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fflorish
Enter Howlet in som od disguise
[Howl.
[my yong Lord playes the old devill a mongst vs: has stript]
[my lady stak naked of her Inheritance, & Hooted poore howlet]
[out of his Ivy bush too, has warants against me bout the box]
[of Iewells too, but Ile warrant my self of them, And to blinde]
[Iustice that is too Blinde allready. I am flowne into a new]
[fashion, tho but a scurvy one, I have sene some scarce soe]
[handsome, they say mad grig sells knocking downe ale here]
[abouts, Ile spend one halfe dozen to [spend]/[showe] my new sute &]
[recreate my selfe a litle. byr' leave ho. grig of grig hall wt hin]

[Enter grig:
[yor freind & mr grig Brandwell is wt hin—a mile of a]
[knave at any tyme. yor Busyness wt h me. [yor]/[yow seme a man of] education &]
[one that can accomidate—your Business)—]

[Howl.
[a poore cuntry Artist, a kind of hanger on a yor dangling]
[proffession: now yor name Being so famous amongst vs]
[in the countrye, has drawn me vp to the City onely to tender]
[homage to thy Aplesquireship.]

[grig.
[Art thow a Brother of the cord? [but thy accomodations show it] most hardly wellcome,]
[theres not a ropeman Nozemonger, wt hin the pale of America]
[but grig will vouch safe to [take]/[accomidate] halfe a dozen of ale &]
[Tobacco on for the function sake, Indeed my Anuall tribute]
[wt cuntry man, Accomodate me that now]

[Howl
[Cumberland by birth. Hempshire gave me education]
[fflintshire Infucd my nature, & break neck shire a trade]

[Grig.
[I am thy country man in that kinde once a moneth, I shold]
[be sory else, [here] all this [I accomodate] to old turne over the ferman of the Iury a]
[good substantiall fre holder & yeoma of my wardrop, pledg him]
[& now where is thy residence—]

[Howl.
[my [lay] dwelling [is]/[was] at Mayd stone in Kent I am at this tyme a non resident]

[grig.
[And thats has bene a good thriveing seat, yave rich pippins brother]

Howl
[And so many poore Iohns & cuntry Russettings theyre scarce]
[worth the pareing. I assure yowsr. I have not had to my]
[vailes, a whol{e} shirt or a conducible smock, I sell em to]
[ragmen & for my wollen wardrop I ha made that over by]
[Lease parroll, to a marchant map maker in kent strete.]

grig
[By this can I both Credit & pittie the, for I my self who am write]
[most exquisit, for hang, drawe, & picth vnder poale Againe,]
[haveing my Lunary Tribute, from the triple tree nere padinton]
[The maine traffick & whole venter of Hazards bridge waping]
[Croyden & kingston wt h other By blows & {cro}ss capering]
[Accomodations can hardly live like]
[a man of any good Credit, yet now & then I eat a swann py wt h a]
[bold yeoman. & accomodate a dishe of Tripes wt h a [greazy]/[fatt] seriant,]

[Howl.
[Hears A health to the swan py; I love the yeomo well; but]
[for Trillebub the Seriant twas disputed last day who had]
[the more charitable trade, the Sariant or the Hangma]
[but the Iudgement went of our side, for twas decreed the]
[Sariant brings men Into trouble, & the Hangma putts em out]

grig
By the thomb ring of Iames my Deare Benefactor

accomodate

(Marginal note)

[Truly the Iudge was iust in his censure,]
enter. dampit Huntit, Kenwell.
[but whome ha we here my very good freinds]
[Dampit, Kenwell & Huntit, by the thomb ring of Iames.]
[& penny pot companions wellcome here is a very Loveing brother]
[of the nooze, come vp a purpose to [see me]/[afflict or visit me], pray Accomodat]

Ken
[very ob sequiously wellcome]

Damp.
[most auspitiously I grete yow]

grig.
[I thank yow gentleme, som A gran Iury of freshe canns who accomodats the table,]
[& now Being so hapely drawne to gither let all, vs all hang on the]
[same string of fraternity—]

Howl.
[Like a rope of Onynes by the necks so I may have the cutting of yw downe «or» pilling of yow]

grig.
[& accom̄odate a litle of the Antiquity & estimation of our severall]
[callings, & my Brother of Breakneack, shall wast spend & consume his]
[ripe ripe Iudgmt. wc h of vs 4. is the most necessary & accom̄date member]
[forin a comō wealth]

Damp.
[but will not yor brother be a partiall man]

Howl.
[A martialls man no sr. I belong to the shreve, & will hang]
[my owne mr vpon the file of Execution—]

grig
[If the Law accomodate at Least he may or I ether]

Damp.

[first then for the reputac̄on of Lombards. we derive our antiquity]
[from the Iews, in memory of whome we canot indure]
[to live like good christians, yet for formality sake we go like em]
[& are somtymes taken to be of them, too, by wc h meanes we]
[rise to offices as church wardens & collectors, when indeed]
[we are mere out-side men, & absolute neglectors of the poore]
[[I meane,] & so in tyme we growe to be Mr s. or rather marrers]
[of our parish, Deputyes nay absolute despicers of our ward.]

grig:
[very good accomodation and a proper, moisten yor quaile pipe]

Damp.
[If the rich call vs to accownt, we have a trick to stop there]
[mowt hes wt h a Hartichoake py at a dynner in the guest howse]
[if the poore gromble, or complaine, whip away wt h em, we]
[kepe blew coats in paye for the same purpose]

Howl.
[Yow lashe it out I se then, but indeed Mr Dampit I did not thinke]
[yow had bene so charitable. but sure I am perswaded. that]
[Honest men & fooles are yor best Customers, for the proverb]
[sayes a crafty knave needs no Broaker: now Mr. Decoye.]

Kenw.

damp:
[Wt. are they like [mr]/[brother] Kenwell]

Kenw
[mary they are very like to breake any mans neck at the gallous]
[that vse em, I scapt it hardly my self [next]/[last] Sessionns]

Howl.
[Theres som hope on the next then, a my word a most Int«ri»cate]
[proffession & Ingenerous. now for the honor of deformers.]

Hunt
[know then we are wind Instruments yr country lawyer practises]
[much vpon, our best concord is grownded vpon discords, vpon]
[wc h roning descant, we beget voluntary devision, quarrells]
[causes suits & actions, our faith is wholy Included in the penall]
[statutes & our Relligion grownded vpon writts of Error, we sell or]
[conscyences to purchase our places, & if we chance to vndo, two or]
[thre Lords of the soile, yw must not think it envy but want of good]
[mannor s: one trick we borow too frô the knights oth poast]
[to have our heareings when our ears are lost.]

Howl.
[I mary sr thes are lofty virtues indeed; a com̄o capacity]
[cannot reache e'm. now Brother grig for our function]

grig.
[I shall accomodat in Brefe, first we have the trew virtue]
[off Hospitallitie, for we entertaine all that come to our office of wt. degre]
[age, sex or condicion so ever, next we go beyond all precept]
[counsell or roprhension, for if a thefe, grow so obstinate]
[as the whole bench cannot perswade him to Leave his trade]
[let me but talk wt h hym in to my office a litle, & Ile so accomodate]
[him wt h a trick that I have he shall nere have a mind toot while he Lives after, [we]]

to shut vp all, we

(Marginal note)

[are Mr s. of the Black bagg, into wc h some of all religions]
[& proffessionns drop, we are the period of controversies,]
[the vltmū vale of [contentions,] complements the finis catastrophe, And]
[conclusion, of treasons rapes muders ffellonyes & burglaryes]
[& to accomodat & end all, we are the but end of the lawe]

Howl.
[And that but, hast thow Broacht & drawne downe to the very]
[Lees made our trade, the top & top gallant of all trades

[we can giue the proudest mate of em all the chek. chek him vnder the chin]

(Interlined note)

thow]
[hast wonn the Hempen wreath from 'em all, & ther tis.]

grig
[no I love to accomodat my freinds were it thy self good brother.]

Kenw.
[even share it Betwixt yow, & now to matter of more consequenc[OMITTED]]
[there lives a lusty widow here at walltamstowe, faire rich]
[& Bounte full, now I knoweing my self a man well built]
[outwardly by nature & well to Borrow my Brothers grigs]
[word, accomodated Inwardly by art, am resolvd to woe &]
[confident to win her, if mr Dampit will but furnish me.]

grig.
[Accomodate brother accomodat had bene the more proper word]

Damp.
[I will both fit, furnish accowtre & accomodate the at all]
[points, & prices, & for thy more grace wele all Ride along [wt h the,]/[to countnance the]]

Ken:
[if a poore gentlema may stand so gratious wt h yow]

Damp.
[freindship forbid else, Ile furnish yw all]
[furnish—furnish a horse garnish a table but accomodate a man I saye a«v»ay«n»e]

grig.
[Accomodate me, like a sterne solyer, in a buff Ierkin [wt h]]
[* tercins Bilbo & a Bownceing-Bumbasket—my name alexander Han: dangerfield]
[—captyne of the garis«on» in gvnpowder Ally & bowtice for the rest]

Damp.
[

Da: that will make a bonny nose but

(Marginal note)

Ile fit yw all & my selfe too: in my damask coat. my Bulloigne]
[Breech. my chaine of gold, my thomping thomb ring, my] best
[Brooch by st. Martin set in my steple Crownd Bever]

Ken.
[& yor Brasill staff wt h the fooles head vpont, Limping a litle as]
[if yow had a spice of the gowt]

damp.
[spice quoth yw. my great toes pepperd wt h that a pax ont]

grig.
[very fit accomodation. Indeed tis the flesh brand the devill setts vpon his]
[howshold servants [servants] & vserers espetially—wlld colts]

Dampt.
[[then] has markt me for his owne then, I were his seale at]
[Armes of my great toe, [but come lets furnish for yr Iornye]]

Howl.
[Theres a scarfe to weare it in, & so yow Ioyne hemp & tow totigether]

grig
[very [fit] genuyne accomodation & [a] proper, but for the reckoning who accomdates yt n[OMITTED]]

Damp.
[[tis] twill prove but a Brabling matter in the end & cause we being ffreinds wold be]
[loth to ffall out [for a triffle,] Giue the stranger Leave to pay [it] all]
[Twilbe a meanes to make him know vs better an other tyme]

Howl.
[wt h all my hart gentlemē & thank yw to. & if I mete yow at the widows. I may]
[chance to accomodate yow in yor kindes for this. & so I leave]
[yow to yor good fortunes—adew good brother of the corde.]

grig
[farwell swete frater of the nooze thou showst thy generous educati]
[farwell & be hangd come gentl to horse]