_Host_. There's so many swaggerers; but alasse, how fel ye out? _Scil_. By the welkin, I gave him not a foule word; first he calles me foole, then he makes a full blowe at my body, and if, by good chance, I had not warded it with my head, he might have spoild me. _Enter Prentices_. _Host_. There, there my fine fil-pots; give the word as you passe; anon, anon, sir anon; heere and there in the twinckling, looke well at the barre, there again my little Mercuries, froath them up to the brimme, and fill as tis needeful; if their Pates be full of Wine let your Pottles be three quarters; trip and goe, here and there; now, my brave Lad, wash thy woundes with good Wine; bidde am welcom, my little Sybil; put sugar in his hole there, I must in to my guests; sleepe soundly till morning; Canarie is a Jewell, and a Figge for Browne-bastard.[236] [_Exit_. _Hostes_. Gentlemen, ye are welcom, though my husband be a little talkative, yet truly he is an unreasonable honest man, yee shall finde his words and his sayings all one. _Scil_. I thinke no less, yet I would desire to enter as time and place shall serve. _Hostes_. Ile lead the way forsooth. _Phy_. Nay, pray ye, Hostesse, a word. I say little, but i'me sure I have sustained the most wrong; by this light, I had rather he had broke my head in three places; I pray you lend me a brush, hee has put my hat quite out of fashion. _Host_. That shall ye sir, a brush there, hoe! _Enter[237] Boss, with the dog_. _Bos_. _Salve, sis salvus_. I pray yee which of you five is Hostis of this house? _Boy_. That's easily discernd, for foure weare breeches. _Bos_. Nere the sooner for that, my diminitive youth, for women now adaies weare breeches as well as men; mary, the difference lies in the bawble. _Hostis_. Well, sir, to open the truth, I am the Hostesse. _Bos_. The fruit is known, by the Tree at the first view, as the Author writes, learnedly; come _basilus manus_.[238] _Scil_. This kissing becomes a Gentleman, ile use it sure.[239] _Bos_. Secondly, Mistris Hostesse, I would know what lodging ye have for my Lady and her traine. _Hostis_. What will serve your turne, sir? _Bos_. Ile call my selfe to account and specifie thus: my Lady and her Dogge, that's two visible; then there's the Dogge and my Lady, thats four invisible; then there's my Ladies dogge and I, quoth the dogge, that's six; then theres sequence of three, viz., the Dogge, and I, and my Lady; then there's a pair of Knaves, viz., the Dogge & my selfe & my Lady turnd up; viz., my Lady sequence of three, a paire of Knaves and my Lady, turn'd up to play upon:--we can have no less than five beds. _Hostis_. Truely you must lye close together (the Servants I meane), for I am so thrust with Guest I [c]an hardly spare so many.