1. 2. B. There, there.
Prig. I thank you, Thank ye heartily: when shall I pay ye?
All B. Ha, ha, ha, by th’ Mass this was a fine trick.
Prig. A merry sleight toy: but now I’ll show your Worships A trick indeed.
Hig. Mark him well now my Masters.
Prig. Here are three balls,
These balls shall be three bullets,
One, two, and three: ascentibus, malentibus.
Presto, be gone: they are vanish’d: fair play, Gentlemen. Now these three, like three Bullets, from your three Noses Will I pluck presently: fear not, no harm Boys,
Titere, tu patule.
1 B. Oh, oh, oh.
Prig. Recubans sub jermlne fagi.
2 B. Ye pull too hard; ye pull too hard.
Prig. Stand fair then: Silvertramtrim-tram.
3 B. Hold, hold, hold.
Prig. Come aloft, bullets three, with a whim-wham. Have ye their Moneys?
Hig. Yes, yes.
1 B. Oh rare Jugler!
2 B. Oh admirable Jugler!
Prig. One trick more yet; Hey, come aloft; sa, sa, flim, flum, taradumbis? East, West, North, South, now fly like Jack with a bumbis. Now all your money’s gone; pray search your pockets.
1 B. Humh.
2 B. He.
3 B. The Devil a penny’s here!
Prig. This was a rare trick.
1 B. But ’twould be a far rarer to restore it.
Prig. I’ll do ye that too; look upon me earnestly, And move not any ways your eyes from this place, This Button here? pow, whir, whiss, shake your pockets.
1 B. By th’ Mass ’tis here again, boys.
Prig. Rest ye merry; My first trick has paid me.
All B. I, take it, take it, And take some drink too.
Prig. Not a drop now I thank you; Away, we are discover’d else. [Exit.
Enter Gerrard like a blind Aqua vitae man, and a Boy, singing the Song.
Bring out your Cony-skins, fair maids to me,
And hold ’em fair that I may see;
Grey, black, and blue: for your smaller skins,
I’ll give ye looking-glasses, pins:
And for your whole Coney, here’s ready, ready
Money.
Come Gentle Jone, do thou begin
With thy black, black, black Coney-skin.
And Mary then, and Jane will follow,
With their silver hair’d skins, and their yellow.
The white Cony-skin, I will not lay by,
For though it be faint, ’tis fair to the eye;
The grey, it is warm, but yet for my Money,
Give me the bonny, bonny black Cony.
Come away fair Maids, your skins will decay:
Come, and take money, maids, put your ware away.
Cony-skins, Cony-skins, have ye any Cony-skins,
I have fine bracelets, and fine silver pins.