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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07511	A trick to catch the old-one As it hath beene lately acted, by the children of Paules.	Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.	1608 (1608)	STC 17896; ESTC S120698	39,515	64

of mine in the loue of Mistresse Ioyce maister Hoords Neece say mee I say me no Mony Yes t is so Sam. Then looke to your selfe you cannot liue long I me practizing euery morning a moneth hence I le challenge you Monyt. Giue mee your hand vpon 't ther 's my pledge I le meete you Strikes him Exit Sam. Oh oh what reason had you for that sir to strike before the mouth you knew I was not ready for you and that made you so cranck I am not such a coward to strike agen I warrant you my eare has the lawe of her side for it burnes horribly I will teach him to strike a naked face the longest day of his life slid it shall cost me some money but I le bring this boxe into the Chancery Exit Enter Wit-good and the Host Host Feare you nothing sir I haue lodgd her in a house of credit I warrant you Witt. Hast thou the writings Host Firme sir Witt. Prethee stay and behold two the most prodigious rascals that euer slipt into the shape of men Dampit sirrah and young Gulfe his fellow Cater-piller Host Dampit sure I haue heard of that Dampit Witt. Heard of him why man he that ha's lost both his eares may heare of him a famous infamous Trampler of time his owne phraze note him well that Dampit sirrah hee in the vneuen Beard and the Serge cloake is the most notorious vsuring blasphemous Atheisticall Brothell vomiting rascall that wee haue in these latter times now extant whose first beginning was the stealing of a mastie Dogge from a Farmers house Host Hee lookt as if hee would obay the commandement well when he began first with stealing Witt. True the next Towne he came at hee set the Dogs together by 'th eares Host. A signe he should follow the law by my faith Witt. So it followed indeed and beeing destitute of all fortunes stakte his Mastie against a Noble and by great fortune his Dogge had the day how hee made it vp ten shillings I know not but his owne boast is that hee came to towne but with ten shillings in his purse and now is credibly worth tenne thousand pound Host How the deuill came he by it Wit How the deuill came he not by it if you put in the deuill once riches come with a vengeance has beene a Trampler of the Law sir and the deuill has a care of his footemen the Roague has spied me now hee nibled me finely once too a poxe search you oh maister Dampit the very Loynes of thee crie you mercie maister Gulfe you walke so lowe I promise you I sawe you not sir Gulf. Hee that walkes lowe walkes safe the Poets tell vs Wit And nyer hell by a foote and a halfe then the rest of his fellowes but my old Harry Damp. My sweete Theodorus Wit T was a merry world when thou cam'st to towne with ten shillings in thy purse Damp. And now worth ten thousand pound my Boye report it Harry Dampit a trampler of time say hee would bee vp in a morning and be here with his Serge Gowne dasht vp to the hams in a cause haue his feete stincke about VVestminster hall and come home agen see the Galleouns the Galleasses the great Armadoes of the Lawe then there bee Hoyes and pettie vessells oar and Scullers of the time there bee picklocks of the Time too then would I bee here I would trample vp and downe like a Mule now to the Iudges may it please your reuerend honorable father-hoods then to my Counsellor may it please your worshipfull patience then to the examiners Office may it please your Maistershippes Gentlenesse then to one of the Clarkes may it please your worshipfull Lowzinesse for I finde him scrubbing in his codpeice then to the hall agen then to the Chamber agen Wit And when to the sellar agen Damp. E'en when thou wilt agen Tramplers of time Motions of Fleete-streete and Visions of Holborne here I haue fees of one there I haue fees of another my clients come about me the Fooli-aminy and Cocks-combri of the Country I stil trasht and trotted for other mens causes thus was poore Harry Dampit made rich by others lazinesse who tho they would not follow their owne Suites I made e'm follow mee with their purses Wit Did'st thou so old Harry Damp. I and I souc'st e'm with bills of Charges ifayth twentie pound a yeare haue I brought in for boate-hire and I nere stept into boate in my life Wit Tramplers of time Dampit I Tramplers of time Raskalls of time Bulbeggars Wit Ah thou' rt a mad old Harrie kinde Maister Gulfe I am bould to renew my acquaintance Gulf. I embrace it sir Musick Exeunt Incipit ACT. 2. Enter Lucre Lucre My Aduersary euermore twittes mee with my Nephew forsooth my Nephew why may not a vertuous vncle haue a dissolute Nephewe what tho hee bee a Brotheller a wast-thrift a common Surfetter and to conclude a beggar must sinne in him call vp shame in mee since wee haue no part in their follies why should wee haue part in their infamies for my strickt hand toward his morgage that I denie not I confesse I had an Vncles penworth let me see halfe in halfe true I sawe neyther hope of his reclayming nor comfort in his beeing and was it not then better bestow'd vpon his Vncle then vpon one of his Aunts I neede not say bawde for euery owne knowes what Aunt stands for in the last Translation now sir Ser. 2. Ther 's a Country Seruing-man sir attends to speake with your worship Lu. I me at best leisure now send him in to me Enter Host like a Seruingman Host Blesse your venerable worship Lu. Welcome good fellow Host Hee calles me theefe at first sight yet he little thinkes I am an Host Luc. What 's thy busines with me Host Faith sir I am sent from my Mistrisse to any sufficient Gentleman indeed to aske aduise vpon a doubtfull point 't is indifferent sir to whome I come for I know none nor did my Mistres direct mee to any perticuler man for shee 's as meere a stranger here as my selfe onely I found your worship within and t is a thing I euer lou'd sir to be dispacht as soone as I can Lu. A good blunt honesty I like him wel what is thy Mistres Host Fayth a Cuntry Gentlewoman and a widdow sir yesterday was the first flight of vs but now shee entends to stay till a little Tearme businesse be ended Lu. Her name I prethee Host It runnes there in the writings sir among her Lands widdow Medler Lu. Meddler masse haue I neere heard of that widdow Host Yes I warrant you haue you sir not the rich widdowe in Staffordsheere Lu. Cuds me there t is indeede thou hast put me into memorie there 's a widdow indeed ah that I were a batchiler agen Host No doubt your worship might do much then but she 's fayrely promist to a bachiler already Lu. Ah what is