PIS. Do, gentle Mouche. Why, but here's a jest. They say, high climbers have the greatest falls. If you should fall, as how you'll do, I know not, By'r Lady, I should doubt me of my son. Pray to the rope to hold. Art thou there, Mouche? _Enter_ ANTHONY _above_. ANTH. Yes, sir. Now, you may choose whether you'll stay till I let him down, or whether I shall cut him down? FRIS. Cut him down, Master Mouse; cut him down, and let's see how he'll tumble. PIS. Why, sauce, who ask'd your counsel! let him down. What, with a cushion too? why you provided To lead your life as did Diogenes; And for a tub to creep into a basket. VAN. Ic sal seg you, vader, ic came here to your huis, and spreak tol de dochterkin. FRIS. Master Mendall, you are welcome out of the basket. I smell a rat: it was not for nothing that you lost me. VAN. O skellum! you run away from me. PIS. I thought so, sirrah; you gave him the slip. FRIS. Faugh! no, forsooth, I'll tell you how it was. When we came from Bucklersbury into Cornhill, and I had taken the cloak, then you should have turned down on your left hand, and so have gone right forward, and so turned up again, and so have crossed the street; and you, like an ass---- PIS. Why, how now, rascal, is your manners such? You ass! you dolt! why led you him through Cornhill? Your way had been to come through Canning Street.[539] FRIS. Why, so I did, sir. PIS. Why, thou sayest ye were in Cornhill? FRIS. Indeed, sir, there were three faults: the night was dark, Master Mendall drunk, and I sleepy, that we could not tell very well which way we went. PIS. Sirrah, I owe for this a cudgelling. But, gentlemen, sith things have fallen out so, And for I see Vandal quakes for cold, This night accept your lodgings in my house, And in the morning forward with your marriage. Come on, my sons; sirrah, fetch up more wood. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [523] Frisco puts on Vandal's cloak. [524] Heigham pretends that he is a dealer in glasses. [525] Another name for a clown or fool. [526] [A proverbial expression, of which this appears to be the earliest occurrence in print. Its import is not particularly clear; but see Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 128.] [527] _i.e._, For luck in his undertaking. [528] Playing upon the words _hose_ and _shoes_. [529] A common expression in old writers, indicating that some party has not been treated with sufficient respect. M is short for Master, and Frisco addresses himself to the Bellman, who had merely called him Frisco. Thus, in "Eastward Ho!" act iv. sc. 1, Quicksilver asks, "Must Golding sit upon us?" To which the constable replies, "You might carry an M under your girdle."