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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.
    Mari. Young mai ster Haruy? for that voyce saith so.

    1870 Enter Laurentia.
    Alua. Speake si ster Matt, is not my true Loue there?
    Math. Ned is.
    Laur. Not mai ster Heigham?
    Heigh. Laurentia, heere.
    1875 Laur. Yfayth thou'rt welcome.
    Heigh. Better cannot Fall.
    Math. Sweete, so art thou.
    Mari. As much to mine.
    Laur. Nay Gentles, welcome all.
    1880 Pisa. Here's cunning harlotries, they feed these off
    With welcome, and kind words, whil st other Lads
    Reuell in that delight they should po s s e s s e:
    Good Girls, I promise you I like you well.
    Mari. Say mai ster Haruy, saw you, as you came,
    1885That Leacher, which my Sire appoynts my man;
    I meane that wanton base Italian,
    That Spani sh -leather spruce companion:
    That anticke Ape trickt vp in fa shion?
    Had the A s s e come, I'de learne him, difference been
    1890Betwixt an Engli sh Gentleman and him.
    Heigh. How would you vse him (sweete)
    If he should come?
    Mari. Nay nothing (sweet) but only wa sh his crowne:
    Why the A s s e wooes in such an amorous key,
    1895That he presumes no Wench should say him nay:
    Hee slauers not his Fingers, wipes his Bill,
    And sweares infayth you shall, infayth I will;
    That I am almo st madd to bide his woeing.
    Heigh. Looke what he said in word, Ile act in doing.
    1900 Walg. Leaue thought of him, for day steales on apace,
    And to our Loues: Will you performe your words;
    All things are ready, and the Parson stands,
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