The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_King._ Go bid Buckingham and Clifford, gather
An Army vp, and meete with the Rebels.
Come Madame, let vs haste to Killingworth. ·dao020·
Come on Lord Say, go thou along with vs,
For feare the Rebell Cade do finde thee out.
_Say._ My innocence my Lord shall pleade for me.
And therfore with your highnesse leaue, ile staie behind.
_King._ Euen as thou wilt my Lord Say. ·dao025·
Come Madame, let vs go. [dao026]
_Exet omnes._
SCENE XVI.
Enter the Lord _Skayles_ vpon the Tower walles walking.
Enter three or foure Citizens below.
_Lord Scayles._ How now, is Iacke Cade slaine? [dap001]
_1. Citizen._ No my Lord, nor likely to be slaine,
For they haue wonne the bridge,
Killing all those that withstand them.
The Lord Mayor craueth ayde of your honor from the Tower, ·dap005·
To defend the Citie from the Rebels.
_Lord Scayles._ Such aide as I can spare, you shall command,
But I am troubled here with them my selfe,
The Rebels haue attempted to win the Tower,
But get you to Smythfield and gather head, ·dap010·
And thither I will send you Mathew Goffe, [dap011]
Fight for your King, your Country, and your liues,
And so farewell, for I must hence againe. [dap013]
_Exet omnes._
SCENE XVII.
Enter _Iacke Cade_ and the rest, and strikes his sword vpon London
stone.
_Cade._ Now is Mortemer Lord of this Citie,
And now sitting vpon London stone, We command,
That the first yeare of our raigne,
The pissing Cundit run nothing but red wine.
And now hence forward, it shall be treason [daq005]
For any that calles me any otherwise then [daq006]
Lord Mortemer.
Enter a souldier.
_Sould._ Iacke Cade, Iacke Cade.
_Cade._ Sounes, knocke him downe. (They kill him. [daq009]
_Dicke._ My Lords, theirs an Army gathered togither [daq010]
Into Smythfield.
_Cade._ Come then, lets go fight with them, [daq012]
But first go on and set London Bridge a fire, [daq013]
And if you can, burne downe the Tower too.
Come lets away. _Exet omnes._ [daq015]
SCENE XVIII.
Alarmes, and then _Mathew Goffe_ is slaine, and all the rest with him.
Then Enter _Iacke Cade_ again, and his company.
_Cade._ So, sirs now go some and pull down the Sauoy, [dar001]
Others to the Innes of the Court, downe with them all. [dar002]
_Dicke._ I haue a sute vnto your Lordship.
_Cade._ _Be_ it a Lordship Dicke, and thou shalt haue it
For that word. ·dar005·
_Dicke._ That we may go burne all the Records,
And that all writing may be put downe,
And nothing vsde but the score and the Tally.
_Cade._ Dicke it shall be so, and henceforward all things shall be
[dar009] in common, and in Cheapeside shall my palphrey go to grasse.
·dar010· Why ist not a miserable thing, that of the skin of an
innocent lamb should parchment be made, & then with a litle blotting
ouer with [dar012] inke, a man should vndo himselfe.
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