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Scene II.

Clench. Medlay. Pan. Scriben.
To them.
Tub Hilts.
Cle.
I wonder, where the Queenes High Constable is!
I veare, they ha' made 'hun away.

Med.
No zure; The Justice
Dare not conzent to that. Hee'll zee 'un forth comming.

Pan.
He must, vor wee can all take corpulent oath,
Wee zaw 'un goe in there.

Scr.
I, upon record!
The Clock dropt twelve at Maribone.

Med.
You are right, D'oge!
Zet downe to a minute, now 'tis a'most vowre.

Cle.
Here comes Squire Tub.

Scr.
And's Governour, Mr. Basket.
Hilts, doe you know 'hun, a valiant wise vellow!
Az tall a man on his hands, as goes on veet.
Blesse you Mass' Basket.

Hil.
Thanke you good D'oge.

Tub.
who's that?

Hil.
D'oge Scriben, the great Writer Sir of Chalcot.

Tub.
And, who the rest?

Hil.
The wisest heads o' the hundred.
Medlay the Ioyner, Head-borough of Islington,
Pan of Belsize, and Clench the Leach of Hamsted.
The High Constables Counsell, here of Finsbury.

Tub.
Prezent me to 'hem, Hilts, Squire Tub of Totten.

Hil.
Wise men of Finsbury: make place for a Squire,
I bring to your acquaintance, Tub of Totten.
Squire Tub, my Master, loves all men of vertue.
And longs (az one would zay) till he be one on you.

Cle.
His worship's wel'cun to our company:
Would't were wiser for 'hun.

Pan.
Here be some on us,
Are call'd the witty men, over a hundred;

Scr.
And zome a thousand, when the Muster day comes.

Tub.
I long (as my man Hilts said, and my Governour)
To be adopt in your society.
Can any man make a Masque here i' this company?

Pan.
A Masque, what's that?

Scr.
A mumming, or a shew.
With vizards, and fine clothes.

Cle.
A disguise, neighbour,
Is the true word: There stands the man, can do't Sir.
Medlay the Joyner, In-and-In of Islington,
The onely man at a disguize in Midlesex.

Tub.
But who shall write it?

Hil.
Scriben, the great Writer.

Scr.
Hee'll do't alone Sir, He will joyne with no man:
Though he be a Joyner, in designe he cals it.
He must be sole Inventer: In-and-In.
Drawes with no other in's project, hee'll tell you,
It cannot else be feazeable, or conduce:
Those are his ruling words? Pleaze you to heare 'hun?

Tub.
Yes Mr. In-and-In, I have heard of you;

Med.
I can doe nothing, I.

Cle.
Hee can doe all Sir.

Med.
They'll tell you so.

Tub.
I'ld have a toy presented,
A Tale of a Tub, a storie of my selfe,
You can expresse a Tub.

Med.
If it conduce
To the designe, what ere is feazeable:
I can expresse a Wash-house (If need be)
With a whole pedigree of Tubs.

Tub.
No, one
Will be enough to note our name, and family:
Squire Tub of Totten, and to shew my adventures
This very day. I'ld have it in Tubs-Hall,
At Totten-Court, my Ladie Mothers house,
My house indeed, for I am heire to it.

Med.
If I might see the place, and had survey'd it;
I could say more: For all Invention, Sir,
Comes by degrees, and on the view of nature;
A world of things, concurre to the designe,
Which make it feazible, if Art conduce.

Tub.
You say well, witty Mr. In-and-In.
How long ha' you studied Ingine?

Med.
Since I first
Ioyn'd, or did in-lay in wit, some vorty yeare.

Tub.
A pretty time! Basket, goe you and waite
On Master In-and-In to Totten-Court,
And all the other wise Masters; shew 'hem the Hall:
And taste the language of the buttery to 'hem;
Let 'hem see all the Tubs about the house,
That can raise matter, till I come—which shall be
Within an houre at least.

Cle.
It will be glorious,
If In-and-In will undertake it, Sir:
He has a monstrous medlay wit o' his owne.

Tub.
Spare for no cost, either in boords, or hoops,
To architect your Tub: Ha' you nere a Cooper
At London call'd Vitruvius? send for him;
Or old Iohn Haywood, call him to you, to helpe.

Scr.
He scornes the motion, trust to him alone.