loue to him And for because hir Father much suspects the same He mewes hir vp as men do mew their hawkes And so restraines hir from hir Sophos sight I le say because she doth repose more trust Of secrecie in me then in another man In courtesie she hath requested me To do hir kindest greetings to hir Loue Robin An excellent deuise yfaith Churms I Sir and by this meanes I le make a very gull of my fine Diogenes I shall knowe his secrets euen from the very bottome of his heart Nay more Sir you shall see me deale so cunningly that he shall make me an instrument to compasse his desire When God knowes I meane nothing lesse Qui nescit dissimulare nescit vivere Robin Why this will be sport alone But what would you haue me doe in this action Churmes Marry as I play with to hand play you with tother Fall you aboard with Peter Ploddall Make him belieue you le worke miracles And that you haue a powder will make Lelia loue him Nay what wil he not belieue and take all that comes you know my mind And so wee le make a gull of the one and a goose of the other And if wee can inuent any deuise to bring the scholler in disgrace with hir I doe not doubt but with your helpe to creep between the bark and the tree and get Lelia my selfe Robin Tush man I haue a deuise in my head already to doe that But they say hir brother Fortunatus loues him dearely Churms Tuthees out of the Countrey He followes the drumme and the flagge He may chance to be kild with a double Canon before hee come home againe But what 's your deuise Robin Marrie I le do this I le frame an Inditement against Sophos in manner and forme of a Rape and the next Law day you shall preferre it that so Lelia may loath him Hir Father still deadly hate him And the young Gallant hir brother vtterly forsake him Churms But how shall we prooue it Robin Sounds wee le hire some Strumpet or other to be sworne against him Churms Now by the substance of my soule t is an excellent deuise Well le ts in I le first try my cunning otherwise and if all faile wee le trie this conclusion Exeunt Enter Mother Midnight Nurse and Pegge Mother M. Yfaith Marget you must eene take your daughter Pegge home againe For shee le not bee rul'd by mee Nurse Why Mother what will she not doe Mother M. Faith she neither did nor does nor will do any thing Send hir tuth market with egs shee le sell them and spend the money Set hir to make a pudding shee le put in no suet Shee le run out of nights a dancing and come no more home till day peepe Bid hir come to bed shee le come when she list Ah t is a nastie shame to see hir bringing vp Nurse Out you Rogue you arrant c. What know'st not thy Granam I know hir to be a teatie olde foole Shee s neuer well grunting in a corner Mother M. Nay shee le campe I warrant ye O she has a tongue But Marget eene take hir home to your Mistresse and there keepe hir for He keepe hir no longer Nurse Mother pray yee take some paines with hir and keep hir a while longer and if she doe not mend I le beat hir blacke and blew yfaith I le not faile you Minion Mother M. Faith at thy request I le take hir home and try hir a weeke longer Nurse Come on huswife please you Granam and bee a good wench and you shall ha my blessing Mother M. Come follow vs good Wench Exeunt Moth Mid. and Nurse Manet Peg. Pegge I farewell faire weather after you Your blessing quotha I le not giue a single halpennie for t Who would liue vnder a Mothers nose a Granams tong A Maid cannot loue or catch a lip clip or a lap clap but heer 's such tittle tattle and doe not so and be not so light and be not so fond and do not kisse and do not love and I cannot tell what And I must loue an I hang for t A sweet thing is loue Shee singes That rules both heart and mind There is no comfort in the World To Women that are kinde Well I le not stay with hir stay quotha To be yold and iold at and tumbled and tumbled and tost and tourn'd as I am by an olde Hagge I will not no I wil not yfaith Enter Will Cricket But stay I must put on my smirking lookes and smiling countenance For here comes one makes bominatiō suit to be my sprus husband Will Lord that my heart would serue me to speake to hir now she talks of hir sprus'd husband Well I le set a good face on t Now I le clap me as close to hir as Iones buttockes of a close stoole and come ouer hir with my rowling rattling rumbling eloquence Sweet Pegge honny Pegge fine Pegge daintie Pegge braue Pegge kind Pegge comely Pegge my nutting my sweeting my Loue my doue my honnie my bonnie my ducke my deare and my deareling Grace me with thy pleasant eyes And loue without delay And cast not with thy crabbed lookes A proper man awaie Pegge Why William what 's the matter Will What 's the matter quotha Faith I ha been in a faire taking for you a bots on you For tother day after I had seene you presently my belly began to rumble What 's the matter thought I With that I bethought my selfe and the sweete comportenance of that same sweet round face of thine came into my mind Out went I and I le bee sworne I was so neere taken that I was faine to cut all my points And dost heare Pegge If thou dost not grant mee thy good will in the way of marriage First and for most I le run out of my cloathes and then out of my wits for thee Pegge Nay William I would bee loth you should doe so for me Will Will you looke merrily on me and loue me then Pegge Faith I care not greatly if I doe Will Care not greatly if I doe what an answers that If thou wilt say I Pegge take thee William to my spruce husband Peg. Why so I wil but we must haue more company for witnesses first Will That needes not heer 's good store of yong men maides here Pegge Why then heer 's my hand Will Faith that 's honestly spoken say after me I Pegge Pudding promise thee William Cricket That I le hold thee for mine owne sweet Lilly While I haue an head in mine eye and a face on my nose a mouth in my tongue and all that a woman should haue from the crowne of my foote to the sole of my head I le claspe thee and clip thee coll thee and kisse thee Till I be better then naught and worse than nothing When thou art ready to sleepe I le be ready to snort When thou art in health I le be
this She shal haue him I le rule the roste for that I le giue her pounds and crownes gold and siluer I le way her downe in pure angell gold Say man i st a match Ploddall Faith I agree Churms But Sir if you giue your daughter so large a dowrie you le haue some part of his land conueied to her by iointure Gripe Yes marrie that I will And wee le desire your helpe for conueiance Ploddall I good Master Churms and you shall be very well contented for your paines Will I marrie that 's it he lookt for all this while Churms Sir I will do the best I can Will But Landlord I can tell you newes yfaith There is one Sophos a braue genman hee le wipe your sonne Peters nose of Mistresse Lelia I can tell you he loues her well Gripe Nay I trow Will Yes I know for I am sure I saw them close together at Pupnoddie in her Closet Gripe But I am sure she loues not him Will Nay I dare take it on my death she loues him For hee s a scholler and ware schollers they haue tricks for loue yfaith for with a little Logicke pitome colloquium thei le make a wench do any thing Landlord pray ye be not angrie with me for speaking my conscience In good faith your sonne Peters a verie Clowne to him Why hee s as fine a man as a wench can see in a sommers day Gripe Well that shall not serue his tourne I le crosse him I warrant ye I am glad I know it I haue suspected it a great while Sophos why what 's Sophos a base fellow Indeed he has a good wit and can speake well Hee s a scholler forsooth one that has more wit then mony And I like not that he may beg for all that Schollers why what are schollers without money Ploddall Faith eene like puddings without suet Gripe Come Neighbour send your sonne to my house For he shall be welcome to me And my daughter shall intertaine him kindly What I can and will rule Lelia Come le ts in I le discharge Sophos from my house presently Exeunt Gripe and Ploddall and Churms Will A horne plague of this money For it causes many hornes to bud And for money many men are hornd For when maids are forc't to loue where they like not It makes them lye where they should not I le be hangd if ere mistresse Lelia will ha Peter Ploddall I sweare by this button cap do you marke And by the round sound and profound contents do you vnderstand Of this costly Codpeece being a good properman as yee see that I could get her as soone as he my selfe And if I had not a moneths mind in another place I would haue a fling at her that 's flat But I must set a good holiday face on t And go a wooeing to prittie Pegge well I le too her yfaith While t is in my mind But stay I le see how I can woo before I goe they say Vse makes perfectnesse Looke you now suppose this were Pegge Now I set my cap oth to side on this fashion do ye see then say I Sweet hony bonny suger candie Pegge Whose face more faire then Brocke my fathers Cow Whose eyes do shine like bacon rine Whose lips are blew of azure hew Whose crooked nose downe to her chin doth bow For you know I must begin to commend her beautie And then I will tell her plainely that I am in loue with her ouer my high shooes and then I will tell her that I do nothing of nights but sleepe and thinke on her and specially of mornings And that does make my stomacke so rise that I le be sworn I can turne me three or foure bowles of porredge ouer in a morning afore breakefast Enter Robin-Goodfellow Robin Goodfellow How now sirra what make you here with all that timber in your necke Will Timber Sounds I thinke he be a witch How knew he this were Timber Mas I le speake him faire and get out on s companie for I am afraid on him Robin Speake man what art afraid what makest here Will A poore fellow Sir ha bin drinking two or three pots of ale at an alehouse and ha lost my way Sir Robin O nay then I see thou art a good fellow Seest thou not Master Churms the Lawer to day Will No Sir would you speake with him Robin I marrie would I Will If I see him I le tell him you would speake with him Robin Nay prithee stay who wilt thou tell him would speake with him Will Marrie you Sir Robin I who am I Will Faith Sir I know not Robin If thou seest him tell him Robin Goodfellow wold speake with him Will O I will Sir Exit Wil. Cr. Robin Mas the fellow was afraid I play the Bugbeare wheresoere I come And make them al afraid But here comes Master Churms Enter Churms Churms Fellow Robin God saue you I haue beene seeking for you in euerie Ale-house in the Towne Robin What Master Churms What 's the best newes abroad t is long since I see you Churms Faith little newes but yet I am glad I haue met with you I haue a matter to impart to you wherein you may stand me in some stead and make a good benefit to yourselfe if we can deale cunningly t will be worth a double fee to you by the Lord Robin A double fee speake man what i st If it be to betray mine owne father I le do ot for halfe a fee And for cunning let me alone Churms Why then this it is Here is Master Gripe hard by a Clyent of mine a man of mightie wealth who has but one daughter her Dowrie is her waight in gold Now Sir this old penny father would marry her to one Peter Ploddall rich Ploddalls sonne and heire Whom though his father meanes to leaue verie rich Yet hee s a verie Idiot and Browne bread Clowne And one I know the wench does deadly hate And though their friends haue giuen their full consent And both agreed on this vnequall match Yet I know that Lelia wil neuer marrie him But there 's another riuall in hir loue one Sophos And hee s a Scholler One whom I thinke faire Lelia dearely loues But hir Father hates him as he hates a toad For hee s in want and Gripe gapes after golde And still relies vpon the olde sayd Saw Si nihil attuleris c. Robin And wherein can I doe you good in this Churms Marrie thus Sir I am of late growne passing familiar with M. Gripe And for Ploddall he takes me for his second selfe Now Sir I le fit my selfe to the olde crummy Churls humors and make them belieue I le perswade Lelia to marry Peter Ploddall and so get free accesse to the wench at my pleasure Now oth other side I le fall in with the Scholler and him I le handle cunningly too I le tell him that Lelia has acquainted me with hir
man as mine yet farre fetcht and deare bought is good for Ladies and I am sure I haue been as farre as Cales to fetch that I haue I haue beene at Cambridge a Scholler at Cales a Souldier and now in the Country a Lawyer and the next degree shal be a Connicatcher For I le goe neere to cosen olde father share-penny of his daughter I le cast about I le warrant him I le go dine with him and write him his Letter And then I le go seek out my kind companion Robin Goodfellow and betwixt vs wee le make hir yeeld to any thing Wee le ha the common law oth to hand and the ciuil lawe o th tother Wee le tosse Lelia like a tennis ball Exit Enter olde Ploddall and his son Peter an olde man Ploddals Tenant and Wil Cricket his sonne Ploddall Ah Tenant an ill husband barlady thrise at thy house and neuer at home You know my minde will you giue tenne shillings more rent I must discharge you else Old man Alas Landlord will you vndoe me I sit of a great rent alreadie and am very poore Will Cr. Very poore y are a very Asse Lord how my stomach wambles at that same word very poore Father if you loue your sonne William neuer name that same word very poore For I le stand to it that its pettilasseny to name very poore to a man that 's oth top of his marriage Oldman Why son art o th top of thy marriage to whom I prithee Will Marrie to prittie Peg mistresse Lelias nurses daughter O t is the daprest wench that euer danc't after a Taber and pipe For shee will so heele it and toe it and trip it O hir buttockes will quake like a custard P. Ploddall Why William when were you with hir Wil. O Peter does your mouth water at that Truly I was neuer with hir but I know I shall speed For tother day she lookt on me and laught and that 's a good signe ye know and therefore old siluer top neuer talke of charging or discharging For I tell you I am my fathers heire and if you discharge me I le discharge my pestilence at you For to let my house before my lease be out is cut-throatery and to scrape for more rent is polepennery And so fare you well good Grandsire Vsury come father le ts be gone Exeunt Wil. and his Father Ploddall Well I le make the beggerly knaues to packe for this I le haue it euery crosse income and Rent too Enter Chr. with a Letr But stay here comes one O t is M. Churms I hope he brings me some good newes M. Churms y are well met I am een almost staru'd for money You must take some damnable course with my Tenants thei le say Churms. Fayth sir they are growne to bee captious knaues But I le mooue them with a Habeas corpus Ploddall Doe good M. Churmes or vse any other villenous course shall please you But what newes abroad Churms. â—â—â—th little news but heer 's a Letter which M. Gripe desires me to deliuer you And though it stand not with my reputatioÌ„ to be a carrier of Letters yet not knowing how much it might concerne you I thought it better something to abase my selfe then you should be any waies hindered Ploddall Thankes good sir and I le in and reade it Exeunt Ploddall and his sonne Manet Chu Churms Thus men of reach must looke to liue I cry content and murder where I kisse Gripe takes me for his faithfull friend Imparts to me the secrets of his heart And Ploddall thinkes I am as true a friend To euery enterprise he takes in hand As euer breath'd vnder the cope of heauen But damme me if they finde it so All this makes for my auaile I le ha the wench my selfe or else my wits shall faile Exit Enter Lelia and Nurse gathering of Flowers Lelia See how the earth this fragrant spring is clad And mantled round in sweete Nymph Floraes roabes Here growes th' alluring Rose Sweet Marigolds and the louely Hyacinth Come Nurse gather A crowne of Roses shall adorne my head I le pranke my selfe with flowers of the prime And thus I le spend away my primerose time Nurse Ruftie, tuftie are you so frolicke O that you knew as much as I doe t would coole you Lelia Why what know'st thou Nurse prithee tell me Nurse Heauy newes yfaith mistresse You must be matcht married to a husband ha ha ha ha a husband yfaith Lelia A Husband Nurse why that 's good newes if hee be a good one Nurse A good one quotha ha ha ha ha why Woman I heard your father say that he would marrie you to Peter Ploddall that Puckefist that snudge snowte that Cole carrierly Clowne Lord t would be as good as meate and drinke to me to see how the foole woulde wooâ— you Lelia No no my Father did but iest thinkest 〈…〉 I can stoope so lowe to take a browne bread crust a Clowne that 's brought vp at the Cart Nurse Cart quotha I hee le cart you for 〈…〉 tell how to court you Lelia Ah Nurse sweet Sophos is the man Whose loue is lockt in Lelias tender breast This hart hath vow'd if heauens doe not denie My loue with his intoomb'd in earth shall lye Nurse Peace Mistresse stand aside here comes some body Enter Sophos Sophos Optatis non est spes vlla potiri Yet Phoebus send downe thy tralucent beames Behold the earth that mournes in sad attire The flowers at Sophos presence gins to droope Whose trickling teares for Lelias losse Do turne the Plains into a standing Poole Sweete Cynthia smile cheere vp the drouping Flowers Let Sophos once more see a sunne-shine day O let the sacred center of my heart I meane faire Lelia Natures fairest worke Be once againe the obiect to mine eyes O but I wish in vaine whilst hir I wish to see Hir Father he obscures hir from my sight He pleades my want of wealth And saies it is a barre in Venus Court How hath fond fortune by hir fatall doome Predestin'd me to liue in haplesse hopes Still turning false hir fickle wauering wheele And Loues faire goddesse with hir Circian cup Inchanteth so fond Cupids poisoned darts That loue the only Loadstarre of my life Doth drawe my thoughts into a labyrinth But stay What do I see what do mine eyes behold O happie sight it is faire Lelias face Haile heauens bright nymph the period of my grief Sole guidresse of my thoughts and author of my ioy Lelia Sweet Sophos welcome to Lelia Faire Dido Carthaginians beautious Queene Not halfe so ioyfull was when as the Troian Prince Enaeas landed on the sandie shores Of Carthage confines as thy Lelia is To see her Sophos here arriu'd by chance Sophos And blest be chance that hath conducted me vnto the place where I might see my deare As deare to me as is the dearest life Nurse Sir you may see that Fortune is your friend Sophos
rocks and watry Neptunes bounds And wafted safe from Mars his bloudie fields Where trumpets sound Tantara to the fight And here arriu'd for to repose my selfe Vpon the borders of my natiue soyle Now Fortunatus bend thy happie course Vnto thy fathers house to greet thy dearest friends And if that still thy aged sire suruiue Thy presence wil reuiue his drouping sprites And cause his withered cheekes bee sprent with youthfull bloud Where death of late was portraid to the quicke But soft who comes here Stand aside Enter Robin Goodfellow Robin I wonder I heare not of Master Churms I would faine know how he speedes And what successe he has in Lelias loue Well if he cousen the Scholler of her T would make my worship laugh And if he haue her hee may say god a mercy Robin Goodfellow O ware a good head as long as you liue Why Master Gripe he casts beyond the moone And Churms is the only man he puts in trust with his daughter and I le warrant the old Churle would take it vpon his saluation that he wil perswade her to marry Peter Ploddall But I le make a foole of Peter Ploddall I le looke him i th face and picke his purse Whil'st Churms cosen him of his wench And my old gandsir Holdfast of his daughter And if he can do so I le teach him a tricke to cosen him of his gold too Now for Sophos let him weare the willow garland And play the melancholie Malecontent And plucke his hat downe in his sullen eyes And thinke on Lelia in these desert groues T is ynough for him to haue her in his thoughts Although he nere imbrace her in his armes But now there 's a fine deuise comes in my head To scarre the Scholler You shall see I le make fine sport with him They say that euery day he keepes his walke Amongst these woods and melancholy shades And on the barke of euerie senselesse tree In graues the tenour of his haples hope Now when hee s at Venus altar at his Orisons I le put me on my great carnation nose And wrap me in a rowsing Calueskin suite And come like some Hob goblin or some diuell Ascended from the griefly pit of hell And like a Scarbabe make him take his legges I le play the diuel I warrant ye Exit Robin Goodf Fortunatus And if you do by this hand I le play the coniurer Blush Fortunatus at thy base conceit To stand aloofe like one that 's in a trance And with thine eyes behold that miscreant Impe Whose tongue more venome then the serpents sting Before thy face thus taunt thy dearest friends I thine owne father with reproachful tearmes Thy Sister Lelia shee is bought and sold And learned Sophos thy thrice vowed friend Is made a stale by this base cursed Crew And damned den of vagrant run agates But here in sight of sacred heauens I sweare By all the sorrowes of the Stygian soules By Mars his bloudie blade and faire Bellonas bowers I vow these eyes shal nere behold my fathers face These feete shal neuer passe these desert plaines But Pilgrim like I le wander in these woods Vntill I find out Sophos secret walkes And sound the depth of all their plotted drifts Nor will I cease vntill these hands reuenge Th' iniurious wrong that 's offred to my friend Vpon the workers of this stratageme Exit Enter Pegge Sola Pegge Yfaith yfaith I canot tell what to doe I loue and I loue and I cannot tell whoe Out vpon this loue For wat you what I haue suitors comes huddle twoes vpon twoes and threes vpon threes and what thinke you troubles me I must chat and kisse with all commers or else noe bargaine Enter Wil Cricket and kisses hir Will A bargain yfaith ha my sweet honnie sops how doost thou Pegge Well I thanke you William now I see y are a man of your word Will A man of my word quotha why I nere broke promise in my life that I kept Pegge No William I know you did not But I had thought you had forgotten me Will Dost heare Pegge if ere I forget thee I pray God I may neuer remember thee Pegge Peace here comes my Granam Midnight Enter Mother Midnight Mother M. What Pegge what ho what Pegge I say what Pegge my wench Why where art thou trowe Pegge Here Granam at your elbow Moth. M. What mak'st here this twatter light I thinke th art in a dreame I thinke the foole haunts thee Will Sounds foole in your face foole O monstrous intitulation Foole O disgrace to my person sounds foole not me for I cannot brooke such a colde rasher I can tell you giue me but such an other word and I le be thy tooth-drawer een of thy butter tooth thou toothlesse trot thou Moth. M. Nay William pray ye be not angry you must beare with olde folkes They be olde and teastie hot and hastie set not your wit against mine William For I thought you no harme by my troth VVill Well your good words haue something laide my coller But Granam shall I be so bolde to come to your house now and then to keep Pegge company Moth. M. I and beshrowe thy good heart and thou doost not Come and wee le haue a piece of a barley bagpudding or something And thou shalt be very heartily welcome that thou shalt And Pegge shall bid thee welcome too pray ye maide bid him welcome and make much on him for by my vay hee s a good proper springold Pegge Granam if you did but see him dance t woulde doe your heart good Lord t would make any bodie loue him to see how finely hee le foote it Moth. M. VVilliam prithee goe home to my house with vs and taste a cup of our beere and learne to knowe the way againe another time VVill Come on Granam I le man you home yfaith Come Pegge Exeunt Enter Gripe olde Ploddall and his sonne Peter and Churmes the Lawyer Ploddal Come hither Peter hold vp your head where 's your cap and leg sir boy ha Peter By your leaue master Gripe Gripe Welcome Peter giue me thy hand th art welcome Barlady this a good proper tall fellow Neighbour call you him a boy Ploddall A good prittie squat square springold Sir Gripe Peter you ha seene my daughter I am sure how do you like hir What sayes she to you Peter Faith I like hir well and I haue broken my mind to hir and she would say neither I nor no But thanke God Sir we parted good friends For she let me kisse hir hand and bad Farewel Peter And therfore I thinke I am like enough to speed how think you Master Churms Churms Marry I thinke so too For shee did show no token of any dislike of your motion did she Peter No not a whit Sir Churms Why then I warrant ye For we hold in our Law that Idem est non apparere non esse Gripe Maister Churms I pray you do so
Marrie I wil giue Pegge a pot and a pan Two platters a dish and a spoone a dogge and a cat I trow shee le prooue a good huswife And loue hir husband well too Will If she loue me I le loue hir yfaith my sweet honny combe I le loue thee A per se A We must be askt in Church next Sunday and wee l be married presently Pegge Yfaith William wee le haue a merry day on t Mother M. That wee will yfaith Pegge wee le haue a whole noise of fiddlers there Come Pegge le ts hie vs home wee le make a bag-pudding to supper And William shall go and sup with vs Will Come on yfaith Exeunt Enter Fortunatus and Sophos Fort. Why how now Sophos al a mort stil languishing in loue Wil not the presense of thy friend preuaile Nor hope expell these sullen fits Cannot mirth wring if but a forged smile From those sad drouping lookes of thine Relye on hope whose hap wil lead thee right To her whom thou dost call thy hearts delight Looke cheerely man the time is neere at hand That Hymen mounted on a snow white coach Shal tend on Sophos and his louely bride Sophos T is impossible her Father man her father Hee s al for Peter Ploddall Fortunatus Should I but see that Ploddall offer loue This sword should pearce the pesants breast And chase his soule from his accursed corps By an vnwonted way vnto the griesly lake But now the appointed time is neere That Churms should come with his supposed loue Then sit we down vnder these leauie shades They sit down And waight the time of Lelias wisht approach Sophos I here I le waight for Lelias wisht approach More wisht to me then is a calme at seas To shipwrackt soules when great God Neptune frownes Though sad despaire hath almost drown'd my hopes Yet would I passe the burning vaults of Orke As erst did Hercules to fetch his loue If I might meete my loue vpon the strond Enter Robin Goodfellow And but enioy her loue one minute of an hour But stay what man or diuell or hellish fiend comes here Transformed in this ougly vncouth shape Fortunatus O peace a while you shal see good sport anone Robin Now I am cloathed in this hellish shape If I could meete with Sophos in these woods O he would take me for the Diuell himselfe I should ha good laughing beside the fortie shillings Peter Ploddall has giuen mee and if I get noe more I am sure of that But soft now I must trie my cunning for here he sits The high commander of the damned soules Great Dis the Duke of Diuels and Prince of Limbo Lake High Regent of Acheron Styx and Phlegeton By strict command from Pluto Hels great Monarch And faire Proserpina the Queene of Hell By full consent of all the damned Hagges And all the fiends that keepe the Stygian plaines Hath sent me here from depth of vnder ground To sommon thee to appeare at Plutoes Court Fortunatus A man or Diuell or what so ere thou art I le trie if blowes will driue thee downe to hell Belike thou art the Diuels Paritor The basest officer that liues in Hell For such thy words imports thee for to be T is pittie you should come so farre without a fee And because I know mony goes lowe with Sophos I le pay you your fees Hee beates him take that that and that Robin O good Sir I beseech you I le do any thing Fortunatus Then downe to Hell for sure thou art a Diuell Robin O hold your hands I am not a Diuell by my troth Fortunatus Sounds dost thou crosse mee I say thou art a Diuell Beate him againe Robin O Lord sir saue my life and I le say as you say or any thing else you le ha me doe Fortunatus Then stand vp and make a preachment of thy Pedigree and how at first thou learnd'st this diuelish trade vp I say Beate him Stands vpon a stoole Robin O I wil Sit Although in some places I beare the title of a scuruy gentleman By birth I am a boate writes son of Hull My father got me of a refus'd hagge Vnder the olde ruines of Boobies barne Who as she liu'd at length she likewise died And for her good deedes went vnto the Diuell But Hell not wont to harbour such a guest Her fellow fiends do daiely make complaint Vnto grim Pluto and his louely Queene Of her vnruly missebehauiour Intreating that a pasport might be drawne For her to wander till the day of doome On earth againe to vex the mindes of men And swore she was the fittest fiend in Hell To driue men to desperation To this intent her pasport straight was drawne And in a whirle wind forth of Hell she came Ore hills she hurles and scowres along the plaines The trees flew vp by th rootes the earth did quake for feare The houses tumble downe she playes the Diuell and all At length not finding any one so fit To effect her diuelish damned charge as I She comes to me as to her onely childe And me her instrument on earth she made And by that meanes I learnd this diuellish trade Sophos O monstrous villane Fortunatus But tell me what 's thy course of life how thou shiftest for maintenance in the world Robin Faith Sir I am in a manner a promoter Or more fitly term'd a promoting knaue I creepe into the presence of great men And vnder colour of their friendships Effect such wonders in the world That babes wil curse me that are yet vnborne Of the best men I raise a common fame And honest women rob of their good name Thus dayly tumbling-in comes all my thrift That I get best is got but by a shift But the chiefe course of all my life Is to set discord betwixt man and wife Fortunatus Out vpon thee Canniball He beate them Dost thou thinke thou shalt euer come to heauen Robin I little hope for heauen or heauenly blisse But if in hell doth any place remaine Of more esteeme then is another roome I hope as guerdon for my iust desert To haue it for my detestable acts Fort. Wert not thy tongue condemnes thy guiltie soule I could not thinke that on this liuing earth Did breath a villane so audacious Go get thee gone and come not in my walke Beate him For if thou dost thou comest vnto thy woe Rob. The diuel himself was neuer coniur'd so Exit Rob. Sophos Sure hee s no man but an incarnate diuel Whose ougly shape bewrayes his monstrous mind Fortunatus And if he be a diuel I am sure hee s gone But Churms the Lawyer wil be here anone And with him comes my sister Lelia T is he I am sure you looke for Sophos Nay she it is that I expect so long Fort. Then sit we down vntil we heare more newes This but a prologue to our play ensewes They sit downe But see where Churms and Lelia comes along Enter Churms and