Cas.

'Fore heav'n, they have given me a rouse already.

Mont.

Good faith a little one: not past a pint, as I am a soldier.

Jago.
Some wine ho! [Jago sings.

  And let me the canakin clink, clink,
  And let me the canakin clink.
  A soldier's a man; oh man's life's but a span,
  Why then let a soldier drink.
Some wine, boys.

Cas.

'Fore heav'n, an excellent song.

Jago.

I learn'd it in England: where indeed they are most potent in potting. Your Dane, your German, and your swag-belly'd

Hollander,—drink ho—are nothing to your English.

Cas.

Is your Englishman so exquisite in his drinking?

Jago.

Why he drinks you with facility your Dane dead drunk. He ^{g note}sweats not to overthrow your Almain. He gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle can be fill'd.

Cas.

To the health of our General.

Mont.

I am for it, lieutenant: and I'll do you justice.

Jago.
Oh sweet England.

  King Stephen was and-a worthy peer,
    His breeches cost him but a crown,
  He held them six pence all too dear,
    With that he call'd the tailor lown:
  He was a wight of high renown,
    And thou art but of low degree:
  'Tis pride that pulls the country down,
    And take thy old cloak about thee.
Some wine ho.

Cas.

Why this is a more exquisite song than the other.

Jago.

Will you hear't again?

Cas.

No, for I hold him to be unworthy of his place, that does those things. Well—Heaven's above all; and there be souls that must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.

Jago.

It's true, good lieutenant.

Cas.

For mine own part, (no offence to the General, nor any man of quality;) I hope to be saved.

Jago.

And so do I too, lieutenant.

Cas.

Ay, but by your leave, not before me. The Lieutenant is to be saved before the Ancient. Let's have no more of this; let's to our affairs. Forgive our sins—gentlemen let's look to our business. Do not think, gentlemen, I am drunk: this is my Ancient; this is my right hand, and this is my left. I am

not drunk now; I can stand well enough, and I speak well enough.

Gent.

Excellent well.

Cas.

Why very well then: you must not think then that I am drunk.