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But with them change of honours.

Vol. I have liv'd

To see inherited my very wishes,

And the buildings of my fancy: only

There's one thing wanting, which I doubt not but

Our Rome will cast upon thee.

Cor. Know, good mother,

I had rather be their servant in my way

Than sway with them in theirs.

Com. On, to the Capitol!

Flourish. Cornets. Exeunt in state, as before.

Bru. All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights

Are spectacled to see him: your prattling nurse

Into a rapture lets her baby cry

While she chats him: the kitchen malkin pins

Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck,

Clambering the walls to eye him: stalls, bulks, windows

Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges hors'd

With variable complexions, all agreeing

In earnestness to see him: seld-shown flamens

Do press among the popular throngs, and puff

To win a vulgar station; our veil'd dames

Commit the war of white and damask in

 216 change: a variety

217 inherited: realized, come into my possession

222 sway with: rule

223 S.d. Enter, etc.; cf. n.

226 rapture: fit

227 chats: gossips about

malkin: wench

228 lockram: linen cloth

reechy: dirty

229 bulks: projecting shelves outside a shop

230 leads: lead-covered roofs

ridges hors'd: roof tops bestridden

231 variable complexions: all types of people

232 seld-shown flamens: priests who seldom show themselves

233 popular throngs: crowds of rabble

234 vulgar station: place in the mob

