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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)

    Engli sh-men for my money: or,
    Shall not I come to my friend mai ster Pisar Hoose?
    1560 Heigh. Yes and to mai ster Pisaros Shoes too, if hee or
    they were here.
    Frisc. Why my groute friend, M. Pisaro doth dwel here.
    Heigh. Sirra, you lye, heere dwells no body but I, that
    haue dwelt here this one & forty yeares, and sold Gla s s es.
    1565 Walg. Lye farder, one and fi fty at the lea st.
    Fris .Hoo, hoo, hoo; do you giue the Gentleman the ly?
    Haru. I sir, and will giue you a licke of my Cudgell, if
    yee stay long and trouble the whole streete with your
    bawling: hence dolt, and goe seeke M. Pisaros House.
    1570 Frisc. Goe seeke M. Pisaros House;
    Where shall I goe seeke it?
    Hegh. Why, you shall goe seeke it where it is.
    Frisc. That is here in Crodched-friers.
    Heigh. How Loger-head, is Croched-friers heere?
    1575I thought you were some such drunken A s s e,
    That come to seeke Croched-friers in Tower- streete:
    But get you along on your left hand, and be hang'd;
    You haue kept me out of my Bedd with your bangling,
    A good while longer then I would haue been.
    1580 Frisc. Ah, ah, How is this? Is not this Croched-friers?
    Tell mee, Ile hold a Crowne they gaue me so much Wine
    at the Tauerne, that I am druncke, and know not ont.
    Haru. My Dutchman's out his Compa s s & his Card;
    Hee's reckning what Winde hath droue him hither:
    1585Ile sweare hee thinkes neuer to see Pisaros.
    Frisc. Nay tis so, I am sure druncke; Soft let mee see,
    what was I about? Oh now I haue it, I mu st goe to my
    Mai sters house and counterfeite the Dutchman, and get
    my young Mi stre s s e: well, and I mu st turne on my left
    1590hand, for I haue forgot the way quite and cleane:
    Fare de well good friend, I am a siimple Dutchman I.
    Exit Frisco.
    Heigh.Faire weather after you. And now my Laddes,
    Haue
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