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Bright. Newcut. Plotwell. Rosclap. hanging out the picture of a strange fish.
Br.
Fore Jove the Captaine foxt him rarely.

Ros.
O Sir
He is used to it; this is the fift fish now
That he hath showne thus. One got him twenty pound.

New.
How Rosclap?

Ros.
Why the Captaine kept him, Sir,
A whole weeke drunk, and showd him twice a day.

New.
It could not be like this.

Ros.
Faith I doe grant
This is the strangest fish. yon I have hung
His other picture into th'fields, where some
Say tis an oregrowne Porcpisce; others say
Tis the fish caught in Cheshire; one to whom
The rest agree, said 'twas a Mermaid.

Plotw.
S'light,
Roseclap, shalt have a patent of him. The Birds
Brought from Peru, the hairy Wench, the Camel,
The Elephant, Dromedaries, or Winsor Castle,
The Woman with dead flesh, or She that washes,
Threds needles, writes, dresses her children, playes
Oth' Virginalls with her feet, could never draw
People like this.

New.
O that his Father were
At home to see him.

Plotw.
Or his Mother come,
Who followes strange sights out of Towne, and went
To Branford to a Motion.

Br.
Bid the Captaine hasten,
Or hee'l recover and spoile all.

Ros.
Th'are here.