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A09194
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Coach and sedan, pleasantly disputing for place and precedence the brewers-cart being moderator.
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Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
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1636
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STC 19501; ESTC S110325
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not much unlike that which Mummers make of strawen hatts and of each side of him went a Lacquay the one a French boy the other Irish all sutable alike the French-man as I learned afterward when his Master was in the Countrey taught his Lady and her daughter French Vshered them abroad to publike meetings and assemblies all saving the Church whither shee never came The other went on errands help'd the maid to beate Bucks fetch in water carried up meate and waited at the Table I seeing them so hot and hearing such rough and disgracefull words to passe betwixt them and fearing they would presently have mischief'd one another I earnestly desired the Tailor and French-man to make haste along with me to part them and to see the peace keept as it is the dutie of every honest subject The Tailor fearing his skinne and not having as the saying is halfe the heart of a man tooke him to his heeles and runne away the French-man under a colour to fetch the Tailor backe againe ranne as fast as hee whom to this day I could never set eye on Seeing my selfe left to my selfe I stepped in to them and in coole and friendly manner thus I began Gentlemen albeit I am a stranger unto you both yet the Law of Nations yea and of Nature too requireth that humane Societie should be maintained the life of man preserved and the peace of that Common-wealth wherein wee live by all possible meanes advanced wherefore let me intreate you to forbeare one another if either of you bee pleased to intimate unto mee the ground and occasion of your grevance I will doe my best to compose your strife quarrells both in this age and Kingdom are growne poore and ridiculous and to chalenge the field of any man is either to choose his owne death or an halter It is true my my friends quoth I the times were if one man had slaine another hee might presently have taken Sanctuaâ—y usuall also among the Iewes or being taken have put in baile or fled unto some private friend where he might have kept out of the way and have beene sheltred untill by meanes of a Courtier hee had procured his pardon for a small matter or else as in Germanie and the Low-Countrâ—ys have gotten some handsome young wencâ— to have begged him for her husbaâ—d for if I bee not deceived they love English-men well but those dayes are gone and the necessitie of our times require stricter courses to bee taken otherwise our streets of London like Leigâ— Venice Paris Padâ—â— Millan Rome and other places would every night ring with out-cries of blood-shed and murder especially being pestered at this time with such varietie of sundry Nations which till of late was strange to London but as good lucke was they had no weapons save one whip betwixt them both They hearing mee talke sensibly and but reason they began to bee som-what pacified hee in the Leather with brasse Studds and Buttons demanding what I was I told him I was a peece of a Schollar and had seene the World abroad in my travells in many Countreys and was now returned to make use for the good of my selfe and Countrey of whatsoever I formerly had knowne or seene and here-upon I required his name My name Sir quoth hee is Coach who am a Gentleman of an auncient house as you may perceive by my so many quarter'd coates of Dukes Marquises Earles Viscounts Baroâ—s Knights and Gentlemen there is never a Lord or Lady in the land but is of my acquaintance my imployment is so great that I am never at quiet day or night I am a Benefactor to all Meetings Play-houses Mercers shops Taverns and some other houses of recreation for I bring them their best customers as they all know well enough This other that offers mee the wrong they call him Mounsier Sedan some Mr. Chaire a Greene-goose hatch'd but the other day one that hath no leggs to stand upon but is faine to bee carried betweene two and whereas hee is able with all the helpe and furtherance hee can make and devise to goe not aboue a mile in an houre as grosse as I am I can runne three or foure in halfe an houre yea after dinnner when my belly is as full as it can hold and I may say to you of daintie bitts too Sedan Sir the occasion of our difference was this Whether an emptie Coach that had a Lords dead painted Coate and Crest as Lion Bull Elephant c. upon it without might take the wall of a Sedan that had a Knight alive within it Coach swore hee would proove by the law of Armes and all Heâ—aldry hee ought to doe it I stood against him and told him it was against all Law whatsoever and that our Master would avouch hereupon hee threatned to have us all put downe and that I should not passe wheâ—esoever hee came much lesse have any Precedence It is true my name is Sedan and I am I confesse a meere stranger till of late in England therefore if the Law of Hospitalitie be observed as England hath beene accounted the most hospitable Kingdome of the World I ought to be the better entertained and used as I am sure I shall and find as good friends as Coach hath any it is not his bigge lookes nor his nimble tongue that so runnes upon wheeles shall scare mee hee shall know that I am above him both in esteeme and dignitie and hereafter will know my place better but in the meane time I will doe nothing without good advice Neither I hope will any thinke the worse of mee for that I am a Forreiner hath not your Countrey Coach of England beene extreemly enriched by strangers Who in your own opinions have attained to perfection in any excellent Art or Science but they Who makes all your delicate and most excellent Pommanders and Perfume for our Ladies here but Italians Who fits our Lords and Ladies so exactly with varietie of fashions even from the Perruke to the Pumpe and Pantofle as the French And who so curiously skilfull to the great benefit of this Kingdome in painting of Paving-tiles for Chimneys making conceited Babies for Children Hobby-horses Rattles Bristle-brushes checkered blacke and white for which wee are much beholden to the Wesâ—phalian Swine and Spanish black Hoggs with such varietie of Drinking-pots Beades and Whistles to making of which neighbour Coach you know not how to turne your hand Nay whereas you five or sixe houres together are faine to stand wayting at the Court gate Play-house or you wot where I am many times admitted into a Ladies chamber had to the fire dried rub'd and made cleane both within and without but the plaine troath is Coach I will no longer bee made a foole by you I will have it tried though it cost me a fall whither I bee as fit to walke the streets as you or no and to take my place ever next to the wall when all the World knoweth