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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,
    Walg. What, haue I pa st the Pikes: knowes he not Ned?
    I thinke I haue deseru'd his Daughters bed.
    Anth. Tis well, tis well: but this let me reque st,
    You keepe vnknowne, till you be laide to re st:
    2325And then a good hand speed you.
    Walg. Tut, nere feare mee,
    We two abed shall neuer disagree. Exeunt Antho. & Walg.
    Frisc. I haue stood still all this while, and could not
    speake for laughing: Lord what a Dialogue hath there bin
    2330betweene Age and Youth. You do good on her? euen as
    much as my Dutchman will doe on my young Mi stris:
    Mai ster, follow my counsaile; then send for M. Heigham
    to helpe him, for Ile lay my Cappe to two Pence, that hee
    will be a sleepe to morrow at night, when he should goe to
    2335bed to her: Marry for the Italian, he is of an other humor,
    for there'le be no dealings with him, till midnight; for hee
    mu st slauer all the Wenches in the house at parting, or he is
    no body: hee hath been but a little while at our House, yet
    in that small time, hee hath lickt more Grease from our
    2340 Mawdlins lippes, then would haue seru'd London Kitchin-
    stuffe this tweluemonth. Yet for my money, well fare the
    Frenchman, Oh hee is a forward Lad, for heele no sooner
    come from the Church, but heele fly to the Chamber; why
    heele read his Le s s on so often in the day time, that at night
    2345like an apt Scholler, heele be ready to sell his old Booke to
    buye him a new. Oh the generation of Languages that
    our House will bring foorth: why euery Bedd will haue a
    propper speach to himselfe, and haue the Founders name
    written vpon it in faire Cappitall letters, Heere lay, and so
    2350foorth.
    Pisa. Youle be a villaine still: Looke who's at dore?
    Frisc. Nay by the Ma s s e, you are M. Porter, for Ile be
    hang'd if you loose that office, hauing so pretty a morsell
    vnder your keeping: I goe (old huddle) for the be st Nose
    2355at smelling out a Pin-fold, that I know: well, take heede,
    you may happes pick vp Wormes so long, that at length
    some
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