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James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].

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SCENE VI. The Same. Cannon Street. Enter Jack Cade, and his Followers. He strikes his Staff on London-stone.

Cade.

Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here, sitting upon London-stone, I charge and command, that, of the city's cost, the pissing-conduit run nothing but claret¹ ^note

wine this first year of our

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reign. And now, henceforward, it shall be treason for any that calls me other than—lord Mortimer.

Enter a Soldier, running.

Sold.

Jack Cade! Jack Cade!

Cade.

Knock him down there² ^note.

[They kill him.

&mast;Smith.

&mast;If this fellow be wise, he'll never call &mast;you Jack Cade more; I think, he hath a very &mast;fair warning.

Dick.

My lord, there's an army gathered together in Smithfield.

Cade.

Come then, let's go fight with them: But, first, go and set London-bridge on fire³ ^note; and, if

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you can, burn down the Tower too. Come, let's away.

[Exeunt.

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