Beggars Bush eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about Beggars Bush.

Beggars Bush eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about Beggars Bush.

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.

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