1 Carrier* ^note.

Heigh ho! ant' be not four by the day, I'll be hang'd. Charles' Wain is over the new chimney, and yet our horse not packt. What, ostler?

Ost. [Within.]

Anon, anon.

1 Car.

I pr'ythee, Tom, beat Cutt's saddle; put a few flocks in the point; the poor jade is wrung in the withers, out of all cess.

2 Car.

Pease and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the botts† ^note. This house is turn'd upside-down, since Robin the ostler dy'd.

1 Car.

Poor fellow never joy'd since the price of Oats rose; it was the death of him.

2 Car.

I think this be the most villainous house in all London road, for fleas: I am stung like a tench.

1 Car.

Like a tench! by th' mass, there's ne'er a King in Christendom could be better bit, than I have been, since the first cock.

2 Car.

Why, they will allow us ne'er a jourden, and then we leak in your chimney; and your chamberley breeds fleas like a loach* ^note

1 Car.

What, ostler! come away, and be hang'd, come away!

2 Car.

I have a gammon of bacon and two razes† ^note of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.

1 Car.

'Odsbody! the turkies in my panniers are quite starv'd. What, ostler! a plague on thee! hast thou never an eye in thy head? canst not hear? an't were not as good a deed as drink, to break the pate of thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hang'd! hast no faith in thee?

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 see my gelding in the stable.

1 Car.

Nay, soft, I pray ye; I know a trick worth two of that, i'faith.

Gads.

I pr'ythee, lend me thine.

2 Car.

Ay, when? canst tell? lend me thy lanthorn, quoth a! marry, I'll see 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 up the gentlemen.

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