CHRIS. 'Twas godliness, verily: It was a hymn I warbled. CON. Thou dost lie, It was no hymn, it was a song. Is this Your filthy rendezvous? you shall be taught Another tune. CHRIS. I do beseech you, show Merciful cruelty, and as 'twere a kind Of pitiful hard-heartedness. I'm strong. [_They bring in_ ANDREW _and_ PRISCILLA. CON. I'm glad you told me so, I will provide Your ward accordingly. Drag 'em out both. AND. Let me but send to th' ordinary. CON. You shall not; The ord'nary hath sent to you. No bail: I will take none. I'll suffer no such sneaks As you to offend this way: it doth belong T'your betters, sir. AND. Here's a sufficient man, I do assure you; take my word for that. CON. This staff was made to knock down sin. I'll look There shall be no advoutry[226] in my ward, But what is honest. I'll see justice done As long as I'm in office. Come along. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [202] So Falstaff says ("First Part Henry IV.," act iii. sc. 3): "An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, _I am a pepper-corn_, a brewer's horse." [203] A _noise_ of fiddlers is _a company or concert of them_; as in Ben Jonson's "Epicæne," act iii. sc. 3: "The smell of the venison, going through the street, will invite _one noise of fiddlers_ or other." So in "Bartholomew Fair," act iii. sc. 6: "Cry you mercy, sir; will you buy a _fiddle_ to fill up _your noise_?" In Marmyon's "Fine Companion," act iv. sc. 1: "He come but with a troope of wenches, and _a noyse of fidlers_; and play thee backe like Orpheus." Again, in Dekker's "Belman of London," 1608, sig. G 2: "To bee up more earely then _a noyse of shrugging fidlers_." And in "Miscellaneous State Papers from 1501 to 1726," vol. i. p. 87: "After the which they had a very notable banquet; the heavenly _noise_ that was there, as well with strange instruments of music as otherwise, I cannot declare." See also the examples in Mr Steevens's note on "Henry IV., Part II.," act ii. sc. 4. [204] _i.e._, Be placed at the bottom of them, and act as the sole to the shoe.--_Steevens._ [205] The old copy has it, _Enter Have-at-all_; but it is an obvious error of the press.--_Collier._ [206] See note to "The Antiquary" [act i., sc. 1, vol. 13]. [207] A term anciently used in salutation, or rather in drinking. See Selden's notes on the ninth song of Drayton's "Polyolbion," and [Steevens's] notes on "Macbeth," act i. sc. 7, for a particular account of the origin of this phrase.--_Steevens._ [208] [A term in fencing.] [209] [Cartwright's adoption of the English of a period of which he was evidently very ignorant, has made his character of "The Antiquary" a very tedious and troublesome one. By _intermete_ we are here to understand _intermit_; but there is no such word in early English. _Intermit_ occurs in Coleridge's "Glossary," 1859.] [210] To do.