[_Exit_ HOLIFERNES.
_Coc._ Good; and if I shave not Master Mulligrub, my
wit has no edge, and I may[37] go cack in my pewter. Let
me see,--a barber: my scurvy tongue will discover me:
must dissemble, must disguise; for my beard, my false
hair; for my tongue--Spanish, Dutch or Welsh--no, a
Northern barber; very good. Widow Reinscure's man,
well; newly entertain'd, right; so, hang toasts! all cards
have white backs, and all knaves would seem to have
white breasts: so proceed now, worshipful Cocledemoy.
[_Exit_ COCLEDEMOY, _in his barber's furniture_.
[28] "It is impossible to resist the idea that Marston was here
thinking of Shakespeare: 'Nor doth this wood lack worlds of
company. For you, in my respect, are all the
world.'"--_Halliwell._
[29] Ed. 1. "dietie,"--a recognised form of the word _deity_. See
the index to _Old Plays_, ed. Bullen, _sub_ DIETY.
[30] I suggest the following arrangement:--
"_Free._ _Be not extreme!_
Nothing in love's extreme, my love receives
No mean.
_Bea._ I give you faith, and prithee since,
Poor soul! I am so easy to believe thee,
Make it much more [a] pity to deceive me."
[31] Martial, xi. 60.
[32] The opening words of Cicero's _De Officiis_.
[33] "Does ... surgeon" given to Cocledemoy in the old eds.
[34] Not marked in old eds.
[35] On 26th September 1588 "A ballad intytuled _Peggies
Complaint for the Death of her Willye_" was entered in the
Stationers' Registers: I suppose that Cocledemoy is quoting from
this ballad. In _The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London,_
1590 (Hazlitt's _Dodsley_, vi. 393), the ballad of "Peggy and
Willy" is mentioned.
[36] See note 2, vol. i. p. 32.
[37] Omitted in ed. 2.
SCENE II.
_Franceschina's lodging._
_Enter_ MARY FAUGH, _and_ FRANCESCHINA _with her hair
loose, chafing_.
_Mar._ Nay, good sweet daughter, do not swagger so;
you hear your love is to be married, true; he does cast
you off, right; he will leave you to the world,--what then?
though blue and white, black and green, leave you, may
not red and yellow entertain you? is there but one
colour in the rainbow?
_Fra._ Grand grincome[38] on your sentences! God's
sacrament, ten towsand divels take you!--you ha'
brought mine love, mine honour, mine body, all to
noting! 10
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