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  • Title: Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)
  • Editor: Natalie Aldred
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    Author: William Haughton
    Editor: Natalie Aldred
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    Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

    A Woman will haue her will.
    Come to your windowes.
    Mari. Doe so good Mai ster.
    1320 Antho. Peace, begon, for this our sport,
    Some body soone will moorne. Exeunt.

    Enter Pisaro.
    Pisa. How fauourable Heauen and Earth is seene,
    To grace the mirthfull complot that is laide,
    1325Nights Candles burne obscure, and the pale Moone
    Fauouring our drift, lyes buried in a Cloude:
    I can but smile to see the simple Girles,
    Hoping to haue their sweete-hearts here to night,
    Tickled with extreame ioy, laugh in my face:
    1330But when they finde, the Strangers in their steades,
    Theyle change their note, and sing an other song.
    Where be these Girles heere? what, to bed, to bed:
    Mawdlin make fa st the Dores, rake vp the Fire;
    Gods me, tis nine a clocke, harke Bow-bell rings. Knocke.
    1335Some looke downe below, and see who knockes:
    And harke you Girles, settle your hearts at re st,
    And full resolue you, that to morrow morne,
    You mu st be wedd to such as I preferre;
    I meane Aluaro and his other friendes:
    1340Let me no more be troubled with your nayes.
    You shall doe what Ile haue, and so resolue.
    Enter Moore.
    Welcome M. Moore, welcome,
    What winde a gods name driues you foorth so late?
    1345 Moore. Fayth sir, I am come to trouble you,
    My wife this present night is brought to bed.
    Pisa. To bed, and what hath God sent you?
    Moor. A iolly Girle, sir.
    Pisa. And God ble s s e her: But what's your will sir?
    1350 Moor. Fayth sir, my house being full of Friends,
    Such as (I thanke them), came to see my wife?
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