Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)

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                    sh-men for my money: or,
 
            173ges? what an old A
                s
                s
            e is my Mai
                ster; why he may speake 
    
            174
            flaunte taunte as well as French, for I cannot vnder
                stand him.
    
 175
        
                Pisa. If he speake French, thus he will say, Awee awee:
    
            176What, can
                st thou remember it?
    
 177
        
                Frisc. Oh, I haue it now, for I remember my great
    
            178Grandfathers Grandmothers 
                si
            
                sters coosen told mee, that 
    
            179Pigges and French-men, speake one Language, awee awee;I
    
            180am Dogg at this: But what mu
                st he speake else?
    
 181
        
                Pisa. Dutch
         
                Frisc. Let's heere it?
    
 182
        
                Pisa. Haunce butterkin 
                    slowpin.
    
 183
        
                Fris
                . Oh this is nothing, for I can speake perfect Dutch
        
            184when I li
                st.
    
 185
        
                Pisa. Can you, I pray let's heare some?
    
 186
        
                Frisc. Nay I mu
                st haue my mouth full of Meate fir
                st,
    
            187and then you 
                shall heare me grumble it foorth full mouth, 
    
            188as Haunce Butterkin 
                    slowpin frokin: No, I am a 
                simple Dutch
            -
        
            189
            wan: Well, Ile about it.
    
 190
        
                Pisa. Stay 
                sirra, you are too ha
                stie; for hee mu
                st speake
    
            191one Language more.
    
 192
        
                Frisc. More Languages? I tru
                st he 
                shall haue Tongues
    
            193enough for one mouth: But what is the third?
    
 194
        
                Pisa. Italian.
    
 195
        
                Fris
                . Why that is the ea
                sie
                st of all, for I can tell whether
    
            196he haue any Italian in him euen by looking on him.
    
 197
        
                Pisa. Can you so, as how?
    
 198
        
                Fris
                . Marry by these three Poynts: a Wanton Eye,
    
            199Pride in his Apparell, and the Diuell in his Countenance.
    
            200Well, God keepe me from the Diuel in seeking this French
            -
        
            201
            man: But doe you heare mee Mai
                ster, what 
                shall my fel-
        
            202low Anthony doe, it seemes he 
                shall serue for nothing but to
    
            203put Lattin into my young Mi
                s
                s
            tre
                s
                s
            es. 
            Exit Frisco.
    
 204
        
                Pisa. Hence a
                s
                s
            e, hence loggerhead, begon I say.
    
            205And now to you that reades Philosophy,
    
            206Packe from my house, I doe discharge thy seruice,
    
            207And come not neere my dores; for if thou do
                st,
    
            208Ile make thee a publicke example to the world.
    
            Hntho.
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Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)
