_DRAMATIS PERSONÆ._ Sir LIONEL FREEVILL, } _two old knights_. Sir HUBERT SUBBOYS, } Young FREEVILL, Sir LIONEL'S _son_. MALHEUREUX, Young FREEVILL'S _unhappy friend_. TYSEFEW, _a blunt gallant_. CAQUETEUR, _a prattling gull_. COCLEDEMOY, _a knavishly witty City Companion_. MASTER MULLIGRUB, _a vintner_. MASTER BURNISH, _a goldsmith_. LIONEL, _his man_. HOLIFERNES REINSCURE, _a barbers boy_. BEATRICE, } _Sir Hubert's daughters_. CRISPINELLA, } PUTIFER, _their nurse_. MISTRESS MULLIGRUB. FRANCESCHINA, _a Dutch Courtezan_. MARY FAUGH, _an old woman_. _Three Watchmen_; _Pages_; _Officers_. SCENE--LONDON. THE DUTCH COURTEZAN.[1] ACT I. SCENE I. _A Street._ _Enter three Pages, with lights._ MULLIGRUB, FREEVILL, MALHEUREUX, TYSEFEW, _and_ CAQUETEUR. _Free._ Nay, comfort, my good host Shark; my good Mulligrub. _Mal._ Advance thy snout; do not suffer thy sorrowful nose to drop on thy Spanish[2] leather jerkin, most hardly-honest Mulligrub. _Free._ What, cogging Cocledemoy is run away with a neast[3] of goblets? True, what then? they will be hammered out well enough, I warrant you. _Mul._ Sure, some wise man would find them out presently. 10 _Free._ Yes, sure, if we could find out some wise man presently. _Mal._ How was the plate lost? how did it vanish? _Free._ In most sincere prose, thus: that man of much money, some wit, but less honesty, cogging Cocledemoy, comes this night late into mine hostess Mulligrub's tavern here; calls for a room; the house being full, Cocledemoy consorted with his movable chattel, his instrument of fornication, the bawd Mrs. Mary Faugh, are imparlour'd next the street; good poultry was their food, blackbird, lark, woodcock; and mine host here comes in, cries "God bless you!" and departs. A blind harper enters, craves audience, uncaseth, plays; the drawer, for female privateness' sake, is nodded out, who knowing that whosoever will hit the mark of profit must, like those that shoot in stone-bows,[4] wink with one eye, grows blind o' the right side, and departs. 27 _Caq._ He shall answer for that winking with one eye at the last day. _Mal._ Let him have day[5] till then, and he will wink with both his eyes.