Prig. And let your beauties sparkle.

Hig. So may you ne’er want dressings, Jewels, gowns Still i’ the fashion.

Prig. Nor the men you love, Wealth nor discourse to please you.

Hig. May you Gentlemen, Never want good fresh suits nor liberty.

Prig. May every Merchant here see safe his ventures.

Hig. And every honest Citizen his debts in.

Prig. The Lawyers again good Clyents.

Hig. And the Clyents good Counsel.

Prig. All the Gamesters here good fortune.

Hig. The Drunkards too good wine.

Prig. The eaters meat Fit for their tastes and palats.

Hig. The good wives kind Husbands.

Prig. The young maids choyce of Sutors.

Hig. The Midwives merry hearts.

Prig. And all good cheer.

Hig. As you are kind unto us and our Bush,
We are the Beggars and your daily Beadsmen,
And have your mony, but the Alms we ask
And live by, is your Grace, give that, and then
We’l boldly say our word is, Come again.

APPENDIX

p. 194, l. 1.  A] God e’n then. l. 28.  C misprints] secrely. l. 30.  A and B] tipple in wine.

p. 195, l. 3.  A omits] ye. l. 11.  A repeats] Ile swinge you. l. 15.  A] utter, will all. l. 35.  A and B] any devotions.

p. 196, l. 2.  B] with torch. l. 18.  A misprints] Short for Wid.

p. 197, l. 2.  A] and a vertuous. l. 3.  A] hay him up. l. 13.  B] a your.

p. 198, l. 2.  A] take. l. 3.  A omits] a. l. 25.  A] No armes, no armes. l. 27.  A and B] hang ’tis. l. 33.  A omits] a.

p. 199, l. 5.  B] An here. l. 10.  A] his Nleson. l. 37.  A omits] have.

p. 200, l. 3.  A] pound. l. 10.  A omits] you. l. 20.  B] such knell. ll 23 and 24.  A] to raise.

p. 201, l. 5.  A] regements. l. 30.  A and B] yond.

p. 202, l. 2.  B] sees yon. l. 3.  A and B] thy Torch. l. 13.  A] hay, but. l. 26.  A and B] shall a Lady.

p. 203, l. 10.  A] their recompences. l. 20.  A and B add] Exeunt.

p. 204, l. 2.  B omits] us. l. 4.  A and B] this ’tis to. l. 12.  A omits] put. l. 28.  A and B] too.

p. 205, l. 10 A] they are.  B] they ’are.

p. 207, l. 21.  A and B add] Finis.

BEGGARS BUSH.

(A) The First Folio, 1647.

(B) The | Beggars | Bush. | Written by | Francis Beaumont, And John Fletcher, Gentlemen. | [wood-cut] London, | Printed for Humphrey Robinson, and Anne Mosely, | at the three Pigeons, and at the Princes Arms | in Saint Pauls Church-yard, 1661.

Another issue of the above, dated 1661, has a fresh title-page and bears the following notice:—­’You may speedily expect those other Playes, which | Kirkman, and his Hawkers have deceived the | buyers withall, selling them at treble the value, that | this and the rest will be sold for, which are the | onely Originall and corrected copies, as they | were first purchased by us at no mean | rate, and since printed by us.’