2 Cit.
I, poor souls, I was amongst ’em once.
1 Cit.
And what kind of creatures are they, for love of God?
2 Cit.
Very good people, God help ’em.
1 Cit.
Wilt thou go down with me this Summer when I am brought to bed?
2 Cit.
Alas, it is no place for us.
1 Cit.
Why, pray thee?
2 Cit.
Why you can have nothing there, there’s no body cryes brooms.
1 Cit.
No?
2 Cit.
No truly, nor milk.
1 Cit.
Nor milk, how do they?
2 Cit.
They are fain to milk themselves i’th’ Country.
1 Cit.
Good Lord! but the people there, I think,
will be very dutiful to
one of us.
2 Cit.
I God knows will they, and yet they do
not greatly care for our
husbands.
1 Cit.
Do they not? Alas! I’good
faith I cannot blame them: for we do
not greatly care for them our selves.
Philip, I pray choose us
a place.
_ Phil_.
There’s the best forsooth.
1 Cit.
By your leave good people a little.
3.
What’s the matter?
_ Phil_.
I pray you my friend, do not thrust my
Mistress so, she’s with
Child.
2.
Let her look to her self then, has she
not had showing enough
yet? if she stay shouldring here, she
may haps go home with a
cake in her belly.
3.
How now, goodman squitter-breech, why do you lean on me?
_ Phi_.
Because I will.
3.
Will you Sir sawce-box?
1 Cit.
Look if one ha’not struck Philip,
come hither Philip, why did
he strike thee?
_ Phil_.
For leaning on him.
1 Cit.
Why didst thou lean on him?
_ Phil_.
I did not think he would have struck me.
1 Cit.
As God save me la thou’rt as wild
as a Buck, there’s no quarel
but thou’rt at one end or other
on’t.
3.
It’s at the first end then, for he’l ne’r stay the last.
1 Cit.
Well slip-string, I shall meet with you.
3.
When you will.
1 Cit.
I’le give a crown to meet with you.
3.
At a Bawdy-house.
1 Cit.
I you’re full of your Roguery; but
if I do meet you it shall cost
me a fall.
_ Flourish. Enter one running_.
4
The King, the King, the King. Now, now, now, now.