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mean time and eat your victuals; come, there

is sauce for it. [Strikes him again.] You called

me yesterday mountain-squire, but I will make

you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you, fall

to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.

Gow. Enough, captain: you have astonished

him.

Flu. I say, I will make him eat some part of

my leek, or I will peat his pate four days. Bite,

I pray you; it is good for your green wound and

your ploody coxcomb.

Pist. Must I bite?

Flu. Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and

out of question too and ambiguities.

Pist. By this leek, I will most horribly re-

venge. I eat and eat, I swear—

Flu. Eat, I pray you: will you have some

more sauce to your leek? there is not enough

leek to swear by.

Pist. Quiet thy cudgel: thou dost see I eat.

Flu. Much good do you, scald knave, heart-

ily. Nay, pray you, throw none away; the

skin is good for your broken coxcomb. When

you take occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray

you, mock at 'em; that is all.

Pist. Good.

Flu. Ay, leeks is good. Hold you, there is a

groat to heal your pate.

Pist. Me a groat!

Flu. Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take

it; or I have another leek in my pocket, which

you shall eat.

 40 astonished: stunned (?)

45 coxcomb: head

62 groat: a coin worth fourpence 