Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

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                    sh-men for my money: or,
 
            2110and no Body.
    
 2111
        
                Pisa. Why how now Sonne, what haue your Adamants
    
            2112Drawne you vp so farre, and there left you hanging
    
            2113Twixt Heauen and Earth like Mahomets Sepulchre?
    
 2114
        
                Antho. They did vnkindly, who so ere they were,
    
            2115That plagu'd him here, like Tantalus in Hell,
    
            2116To touch his Lippes like the de
                sired Fruite,
    
            2117And then to snatch it from his gaping Chappes.
    
 2118
        
                Alua. A little farder 
                signor Vandalle, and dan you may
    
            2119put v hed into de windo and ca
                sh de Wen
                sh.
    
 2120
        
                Vand. Ick prey Vader dat you helps de mee, Ick prey
    
            2121Goddie Vader,
    
 2122
        
                Pisa. Helpe you, but how?
        
 2123
        
                Frisc. Cut the Rope.
    
 2124
        
                Antho. Sir, Ile goe in and see,
    
            2125And if I can, Ile let him downe to you.
        
            Exit Anthony.
    
 2126
        
                Pisa. Doe gentle Mouche: Why but here's a ie
                st;
    
            2127They say, high climers haue the greate
                st falles:
    
            2128If you 
                should fall; as how youle doe I know not,
    
            2129Birlady I 
                should doubt me of my Sonne:
    
            2130Pray to the Rope to hold: Art thou there Mouche?
    
 2131
        
            Enter Anthony aboue.
    
 2132
        
                Antho. Yes 
                sir, now you may chuse, whether youle 
                stay
    
            2133till I set him downe, or whether I 
                shall cut him downe?
        
 2134
        
                Frisc. Cut him downe mai
                ster Mowse, cut him downe,
    
            2135And let's see, how hele tumble.
    
 2136
        
                Pisa. Why sauce, who ask'd your counsaile?
    
            2137Let him downe,
    
            2138What, with a Cu
                shion too? why you prouided
    
            2139To lead your life as did Diogines;
    
            2140And for a Tubb, to creepe into a Basket.
    
 2141
        
                Vanda. Ick sall seg v Vader, Ick quame here to your
    
            2142
            Huise and 
                spreake tol de Dochterken.
    
 2143
        
                Frisc. M. Mendall, you are welcome out of the Basket:
    
            2144I smell a Ratt, it was not for nothing, that you lo
                st me.
    
            Vand.
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Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)
