FEE. Marry, she's the honester woman, for some of their rings are visible enough, the more shame for them, still say I. Let the pond at Islington be searched: go to, there's more have drowned themselves for love this year than you are aware of. PROUDLY. Pish! you are a fool. WELL. 'Sheart! call him fool again. FEE. By this light, and I will, as soon as ever you have showed me the Swaggerers.[96] WIFE. Her clothes are all yonder, my lord. GRACE. And even those same she had on to-day. PROUDLY. Madam, where is your husband? WIFE. Rid into the country. FEE. O' my conscience, rid into France with your sister. OMNES. Away, away; for shame! FEE. Why, I hope she is not the first lady that has ran away with other women's husbands. WELL. It may be she's stolen out to see a play. PROUDLY. Who should go with her, man? WID. Upon my life, you'll hear of her at Master Ingen's house: some love pass'd betwixt them, and we heard that he was married to-day to another. PROUDLY. 'Sheart! I'll go see. [_Exit_ LORD PROUDLY. WELL. Come to the Swaggerers. FEE. Mercy upon me! a man or a--Lord now? [_Exeunt_ LORD FEESIMPLE, WELLTRIED. OMNES. Here's a coil with a lord and his sister. WID. Princox, hast not thou pinned in that ruff yet? ha! how thou fumblest! BOLD. Troth, madam, I was ne'er brought up to it; 'tis chambermaid's work, and I have ever lived gentlewoman, and been used accordingly. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [87] In reference to her female sex and male attire. [88] These words contain an allusion to Blackfriars as a common residence of the Puritans. The Widow subsequently refers to the same circumstance, when in act iii. she asks Bold: "Precise and learned Princox, dost thou not go to Blackfriars." That Blackfriars, although the play-house was there, was crowded with Puritans may be proved by many authorities. [89] Two celebrated English heroines. The achievements of Mary Ambree at the siege of Ghent, in 1584, are celebrated in a ballad which goes by her name in Percy's "Reliques," ii. 239, edit. 1812. She is mentioned by Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and many other dramatists; some of whom were her contemporaries. Dr Percy conjectured that the "English Mall" of Butler was the same female soldier, but he probably alluded to Mall or Moll Cut-purse who forms a character in this play. Long Meg is Long Meg of Westminster, also a masculine lady of great notoriety, and after whom a cannon in Dover Castle, and a large flagstone in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey are still called. Her life and "merry pranks" were detailed in a pamphlet dated in [1582], and reprinted [from a later edition] in 1816. It is conjectured that she was dead in 1594, but she is often spoken of in our old writers. It will be seen by a subsequent note that Long Meg was the heroine of a play which has not survived.