Eastward Hoe
Description:... This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...that kept Your masters worships house, here, in the Friers, For the vacations Fac. Will you be so lowd? Sub. Since, by my meanes, translated suburbcaptayne. Fac. By your meanes, Doctor dog! Sub. Within mans memorie, All this, I speake of. Fac. Why, I pray you, have I Beene countenanc'd by you? or you, by me? Doe but collect, sir, where I met you first. Sub. I doe not heare well. Fac. Not of this, I thinke it. 't ' But I shall put you in mind, sir, at Pie-corner, ' z'j', Taking your meale of steeme in, from cookes stalls, Where, like the father of hunger, you did walke Piteously costive, with your pinch'd-horne-nose, And your complexion, of the Romane wash, Stuck full of black, and melancholique wormes, 30 Like poulder-cornes, shot, at th' Artillerie-yard. Sub. I wish you could advance your voice, a little. Fac. When you went pinn'd up, in the sev-erall rags, Yo' had rak'd, and pick'd from dung-hills, before day, Your feet in mouldie slippers, for your kibes, 35 A felt of rugg, and a thin thredden cloake, That scarce would cover your no-buttocks Sub. So, sir! Fac. When all your alchemy and your algebra, Your mineralls, vegetalls, and animalls, Your conjuring, cosning, and your dosen of trades, 4o Could not relieve your corps, with so much linnen Would make you tinder, but to see a fire; I ga' you count'nance, credit for your coales, 25 Fl and F2 place a period after Pie-corner. Your stills, your glasses, your materialls, Built you a fornace, drew you customers, 45 Advanc'd all your black arts; lent you, beside, A house to practise in Sub. Your masters house? Fac. Where you have studied the more thriv-ing skill Of bawdrie, since. Sub. Yes, in your masters house. You, and the rats, here, kept possession. 50 Make it not strange. I know, yo'..
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