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Flu. I'll assure you a' uttered as prave

words at the pridge as you shall see in a sum-

mer's day. But it is very well; what he has

spoke to me, that is well, I warrant you, when

time is serve.

Gow. Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that

now and then goes to the wars to grace himself

at his return into London under the form of a

soldier. And such fellows are perfect in the

great commanders' names, and they will learn

you by rote where services were done; at such

and such a sconce, at such a breach, at such a

convoy; who came off bravely, who was shot,

who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on;

and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war,

which they trick up with new-tuned oaths: and

what a beard of the general's cut and a horrid

suit of the camp will do among foaming bottles

and ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought

on. But you must learn to know such slanders

of the age, or else you may be marvellously

mistook.

Flu. I tell you what, Captain Gower; I do

perceive, he is not the man that he would gladly

make show to the world he is: if I find a hole in

his coat I will tell him my mind. [Drum heard.]

Hark you, the king is coming; and I must

speak with him from the pridge.

Flu. God pless your majesty!

 72 gull: cheat

78 sconce: small fort

80 stood on: insisted on

94 from: with news from 