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76  Fal. How now, lad! is the wind in that door,

i' faith? must we all march?

Bard. Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.

Host. My lord, I pray you, hear me.

Prince. What sayest thou, Mistress Quickly?

How does thy husband? I love him well, he is

an honest man.

Host. Good my lord, hear me.

Fal. Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.

Prince. What sayest thou, Jack?

Fal. The other night I fell asleep here behind

the arras and had my pocket picked: this house

is turned bawdy-house; they pick pockets.

Prince. What didst thou lose, Jack?

Fal. Wilt thou believe me, Hal? three or four

bonds of forty pound a-piece, and a seal-ring of

my grandfather's.

Prince. A trifle; some eight-penny matter.

Host. So I told him, my lord; and I said I

heard your Grace say so: and, my lord, he speaks

most vilely of you, like a foul-mouthed man as

he is, and said he would cudgel you.

Prince. What! he did not?

Host. There's neither faith, truth, nor wo-

manhood in me else.

Fal. There's no more faith in thee than in a

stewed prune; nor no more truth in thee than

in a drawn fox; and for womanhood, Maid

Marian may be the deputy's wife of the ward to

thee. Go, you thing, go.

Host. Say, what thing? what thing?

 103 Newgate: a prison

128 drawn fox: a fox driven from cover and tricky in his attempts to get back

128-129 Cf. n. 