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 Harp.And this seale waxe?

Sum.It is so.

Harp.If this be parchment, & this wax, eate you this parch∣ment, and this waxe, or I will make parchment of your skinne, and beate your braines into waxe: Sirra Sumner dispatch, deuoure, sirra deuoure.

Sum.I am my lord of Rochesters Sumner, I came to do my office, and thou shalt answere it.

Harp.Sirra, no railing, but betake you to your teeth, thou shalt eate no worse then thou bringst with thee, thou bringst it for my lord, and wilt thou bring my lord worse then thou wilt eate thy selfe?

Sum.Sir, I brought it not my lord to eate.

Harp.O do you sir me now, all's one for that, but ile make you eate it, for bringing it.

Sum.I cannot eate it.

Harp.Can you not? sbould ile beate you vntil you haue a stomacke.

Sum.O hold, hold, good master seruing-man, I will eate it.

Harp.Be champping, be chawing sir, or Ile chaw you, you rogue, the purest of the hony.

Sum.Tough waxe, is the purest of the hony.

Harp.O Lord sir, oh oh, Feed, feed, wholsome rogue, wholsome. Cannot you like an honest Sumner walke with the diuell your brother, to fetch in your Bailiffes rents, but you must come to a noble mans house with processe? Sbloud if thy seale were as broad as the lead that couers Rochester church, thou shouldst eate it.

Sum.O I am almost choaked, I am almost choaked.

Harp.Who's within there? wil you shame my Lord, is there no beere in the house? Butler I say.

But.Heere, here.

Harp.Giue him Beere. There, tough old sheepskins, bare drie meate.

Sum.O sir, let me go no further, Ile eate my word. harp.