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Flu. Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis ex-

pressly against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant

a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be

offer't: in your conscience now, is it not?

Gow. 'Tis certain, there's not a boy left alive;

and the cowardly rascals that ran from the

battle ha' done this slaughter: besides, they

have burned and carried away all that was in

the king's tent; wherefore the king most

worthily hath caused every soldier to cut his

prisoner's throat. O! 'tis a gallant king.

Flu. Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain

Gower. What call you the town's name where

Alexander the Pig was born?

Gow. Alexander the Great.

Flu. Why, I pray you, is not pig great? The

pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge,

or the magnanimous, are all one reckonings,

save the phrase is a little variations.

Gow. I think Alexander the Great was born

in Macedon: his father was called Philip of

Macedon, as I take it.

Flu. I think it is in Macedon where Alex-

ander is porn. I tell you, captain, if you look in

the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you sall find,

in the comparisons between Macedon and Mon-

mouth, that the situations, look you, is both

alike. There is a river in Macedon, and there is

also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called

Wye at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains

