Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John · published 1607 · first performed or written 1605 (Annals) comedy · Children of Paul's (second) unassigned nearest T41 Household service: masters, doors and po · 498 words
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ARt sure old Maybery inns here tonight, 'tis certain the honest knave Chamberlain that hath been my Informer, my bawd, ever since I knew Ware assures me of it, and more being a Londoner though altogether unacquainted, I have requested his company at supper. Excellent occasion: how we shall carry ourselves in this business is only to be thought upon. Be that my undertaking: if I do not take a full revenge of his wives puritanical coyness. Suppose it she should be chaste, O hang her: this art of seeming honest makes many of our young sons and heirs in the City, look so like our prentices,— chamberlain. Hear Sir. This honest knave is called Innocence, is't not a good name for a Chamberlain? he dwelled at Dunstable not long since, and hath brought me and the two butcher's Daughters there to interview twenty times & not so little I protest: how chance you left dunstable Sirrah? Faith Sir the town drooped ever since the peace in Ireland, your captains were wont to take their leaves of their London Polecats, (their wenches I mean Sir) at Dunstable: the next morning when they had broke their fast together the wenches brought them to quickly i'th' hole, & so the one for London the other for Westchester, your only road now Sir is York York Sir. True, but yet it comes scant of the Prophecy; Lincoln was, London is, and York shallbe. Yes Sir, 'tis fulfilled, York shallbe, that is, it shallbe York still, surely it was the meaning of the prophet: will you have some Crayfish, and a spitchcock. And a fat Trout. You shall Sir; the Londoners you wot of: Most kindly welcome— I beseech you hold our boldness excused Sir. Sir it is the health of travailers, to enjoy good company: will you walk. Whether Travail you I beseech you. To London Sir we came from Sturbridge. I tell you Gentlemen I have observed very much with being at sturbridge; it hath afforded me mirth beyond the length of five latin Comedies; here should you meet a Norfolk yeoman ful-but; with his head able to overturn you; and his pretty wife that followed him, ready to excuse the ignorant hardness of her husband's forehead, in the goose marked number of freshmen; stuck here and there, with a graduate: like cloves with great heads in a gammon of bacon: here two gentlemen making a marriage between their heirs over a woolpack; there a minister's wife that could speak false lattine very lispingly; here two in one corner of a shop: Londoners selling their wares, & other Gentlemen courting their wives; where they take up petticoats you should find scholars & townsmen's wives crowding together while their husbands wear in another market busy amongst the Oxen; 'twas like a camp for in other Countries so many Punks do not follow an army. I could make an excellent description of it in a Comedy: but whether are you travailing Gentlemen?
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ARt sure old Maybery Innes here to night, Tis certaine the honest knaue Chamberleine that hath bin my Informer, my baud, euer since I knew Ware assures me of it, and more being a Londoner though altogether vnacquainted, I haue requested his company at supper. Excellent occasion: how wee shall carry our selues in this busines is onely to be thought vpon. Be that my vndertaking: if I do not take a full reuenge of his wiues puritanicall oynesse. Suppose it she should be chast, O hang her: this art of seeming honest makes many of our young sonnes and heires in the Citty, looke so like our prentises,—Chamberlaine. Heare Sir. This honest knaue is call'd Innocence, ist not a good name for a Chamberlaine? he dwe't at Dunstable not long since, and hath brought me and the two Butchers Daughters there to interuiew twenty times & not so little I protest: how chance you left dunstable Sirra? Faith Sir the towne droopt euer since the peace in Ireland, your captaines were wont to take their leaues of their London Polecats, (their wenches I meane Sir) at Dunstable: the next morning when they had broke their fast togeather the wenches brought them to ckly 'ith hole, & so the one for London the other for Westchester, your onely rode now Sir is Yorke York Sir. True, but yet it comes scant of the Prophesy; Lincolne was, London is, and Yorke shall-be. Yes Sir, tis fullfild, Yorke shalbe, that is, it shalbe Yorke still, surely it was the meaning of the prophet: will you haue some Cray-fish, and a Spitchcocke. And a fat Trout. You shall Sir; the Londoners you wot of: Most kindly welcome—I beseech you hold our bouldnesse excused Sir. Sir it is the health of Trauailers, to inioy good company: will you wake. Whether Trauaile you I beseech you. To London Sir we came from Sturbridge. I el you Gentlemen I haue obseru'd very much with being at sturbridge; it hath afforded me mirth beyond the length of fiue lattin Comedies; here should you meete a Nor-folk yeoman ful-but; with his head able to ouer-turne you; and his pretty wife that followed him, ready to excuse the ignorant hardnesse of her husbands forhead, in the goose markt number of freshmen; stuck here and there, with a graduate: like cloues with great heads in a gammon of bacon: here two gentlemen making a mariage betweene their heires ouer a wool-pack; there a Ministers wife that could speake false lattine very lispingly; here two in one corner of a shop: Londoners selling their wares, & other Gentlemen courting their wiues; where they take vp petticoates you shold finde schollers & towns-mens wiues crouding togither while their husbands weare in another market busie amongst the Oxen; twas like a campe for in other Coūtries so many Punks do not follow an army. I could make an excellent discription of it in a Comedy: but whether are you trauailyng Gentlemen?