every Blockhead 4 Rogue Would some of the Strangers would come out to us be sure they 're full of Money Footpad Come let 's roar out our Song of the Gypsies with laudable voices and that may train 'em out of the house 1 Rogue Come on let 's be merry by our selves 2 Rogue Come I love singing mightily Footpad So well that as thou livest singing thou wilt diesinging a Psalm I mean 2 Rogue Oh the brave jolly Gypsie Who often in tipsie And has strong Ale good store With a little black Whore When credit does fail With fat Hostess for Ale He grows dogged and sullen Steals her Geese and her Pullen And Linen that 's bleaching If it be within reaching 'T is juggled away By night or by day Then Fortunes we tell But stealing does well To help out the Trade Which is somewhat decay'd When Maids are a kissing Their things never missing Then we take our time And think it no crime And then the next morning Their Hue and Cry scorning We care not a straw For their Statute Law 1 Rogue Here come some of ' em Enter Justice Spoilwit Colonel Bounce and Sir John Noddy and Bulter Just We 'l take a Turn here before Dinner bring us word when her Ladiship comes down Butl. I will Sir I must go look after my Mistress Margery here are so many Gentlemen's Men I shall have one or other shap her up Just I'faith was it you that made this Musick you are brave Gypsies melodious Gypsies Sir John Where are the rest of your Company Footpad They are behind an please your Worship but I am chief All Rogues This is our Captain Just What I warrant you can tell Fortunes prethee look in my hand and tell me mine Col. Prethee Justice why wilt thou be such an Ass dost thou think they can tell Just Colonel I do assure you I have known notable understanding men men of excellent parts Gypsies 1 Rogue Sir I 'le warrant you I 'le tell you yours Col. I 'm sure I 'le give you nothing 1 Rogue 'T is no matter 2 Rogue Sir let me see your hand The Justice and Sir John give 'em money 1 Rogue By your Venus Trench You should love a Wench Col. Should why I do you Puppy and so does all the World Footpad I see plainly that you will be Knighted and marry a rich Widow As they tell their Fortunes they pick their Pockets Col. Ounds ye lying Rogues to flatter him so Just Good Sir have patience i'faith they are men of skill I know ' em Footpad How Fools will lie and help to cozen themselves Just So God save me I have known some Gypsies predict as well as Lilly or Gadbury 2 Rogue Sir it has been your mishap In your time to get a Clap. They all laugh Col. What dull Rogues these are why you Rascals is there a Gentleman that has not had a Clap Sir John Faith and Troth I have had six little and great ha ha ha Just Ha ha ha but i'faith shall I be Knighted and marry the Lady hah 1 Rogue Pray Sir let me see By your hand and this line You love a Glass of Wine Col. Why you abominable dull Rascal does not every body love Wine and Women there 's a Secret indeed why thou stupid blockheaded Puppy I could beat thy brains out if thou had'st any come a Pox on 't let 's be gone Just Nay good Colonel have patience alas you do not understand these things these are gifts Col. Gifts I 'm sure I 'le give them nothing 3 Rogue Alas Sir I am ingram man I desire no money I 'le pray for your Worship Col. Ay I think you may have wit enough for that Footpad By this Line of Honour Sir I find you 'l be made a Lord before you die Col. Come away you blockheaded Justice Just Well I come a Lord Oh brave a Lord well stay here and I 'le get my Lady to send for ye and pray let her know that she is to marry me Col. Come away poor witless Cheats poor Fools Sir John Ha ha ha look you there Justice Sir John strikes away one of the Gypsies Sticks Just Ha ha ha I thought we should have ye i'faith hah ha ho ho. Sir John Ha ha ha have I caught you Justice Sir John walks with his hand upon the Justice's shoulder whips off his Hat Just Ha ha ha you will never leave i'faith you are the pleasantest man ha ha ha Col. Come these are the silliest cheats Ex. Col. Justice Sir John Footpad Go your ways you 'l find your selves Fools by and by 'T is true you are witty but my judgment 's righter Since my Pocket's full and your Pocket's lighter Come my brave Rogues let 's be gone this was a brave booty let 's away and shift and divide lest if we should stay we may be taken and hang'd about this business All. Come away noble Captain Ex. Rogues Enter Lady Haughty Isabella Nan. Lady Where are my doughty Lovers I have stay'd a pair of minutes for 'em at least Isab Some Ladies would be as proud of such a Train of Lovers as Lawyers are of many Clients or Divines of heaps of Parishes to follow them Lady Some Lady would struct and take upon her like a new upstart Favourite to a Prince that flyes above the Gentry of his Country and uses 'em scurvily Indeed I have not much reason to triumph to day for I have none but Coxcombs Isab But you have every day variety as a Favourite has Lady And I use 'em scurvily too but yet they come and dissemble fawn flatter worship and fall down before me as if they took me for the golden Calf and I all the while look upon them with the same scorn that a new-raised Favourite does upon his Betters Nan. Did your Ladiship find such great affliction in Matrimony that you are such a violent enemy to it Lady So much as I am resolved never to be so constrained again I 'le continue as free as Nature made me why should we submit to that foolish Animal Man Let him be head I 'le keep the Fools at a distance and make them crouch Nan. But I hear of one Courtier too that is coming down that will win you the finest nice perfum'd periwig'd feather'd Person in the World Lady I know who 't is what shall I marry an outside of a man a Fellow put together by a Milliner Perfumer Feather-man and French Taylor Isab When Women fall much in love with men for their fine Cloaths I wonder they are not more in love with the Taylors that made ' em Lady A rich Suit out of an old Wardrobe would make as good a Husband I 'le give a Receipt of him Take fine rich Cloaths and do not pay for 'em take a Barber for a Counsellor rail at all but the present scorn and endeavour to depress all Arts and Sciences which he knows nothing of whisper Proclamations in your ears for Secrets tell
merry Knight he 's of the Noddy's of the North an arch Wag indeed la. The Justice leans upon his Cane Sir John Noddy strikes it away and the Justice is ready to fall upon his Nose Sir John Ha ha ha ha ha brave Justice ha ha Just Ha ha ha ha well go thy ways thou art an arch one you would make one die with laughing ha ha ha Coll. mocking them Ha ha ha ha i'faith Sir you would make one die with laughing Pox on him is this a merry witty Knight with his Monkey tricks Sir John Faith I love to be merry my Lord my Neighbour is so pleas'd with me he 'l never be without me Just Indeed Colonel he 's excellent company he would make one burst with laughing Sir John I remember yesterday at my Lords ha ha ha ha Just What Sir John ha ha ha Sir John I laid a hot stone in the Window and his Man Tom came and ha ha ha did so horribly ha ha The Justice all the while laughs with him Col. What burn him Sir John Ay ay and he threw it away and ran for Sallet-oil ha ha ha it had like to have kil'd my Lord. Just Ha ha ha very good nay you are the best at these things in the world i'faith he is Colonel Col. As God save me but if he should use me so I would beat him exceedingly Sir John Another time one of my Lords Men stood very soberly I held my finger thus and called him Jack of a sudden and he turn'd suddenly and hit his Nose such a bump ha ha ha I had almost died with laughing and all that were by laugh'd so it was wonderful my Lord hearing it ask't what was the matter which they told him then says he I thought it could be no body but my Neighbour Jack Noddy for there is not such a witty Fellow in the whole Country again Just No more there is not i'faith Sir John Col. The Devil take me if I see any such thing he is for ought I see a most gross absurd Coxcomb Sir John But says my Lord these are gifts that Nature bestows on men on some more on some less as she pleases his Lordship is in the right they are gifts that 's the truth on 't but ha ha ha I remember another was standing by the fire I heated the great end of my Riding-rod and put it in his hand he flew such a way ha ha ha from the fire oh oh oh oh Men Women and Children laught so horribly swearing that Sir John Noddy was the best company in the Earth and the wittiest Gentleman Just Look you there Colonel he is a very merry brisk facetious person indeed Col. He is a very witty person indeed Sir John Alas Sir no not I not I by no means Sir yet I swear my Lord will seldom be without me especially at christmas if I be but away a fortnight at any time he sends poste for me he cannot be without me Col. Does no body ever take you on the pate for these things Sir John No no sometimes they I say Leave your fooling or I 'le knock you I vow I 'de teach you better manners were it not for my Lord or so then I laugh and protest I meant 'em no harm and drink drunk with 'em and all 's well again Just Ay ay why who can take such pretty innocent mirth ill Sir John And then I entertain them well at my house and my Sister makes much of them they love me the best of any Gentleman in the Shire of any Quality Col. I find you have a very good Sister that will make much of people Sir John I Sir she 's as good a Sister as any man has I thank God Col. Justice one word with you does he come to make Love to the Widow Just I believe he does Sir John gives the Justice a jerk in the Ham and laughs Sir John Ha ho oh oh hum Just Ha ha ha oh oh 'um get you gone you Wag. Sir John This is a Trick I have made my Lord laugh with till he has been ready to fall down Col. For ought I hear he is the merriest Lord in Europe Enter the Butler Just Oh how now James art thou come Butler I am glad to see your Worship well Sir John I am your Worship 's humble Servant Sir John beats the Butler's Hat out of his hand Just Butler laugh Ha ha your Worship will never leave these things ha ha Just Ha ha ha well you are the very'st arch one but dear Sir John forbear you will kill me with laughing I shall break a vein i'faith Butler Come Gentlemen will you please to take a cast of my Office and take a Cup of lusty Canary or Maroh Beer that will make a Cat speak Sir John Well said James but where 's my Lady Butler Not drest yet come Gentlemen be pleased to walk in the while her Ladiship 's a dressing Just Come Gentlemen I am for a Cup of Sack before Dinner clearly Sir John takes the Justices Cane and sets it before James who falls down Just Ha ha oh oh forbear good Sir John or I must leave you I am not able to endure it ha ha oh oh 'um Sir John Faith I cannot help it I love to be merry ha ha ha James Nay I know your Worship will never leave till your mouth be cold as the saying is ha ha ha Exeunt omnes laughing Enter Codshead walks musing Codsh Ha you are all my Rivals but there 's ne're a handsome Fellow amongst them the Devil take me I am cursing again like a Devil look there again like a Devil what shall I do to speak I see the Justice is going with the Butler he will be as drunk as an Owl drunk as an Owl why there 't is again I will bite my tongue like a Devil but that I 'le remember it again like a Devil I shall be undone what will become of me I am in a desperate condition Gad take me I shall lose the Widow now am I swearing again I will bite my tongue enough to remember it let me see your eyes Madam your bright eyes ah it was a coming your bright eyes have so enslaved me that the De ah it was just a coming there that I can no longer as I ho there it was again that Madam I can no longer call my heart my own that was pretty well You are the pretty Thief that stole it and go O Lord it was e'en out this is a cruel pain but Madam think me not rude if I apprehend your Ladiship for this Love-felony for if you do not restore my heart or give me some comfort the oh I shall be as dull as a oh hold hold it must be overcome with great labour and industry Well before I marry her I will do what I can to abstain but when I have her I am resolved to take my full swing ha there was a whole sentence without oaths or curses
Rogue but by my Patent Footpad Why thou would'st have money enough to overcome the Grand Signior thou unconscionable Fellow 1 Rogue Faith I love to wish to the purpose but let 's in Footpad Come on but remember still that thieving is a more profitable Roguery than fidling and therefore be sure to keep thy hand in ure 1 Rogue Shall I ever live to have it said of me that my right hand forgot to steal no no never may I live to see that day Footpad Nobly spoke and like a Roman Thief I mean but here come the Ladies let 's in Exeunt Enter Lady Haughty Isabella and Nan. Lady Ha Cousin I am afraid this victorious Colonel has overcome you Isab Not so Madam but he appears the better for being amongst the Fools here Lady That 's true but prethee dissemble not with me for I find this blustring Souldier has storm'd your heart Isab My heart Madam why should you imagine it Lady 'T is so no more I 'le endeavour to mollifie this Dub a Dub this tempestuous Colonel for you Isab I beseech you Madam don't believe this of me Aside And yet to say truth I begin to believe it of my self I would I had not seen him Lady He seems to be a good honest rough Fellow and may make a good Husband here 's Nan is such an arrant Lover of Sir John Noddy she 's mawdlin for him Nan. Madam I neither can nor will dissemble he 's is so fine a witty facetious person no body needs be ashamed of him and the handsomest Gentleman upon earth Lady Come I 'le endeavour to oblige ye both come on Gentlemen you are come to take the Air. Enter Sir John Justice and Colonel Sir John No Madam I am come to take something else Lady What 's that Sir John Sir John Your heart Madam ha ha ha that was well Lady You won't rob me will you Just Prethee stand by you take her heart My bucksom Lady I am come to you An ancient Justice that in Love does sue To draw with you in that most happy yoke Of Wedlock and you 'l find him heart of Oke I know your humor 's pleasant gay and merry And so is mine you 'l find with a hey down derry Lady You 're a very merry Justice though not in your prime You have been a Spark I warrant you in your time And Sir you 're heartily welcome in Rime There 's Poetry for your Poetry Just Ha ha very good i'faith was a Spark I am still so and as merry a Fellow as any of the Quorum i'faith Sir John If mirth will please you if I make you not merry I 'le lose my Knighthood that cost me five hundred pound Why I make every body die with laughing that I keep company withal ask my Lord my Neighbour on my conscience and soul I shall be the death of him for one Lady Then 't will be dangerous venturing upon you I shall be in fear of my life for you Col. blustring up to her Stand by who is it that dares pretend to this Lady while I am present hah Sir John The Colonel 's mad he looks as if he would eat one Just Fair Lady I 'le withdraw my Suit must cease When War appears no Justice of the Peace Lady No stay what will you quit me so what are you Sir what would you have Col. I am a Souldier and to speak plain English I am for you which way you will any way in the world Lady As how good boisterous Sir you mean to make Love as they make War with Fire and Sword Col. Faith Madam I would lie with you and not marry you or marry you and not lie with you or lie with you and then marry you or marry you and then lie with you or neither marry you nor lie with you chuse which and take your course Lady Why you are all Gun-powder would you blow up a poor Widow at first Isab Did not I tell you he was a pleasant man Madam Lady I see you love War Cousin and have a mind to folow the Camp Col. Why look you in short you are a very merry Widow and I am a merry Souldier if you like me so faith make no more words on 't here 's my hand Lady and there 's an end on 't Lady But what if I do not like you Noble Colonel Col. Why then so I hope a man may keep a poor little thing of his own as the world goes when the worst comes to the worst and that will offend no body Lady Good Colonel let me be a little free with you Col. Take your course Lady Have not you been advised by some experienced frail Matron that a Widow is to be won with huffing and blustring Col. I am my own Counsellor God ye are most of you too cunning to be won by Stratagem and you must be carried by storm Lady You are a mad Colonel and I like you the better for it I hate the common Road of Woing in the Dunstable High-way of Matrimony I love to be woed fantastically but let 's see what you can do for me now Do you shew your parts and these Gentlemen shall shew theirs that I may chuse discreetly Col. What a Pox Madam do you take me for your Dog your Spaniel to fetch and carry and shew tricks for you Lady Good Mr. Mars be not so passionate Col. Ounds Madam do you think to rank me with Coxcombs Sir John Who the Devil does he call Coxcomb a Knight a Coxcomb that 's impossible Just I'faith if I thought he meant me I 'de bind him to the good Behavior a Justice a Coxcomb that were a good one i'faith Col. Death Madam I am not to be used thus Lady Then good Sir leave me to those that will be used so I will divert my self here pray take you a Walk with my Cousin in the mean time and see if she will use you better Col. With all my heart Madam give me leave to wait upon you since she 's no better company Ex. Col. and Isabella Lady Come let me see what good qualities you have give me leave to sit and judge betwixt you that I may chuse discreetly a Chair in the first place he that I marry must sing well that 's certain Sir John Oh Pox if singing will do I 'le fit you to a hair i'faith Just If I ever fail you in that Madam Lady Come on Justice and begin Just Hem will you hear how a Spanish Lady wooed an English Man Garments gay as rich as may be Deck't with Jewels had she on Lady Good Justice some other I like not that so well Sir John Ha ha ha I thought how he 'd please her Just Now I shall fit you When as King Henry govern'd the Land The second of that Name Besides his Queen he dearly lov'd A fair and Princely Dame Most parlous was her Beauty found Her favour and her face A sweeter Creature in this World Did never Prince
of Tortoise shell For your money I will sell Cambrick Lawn as white as milk Taffata as soft as silk Garters rich with silver Roses Rings with moral divine Posies 1 Maid Oh what brave things he has got 2 Maid Peace peace let him troll it away he sings curiously Footpad sings Rainbow-Ribbands of each colour No walking Shop yet e're was fuller Various Points and sev'ral Laces For your Boddies straight embraces Silver Bodkins for your hair Bobs which Maidens love to wear 1 Man Oh this is a rare Fellow I warrant he 's pure Company 2 Man I warrant you he is very ingenious peace Footpad sings Here are various Pick-tooth Cases And the finest Flanders Laces Cabinets for your fine Doxies Stoppers and Tobacco Boxes Crystal Cupids Looking glasses Will enamour all your Lasses Cicely Sure Gervas this is the Kings Pedler he has such rare things about him and he sings like a Nightingal Gervas I believe he 's the Kings Pedler indeed Footpad sings Fine gilt Pray'r Books Catechisms What is Orthodox or Schisms Or for loyal Faith defendant Presbyter or Independent Ballads fresh all singing new And all those Ballets too are true Gervas That 's rare come let 's see ' em 1. Man Let me see 2. Man Stand away let me come Gervas You come stand away you Puppy you have no judgment Cicely Oh pray let Gervas see he has a notable vein this way 1 Maid Ay pray let Gervas see Gervas Oh Ballets fine Ballets Oh I love a Ballet but e'ne too well Heaven forgive me for being so given to the love of Poetry What are the Contents of this for I scorn to read Footpad Marry Sir a most lamentable business Gervas Oh it 's no matter so it be a fine Ditty Cicely Oh I love a melancholy Ditty I can weep at a Ballet so sweetly Footpad Why it is of a Virgin of thirteen or fourteen that dy'd a Maid that 's the truth on 't Gervas Nay I 'le be hang'd then thirteen or fourteen and die a Maid it cannot be now a days 1 Man What a scandalous World this is to abuse a poor Girl so Gervas Ay and after her death too Cicely Methinks they should have more conscience than to speak ill of the dead Gervas First and formost I hope she had more Grace than to die so I speak like a Christian 2 Man If she did die so mercy of her say I that 's charitable I 'm sure Gervas If she did die so let it be a warning to you Maids to shun such abominable ways Cicely I hope it will Gervas be a warning an' we had but Grace 1 Maid Yes we should lay it to heart and take warning 2 Man Look here what fine Ballet's this Footpad This is a very strange Ballet of a lusty Widow Gervas A lusty Widow is no strange thing Footpad Yes a lusty Widow that lives and dies chastly Gervas Is 't possible a lusty Widow live and die chast 2 Man Lord Lord what lying things these Ballets are and to be in print too Footpad All the Parish Hands are to the Certificate to confirm it 2 Man Puh 't was plain malice in 'em to asperse a lusty Widow so Gervas The Parish should have had a lusty young Vicar and he 'd have converted her i'faith Maids have a care for you hope to be Widows have a care I say of dying chast Cicely Well we 'l think on 't but pray let 's see his Ware Gervas How now Cicely you are a Wag have patience and he will shew you all Oh vile Flesh and Blood Oh corrupt Nature to despise the edification of Ballets but what 's this Footpad A Ballet of a Courtier that died rich Gervas That 's a miracle indeed I warrant he cozen'd many a poor body for 't Footpad No Sir he scorn'd to meddle with the poor Gervas That shew'd he had some conscience but Oh Cicely here 's the brave Ballet you and I use to sing I know it by the Picture Cicely Oh pray let 's sing it They sing Gervas To Fayrs and Markets I did go Cicely And I did follow you you know Gervas As I return'd I threw you down Cicely Vpon the Grass Gervas My sweetest Lass And so did give you a green Gown Cicely But if it chance my Belly swell Gervas Then will Marriage hide it well Cicely Your Son and Heir or Daughter fair If you 'l not stay Gervas But run away Is left unto the Parish care Enter a Servant in haste Serv. Oh Sirs my Lady wants ye there are a great sort of strangers that are to come to dine here and none of ye in the way to receive Orders come away 1 Man Come honest Pedler up with your Pack and follow us we 'l make you welcome i'faith Gervas We 'l buy all his Trinkets to the last Jet Ring or inch of Incle we 'l hamper him i'faith we 'l leave him nothing Footpad Bless you bless you till I complain 1 Man Nay Gervas you shall go with us and these Maids too come along Cicely Ay good Gervas let 's follow the Pedler Exeunt omnes SCENE II. The Garden Lady Haughty Isabella her Kinswoman Nan her Waiting Gentlewoman Lady Well Nan have you given order to all the Servants to be ready and to mind their business Nan. I have Madam Lady And whom shall I be troubled with to day what Suitors what Guests Nan. Sir John Noddy Madam has sent word he 'l wait on you Oh he 's the finest merry Gentleman Lady Oh do you name him first my Woman is my Rival Cousin there she is a well-wisher to that Knight therefore we must speak well of that Coxcomb before her but who else dines here Nan. Justice Spoilwit then Colonel Bounce Lady Worthy men indeed we have a Coxcomb that lies in the house too Mr. Codshead I think he will not be answered with his Friend and Governor Mr. Crambo a Heroick Poet. Isab Your Ladiships House I think is the Exchange for Suitors the Dining-room is always full of Lovers of you and the Hall always full of eating Parsons and other Lovers of lusty Dinners but Madam every body wonders that your Ladiship keeps open House to all Suitors and yet denies 'em every one their Suit of Love Lady I have answer'd most of the men of sense but the turbulent Fools will still pester me how I despise the little follies of Mankind the little subtilties they think to intrap a Woman with too cheap to cozen Babies with I will triumph over all the overweening Fools and still preserve the freedom of a Widow Isab Your Ladiship is in the right for Marriage now enslaves the Wife but sets the Husband free Nan. But methinks solitary Widowhood is but an uncomfortable condition can no man be fit for your choice Lady None Nan. What says your Ladiship to a Souldier Lady Oh he 's too boisterous I shall have no conversation from him I shall hear of nothing but Naseby Edgehill the first and
is a strange thing a man cannot get to be hang'd without crowding for it 1 Fellow Pray Sir were not you akin to one Hinde Footp. No I had run away faster then 2 Fellow Pray Prisoner before your death clear your conscience and tell me truly Had you not a Gingerline Cloth-Cloke of mine with an Olive Plush Cape bound about with a little Silver Galoon Lace Footp. I scorn your thread-bare lowsie Cloke you had best send to London to search Long-Lane and hang some Broker for 't Woman Pray answer me as you have a Christian Soul did not you steal all my head-gear once Footp. Pox on your gear I never medled with it Marg. I am sure you had my Lady's gilt Caudle-cup Footp. Yes and would have kept it but she has it again has she not James And the Plate out of my Buttery Footp. Well and had she it not again what a pox would you have You examine me as if you would hang me after I am hang'd pray Officers rid me of these impertinent people and let me die in quiet 1 Woman Oh Lord how angry he is that shews he is a right Reprobate I 'le warrant you Footp. I believe if all you were to be hang'd which I hope may be in good time you 'd not be very merry 2 Woman No we 'l see you hang'd first Lord what a down look he has 1 Woman Ay and what a Cloud in his Forehead Goody Twattle mark that 2 Woman Ay and such frowning wrinkles too I warrant you not so much as a smile from him Footp. Smile quoth she though 't is sport for you 't is none for me I assure you 1 Woman Ay but 't is so long before you 're hang'd Footp. I wish it longer good Woman 1 Man Prethee Mr. Thief let this be a warning to you for ever doing the like again Footp. I promise you it shall 2 Woman That 's well thank you with all my heart Law that was spoken like a precious godly man now 1 Woman By my truly methinks now he is a very proper man as one shall see in a Summers day Footp. Ay so are all that are hang'd the Gallows adds a great deal of grace to ones person 2 Woman I vow he is a lovely man 't is pity he should be taken away as they say in the flower of his age 1 Woman Happy are we that die in our beds my Masters Footp. We that are hang'd go a nearer way by twenty or thirty years pray try my Masters and I 'le follow I had rather be Epilogue than Prologue to this Tragi-Comedy I see you have no mind to go to Heaven yet for all your pretended zeal you would still live in this vale of misery and transitory peregrinations but if any be ambitious to be exalted I 'le render him my place 2 Man No no thank you Sir 't is well as ' t is Footp. To see the villany of man to joy in one another's miseries more than in their seven deadly sins Officer Come dispatch what a pox shall we stay all day and neglect our business to hang one Thief 2 Offic. Pray be hang'd quickly Sir for I am to go to a Fayr just by 1 Offic. And I am to meet some friends to drink out a stand of Ale by and by I must have you hang'd quickly my friends will stay on me 1 Wom. Nay pray let him speak and die like a Christian 2 Wom. Oh I have heard brave Speeches at this place before 1 Man Ay and I have heard 'em sing melodiously here like Nightingals I vow Footp. Well good people if I may be bold to call you so this Pulpit was not of my chusing I shall shortly preach mortality to you without speaking therefore pray take example by me and then I know what will become of ye shortly I will set a Death's head before ye to put you in mind of your ends Memento mori 1 Man Oh he speaks rarely 2 Man Ay and he 's a Scholard and does Latine it Footp. I will be I say your memento mori hoping you will all follow me I have been too covetous and at last taken for 't and am very sorry for 't I have been a great sinner and condemn'd for it which grieves me not a little that I made not my escape and so I heartily repent it and so I die with this true Confession 1 Wom. weep Mercy on him for a better man was never hang'd 2 Wom. So true and hearty repentance and so pious 2 Man Help him up higher on the Ladder now you are above us all Footp. Truly I desire you were all equal with me I have no pride in this world 1 Man Will not you sing Sir before you 're hang'd Footp. No I thank you I am not so merrily disposed Sir Hangman Come are you ready Footp. Yes I have been preparing for you these many years 1 Wom. Mercy on him and save his better part 2 Wom. Oh to stop so sweet a Pipe 1 Wom. You see what we must all come to 1 Fell. I that 's certain A Post windes his Horn and comes with a Reprieve Post Hold hold Offic. What 's the matter Post Here 's a Reprieve from his Majesty Offic. A Reprieve how came that Post My Lady Haughty procur'd it by her Brothers means and he shall have his Pardon Footp. Say you so Sir Thank you with all my heart it came in the nick Sir thank my Lady for truly Sir she has obliged me very much in it 1 Man Pish what must he not be hang'd now 2 Man What did we come all this way for this 1 Wom. Take all this pains to see nothing Footp. Very pious good people I shall show you no sport to day Post My Lady desires he may be brought to her house hard by Footp. I will always say while I live that her Ladiship 's a civil person Offic. Come along Exceunt omnes Enter Lady Justice Codshead and Crambo Lady Come Mr. Crambo have you thought of any pretty Entertainment for us Cramb. I have done the main part of it Lady What is that Cramb. Why Madam the Dance and the Show that 's the first thing we Heroicks think on when we write Lady Pray let 's have that in the mean time Cramb. That you shall Madam they have been practising now and are just ready strike up Musick A Mimick Dance of Masqueraders in different odd Habits Lady Thank you Mr. Crambo This Dance is very well written indeed as fine a pen'd Dance as can be I 'le go see what 's become of my Cousin and the Colonel I 'le wait upon you presently Exit Lady Enter Sir John and Nan masked Sir John Come faith Madam discover your self now you are my Wife that we may be rid of these Coxcombs poor sneaking Fools Just How now Sir John what Lady is that Sir John You may go home again you may go Gentle men Codsh Why what 's the matter Sir John What 's the