt and disease.
+
+SCALLION, shalot, small onion.
+
+SCANDERBAG, "name which the Turks (in allusion to Alexander the Great)
+gave to the brave Castriot, chief of Albania, with whom they had
+continual wars. His romantic life had just been translated" (Gifford).
+
+SCAPE, escape.
+
+SCARAB, beetle.
+
+SCARTOCCIO, fold of paper, cover, cartouch, cartridge.
+
+SCONCE, head.
+
+SCOPE, aim.
+
+SCOT AND LOT, tax, contribution (formerly a parish assessment).
+
+SCOTOMY, dizziness in the head.
+
+SCOUR, purge.
+
+SCOURSE, deal, swap.
+
+SCRATCHES, disease of horses.
+
+SCROYLE, mean, rascally fellow.
+
+SCRUPLE, doubt.
+
+SEAL, put hand to the giving up of property or rights.
+
+SEALED, stamped as genuine.
+
+SEAM-RENT, ragged.
+
+SEAMING LACES, insertion or edging.
+
+SEAR UP, close by searing, burning.
+
+SEARCED, sifted.
+
+SECRETARY, able to keep a secret.
+
+SECULAR, worldly, ordinary, commonplace.
+
+SECURE, confident.
+
+SEELIE, happy, blest.
+
+SEISIN, legal term: possession.
+
+SELLARY, lewd person.
+
+SEMBLABLY, similarly.
+
+SEMINARY, a Romish priest educated in a foreign seminary.
+
+SENSELESS, insensible, without sense or feeling.
+
+SENSIBLY, perceptibly.
+
+SENSIVE, sensitive.
+
+SENSUAL, pertaining to the physical or material.
+
+SERENE, harmful dew of evening.
+
+SERICON, red tincture.
+
+SERVANT, lover.
+
+SERVICES, doughty deeds of arms.
+
+SESTERCE, Roman copper coin.
+
+SET, stake, wager.
+
+SET UP, drill.
+
+SETS, deep plaits of the ruff.
+
+SEWER, officer who served up the feast, and brought water for the hands
+of the guests.
+
+SHAPE, a suit by way of disguise.
+
+SHIFT, fraud, dodge.
+
+SHIFTER, cheat.
+
+SHITTLE, shuttle; "shittle-cock," shuttlecock.
+
+SHOT, tavern reckoning.
+
+SHOT-CLOG, one only tolerated because he paid the shot (reckoning) for
+the rest.
+
+SHOT-FREE, scot-free, not having to pay.
+
+SHOVE-GROAT, low kind of gambling amusement, perhaps somewhat of the
+nature of pitch and toss.
+
+SHOT-SHARKS, drawers.
+
+SHREWD, mischievous, malicious, curst.
+
+SHREWDLY, keenly, in a high degree.
+
+SHRIVE, sheriff; posts were set up before his door for proclamations, or
+to indicate his residence.
+
+SHROVING, Shrovetide, season of merriment.
+
+SIGILLA, seal, mark.
+
+SILENCED BRETHERN, MINISTERS, those of the Church or Nonconformists who
+had been silenced, deprived, etc.
+
+SILLY, simple, harmless.
+
+SIMPLE, silly, witless; plain, true.
+
+SIMPLES, herbs.
+
+SINGLE, term of chase, signifying when the hunted stag is separated from
+the herd, or forced to break covert.
+
+SINGLE, weak, silly.
+
+SINGLE-MONEY, small change.
+
+SINGULAR, unique, supreme.
+
+SI-QUIS, bill, advertisement.
+
+SKELDRING, getting money under false pretences; swindling.
+
+SKILL, "it--s not," matters not.
+
+SKINK(ER), pour, draw(er), tapster.
+
+SKIRT, tail.
+
+SLEEK, smooth.
+
+SLICE, fire shovel or pan (dial.).
+
+SLICK, sleek, smooth.
+
+'SLID, 'SLIGHT, 'SPRECIOUS, irreverent oaths.
+
+SLIGHT, sleight, cunning, cleverness; trick.
+
+SLIP, counterfeit coin, bastard.
+
+SLIPPERY, polished and shining.
+
+SLOPS, large loose breeches.
+
+SLOT, print of a stag's foot.
+
+SLUR, put a slur on; cheat (by sliding a die in some way).
+
+SMELT, gull, simpleton.
+
+SNORLE, "perhaps snarl, as Puppy is addressed" (Cunningham).
+
+SNOTTERIE, filth.
+
+SNUFF, anger, resentment; "take in--," take offence at.
+
+SNUFFERS, small open silver dishes for holding snuff, or receptacle for
+placing snuffers in (Halliwell).
+
+SOCK, shoe worn by comic actors.
+
+SOD, seethe.
+
+SOGGY, soaked, sodden.
+
+SOIL, "take--," said of a hunted stag when he takes to the water for
+safety.
+
+SOL, sou.
+
+SOLDADOES, soldiers.
+
+SOLICIT, rouse, excite to action.
+
+SOOTH, flattery, cajolery.
+
+SOOTHE, flatter, humour.
+
+SOPHISTICATE, adulterate.
+
+SORT, company, party; rank, degree.
+
+SORT, suit, fit; select.
+
+SOUSE, ear.
+
+SOUSED ("Devil is an Ass"), fol. read "sou't," which Dyce interprets
+as "a variety of the spelling of "shu'd": to "shu" is to scare a bird
+away." (See his "Webster," page 350).
+
+SOWTER, cobbler.
+
+SPAGYRICA, chemistry according to the teachings of Paracelsus.
+
+SPAR, bar.
+
+SPEAK, make known, proclaim.
+
+SPECULATION, power of sight.
+
+SPED, to have fared well, prospered.
+
+SPEECE, species.
+
+SPIGHT, anger, rancour.
+
+SPINNER, spider.
+
+SPINSTRY, lewd person.
+
+SPITTLE, hospital, lazar-house.
+
+SPLEEN, considered the seat of the emotions.
+
+SPLEEN, caprice, humour, mood.
+
+SPRUNT, spruce.
+
+SPURGE, foam.
+
+SPUR-RYAL, gold coin worth 15s.
+
+SQUIRE, square, measure; "by the--," exactly.
+
+STAGGERING, wavering, hesitating.
+
+STAIN, disparagement, disgrace.
+
+STALE, decoy, or cover, stalking-horse.
+
+STALE, make cheap, common.
+
+STALK, approach stealthily or under cover.
+
+STALL, forestall.
+
+STANDARD, suit.
+
+STAPLE, market, emporium.
+
+STARK, downright.
+
+STARTING-HOLES, loopholes of escape.
+
+STATE, dignity; canopied chair of state; estate.
+
+STATUMINATE, support vines by poles or stakes; used by Pliny (Gifford).
+
+STAY, gag.
+
+STAY, await; detain.
+
+STICKLER, second or umpire.
+
+STIGMATISE, mark, brand.
+
+STILL, continual(ly), constant(ly).
+
+STINKARD, stinking fellow.
+
+STINT, stop.
+
+STIPTIC, astringent.
+
+STOCCATA, thrust in fencing.
+
+STOCK-FISH, salted and dried fish.
+
+STOMACH, pride, valour.
+
+STOMACH, resent.
+
+STOOP, swoop down as a hawk.
+
+STOP, fill, stuff.
+
+STOPPLE, stopper.
+
+STOTE, stoat, weasel.
+
+STOUP, stoop, swoop=bow.
+
+STRAIGHT, straightway.
+
+STRAMAZOUN (Ital. stramazzone), a down blow, as opposed to the thrust.
+
+STRANGE, like a stranger, unfamiliar.
+
+STRANGENESS, distance of behaviour.
+
+STREIGHTS, OR BERMUDAS, labyrinth of alleys and courts in the Strand.
+
+STRIGONIUM, Grau in Hungary, taken from the Turks in 1597.
+
+STRIKE, balance (accounts).
+
+STRINGHALT, disease of horses.
+
+STROKER, smoother, flatterer.
+
+STROOK, p.p. of "strike."
+
+STRUMMEL-PATCHED, strummel is glossed in dialect dicts. as "a long,
+loose and dishevelled head of hair."
+
+STUDIES, studious efforts.
+
+STYLE, title; pointed instrument used for writing on wax tablets.
+
+SUBTLE, fine, delicate, thin; smooth, soft.
+
+SUBTLETY (SUBTILITY), subtle device.
+
+SUBURB, connected with loose living.
+
+SUCCUBAE, demons in form of women.
+
+SUCK, extract money from.
+
+SUFFERANCE, suffering.
+
+SUMMED, term of falconry: with full-grown plumage.
+
+SUPER-NEGULUM, topers turned the cup bottom up when it was empty.
+
+SUPERSTITIOUS, over-scrupulous.
+
+SUPPLE, to make pliant.
+
+SURBATE, make sore with walking.
+
+SURCEASE, cease.
+
+SUR-REVERENCE, save your reverence.
+
+SURVISE, peruse.
+
+SUSCITABILITY, excitability.
+
+SUSPECT, suspicion.
+
+SUSPEND, suspect.
+
+SUSPENDED, held over for the present.
+
+SUTLER, victualler.
+
+SWAD, clown, boor.
+
+SWATH BANDS, swaddling clothes.
+
+SWINGE, beat.
+
+TABERD, emblazoned mantle or tunic worn by knights and heralds.
+
+TABLE(S), "pair of--," tablets, note-book.
+
+TABOR, small drum.
+
+TABRET, tabor.
+
+TAFFETA, silk; "tuft-taffeta," a more costly silken fabric.
+
+TAINT, "--a staff," break a lance at tilting in an unscientific or
+dishonourable manner.
+
+TAKE IN, capture, subdue.
+
+TAKE ME WITH YOU, let me understand you.
+
+TAKE UP, obtain on credit, borrow.
+
+TALENT, sum or weight of Greek currency.
+
+TALL, stout, brave.
+
+TANKARD-BEARERS, men employed to fetch water from the conduits.
+
+TARLETON, celebrated comedian and jester.
+
+TARTAROUS, like a Tartar.
+
+TAVERN-TOKEN, "to swallow a--," get drunk.
+
+TELL, count.
+
+TELL-TROTH, truth-teller.
+
+TEMPER, modify, soften.
+
+TENDER, show regard, care for, cherish; manifest.
+
+TENT, "take--," take heed.
+
+TERSE, swept and polished.
+
+TERTIA, "that portion of an army levied out of one particular district
+or division of a country" (Gifford).
+
+TESTON, tester, coin worth 6d.
+
+THIRDBOROUGH, constable.
+
+THREAD, quality.
+
+THREAVES, droves.
+
+THREE-FARTHINGS, piece of silver current under Elizabeth.
+
+THREE-PILED, of finest quality, exaggerated.
+
+THRIFTILY, carefully.
+
+THRUMS, ends of the weaver's warp; coarse yarn made from.
+
+THUMB-RING, familiar spirits were supposed capable of being carried
+about in various ornaments or parts of dress.
+
+TIBICINE, player on the tibia, or pipe.
+
+TICK-TACK, game similar to backgammon.
+
+TIGHTLY, promptly.
+
+TIM, (?) expressive of a climax of nonentity.
+
+TIMELESS, untimely, unseasonable.
+
+TINCTURE, an essential or spiritual principle supposed by alchemists
+to be transfusible into material things; an imparted characteristic or
+tendency.
+
+TINK, tinkle.
+
+TIPPET, "turn--," change behaviour or way of life.
+
+TIPSTAFF, staff tipped with metal.
+
+TIRE, head-dress.
+
+TIRE, feed ravenously, like a bird of prey.
+
+TITILLATION, that which tickles the senses, as a perfume.
+
+TOD, fox.
+
+TOILED, worn out, harassed.
+
+TOKEN, piece of base metal used in place of very small coin, when this
+was scarce.
+
+TONNELS, nostrils.
+
+TOP, "parish--," large top kept in villages for amusement and exercise
+in frosty weather when people were out of work.
+
+TOTER, tooter, player on a wind instrument.
+
+TOUSE, pull, rend.
+
+TOWARD, docile, apt; on the way to; as regards; present, at hand.
+
+TOY, whim; trick; term of contempt.
+
+TRACT, attraction.
+
+TRAIN, allure, entice.
+
+TRANSITORY, transmittable.
+
+TRANSLATE, transform.
+
+TRAY-TRIP, game at dice (success depended on throwing a three) (Nares).
+
+TREACHOUR (TRECHER), traitor.
+
+TREEN, wooden.
+
+TRENCHER, serving-man who carved or served food.
+
+TRENDLE-TAIL, trundle-tail, curly-tailed.
+
+TRICK (TRICKING), term of heraldry: to draw outline of coat of arms,
+etc., without blazoning.
+
+TRIG, a spruce, dandified man.
+
+TRILL, trickle.
+
+TRILLIBUB, tripe, any worthless, trifling thing.
+
+TRIPOLY, "come from--," able to perform feats of agility, a "jest
+nominal," depending on the first part of the word (Gifford).
+
+TRITE, worn, shabby.
+
+TRIVIA, three-faced goddess (Hecate).
+
+TROJAN, familiar term for an equal or inferior; thief.
+
+TROLL, sing loudly.
+
+TROMP, trump, deceive.
+
+TROPE, figure of speech.
+
+TROW, think, believe, wonder.
+
+TROWLE, troll.
+
+TROWSES, breeches, drawers.
+
+TRUCHMAN, interpreter.
+
+TRUNDLE, JOHN, well-known printer.
+
+TRUNDLE, roll, go rolling along.
+
+TRUNDLING CHEATS, term among gipsies and beggars for carts or coaches
+(Gifford).
+
+TRUNK, speaking-tube.
+
+TRUSS, tie the tagged laces that fastened the breeches to the doublet.
+
+TUBICINE, trumpeter.
+
+TUCKET (Ital. toccato), introductory flourish on the trumpet.
+
+TUITION, guardianship.
+
+TUMBLER, a particular kind of dog so called from the mode of his
+hunting.
+
+TUMBREL-SLOP, loose, baggy breeches.
+
+TURD, excrement.
+
+TUSK, gnash the teeth (Century Dict.).
+
+TWIRE, peep, twinkle.
+
+TWOPENNY ROOM, gallery.
+
+TYRING-HOUSE, attiring-room.
+
+ULENSPIEGEL. See Howleglass.
+
+UMBRATILE, like or pertaining to a shadow.
+
+UMBRE, brown dye.
+
+UNBATED, unabated.
+
+UNBORED, (?) excessively bored.
+
+UNCARNATE, not fleshly, or of flesh.
+
+UNCOUTH, strange, unusual.
+
+UNDERTAKER, "one who undertook by his influence in the House of Commons
+to carry things agreeably to his Majesty's wishes" (Whalley); one who
+becomes surety for.
+
+UNEQUAL, unjust.
+
+UNEXCEPTED, no objection taken at.
+
+UNFEARED, unaffrighted.
+
+UNHAPPILY, unfortunately.
+
+UNICORN'S HORN, supposed antidote to poison.
+
+UNKIND(LY), unnatural(ly).
+
+UNMANNED, untamed (term in falconry).
+
+UNQUIT, undischarged.
+
+UNREADY, undressed.
+
+UNRUDE, rude to an extreme.
+
+UNSEASONED, unseasonable, unripe.
+
+UNSEELED, a hawk's eyes were "seeled" by sewing the eyelids together
+with fine thread.
+
+UNTIMELY, unseasonably.
+
+UNVALUABLE, invaluable.
+
+UPBRAID, make a matter of reproach.
+
+UPSEE, heavy kind of Dutch beer (Halliwell); "--Dutch," in the Dutch
+fashion.
+
+UPTAILS ALL, refrain of a popular song.
+
+URGE, allege as accomplice, instigator.
+
+URSHIN, URCHIN, hedgehog.
+
+USE, interest on money; part of sermon dealing with the practical
+application of doctrine.
+
+USE, be in the habit of, accustomed to; put out to interest.
+
+USQUEBAUGH, whisky.
+
+USURE, usury.
+
+UTTER, put in circulation, make to pass current; put forth for sale.
+
+VAIL, bow, do homage.
+
+VAILS, tips, gratuities.
+
+VALL. See Vail.
+
+VALLIES (Fr. valise), portmanteau, bag.
+
+VAPOUR(S) (n. and v.), used affectedly, like "humour," in many senses,
+often very vaguely and freely ridiculed by Jonson; humour, disposition,
+whims, brag(ging), hector(ing), etc.
+
+VARLET, bailiff, or serjeant-at-mace.
+
+VAUT, vault.
+
+VEER (naut.), pay out.
+
+VEGETAL, vegetable; person full of life and vigour.
+
+VELLUTE, velvet.
+
+VELVET CUSTARD. Cf. "Taming of the Shrew," iv. 3, 82, "custard coffin,"
+coffin being the raised crust over a pie.
+
+VENT, vend, sell; give outlet to; scent, snuff up.
+
+VENUE, bout (fencing term).
+
+VERDUGO (Span.), hangman, executioner.
+
+VERGE, "in the--," within a certain distance of the court.
+
+VEX, agitate, torment.
+
+VICE, the buffoon of old moralities; some kind of machinery for moving a
+puppet (Gifford).
+
+VIE AND REVIE, to hazard a certain sum, and to cover it with a larger
+one.
+
+VINCENT AGAINST YORK, two heralds-at-arms.
+
+VINDICATE, avenge.
+
+VIRGE, wand, rod.
+
+VIRGINAL, old form of piano.
+
+VIRTUE, valour.
+
+VIVELY, in lifelike manner, livelily.
+
+VIZARD, mask.
+
+VOGUE, rumour, gossip.
+
+VOICE, vote.
+
+VOID, leave, quit.
+
+VOLARY, cage, aviary.
+
+VOLLEY, "at--," "o' the volee," at random (from a term of tennis).
+
+VORLOFFE, furlough.
+
+WADLOE, keeper of the Devil Tavern, where Jonson and his friends met in
+the 'Apollo' room (Whalley).
+
+WAIGHTS, waits, night musicians, "band of musical watchmen" (Webster),
+or old form of "hautboys."
+
+WANNION, "vengeance," "plague" (Nares).
+
+WARD, a famous pirate.
+
+WARD, guard in fencing.
+
+WATCHET, pale, sky blue.
+
+WEAL, welfare.
+
+WEED, garment.
+
+WEFT, waif.
+
+WEIGHTS, "to the gold--," to every minute particular.
+
+WELKIN, sky.
+
+WELL-SPOKEN, of fair speech.
+
+WELL-TORNED, turned and polished, as on a wheel.
+
+WELT, hem, border of fur.
+
+WHER, whether.
+
+WHETSTONE, GEORGE, an author who lived 1544(?) to 1587(?).
+
+WHIFF, a smoke, or drink; "taking the--," inhaling the tobacco smoke or
+some such accomplishment.
+
+WHIGH-HIES, neighings, whinnyings.
+
+WHIMSY, whim, "humour."
+
+WHINILING, (?) whining, weakly.
+
+WHIT, (?) a mere jot.
+
+WHITEMEAT, food made of milk or eggs.
+
+WICKED, bad, clumsy.
+
+WICKER, pliant, agile.
+
+WILDING, esp. fruit of wild apple or crab tree (Webster).
+
+WINE, "I have the--for you," Prov.: I have the perquisites (of the
+office) which you are to share (Cunningham).
+
+WINNY, "same as old word "wonne," to stay, etc." (Whalley).
+
+WISE-WOMAN, fortune-teller.
+
+WISH, recommend.
+
+WISS (WUSSE), "I--," certainly, of a truth.
+
+WITHOUT, beyond.
+
+WITTY, cunning, ingenious, clever.
+
+WOOD, collection, lot.
+
+WOODCOCK, term of contempt.
+
+WOOLSACK ("--pies"), name of tavern.
+
+WORT, unfermented beer.
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+WOUNDY, great, extreme.
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+WREAK, revenge.
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+WROUGHT, wrought upon.
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+WUSSE, interjection. (See Wiss).
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+YEANLING, lamb, kid.
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+ZANY, an inferior clown, who attended upon the chief fool and mimicked
+his tricks.
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