COKES. I pray thee do, mine ears long to be at it, and my eyes too. O
Numps, in the stocks, Numps! where's your sword, Numps!
WASPE. I pray you intend your game, sir, let me alone.
COKES. Well then, we are quit for all. Come, sit down, Numps; I'll
interpret to thee: did you see mistress Grace? It's no matter,
neither, now I think on't, tell me anon.
WINW. A great deal of love and care he expresses!
GRACE. Alas, would you have him to express more than he has? that were
tyranny.
COKES. Peace, ho! now, now.
LEATH. _Gentles, that no longer your expectations may wander,
Behold our chief actor, amorous Leander.
With a great deal of cloth, lapp'd about him like a scarf,
For he yet serves his father, a dyer at Puddle-wharf;
Which place we'll make bold with, to call it our Abydus,
As the Bank-side is our Sestos; and let it not be deny'd us.
Now as he is beating to make the dye take the fuller,
Who chances to come by, but fair Hero in a sculler;
And seeing Leander's naked leg and goodly calf,
Cast at him from the boat a sheep's eye and an half.
Now she is landed, and the sculler come back,
By and by you shall see what Leander doth lack._
PUP. LEAN. _Cole, Cole, old Cole!_
LEATH. _That is the sculler's name without controul._
PUP. LEAN. _Cole, Cole, I say, Cole!_
LEATH. _We do hear you._
PUP. LEAN. _Old Cole._
LEATH. _Old Cole! is the dyer turn'd collier? how do you sell?_
PUP. LEAN. _A pox o' your manners, kiss my hole here, and smell._
LEATH. _Kiss your hole and smell! there's manners indeed._
PUP. LEAN. _Why, Cole, I say, Cole!_
LEATH. _Is't the sculler you need?_
PUP. LEAN. _Ay, and be hanged._
LEATH. _Be hang'd! look you yonder.
Old Cole, you must go hang with master Leander._
PUP. COLE. _Where is he?_
PUP. LEAN. _Here, Cole: what fairest of fairs,
Was that fare that thou landedst but now at Trig-stairs?_
COKES. What was that, fellow? pray thee tell me, I scarce understand
them.
LEATH. _Leander does ask, sir, what fairest of fairs,
Was the fare he landed but now at Trig-stairs?_
PUP. COLE. _It is lovely Hero._
PUP. LEAN. _Nero?_
PUP. COLE. _No, Hero._
LEATH. _It is Hero
Of the Bank-side, he saith, to tell you truth without erring,
Is come over into Fish-street to eat some fresh herring.
Leander says no more, but as fast as he can,
Gets on all his best clothes, and will after to the Swan._
COKES. Most admirable good, is't not?
LEATH. _Stay, sculler._
PUP. COLE. _What say you?_
LEATH. _You must stay for Leander,
And carry him to the wench._
PUP. COLE. _You rogue, I am no pander._
COKES. He says he is no pander. 'Tis a fine language: I understand it
now.
LEATH. _Are you no pander, goodman Cole? here's no man says you are;
You'll grow a hot cole, it seems; pray you stay for your fare._
PUP. COLE. _Will he come away?_
LEATH. _What do you say?_
PUP. COLE. _I'd have him come away._
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