PUP. HERO. _O Leander, Leander, my dear, my dear Leander,
I'll for ever be thy goose, so thou'lt be my gander._
COKES. Excellently well said, Fiddle, she'll ever be his goose, so
he'll be her gander; was't not so?
LEATH. Yes, sir, but mark his answer now.
PUP. LEAN. _And sweetest of geese, before I go to bed,
I'll swim over the Thames, my goose, thee to tread._
COKES. Brave! he will swim over the Thames, and tread his goose
to-night, he says.
LEATH. Ay, peace, sir, they'll be angry if they hear you
eavesdropping, now they are setting their match.
PUP. LEAN. _But lest the Thames should be dark, my goose, my dear
friend,
Let thy window be provided of a candle's end._
PUP. HERO. _Fear not, my gander, I protest I should handle
My matters very ill, if I had not a whole candle._
PUP. LEAN. _Well then, look to't, and kiss me to boot._
LEATH. _Now here come the friends again, Pythias and Damon,
And under their clokes they have of bacon a gammon._
PUP. PYTHIAS. _Drawer, fill some wine here._
LEATH. _How, some wine there!
There's company already, sir, pray forbear._
PUP. DAMON. _'Tis Hero._
LEATH. _Yes, but she will not to be taken,
After sack and fresh herring, with your Dunmow-bacon._
PUP. PYTHIAS. _You lie, it's Westfabian._
LEATH. _Westphalian_ you should say.
PUP. DAMON. _If you hold not your peace, you are a coxcomb, I would
say._
[Leander and Hero kiss.
_What's here, what's here? kiss, kiss, upon kiss!_
LEATH. _Ay, wherefore should they not? what harm is in this?
'Tis mistress Hero._
PUP. DAMON. _Mistress Hero's a whore._
LEATH._ Is she a whore? keep you quiet, or, sir, knave, out of door._
PUP. DAMON. _Knave out of door?_
PUP. HERO. _Yes, knave out of door._
PUP. DAMON. _Whore out of door._
[They fall together by the ears.
PUP. HERO. _I say, knave out of door._
PUP. DAMON. _I say, whore out of door._
PUP. PYTHIAS. _Yea, so say I too._
PUP. HERO. _Kiss the whore o' the arse._
LEATH. _Now you have something to do:
You must kiss her o' the arse, she says._
PUP. DAMON AND PYTHIAS. _So we will, so we will._
[They kick her.
PUP. HERO. _O my haunches, O my haunches, hold, hold._
LEATH. _Stand'st thou still!
Leander, where, art thou? stand'st thou still like a sot,
And not offer'st to break both their heads with a pot?
See who's at thine elbow there! puppet Jonas and Cupid._
PUP. JONAS. _Upon 'em, Leander, be not so stupid._
PUP. LEAN. _You goat-bearded slave!_
PUP. DAMON. _You whore-master knave!_
[They fight.
PUP. LEAN. _Thou art a whore-master._
PUP. JONAS. _Whore-masters all._
LEATH. _See, Cupid with a word has tane up the brawl._
KNOCK. These be fine vapours!
COKES. By this good day, they fight bravely; do they not, Numps?
WASPE. Yes, they lack'd but you to be their second all this while.
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