OVER. Dost thou hear, boy? There's for thy ale, and the remnant for
thee.--Speak in thy faith of a faucet, now; is this goodly person
before us here, this vapours, a knight of the knife?
MOON. What mean you by that, master Arthur?
OVER. I mean a child of the horn-thumb, a babe of booty, boy, a
cut-purse.
MOON. O Lord, sir! far from it. This is master Daniel Knockem Jordan:
the ranger of Turnbull. He is a horse-courser, sir.
OVER. Thy dainty dame, though, call'd him cut-purse.
MOON. Like enough, sir; she'll do forty such things in an hour (an you
listen to her) for her recreation, if the toy take her in the greasy
kerchief: it makes her fat, you see; she battens with it.
OVER. Here I might have been deceived now, and have put a fool's blot
upon myself, if I had not played an after game of discretion!
[_Aside._
_Re-enter URSULA, dropping._
KNOCK. Alas, poor Urse! this is an ill season for thee.
URS. Hang yourself, hackney-man!
KNOCK. How, how, Urse! vapours? motion breed vapours?
URS. Vapours! never tusk, nor twirl your dibble, good Jordan, I know
what you'll take to a very drop. Though you be captain of the roarers,
and fight well at the case of piss-pots, you shall not fright me with
your lion-chap, sir, nor your tusks; you angry! you are hungry. Come,
a pig's head will stop your mouth, and stay your stomach at all times.
KNOCK. Thou art such another mad, merry Urse, still! troth I do make
conscience of vexing thee, now in the dog-days, this hot weather, for
fear of foundering thee in the body, and melting down a pillar of the
Fair. Pray thee take thy chair again, and keep state; and let's have a
fresh bottle of ale, and a pipe of tobacco; and no vapours. I'll have
this belly o' thine taken up, and thy grass scoured, wench.--
_Enter EDGWORTH._
Look, here's Ezekiel Edgworth; a fine boy of his inches, as any is in
the Fair! has still money in his purse, and will pay all, with a kind
heart, and good vapours.
EDG. That I will indeed, willingly, master Knockem; fetch some ale and
tobacco.
[_Exit Mooncalf.--People cross the stage._
LEATH. What do you lack, gentlemen? maid, see a fine hobby-horse for
your young master; cost you but a token a-week his provender.
_Re-enter NIGHTINGALE, with CORN-CUTTER, and MOUSETRAP-MAN._
CORN. Have you any corns in your feet and toes?
MOUSE. Buy a mousetrap, a mousetrap, or a tormentor for a flea?
TRASH. Buy some gingerbread?
NIGHT. Ballads, ballads! fine new ballads:
_Hear for your love, and buy for your money.
A delicate ballad o' the ferret and the coney.
A preservative again' the punk's evil.
Another of goose-green starch, and the devil.
A dozen of divine points, and the godly garters:
The fairing of good counsel, of an ell and three-quarters._
What is't you buy?
_The windmill blown down by the witch's fart.
Or saint George, that, O! did break the dragon's heart._
_Re-enter MOONCALF, with ale and tobacco._
EDG. Master Nightingale, come hither, leave your mart a little.
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