SHAPE. Lie thou there, watchman. How the knave that's look'd for May often lurk under the officer! Invention, I applaud thee. HEAR. London air, Methinks, begins to be too hot for us. SLICER. There is no longer tarrying here: let's swear Fidelity to one another, and So resolve for New England.[238] HEAR. 'Tis but getting A little pigeon-hole reformed ruff---- SLICER. Forcing our beards into th' orthodox bent---- SHAPE. Nosing a little treason 'gainst the king, Bark something at the bishops, and we shall Be easily receiv'd. HEAR. No fitter place. They are good silly people; souls that will Be cheated without trouble. One eye is Put out with zeal, th' other with ignorance; And yet they think they're eagles. SHAPE. We are made Just fit for that meridian. No good work's Allow'd there: faith--faith is that they call for, And we will bring it 'em. SLICER. What language speak they? HEAR. English, and now and then a root or two Of Hebrew, which we'll learn of some Dutch skipper That goes along with us this voyage. Now We want but a good wind; the brethren's sighs Must fill our sails; for what Old England won't Afford, New England will. You shall hear of us By the next ship that comes for proselytes. Each soil is not the good man's country only; Nor is the lot his to be still at home: _We'll claim a share, and prove that nature gave_ _This boon, as to the good, so to the knave._ [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [226] Adultery. [227] See Note to "The Antiquary" [act iv., vol. 13]. [228] [_i.e._, All fours.] [229] Change. [230] Plenty, abundance. [231] The story here alluded to is told in an old play, entitled "The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the first, sir-named Edward Longshankes, with his returne from the holy land. Also the life of Llevellen rebell in Wales. _Lastly, the sinking of Queene Elinor, who sunck at Charing cross, and rose againe at Potters hith, now named Queene-hith._ By George Peele." 4o, 1593, 1599. See also a ballad on the same subject in Evans's "Old Ballads," vol i. p. 237. [Peele's play is, of course, printed in his works by Dyce.] [232] [The Constable's ideas had become confused, and he thought that _Credulous_, was taxing him with having been circumcised.] [233] Take hold of him.--_T._ [234] Decorated or adorned [in the forehead or brow.] So in Milton's "Penseroso"-- "Not trick'd and frounc'd as she was wont, With Attic boy to hunt; But kerchief'd in a comely cloud." --_Steevens_ (_altered_). [235] Quick reward. [But it may be doubted, perhaps, if Cartwright did not intend _blithe_, _i.e._, glad or joyful.] [236] _i.e._, A nuptial ditty: from _Fescennia_, or _Fescennium_, a town in Italy, where these kinds of songs were first practised.--_Steevens._ [237] To _bray_, to pound, or grind small--