_Nick._ I marry he had need so, for tis growne threedbare, [dam008] Twas neuer merry world with vs, since these gentle men came vp. [dam009] _George._ I warrant thee, thou shalt neuer see a Lord weare a ·dam010· leather aperne now a-daies. _Nick._ But sirrha, who comes more beside Iacke Cade? [dam012] _George._ Why theres Dicke the Butcher, and Robin the Sadler, [dam013] and Will that came a wooing to our Nan last Sunday, and Harry and Tom, and Gregory that should haue your Parnill, and a great ·dam015· sort more is come from Rochester, and from Maydstone, and Canterbury, and all the Townes here abouts, and we must all be Lords [dam017] or squires, assoone as Iack Cade is King. _Nicke._ Harke, harke, I here the Drum, they be comming. [dam019] Enter _Iacke Cade_, _Dicke Butcher_, _Robin_, _Will_, _Tom_, _Harry_ and the rest, with long staues. _Cade._ Proclaime silence. ·dam020· _All._ Silence. _Cade._ I Iohn Cade so named for my valiancie. _Dicke._ Or rather for stealing of a Cade of Sprats. _Cade._ My father was a Mortemer. [dam024] _Nicke._ He was an honest man and a good Brick-laier. [dam025] _Cade._ My mother came of the Brases. [dam026] _Will._ She was a Pedlers daughter indeed, and sold many lases. [dam027] _Robin._ And now being not able to occupie her furd packe, She washeth buckes vp and down the country. _Cade._ Therefore I am honourably borne. [dam030] _Harry._ I for the field is honourable, for he was borne [dam031] Vnder a hedge, for his father had no house but the Cage. [dam032] _Cade._ I am able to endure much. _George._ Thats true, I know he can endure any thing, [dam034] For I haue seen him whipt two market daies togither. ·dam035· _Cade._ I feare neither sword nor fire. _Will._ He need not feare the sword, for his coate is of proofe. _Dicke._ But mee thinkes he should feare the fire, being so often burnt in the hand, for stealing of sheepe. _Cade._ Therefore be braue, for your Captain is braue, and vowes ·dam040· reformation: you shall haue seuen half-penny loaues for a penny, and the three hoopt pot, shall haue ten hoopes, and it shall be felony [dam042] to drinke small beere, and if I be king, as king I will be. [dam043] _All._ God saue your maiestie. _Cade._ I thanke you good people, you shall all eate and drinke of ·dam045· my score, and go all in my liuerie, and weele haue no writing, but [dam046] the score & the Tally, and there shalbe no lawes but such as comes [dam047] from my mouth. _Dicke._ We shall haue sore lawes then, for he was thrust into the mouth the other day. ·dam050· _George._ I and stinking law too, for his breath stinks so, that one [dam051] cannot abide it. Enter _Will_ with the Clarke of _Chattam_. _Will._ Oh Captaine a pryze. _Cade._ Whose that Will? [dam054]