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A03197
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The fayre mayde of the Exchange with the pleasant humours of the cripple of Fanchurch. Very delectable, and full of mirth.
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Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641, attributed name.
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STC 13317; ESTC S106110
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Barn Maister Berry Bow Maister Berry I wish you well sir maister Fiddle I am yours for a congee Fiddle After the French salutation I am yours for the like curtesie Berry Maister Barnard to morrow is your day Of payment sir I meane the hundred pound For which I haue your bond I know t is sure You will not breake an houre then if you please To come to dinner sir you shall be welcome Barn Sir I did meane to visite you at home Not to pay downe the money but intreate Too moneths for-bearance Ber. How forbeare my money Your reason why I should forbeare my owne Barn You know at first the debt was none of mine I was a suretie not the principall Besides the money that was borrowed Miscarried in the venture my friend died And once already haue you prisoned me To my great charge almost my ouer-throw And some-what raisde the debt by that aduantage These things considered you may well forbeare For two moneths space so small a summe as this Ber. How I may forbeare Sir I haue neede of money I may indeed sit monilesse at home And let you walke abroad spending my coyne This I may doe but sir you know my minde If you do breake your day assure your selfe That I will take the forfeit of your bond Crip. The forfeit of his bond Ber. I sir the forfeit t is no charitie To fauour you that liue like Libertines Heer 's a Crew All A crew what Crew Ber. A crew of vnthrifts carelesse dissolutes Licencious prodigalls vilde tauern-tracers Night watching money-wasters what should I call yee O I want words for to define you rightly But this I know London ne're fostred such As Barnard Bowdler and this paltrie crutch Crip. And you want words sirra I le teach thee words Thou shouldst haue come to euery one of vs As thus thou wretch thou miser thou vilde slaue And drudge to money bond-man to thy wealth Apprentice to a penny thou that hourds vp The frie of siluer pence and half-penies With shew of charitie to giue the poore But putst them to increase where in short time They grow a childs part or a daughters portion Thou that inuents new clauses for a bond To cousin simple plainenesse O not a Dragon No nor the deuils fangs are halfe so cruell As are thy clawes thus thus thou shouldst haue railde The forfeit of his bond O I could spit My heart into his face thou blood-hound that dost hunt The deere deere life of noble Gentrie Berry Cripple t is knowne I am an honest man But for thy wordes Barnard shall fare the worse As for thy selfe Fid. Who he sir neuer regard him I know the vildest thing by him O t is abhominable Ber. Dost thou so Fiddle speake hold take thou that speake of his shame speake freely I le protect thee Fid. I tell you sir t will make your haire to stand on end as stiffe as a Rubbing-brush to heare his villanies What 's this you haue giuen me Ber. A shilling Fiddle Fid. Haue you any skill in Arithmeticke Ber. Why dost thou aske Fid. Sir I would haue you to multiply could you not make this one shilling two or three I would not be knowne to beg but if out of your cunning you can doe this tricke of multiplication I shall speake the better Ber. O ther 's another shilling for thee now let mee heare what villanies thou canst charge the Cripple with Fid. So sir this is multiplication now sir if you know the Rule of addition you are an excellent Scholler can you not adde Berry What dost thou meane Fid. An other shilling sir Ber. There is another shilling now Fiddle speake Fid. Why then attend you Hilles and Dales and stones so quicke of hearing this Cripple is All What is he villaine Fid. An honest man as any is in all the towne Ber. An honest man Fid. I by this siluer and as good a fellow as euer went vpon foure legges if you would multiply till mid-night I would neuer speake otherwise Ber. Fiddle thou art a knaue and so is hee Come let vs home Barnard looke to thy bond If thou doe breake thy day I do protest By yon chaste Moone Fid. The chaste Moone why the Moone is not chaste Ber. How prou'st thou that Fid. Why sir ther 's a man in the middle of her how can she be chaste then Berr. Then by my life I sweare I le clap him vp Where he shall see neither the sunne nor moone Till I be satisfied the vtmost penny And so fare-well Exit Fid. Gallants good-night if time and place were in prosperitie I were yours for an houres societie I must after yon mulbery with my torch adue deare hearts adue Exit Bowd. Come Barnard le ts to the dancing le ts tickle it to night For to morrow thy heeles may be too heauy Barn All 's one my heart shall be as light as fire Come shall we goe Bowd. Cripple will you along Crip. My busines stayes me heere Bowd. Fare-well then dogge of Israell farewell Exeunt Crip. Al 's one my heart shall be as light as fire Sblood were I endebted a hundred pound My fortune faild and fled as Barnards are Not worth a hundred pence as Barnards is I shoud be now deuising sentences And Caueats for posteritie to carue Vpon the inside of the counter wall Therefore I le now turne prouident I le to my shoppe And fall to worke Enter Phillis Phil. Yonder 's his shop O now you gods aboue Pittie poore Phillis heart that melts in loue Instruct the Cripple to finde out my loue Which I will shadow vnder the conceit Of my inuention for this piece of worke O teach him how to yeeld me loue againe A little little loue a dramme of kinde affection His many vertues are my true direction By your leaue M. Drawer Crip. Welcome Mistresse Flower what 's your pleasure Phil. My cause of comming is not vnknowne to you Here is be spoken worke which must be wrought With expedition I pray haue care of it The residue I referre to your direction Onely this hankercher a yong Gentlewoman Wishd me acquaint you with her mind herein In one corner of the same place wanton loue Drawing his bow shooting an amorous dart Opposite against him an arrow in a heart In a third corner picture foorth disdaine A cruell fate vnto a louing vaine In the fourth drawe a springing Lawrell tree Circled about with a ring of poesie and thus it is Loue wounds the heart and conquers fell disdayne Loue pitties loue seeing true loue in paine Loue seeing Loue how faithfull Loue did breath At length impalà loue with a Laurell wreath Thus you haue heard the Gentle-womans minde I pray be carefull that it be well done And so I leaue you more I faine would say But shame forbids and calles me hence away Exit Crip. Sweet faire I pittie yet no reliefe Harbors within the closet of my soule This Phillis beares me true affection But I detest