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 DickeYea, and halfe a brewer too, and the diuell and all for wealth, you b•ing more money with you, than all the rest.

Mur.The more's my honor, I shal be a knight to morow, let me spose my men, Tom vpon cutte, Dicke vpon hobbe, Hodge vpon Ball, Raph vpon Sorell, and Robin vpon the forehorse.

Tom.Stand, who comes there?

Act.Al friends, good fellow.

Murl.Friends and fellowes indeede sir Roger.

Act.Why thus you shew your selfe a Gentleman, To keepe your day, and come so well preparde, Your cart stands yonder, guarded by your men, Who tell me it is loaden well with come, What summe is there?

Mur.Ten thousand pound sir Roger, and modestly, decently, soberly, and handsomely, see what I haue here against I be knighted.

Act.Gilt spurs? tis well.

Mur.But where's our armie sir?

Act.Disperst in sundry villages about, Some here with vs in Hygate, some at Finchley, Totnam, Enfield, Edmunton, Newington, Islington, Hogsdon, Pancredge, Kenzington, Some neerer Thames, Ratcliffe, Blackwall and Bow, But our chiefe strength must be the Londoners, Which ere the Sunne to morrow shine, Will be nere fiftie thousand in the field.

Mur.Mary God dild ye daintie my deere, but vpon occasion sir Roger Acton, doth not the King know of it, and gather his power against vs.

Act.No, hee's secure at Eltham.

Mur.What do the Cleargie?

Act.Feare extreamly, yet prepare no force.

Mur.In and out, to and fro, Bullie my boikin, we shall carry