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Scœne. 2.

Enter Vncle, servants and tenants with lights, as pursuing them.
Vnc.
Come, wing your hasts: I'le sweeten all your labours
With large rewards: doe but recover them,
I'le ease your rents; exact no costly customes;
Quarrell no more about your commons title.
Good neighbours forward: London's not farre off.

1 Ten.
'Tis so farre off, that I cannot see it.

Vncle.
The day will soone discover it.

2 Ten.
That day is sure a notable informer; yet I believe
He spyes more bad then he mends.

Vncle.
Come, follow me this way.

Exit with his seruants.
1 Ten.

Yes, we will follow; but at some wiser distance:
Stay neighbour let him goe. Shall wee rob our carcasses of
sleepe all night, that have beene sufficiently tyr'd with the
dayes toyles, for his reward? what will that be thinke you?
a Christmas dinner; with a Chine of his great Oxe that dy'd
at watering of the blayne.

2 Ten.
You say well neighbour:
And a stale hare with a great pudding in her belly.

1 Ten.

And the discourse of his Worships hunting her:
how many doubles shee made; and mock't his Worships
hope of a better dinner so long, till hee thought in his conscience
she was a Lancashire Witch.

2 Ten.

Yes neighbour, and a choller of Brawne that was
fatten'd with stale porredge.

1 Ten.

And a goose that broke her necke, creeping
through the hedge into the Parsons stubble.

2 Ten.

No neighbour, let the young couple goe, and
much joy go with them. Let us take up our rests in this thicket,
or the next house; for I am as sleepy as if I had eaten
a Puppie.

1 Ten.

How, eat a Puppie!

2 Ten.

Yes, a Puppie; I heard our Landlords Carter
speake it last Whitsontide in a Play.

1 Ten.

And I am as drousie as a Constable at midnight.

2 Ten.

Why then resolv'd: 'twill be day presently: let's put
out the candle, and go to bed, and farewel Landlord.

Exeunt.