_Tai._ You say sooth, sir. _Slip._ [_giving money_]. Hold, take thy money; there is seven shillings for the doublet, and eight for the breeches: seven and eight; by'rlady, thirty-six is a fair deal of money. _Tai._ Farewell, sir. _Slip._ Nay, but stay, tailor. _Tai._ Why, sir? _Slip._ Forget not this special make: let my back-parts be well lined, for there come many winter-storms from a windy belly, I tell thee. [_Exit_ Tailor]. Shoemaker. _Shoe._ Gentleman, what shoe will it please you to have? _Slip._ A fine, neat calves'-leather, my friend. _Shoe._ O, sir, that is too thin, it will not last you. _Slip._ I tell thee, it is my near kinsman, for I am Slipper, which hath his best grace in summer to be suited in calves'[282] skins. Goodwife Calf was my grandmother, and Goodman Netherleather mine uncle; but my mother, good woman, alas, she was a Spaniard, and being well tanned and dressed by a good fellow, an Englishman, is grown to some wealth: as, when I have but my upper-parts clad in her husband's costly Spanish leather, I may be bold to kiss the fairest lady's foot in this country. _Shoe._ You are of high birth, sir: but have you all your mother's marks on you? _Slip._ Why, knave? _Shoe._ Because, if thou come of the blood of the Slippers, you should have a shoemaker's awl thrust through your ear. _Slip._ [_giving money_]. Take your earnest, friend, and be packing, and meddle not with my progenitors. [_Exit_ Shoemaker]. Cutler. _Cut._ Here, sir. _Slip._ I must have a reaper and digger.[283] _Cut._ A rapier and dagger, you mean, sir? _Slip._ Thou sayest true; but it must have a very fair edge. _Cut._ Why so, sir? _Slip._ Because it may cut by himself, for truly, my friend, I am a man of peace, and wear weapons but for fashion. _Cut._ Well, sir, give me earnest, I will fit you. _Slip._ [_giving money_]. Hold, take it: I betrust thee, friend; let me be well armed. _Cut._ You shall. [_Exit._ _Slip._ Now what remains? there's twenty crowns for house, three crowns for household-stuff, sixpence to buy a constable's staff; nay, I will be the chief of my parish. There wants nothing but a wench, a cat, a dog, a wife, and a servant, to make an whole family. Shall I marry with Alice, Goodman Grimshawe's daughter? she is fair, but indeed her tongue is like clocks on Shrove Tuesday, always out of temper. Shall I wed Sisley of the Whighton? O, no! she is like a frog in a parsley bed; as skittish as an eel: if I seek to hamper her, she will horn me. But a wench must be had, Master Slipper; yea, and shall be, dear friend. _And._ [_aside_]. I now will drive him from his contemplations.--O, my mates, come forward: the lamb is unpent, the fox shall prevail. _Enter three_ Antics, _who dance round, and take_ Slipper _with them._ _Slip._ I will, my friend, and I thank you heartily: pray, keep your courtesy: I am yours in the way of an hornpipe.--[_Aside_]. They are strangers; I see they understand not my language: wee, wee.--[284]