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 Enter Caveler with a pair of doves; Williamson the Carpenter, and Sherwin following him.

Cave. Follow me no further; I say thou shalt not have them.

Will. I bought them in Cheapside, and paid my money for them. 19

Sher. He did, sir, indeed; and you offer him wrong, both to take them from him, and not restore him his money neither.

Cave. If he paid for them, let it suffice that I possess them; beef and brewis may serve such hinds; are pigeons meat for a coarse carpenter

Lin. It is hard when Englishmen's patience must be thus jetted on by strangers, and they not dare to revenge their own wrongs,

Geo. Lincoln, let's beat them down, and bear no more of these abuses.

Lin. We may not, Betts; be patient, and hear more.

Doll. How now, husband! What, one stranger take thy food from thee, and another thy wife! By'r Lady, flesh and blood, I think, can hardly brook that!

Lin. Will this gear never be otherwise? Must these wrongs be thus endured? Geo. Let us step in, and help to revenge their injury.

Bard. What art thou that talk'st of revenge! My lord ambassador shall once more make your Mayor have a check, if he punish thee not for this saucy presumption.

Will. Indeed, my lord Mayor, on the ambassador's