_Coc._ The fox grows fat when he is cursed--I'll shave
ye smoother yet. Turd on a tile stone! my lips have a
kind of rheum at this bole. I'll have't--I'll gargalise
my throat with this vintner, and when I have done with
him, spit him out. I'll shark! Conscience does not
repine. Were I to bite an honest gentleman, a poor
grogaran poet, or a penurious parson that had but ten
pigs' tails in a twelvemonth, and, for want of learning, had
but one good stool in a fortnight, I were damn'd beyond
the works of supererogation; but to wring the withers of
my gouty-barm'd spiggod-frigging jumbler of elements,
Mulligrub, I hold it as lawful as sheep-shearing, taking
eggs from hens, caudles from asses, or butter'd shrimps
from horses--they make no use of them, were not provided
for them. And, therefore, worshipful Cocledemoy,
hang toasts! On, in grace and virtue to proceed,
only beware, beware degrees. There be rounds in a
ladder, and knots in a halter; ware carts, hang toasts,
the common council has decreed it! I must draw a lot
for the great goblet. 51
[_Exit._
[62] Old eds. "Garnish."
[63] Bond.
[64] Mulligrub is _good_ as Antonio was _good_ in Shylock's eyes:--"My
meaning in saying he is a _good_ man is to have you understand that he is
sufficient."
[65] Partly gilt,--with part of the work gilt and part left ungilded.
[66] _i.e._, want.--Old eds. "One."
SCENE III.
_A Tavern._
_Enter_ Mistress MULLIGRUB, _and_ LIONEL _with a goblet_.
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