[Doll.]

whether wilt thou hale me?

[Bard.]

whether I please, thou art my prize and I pleade purchase of thee

[Doll.]

Purchase of me? away ye Rascall, I am an honest plaine Carpenters wife and thoughe I haue no beautie to like a husband yet what soeuer is mine scor nes to stoupe to a straunger: hand off then when I bid thee.

[Bard.]

Goe with me quietly, or Ile compell thee.

[Doll.]

Compell me ye dogges face? thou thinkst thou hast the Goldsmithes ^note wife in hand, whom thou enticedst from her husband with all his plate, and when

thou turndst her home to him againe, madste him (like an Asse) pay for his wifes boorde.

Bard.

^noteSo will I make thy husband too, if please me

[Doll.]

Heere he comes him selfe, tell him so if thou darste.

Caue.

ffollowe me no further, I say thou shalt not haue them.

Wil.

I bought them in Cheapeside, and paide my monie for them.

Sher.

He did Sir indeed, and you offer him wrong, bothe to take them from him, and not restore him his monie neither.

Caue.

If he paid for them, let it suffise that I possesse them, Beefe and brewes may serue such hindes, are Piggions meate for a coorse Carpenter?

Lin.

^note[It is hard when Englishmens pacience must be thus ietted on by straungers] [and they not dare to reuendge their owne wrongs.]

Geo.

Lincolne, lets beate them downe, and beare no more of these abuses.

Lin.

we may not Betts, be pacient and heare more.

Doll

^{note note}[How now husband? what, one straunger take thy food from thee, and another] [thy wife? bir Lady flesh and blood I thinke can hardly brooke that.]

Lin.

^note[will this geere neuer be otherwise? must these wrongs be thus endured?]

Geo.

[let vs step in, and help to reuendge their iniurie.]

Bard.

what art thou that talkest of reuendge? my Lord Ambassadour shall once more make your Maior haue a check, if he punishe thee not for this saucie presumption

Wil. ^note

Indeed my Lord Maior, on the Ambassadours complainte, sent me to Newgate one day, because (against my will) I tooke the wall of a straunger. you may doo any thing, the Goldsmith's wife, and mine now must be at your c&obar;maundment. ^note

Geo.

The more pacient fooles are ye bothe to suffer it.

Bard.

Suffer it? mend it thou or he if ye can or dare, I tell thee fellowe, and she were the Maior of Londons wife, had I her once in my possession, I would keep her in spite of him that durst say nay.

Geo.

I tell thee ^note Lombard, these wordes should cost thy best cappe, were I not curbd by dutie and obedience. The Maior of Londons wife? Oh God, shall it be thus?

Doll.

why Bettes, am not I as deare to my husband, as my Lord Maiors wife to him, and wilt ^note [he] thou ^note so neglectly suffer [his] thine ^note owne shame? Hands off proude stranger ^note or
^{note note}him that bought me, if mens milkie harts dare not strike a straunger, yet wo men will beate them downe, ere they beare these abuses. ^note

Bard.

Mistresse, I say you shall along with me.

Doll. to Caueler.

Touche not Doll Williamson, least she lay thee along on Gods deare earthe. And you Sir, that allow such coorse cates to Carpenters, whilste Pidgions which they pay for, must serue your daintie appetite: deliuer them back to my husband again or Ile call so many women to myne assistance, ^note as weele not leaue one inche vntorne of thee. If our husbands must be brideled by lawe, and forced to beare your wrongs, their wiues will be a little lawelesse, and soundly beate ye.

Caue.

Come away de Bard, and let vs goe complaine to my Lord Ambassadour

Doll.

I, goe, and send him among vs, and weele giue him his welcome too. I am ashamed that free borne Englishmen, hauing beatten straungers within their owne boun ^note
should thus be brau'de and abusde by them at home.

Sher.

It is not our lack of courage in the cause, but the strict obedience that we are bound too: I am the Goldsmith whose wrongs you talkte of, but how to redresse yours or mine owne, is a matter beyond all our abilities.

Lin.

Not so, not so my good freends, I, though a meane man, a Broaker by profession and namd ^note Iohn Lincolne, haue long time winckt ^note at these vilde ennormitees ^note with mighty impacience, and, as these two bretheren heere (Betses by name) can witnesse with losse of mine owne liffe would gladly remedie them

Geo.

And he is in a good forwardnesse I tell ye, if all hit right.

Doll.

As how, I pre thee? tell it to Doll Williamson.

Lin.

^noteyou knowe the Spittle Sermons begin the next weeke, I haue drawn a
of our wrongs, and the straungers insolencies.

Geo.

which he meanes the preachers shall there openly publishe in the Pulpit

Wil.

Oh but that they would, yfaith it would tickle our straungers thorowly

Doll.

^noteI, and if you men durst not vndertake it before God we women

an honest woman from her husband why it is intollerable

Sher.

^noteBut how finde ye the preachers affected to

Lin.

M^r doctor standish

^note
forme it and doubts not but happie successe will ensu
our wrongs ^{note note note}you shall perceiue ther's no hurt in the Bill, heer's a copie of it, I pray ye, heare it.

All

with all our harts, for Gods sake read it

Lin reads ^note

^noteto you all the worshipfull Lords and maisters of this Cittie, that will take com passion ^note ouer the poore people your neighbours, and also of the greate importable hurts, losses and hinderaunces, wherof proceedeth extreame pouertie to all the Kings subiects, that inhabite within this Cittie and subburbs of the same. ffor so it is that Aliens and straungers eate the bread from the fatherlesse children, and take the liuing from all the Artificers, and the entercourse from all Merchants wherby pouertie is so much encreased, that euery man bewayleth the miserie of other, for crafts men be brought to beggerie, and Merchants to needines. wherfore, the premisses considered, the redresse must be of ^note the c&obar;mons, knit and vnited to one parte. And as the hurt and damage greeueth all men, so must all men see to their willing power for remedie, and not suffer the sayde Aliens in their wealth, and the naturall borne men of this region to come to confusion.

Doll.

Before God, tis excellent, and Ile maintaine the suite to be honest.

Sher.

well, say tis read, what is your further meaning in the matter?

Geo.

what? marie list to me. No doubt but this will store vs with freends enow, whose names we will closely keepe in writing, and on May day next in the morning weele goe foorth ^note a Maying, but make it the wurst May day for the straungers that euer they sawe: how say ye? doo ye subscribe, or are ye faintharted reuolters

Doll.

Holde thee George Bettes, ther's my hand and my hart, by the Lord Ile make a Captaine among ye, and doo somewhat to be talke of for euer after.

Wil.

My maisters, ere we parte, lets freendly goe and drinke together, and sweare true secrecie vppon our liues.

Geo.

There spake an Angell, come, let ^note[s] vs along then.