Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

            A Woman will haue her will.
        
            1249haue the braue
                st sport: Oh braue, Ile haue the gallente
                st
        
            1250
            sport: Oh come; now if I can hold behinde, while I may
    
            1251laugh a while, I care not: Ha, ha, ha.
    
 1252
        
            Enter Anthonie.
    
 1253
        
                Antho. Why how now Frisco, why laughe
                st thou so har-
            (tily?>
        
 1254
        
                Frisc. Laugh M. Mouse: Laugh, ha, ha, ha.
    
 1255
        
                Antho. Laugh, why 
                should I laugh? or why art thou so (merry?
         
 1256
        
                Frisc. Oh mai
                ster Mouse, mai
                ster Mouse, it would make
    
            1257any Mouse, Ratte, Catte, or Dogge, laugh to thinke, what
    
            1258
            sport we 
                shall haue at our house sone at night: Ile tell you,
    
            1259all, my young Mi
                stre
                s
                s
            es sent me after M. Heigham and his
    
            1260friendes, to pray them come to our house after my old
    
            1261Mai
                ster was a bed: Now I went, and I went; and I runne,
    
            1262and I went: and whome 
                should I meete, but my Mai
                ster
    
            1263and M. Pisaro and the Strangers; so my Mai
                ster very wor-
        
            1264
            
                shipfully (I mu
                st needs say) examined me whither I went
    
            1265now? I dur
                st not tell him an vntruth, for feare of lying, but
    
            1266told him plainely and hone
                stly mine arrande: Now who
    
            1267would thinke my Mai
                ster had such a mon
                strous plaguie
    
            1268witte, hee was as glad as could be; out of all scotch and
    
            1269notch glad, out of all count glad? and so 
                sirra he bid the
    
            1270three Vplandi
                sh-men come in their 
                steades and woe my
    
            1271young Mi
                stre
                s
                s
            es: Now it made mee so laugh to thinke
    
            1272how they will be cousend, that I could not follow my Mai-
        
            1273
            
                ster: But Ile follow him, I know he is gone to the Tauerne
    
            1274in his merry humor: Now if you will keepe this as secret
    
            1275as I haue done hitherto, wee 
                shall haue the braue
                st sport
    
            1276
            soone as can be. I mu
                st be gone, say nothing.
    
 1277
        
                Antho. Well it is so:
    
            1278And we will haue good sport, or it 
                shall go hard;
    
            1279This mu
                st the Wenches know, or all is marde.
    
            1280
        
            Enter the three Si
                    sters.
    
            1281Harke you Mis. Moll, Mis. Laurentia, Mis. Matt,
    
            1282I haue such newes (my Girles) will make you smile.
    
            Marin.
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