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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.
    Haue I not plide my part as I should doe?
    1595 Haru. Twas well, twas well: But now let's ca st about,
    To set these Woodcocks farder from the House,
    And afterwards returne vnto our Girles.
    Walg. Content, content; come, come make ha ste. Exeunt.
    Enter Aluaro.
    1600 Alua. I goe and turne, and dan I come to dis pla she, I
    can no tell waer, and sall doe I can no tell watt, turne by
    the Pumpe; I pumpe it faire.

    Enter Delion.
    Alua. Me alle, ende all & can no come to Croche-friers.
    1605 Enter Frisco.
    Frisc. Oh miserable Blacke-pudding, if I can tell which
    is the way to my Mai sters house, I am a Red-herring, and
    no hone st Gentleman.
    Alua. Who parlato daer?
    1610 Delio. Who be dar? who alle der?
    Frisc. How's this? For my life here are the Strangers.
    Oh that I had the Dutchmans Hose, that I might creepe
    into the Pockets; they'le all three fall vpon me & beat me.
    Alua. Who doe der ander?
    1615 Delio. Amis?
    Frisc. Oh braue, it's no body but M. Pharoo and the
    Frenchman going to our House, on my life: well, Ile haue
    some sport with them, if the Watch hinder me not.
    Who goes there?
    1620 Delio. Who parle der, in wat pla she, in wat streat be you?
    Frisc. Why sir, I can tell where I am; I am in Tower-
    streete: Where a Diuell be you?
    Delio. Io be here in Lede-hall.
    Frisc. In Leaden-hall? I trow I shall meete with you a-
    1625none: in Leaden-hall. What a simple A s s e is this Frenchman.
    Some more of this: Where are you sir?
    Alua. Moy I be here in Van she- streete.
    Frisc.
    G 1
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