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III. i

Enter Duke Cap: Leiftenaunt Antient
Cap
nottable rogue and thow hast the practique of villany
as perfect as the theori thow art dyed in graine

Duke
try mee in all waters [hange] weare mee in all wethers, yf I Change
Coulor hang mee, but yow talkt of a letter from Court whats
the best newes there

Cap
faith bad enough the good duks dead and aspero elected
in his stead, more hee has receaud our pay and taken the
princes ransomes

Duke
& sent yow yor full shares in em

lief
by tom long the Carrier the deuill a peni Can wee finger yet

Duke
the mores behind yee shall.

Anti
wee haue had the shalls alredy

Duke
& were I as yow I would haue some of the kernells to or I wold

leif
what: he threatens yf wee Complaine to the state heele hang
vs oh hees a damnable polititian.

Duke
his nature right most of yor Cowards are so.

Cap
hee made a way the dutchese & picentio very murtherously

lief
two noble harts & in my Conscience inocent

Cap
and by the sudainnes of the duks death I shrowdy
feare hee had a bloudy hand in that to: but among
many bad actions the worst that euer hee did was when hee
wrought our generalls banishment & thrust himselfe into the place

Duke
the dutchesse brother Iulio was not hee an archtraitor

Cap
hee was an archvilaine that enformd him so; Ime sure the Comons
lost a father the Citty a patron; the soldier a purseberer &
the generall land a good statsman.

anti
and all long of that insinuating Coward aspero.

Duke
and are yow soldiers and Can suffer all this

Cap
how should wee mend yt

Duke
how? had yee the spleene of so many flyes, or the spirrits of so
many bees, youde haue swarmd about his eares in muteny
ere this times: euery viniards lapp ys full of grapes, the feilds
backs redy to breake wt h bearing of Corne the meddowes flow
wt h milke and the gardens wt h honny be yor owne Caruers
serue yor owne turne and sett fire a'the rest

Cap
why now thow speakst like an enuious knaue and a most improvident
foole, the viniards are oure dish when wee are drie wee drinke out
of them the feilds our loafe when wee are hungry wee eat of
them; the villages our Chambers when wee are wounded or sicke
wee sleep in them.

anti
and wouldst thow haue vs like a drunken begger breake our
owne dish, giue the dog our loafe and sett fire of our owne
bedstraw.

Duke
yow haue some reason to spare the Country now I thinke on't
indeed, but the Cytty that spends more in smoake, and throwes
away asmuch in snuffes in one weeke as would maintaine the
army a whoole moneth, rifle that pilladge that

Cap
the Cytty worse and worse. the Cyttyes our mint why
Coyne they money but for vs our wardrop makes ritch ga
rments for vs, our factors & trafique for vs, our millitary
nurcery to traine vp yong soldiers for vs, indeed our
bridchamber to bring their daughters gallant for vs

anti
& wouldst haue vs robb our owne tresury pilladge our owne
warhouses, deflowre our wiues murther our sonnes and rauish
our owne daughters;

Duke
nether Country nor Cytty what say yee to the Court then

Cap
speake but an yll word of that Ile stop thy throat wt h my poniard.

anti
those noble senators that haue spent their youth in seruing

Cap
theire meanes in gracing & there whole age in Concelling

leif
yf any state paralell the soldier tis the Courtier

Cap
right wee wake in our tents they wake in their bedds wee
proiect in their trenches they plott in their studdyes, wee scall
wt h ladders they make breaches wt h letters, in a word wee
spend our bloud to win for them abroad & they waste their braines
to prouide for vs at home

anti
nay more, yf euer wee make acount to bee reuengd of that
villaine aspero; yt must bee by the meanes of the noble & truly
valiant Courtier

leif
asperoes the only man that iniures vs and at him ys our aime

Duke
both loyall & yet valiant I did not thinke to find. such gentle
harts in such rough outsides yt glads mee beyond vtterance

i sold
I say shees mine and I must haue her

ent 2 sold: vict: & Iulio
2 sold
I say shees mine and I will haue her

Iuli
and I say yow must aske mee leaue first

Cap
why how now soldiers whats the busines

i sold
I haue ocasion to vse that mule a litle and the slaue
will not lend mee her.

Iuli
I haue neuer a horse of that Cullor

i sold
and yet I offer money for her hire to.

Iuli
dost take mee for a hackney man.

Duke
I thinke thart scarce so good.

Iuli
do thow hang till I mend then.

Cap
a Churlish slaue, whither art traueling

Iuli
to seeke a needle in a bottle of hey or looke a freind among
my kindred Chuse yow wc h

Cap
they are both hard to find in this age I Can tell thee

Duke
and what firkin of ffoot stuffe ys that wc h scornes to
bee familiar wt h a soldier

Iuli
a true soldier would scorne her wt h his heeles these
nere Came where good soldiers grew yt

Duke
and I pray where grew yow sir. yor mort I presume
Comes a the house of the grincomes aman may read her
parentage in her nose; yor selfe I guese to bee some decaid
bottle man and because yor ale would not stand wt h yow yow
run away from yt some Rorer; broake yor Creddit & yor
Coxcomb both at a blow & now hauing patcht vp yor state
wt h some two ownce & a halfe of antient Caracus, yow
haue brought yor sweet beagle to follow the Camp

Iuli
Ide follow thee to the gallouse first.

Duke
are yee so hott share her amongst yee soldiers and Clap
this saucy knaue i the bilbowes.

Cap
Clap yor neck i the stocks & wee serud yow right wee should
who made yow Iack in ofice among vs, what ere thow art
my freind thart welcome

Iuli
shall see that by yor gifts

Cap
the best I haue ys entertainment & that Ile giue thee
whats shee thy wife

Iuli
my wife no & yet wee tumbled both in a bedstraw

Cap
thy sister, well shee shalbee Cooke & laundrese to our person.

Iuli
shall haue a great place on't

Cap
yf any one [aske] offer thee any violence or so much as an
imodest or vnchast question for the first ofence hee goes
to the bilbowes the second to the furca; alexander wonn
more honor by the noble vsadge of darius wife then hee
did by Conquest of her husband, a president of an invinsible
Couradge & for my part I will imitate yt

vict
spoke like a soldier guard my Chastity
Ile play the Cator go to the neiboring townes
first buy yor meat & after see yt drest

Cap
for my priuat tent only for the Comon hutts let them
prouide for them selues. The world shall know
how ere disgrast by Clownes as much Ciuillity mongst guns as gownes

Exeunt
[Enter a boy drest like Elinor & a doctor
boy
but ys yt possible the mad lord should take mee for the
princes;

doct
his brother has thow seest & ys gone in her name to fetch him
& wert not this moale on thy forhead doth distinguish yee
I should swere thow were]

duke
braue resolution I haue not found
more Iustice among magistrats, lesse pride
amongst the reuerent Clergy, so litle insolence
in priuate famelyes, nor lesse Coruption
in Courts of Iustice, so much loyalty
in myne owne Chamber, greter temperance
Cannot bee in a Cloister to bee short
this Camps a glasse in wc h some riotous Court
may see their errors, yt hath shewd mee some
I neuer saw before, but times are Come
by mild indulgence to that pittied end
they are growne so bad they are ashamd to mend

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