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Scena 2a.

Thunder
Enter 2 ffishermen.
1 ffisher:
The trobled Sea is yet scarce navigable
synce the last tempest yet wee that only lyv
by our owne sweett and laboure, nor can eate,
beeffore wee ffetch our ffoode out off the Sea,
must venter thoughe wth danger: or bee suer
wth empty stomakes. go vnsupt to bedd

2 ffisher.
and so it often happens.

1 ffisher:
see the Cordadge,
bee stronge and tight the netts wth all theire stringes.
plometts and corks well plac't ffor hookes and bates,
This daye wee shall have little vse off them,
the winds still hye beare but a gentle Sayle,
and hazard not the channell, Keepe alonge,
close by the shoare, the rocks will shelter's, vs:
and may perhapps afford vs. lobsters praunes.
shrimps crabbes and such lyke shell ffishe [heare wee ma]«y»
[hunt the Sea vrchin and wth saffety too,]
[theres many holde him ffor a daynty[y] ffishe]
[hee sells well in the Markett, thus poore men]
[are fforct too, wth a slendder competens,]
[a little to prolonge a wretched lyffe,]

2 ffisher
com then lett vs weighe anchor and aboord
the soonne is vpp allredy,

Enter the clowne.
Clowne.
Iff ever man weare madd then suer my mayster is not
well in his witts and all about this wenshe, heres such
sendinge and seekinge hurringe and postinge and all
to no purpose, I have, nwe som thyrty arrands to
deliver, [and knwe] and knwe not to whome, nor where
to what nor to wch place ffyrst. hee's gone on to the Citty
and sent mee back to the villadge,: [his ffrends goone] [another travels]
[one waye hee another, and I a thyrd, contrary ffrom]
[them boathe, hee canott beeleeve his inquiry to bee wel[OMITTED]]
[doone but hee must send mee to doo't over againe,]
[I have askt all I mett and demanded off all I have seen]
[but ffor ought I can perceeve all to no purpose, but]
[[I] but [can vnderstand off no such people], but [but] what are thes«e»]
[though they have slipt vs, no creature shall slippe mee.]
these should bee ffishermen good morrowe you sea theeves

1 ffisher,
you call vs theives that may proove honester,
then many goe ffor trewe men on the shore,

Clow.
sawe you not passe this waye an ould bald ffellowe [Crookt] huntch
shoolderd crooked nosd beetle browd, wth a visadge [lowring]
lowringe and a looke skoolinge, one that heaven hates and
every good man abhores. a cheatinge raskall and an vgly slave,
did none such passe you

1 ffisher,
Iff such a one as you describe you Inquire ffor,
mee thinks my ffrend thou hast mistooke thy way.
thou shooldst have sought him at the gallowes rather
there such are soonest ffownd

Clowne.
ber lady wertt answered, off a playne, ffellowe, [and] but that you may
knwe him the better, hee had too handsom sweete smugge
ffact lasses in his companye,

2 ffisher.
And ffor such creatures y'had best search the stewes.
i th Citty: this our villadge yeilds none such,
this ffellowe doth butt fflowte vs, letts aboard

1 ffisher,
In quire ffor vs off wenshes,? tush wee ffishe
ffor no such pere winkles. ffare well fflesh-monger,

Ex: fish
Clowne,
no woonder these ffellowes pretend to bee witty, ffor
vnderstandinge so manye have lost there witts (as my m[OMITTED]ste[OMITTED]
they have ffisht ffor it and in som drawenett or other
have caught it but where might these lost shrewes bee,
I suspect this pestifferous Ie vous prie hathe putt som
slovenly tricke or other to cheate my mayster, boathe off
his ware and mony,

Enter Scribonia wth an empty pale,—[to ye Clow]
Scribonia.
Thus beeinge chered wth warmth and change off clothes
wth all such Comfforts as the cloyster yeilds.
I am dyrected to a neighbours by
ffor water to reffreshe and wash our selves,
And this shoold bee the howse,

Clowne
what not Scribonia, one off the fflock thats missinge,

Scribo:
oh sweete Iaques
where is your noble master,

Clowne
nay sweete rogue where is his bewteous mystresse,

Scrib:
Heare wth in,
In this place Ioyninge to the monastery

Clowne.
and mildewe too

Scrib:
rott on that villeine no,

Clowne.
hee promist to [meete] bringe you too alonge and meete
wth my master and som othere off his ffrends att supper,

Scrib:
can such men ever ffalse vnto theire god
keepe ffythe wth men att any tyme,

Clowne.
but stye stye there's one riddle I canott expownd, howe
com you so suddenly to lepp out off a howse off [rog]
roguery in to a howse off religion, ffrom a stewes to
a cloyster ffrom beastlines to blessed-nes, [and ffrom a]
and from a Sacriligious place to a sanctuary

Scrib:
Such was the grace heaven lent vs. who ffrom perill
danger off lyffe the extreamst off all extreames.
hathe brought vs to the happy patronadge,
off this most reverent abbott,

Clowne,
what dangers what extreames.

Scrib.
ffrom the Seas ffury, drowninge, ffor last night.
our shipp was splitt wee cast vpon these rockes.

Clowne
heyd a a Iest in deede, shipp-wrack by land.
I perceive you tooke the woodden waggen, ffor a
shipp [and] the violant rayne ffor the Sea, and bycause
som one off the wheeles broake, and you cast into
som water plash, you though't the shipp had
splitt and you had bin in danger off drowninge,

Scrib.
are you then ignorant howe late in the even
wth purpose to make better sale off vs,
and to deffrawde' thy master he shipt vs
wth all the gold and Iewells that hee had
all wch save wee' are perisht

Clowne.
but [that Canker] that caterpiller that ould Catamitinge,
Canker worme whats become off him,

Scrib.
Dead I hope, wth drinkinge off salt-water,

Clowne.
I would all off his proffession had pledgd him the
same healthe, but howe doth palestra, take this

Scrib.
gladd to bee ridd off suche a slavery
yet sadly weepinge, ffor her Casketts lost,
that wch Included ample testimony
bothe off her name and parents.

Clowne.
all her Ill luck go wth it [Il ffyrst in and see her]
[by cause I will bee suer tis shee, oh mercury that]
[I had thy winges tyde to my heeles]. here will bee.
simple newes to bringe, to my mayster when hee
hears shee hathe bin shipp-wracke, Il make him
beeleeve I went a ffishinge ffor her to Sea and
eather drewe her a shore in my nett, or batinge
my hooke strooke her, and drewe her vpp by the
Ent: Godfr:
gills wth myne angle, make you hast ffor Il sty till you come back.

Scrib.
But this delaye' had all most putt mee ffrom
what I was sent about, yes this the place,
Knocke:
Enter godfr frey
who es that that offers violens to these gates.
that never yet offended. what want you

Scrib:
that wch the earth [what want you]
dothe fforbidd none but freely yeilds to all,
A little ffayre springe water

godff
one off those guirles
beelyke this morninge shipp-wrackt, and nowe Scapt.
a dainty peece, off maydes ffleshe such sweete bitts.
are not heare often swallowed. and my mouth
waters at this ffine morsell,

Scrib.
water ffrend
tis that I crave ffor [god]-heaven-sake,

godff
wee have none
off guift vnlesse you by't.

Scribon
will you sell that
the earthe affoords you gratis and sett pryse
off what a ffoe woold yeild an enemy,

godff
not prty lasse so thou'lt afford mee that,
ffreely and wthout bargen, wch not only
one ffrend will to another but oft tymes
a stranger to a stranger

Scrib:
what's that prthee,

godffry.
only a kisse sweete wensh,

Scrib.
ye are too ffamiliar
Il by none at that, pryse, or ffill my pale.
or Il returne back empty,

godff
well ffor once
I will not greatly' stand out yet in hope,
that what att our ffyrst meetinge you'l not grant
you'l not denye at partinge, reatch thy pale,

Scribo
quick as you love mee,

godff
as you love mee right.
who ever lovd that lov'd not att ffyrst sight
the poets exellent sayinge,

Scrib:
what shall I saye or howe shall I excuse,
this my longe staye: but nwe I cast myne eyes
back on the roughe yet vnappeased Seas:
Ent: Myldew & Sarlaboyes to her
I quake' to thinke vpon our dangers: past
[but see the ffeare-ffull obiect off a death]
[more menacinge and affright-ffull. a Sea monster]
[cast ffrom the deepes, to swallowe vs a shore.]
[(Exit.]
[malevolent ffate and black desaster still]
[pursues vs to all places. but off all]
[this this the greatest, and to this one Compard]
[all that are past but triffles. oh that grand Master]
[off mechall lusts. that bulke off brothelree.]
[that stillary off all inffectious sinnes.]
[hathe scapt the wrack, and wth his ffellowe guest]
[and part ner in corruption, make'[s] this way,]
[and [whethe] wth no tarde pace. where shall I hyde mee,]
[[or] whether shall I ffly I'l to palestra back.]
[and wth this sadd relation kill her quite.]
[thats scarce recovered. rather you hy powers]
[then to prolonge our greiffes shorten our howers.]

[Enter godffrey wth water]
[godff]
[where is my daynty damosella? where?]
[mee thought the water mett mee the halff way]
[and lept vpp ffull three stepps to [ffill] meete my pale,]
[this tis when as a man goes willingly]
[about his busines: howe ffresh a kisse will tast]
[ffrom her whose lipps and every part beesydes]
[ffrom head to toe [have bin] have bin so lately duckt.]
[[duckt] and rincht in [the] salt water, wheres my sweete?]
[not heare, no where, why hoe my whytinge mopp]
[late scapt ffrom ffeedinge haddocks. ha what gone.]
[nay then go thou too that shee sent mee ffor]
[to him that next shall ffind thee,. yet not so,]
[this learned pale Instructs mee by these letters.]
[that it beelonges vnto this monastery,]
[and iff it shoold bee' lost by my deffawlt]
[I [should b[illeg.]] may bee chardgd wth theft or Sacrilidge,]
[no Il delivere't to the owner's suer, and this the place]
[and not detein't ffor ffeare t'bee to my cost.]
[though boath my kisse and all my paynes bee lost.]