_Yorke._ Please it your Maiestie, this is the day That was appointed for the combating Betweene the Armourer and his man, my Lord, And they are readie when your grace doth please. _King._ Then call them forth, that they may trie their rightes. ·dag040· Enter at one doore the Armourer and his neighbours, drinking to him so much that he is drunken, and he enters with a drum before him, and his staffe with a sand-bag fastened to it, and at the other doore, his man with a drum and sand-bagge, and Prentises drinking to him. _1. Neighbor._ Here neighbor Hornor, I drink to you in a cup of (Sacke. [dag041] And feare not neighbor, you shall do well inough. _2. Neigh._ And here neighbor, heres a cup of Charneco. [dag043] _3. Neigh._ Heres a pot of good double beere, neighbor drinke [dag044] And be merry, and feare not your man. ·dag045· _Armourer._ Let it come, yfaith ile pledge you all, And a figge for Peter. _1. Prentise._ Here Peter I drinke to thee, and be not affeard. [dag048] _2. Pren._ Here Peter, heres a pinte of Claret-wine for thee. [dag049] _3. Pren._ And heres a quart for me, and be merry Peter, ·dag050· And feare not thy maister, fight for credit of the Prentises. _Peter._ I thanke you all, but ile drinke no more, Here Robin, and if I die, here I giue thee my hammer, And Will, thou shalt haue my aperne, and here Tom, Take all the mony that I haue. [dag055] O Lord blesse me, I pray God, for I am neuer able to deale with my maister, he hath learnt so much fence alreadie. [dag057] _Salb._ Come leaue your drinking, and fall to blowes. Sirrha, whats thy name? [dag059] _Pettr._ Peter forsooth. ·dag060· _Salbury._ Peter, what more? _Peter._ _Thumpe_. _Salsbury._ Thumpe, then see that thou thumpe thy maister. _Armour._ Heres to thee neighbour, fill all the pots again, for before [dag064] we fight, looke you, I will tell you my minde, for I am come ·dag065· hither as it were of my mans instigation, to proue my selfe an honest [dag066] man, and Peter a knaue, and so haue at you Peter with downright blowes, as Beuys of South-hampton fell vpon Askapart. _Peter._ Law you now, I told you hees in his fence alreadie. [dag069] Alarmes, and Peter hits him on the head and fels him. _Armou._ Hold Peter, I confesse, Treason, treason. He dies. ·dag070· _Peter._ O God I giue thee praise. He kneeles downe. _Pren._ Ho well done Peter. God saue the King. _King._ Go take hence that Traitor from our sight, For by his death we do perceiue his guilt, And God in iustice hath reuealde to vs, ·dag075· The truth and innocence of this poore fellow, Which he had thought to haue murthered wrongfully. Come fellow, follow vs for thy reward. _Exet omnis._ [dag078] SCENE VIII. Enter Duke _Humphrey_ and his men, in mourning cloakes. _Humph._ Sirrha, whats a clocke? [dah001]