Clowne.  Which if it proove I’l half marr you or be half made with you.

Fisher.  It must be gold by th’weight.

Clowne.  If it bee so heavy ’tis ten to one but I’l do you the curtesye to ease you of part of your burden.

Fisher.  None save myself is guilty of this pryze; ’Tis all myne owne, and I’l bee thinke mee best Howe to beestowe of this ritche magazin.

Clowne.  And I am stooddiinge too with what lyne, what angle, what fisguigge[118] what castinge nett I cann share with you in this sea booty.

Fisher.  I will dissemble, as most ritche men doo,
Pleade poverty and speake my mayster fayre;
By out my freedom for som little somme,
And, beeinge myne owne man, by lands and howses;
That doon, to sea I’l rigge shipps of myne owne,
And synce the sea hathe made mee upp a stocke
I’l venter it to sea; who knowes but I
In tyme may prove a noble marchant?

Clowne.  Yes of eele skinnes.—­Staye you, Syrra, ho!

Fisher.  I knowe no fish of that name; limpet, mullet, conger, dolphin, sharke I knowe, and place; I woold som body else had thyne; for hearinge I woold thou hadst none, nor codd; for smelt thou art too hott in my nose allredy; but such a fishe cald Syrra never came within the compasse of my nett.  What art thou, a shrimpe, a dogg fish or a poore Jhon?[119]

Clowne.[120] I am one that watcht the tyde to know what thou hast caught, and have mony in my pockett to by thy draught.

Fisher.  And I am one thou seest that have only an empty wett nett, but not so much as the tale of a spratte at thys tyme to sell for love of mony.

Clowne.  I grant this is no Fryday and I at this tyme no cater for the fishmarkett.  I only cam to desyre thy judgement and counsell.

Fisher.  Go to the bench for judgment and to the lawe courts for counsell, I am free of neather, only one of Neptunes poore bastards, a spawne of the sea, and nowe gladly desyres to be rydd of thee aland.

Clowne.  Onely one question resolve mee, and I have doone.

Fisher.  To bee well ridd of the I care not if I loose so much tyme.

Clowne.  But feythefully.

Fisher.  As I am honest peeterman.[121]

Clowne.  Observe mee then: 
I saw a theif, comitting fellony;
I know the mayster of the thing was stolne,
I com unto this theif, as’t might bee thee,
And make this covenant; eather give mee half
And make mee sharer or thou forfettest all,
I’l peach thee to the owner; in this case
What may I justly claime?

Fisher.  Rather than forfeit all I shoold yeild halfe.

Clowne.  Knwe then ’tis thy case, and my case a most playne case, and concernes the booty in that cap-case.[122] I knowe the lord that wants it and the mayster that owes[123] it; boath howe it was lost and where it was lost.  Com, unloose, unbuckle, unclaspe, uncase, lett’s see then what fortune hathe sente us, and so part it equally beetwixt us.