_Mistress Mul._ Gone? God is my witness, I deliver'd
it with no more intention to be cozen'd on't than the
child new born; and yet----
_Mul._ Look to my house! I am haunted with evil
spirits! Hear me; do hear me! If I have not my
goblet again, heaven! I'll to the devil,--I'll to a conjurer.
Look to my house! I'll raise all the wise men
i' the street.
[_Exit._
_Mistress Mul._ Deliver us! What words are these? I
trust in God he is but drunk, sure. 120
_Re-enter_ COCLEDEMOY.
_Coc._ I must have the salmon too; worship[ful] Cocledemoy,
now for the masterpiece. God bless thy neckpiece,
and foutra!--Fair mistress, my master----
_Mistress Mul._ Have I caught you?--what, Roger?
_Coc._ Peace, good mistress. I'll tell you all. A jest;
a very mere jest: your husband only took sport to
fright you:--the bowl's at my master's; and there is
your husband, who sent me in all haste lest you should
be over-frighted with his feigning, to come to dinner to
him. 130
_Mistress Mul._ Praise heaven it is no worse.
_Coc._ And desired me to desire you to send the jole of
salmon before, and yourself to come after to them; my
mistress would be right glad to see you.
_Mistress Mul._ I pray carry it. Now thank them
entirely. Bless me, I was never so out of my skin in
my life! pray thank your mistress most entirely.
_Coc._ So now, figo! worshipful Mall Faugh and I will
munch; cheaters and bawds go together like washing
and wringing. 140
[_Exit._
_Mistress Mul._ Beshrew his heart for his labour, how
everything about[72] me quivers. What, Christian! my
hat and aporn:[73] here, take my sleeves. And how I
tremble! so I'll gossip it now for't, that's certain; here
has been revolutions and false fires indeed.
_Enter_ MULLIGRUB.
_Mul._ Whither now?--what's the matter with you now?--whither
are you a-gadding?
_Mistress Mul._ Come, come, play the fool no more.
Will you go?
_Mul._ Whither, in the rank name of madness--whither?
_Mistress Mul._ Whither?--why to Master Burnish,[74] to
eat the jole of salmon. Lord, how strange you make
it! 153
_Mul._ Why so?--why so?
_Mistress Mul._ Why so? Why, did not you send the
self-same fellow for the jole of salmon that had the cup?
_Mul._ 'Tis well,--'tis very well.
_Mistress Mul._ And will'd me to come and eat it with
you at the goldsmith's?
_Mul._ O, ay, ay, ay,--art in thy right wits? 160
_Mistress Mul._ Do you hear?--make a fool of somebody
else; and you make an ass of me, I'll make an ox
of you,--do ye see?
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