Hot. It cannot chufe but be a noble Plot; And then the Power of Scotland, and of York Wor. So they fhall. Hot. In faith, it is exceedingly well aim'd. Hot. He does, he does; we'll be reveng❜d on him. Wor. Coufin, farewel. No further go in this, Than I by letters fhall direct your course. When time is ripe, which will be fuddenly, To bear our fortunes in our own ftrong arms, North. Farewel, good brother; we shall thrive, I trust. Hot. Uncle, adieu. O let the hours be short, 'Till fields, and blows, and groans applaud our sport! A head is a body of forces. 9 This is a natural defcription of the ftate of mind between thofe that have conferred, and thofe that have received, obliga [Exeunt. tions too great to be fatisfied. That this would be the event of Northumberland's difloyalty was predicted by King Richard in the former play. ACT SCENE I. ACT II. An Inn at Rochefter. Enter a Carrier with a Lanthorn in his Hand. HE I CARRIER. EIGH ho! an't be not four by the day, I'll be hang'd. Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and yet our horfe not packt. What, oftler? Oft. [within.] Anon, anon. 1 Car. I pr'ythee, Tom, beat Cutt's faddle, put a few flocks in the point: the poor jade is wrung in the withers, out of all cefs. Enter another Carrier. 2 Car. Peafe and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the 3 bots: this houfe is turn'd upfide down, fince Robin Oftler dy'd. Car. Poor fellow never joy'd fince the price of oats rofe; it was the death of him 2 Car. I think, this be the moft villainous houfe in all London road for fleas : I am ftung like a Tench. 1 Car. Like a Tench? by th' Mafs, there's ne'er a King in Christendom could be better bit than I have been fince the first cock. 2 Car. Why, they will allow us ne'er a jourden, and then we leak in your chimney and your chamber-lie breeds fleas like a Loach. 1 Car. What, oftler!-Come away, and be hang'd, come away. 2 Car. I have a gammon of bacon, and two razes of ginger to be deliver'd as far as Charing-cross. I Car. 'Odfbody, the Turkies in my panniers are quite ftarv'd. What, oftler! a plague on thee! haft thou never an eye in thy head? canft not hear? an 'twere not as good a deed as drink, to break the pate of thee, I am a very villain.-Come and be hang'dhaft no faith in thee? Enter Gads-hill. Gads. Good-morrow, carriers. What's o'clock? Car. I think, it be two o'clock. Gads. I pr'ythee, lend me thy lanthorn, to fee my gelding in the ftable. 1 Car. Nay, foft, I pray ye; I know a trick worth two of that, i'faith. Gads. I pr'ythee, lend me thine. 2 Car. Ay, when? canft tell?—lend me thy lanthorn, quoth a!-marry, I'll fee thee hang'd first. Gads. Sirrah, carrier, what time do you mean to come to London? 2 Car. Time enough to go to bed with a Candle, I warrant thee.-Come, neighbour Mugges, we'll call 4 like a Loach.] Scotch, a lake. WARBURTON. 5 And tavo Razes of Ginger.] As our Author in feveral Paflages mentions a Race of Ginger, I thought proper to diftinguifh it from the Raze mentioned here. The former fignifies no more than a fingle Root of it; but a Raze is the Indian Term for a Bale of it. THEOBALD. up up the gentlemen; they will along with Company, for [Exeunt Carriers, they have great Charge. SCENE II, Enter Chamberlain. Gads. What, ho, chamberlain ! Gads. That's ev'n as fair, as at hand, quoth the chamberlain; for thou varieft no more from picking of purfes, than giving direction doth from labouring. Thou lay'ft the plot how. 6 Cham. Good-morrow, mafter Gads-bill. It holds current, that I told you yefternight. There's a Franklin, in the wild of Kent, hath brought three hundred marks with him in gold; I heard him tell it to one of his company last night at fupper, a kind of auditor, one that hath abundance of charge too, God knows what. They are up already, and call for eggs and butter. They will away presently. Gads. Sirrah, if they meet not with St. Nicholas' clarks, I'll give thee this neck. Cham. No, I'll none of it; I pr'ythee, keep that for the hangman; for I know theu worfhipp'ft St. Nicholas as truly as a man of falfhood may. Gads. What talk'ft thou to me of the hangman? if I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. For if I hang, old Sir John hangs with me, and thou know'st, he's no ftarveling. Tut, there are other Trojans that thou dream'ft not of, the which, for fport-fake, are content to do the profeffion fome grace; that would, if mat ters should be look'd into, for their own credit fake, make all whole. I am join'd with no foot-land-rakers, no long-ftaff-fix-penny-ftrikers, none of thofe mad Muftachio-purple-hu'd-malt-worms; but with nobility and tranquillity; burgomafters, and great Onefuch as can hold in, fuch as will ftrike fooner yers; 3- I am joined with no foot-land-rakers,] That is, with no padders, no wanderers on foot. No long-faff fix-penny Arikers, no fellows that infeft the road with long ftaffs and knock men down for fixpence. None of thofe mad mustachio purple hued maltworms, none of thefe b fe faces are red with drinking ale. 9 burgo-mafters, and great one-evers.] Perhaps, oneraires, Trustees, or Commiffioners; fays Mr. Pope. But how this Word comes to admit of any fuch Conftruction, I am at a lofs to know. To Mr. Pope's fecond Conjecture, of cunning Men that look sharp and aim well, I have nothing to reply feriously: but chufe to drop it. The Reading which I have fubftituted, I owe to the Friendhip of the ingenious Nicholas Hardinge, Efq. A Moneyer is an Officer of the Mint, which makes Coin and delivers out the King's Money. Moneyers are alfo taken for Banquers, or those that make it their Trade to turn and return Money. Either of thefe Acceptations will admirably fquare with our Author's Context. THEOBALD. This is a very acute and judicious attempt at emendation, and is not undefervedly adopted by Dr Warburton. SirThomas Hanmer reads great owners, not with out equal or greater likelihood of truth. I know not however whether any change is neceffary; Gadshill tells the Chamberlain that he is joined with no mean wretches, but with burgomafters and great ones, or as he terms them in meriment by a cant termination, great - oneyers, or greatone eers, as we fay privateer, auctioneer, circuiteer. This is I fancy the whole of the matter. -fuch as will frike fooner than speak; and speak fooner than DRINK; and DRINK fooner than pray;-] According to the fpecimen given us in this play, of this diffolute gang, we have no reason to think they were lefs realy to drink than speak. Befiles, it is plain, a natural gradation was here intended to be given of their actions, relative to one another. But what has Speaking, drinking and praying to do with one another? We fhould certainly read THINK in both places instead of drink; and then we have a very regular and humourous climax. They will strike oner than speak; and feat fooner than THINK; and THINK jooner than pray. By which laft words is meant, that Thi perhaps they may now and then refect on their crimes, they will never reent of them. The Oxford Editor has dignified this correction by his adoption of it. WARBURTON. than |