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84  Weav. The clerk of Chatham: he can write

and read and cast accompt.

Cade. O monstrous!

Weav. We took him setting of boys' copies.

Cade. Here's a villain!

Weav. Has a book in his pocket with red

letters in 't.

Cade. Nay, then he is a conjurer.

Butch. Nay, he can make obligations, and

write court-hand.

Cade. I am sorry for 't: the man is a proper

man, of mine honour; unless I find him guilty,

he shall not die. Come hither, sirrah, I must

examine thee. What is thy name?

Clerk. Emmanuel.

Butch. They use to write it on the top of

letters. 'Twill go hard with you.

Cade. Let me alone. Dost thou use to write

thy name, or hast thou a mark to thyself, like

a honest plain-dealing man?

Clerk. Sir, I thank God, I have been so well

brought up, that I can write my name.

All. He hath confessed: away with him! he's

a villain and a traitor.

Cade. Away with him, I say: hang him with

his pen and ink-horn about his neck.

Exit one with the Clerk.

Mich. Where's our general?

Cade. Here I am, thou particular fellow.

 97 cast accompt: calculate

99 copies: models of handwriting

104 obligations: contracts

105 court-hand: type of handwriting used in legal documents

106 proper: good-looking

111, 112 They letters; cf. n.

123 particular: as opposed to 'general' 