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Enter Martiall wt h watchmen:.Ma:
Come on my maisters you know yor charge saving the
doctor and the ranger, wc h well you may distinguish
by their habittes let noe man passe
1.
if any man passe here they had better passe the
pikes
2:
weele shew 'em billes of or handes to their contrary
Ma:
egresse and regresse wee to them allow
3.
weele charge wt h 'em nay weele discharge vpon
them for making any passage this way
Ma:
the night growes old and my attendance on the duke
must not be wanting, be carefull and remaine
respectiue in or ffavour
Exit
4:
I warrant yee my lord, dee heare my masters, wee
are to stay comprehend, and retach, all vagrum
men, that shall set foote vpon this bridge this
night more then the doctor and the ranger
3.
true neighbor
Enter prince disguisd Clo: & galeas
pr:
what am I fitted well
Cl:
exlently mr, on this side yee looke like a man of
art, & on this like a Madman,
pr:
how like a Madman
Cl:
like a woodman I should say
ga:
are wee wel fitted for watchman
Cl:
rarely, I'm as perfect in the part of a watchman
as hee that has seru'd seauen yeare prentice
for 3'd a night to a bill and a lanthorne
pr:
well you two shift in amongst 'em, o noble galeas
this plott was thine, if I speed well be thine
the praise
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wee are gone my lord
pr:
away
ga:
you know yor que
Cl:
or elce Ile giue you leaue to eat mee, how now
neighbors,
1:
stand who goes there,
Cl:
a ffrend a ffrend, the martiall sent vs to resist
yee heare in the watch
2:
o welcome welcome seat yor selues
pr:
hum hum him
om:
who goes there
Cl:
the doctor let him passe, hee's free at all houres
pr:
hum hum
ga:
stand, o tis the ranger, my mr s hee's free
pr
may my returne as prosperous proue and then
I shall applaud thee galeas.
Clo:
dee heare my mr s methinkes the wind blowes very
cold on this side, would you would chaunge place«s»
wt h vs for «an» houre or t«w»o
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letes accept the motion neighbours for I doe hold
this to be the colder side
Cl:
Come on neighbors.
Enter prince & Maid
pr.
here seat thee loue before the Castle gate
out I haue brought thee now could wee but
scape these
Maid
o thattes impossible
pr:
nothing is impossible my loue, stay here till I
releeue you
Maid
I'm yor s faire prince wholly and solly
pr:
hum hum
Cl:
who goes there o tis the doctor has bene
casting of the mades water let him passe
pr:
hum hum
ga:
who goes there
pr:
a ffrend a ffrend
ga:
the rangers come back againe
pr
good night my ffrendes
2:
good night honest ranger
Cl:
dee heare my mr s, you on the tother side the
way how many has past by since wee set
the watch, I would laugh and they could not tell
thattes an easy question none but the ranger
Cl:
ha ha ha ha none but the doctor they would say
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doctor what doctor
3:
why none but the doctor past by here
2:
wee say none but the ranger
Cl:
wee say none but the doctor
4:
the doctor hee lies in's throate that saies any
doctor went by here
Cl:
how lies downe wt h em
ga:
downe wt h 'em downe wt h 'em
Enter Martiall
Ma:
how now what stirre's this part knaues
2:
wee say the doctor
3.
the doctor agen downe wt h 'em
Ma:
part knaues on yor aleageaunce, what doctor
what ranger
2:
wee say the doctor & none but hee
3.
wee the doctor and none but hee
Enter duke
du:
what vprore's this that frights vs fro' or rest
and fills this place wt h tumult
Ma
a straunge quarrell, these men affirme the doc[OMITTED]
past the bridge, and none but hee, these that t[OMITTED]
ranger did and none but hee, in
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du:
some plott to free the prissoner & cheat vs
Martiall goe see if shee be safe in hold
and know if Lodwick can be found in court
Ma:
I shall doe both my lord
4:
wee haue pepper'd some of e'm here's 2 of 'em
in Erebus by this time that owe these billes
and gownes
du:
ha habittes more then knowne the parties fledd
it hath begot new ffeare and greater doubt
Martiall how'es all wt hin
Ma:
my lord I found the prisson doores wide ope
the virgin fledd
du:
is Lodwick to be found in Court
Ma:
wee made search but hee's noe where to be found
du:
a plott to free the prissoner and cheat vs
Ma.
villeines was this the charge I imposd on you
is this yor care and trust
du:
condemne not them for by such subtelties
wee in or heighte of care may be ore reach'd
tho wee should take the charge vpon or selues
but shall they scape vs thus.
Ma:
best send poastes after them, and ransack euery
place to find them out
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it shalbe soe, & what is here begot
shallstand immou'd, martiall take you the manage
of the state, [detaine] the ranger summon hither
and for knowne causes formerly decreed
detaine him prissoner, if them wee take they bleed
Exeunt oes̄
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