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  God haue the praise for our deliuerance, And next, our thankes (Lord Cobham) is to thee, True perfect mirror of nobilitie.  

HosteSir, you are welcome to this house, to such as heere is with all my heart, but by the masse I feare your lodging wilbe the woorst, l haue but two beds, and they are both in a chamber, and the carier and his daughter lies in the one, and you and your wife must lie in the other.

L.Cobh.In faith sir, for my selfe I doe not greatly passe, My wife is weary, and would be at rest, For we haue traueld very far to day, We must be content with such as you haue.

HosteBut I cannot tell how to doe with your man.

HarpooleWhat, hast thou neuer an empty roome in thy house for me?

HosteNot a bedde by my troth: there came a poore Irish man, and I lodgde him in the barne, where he has faire straw, though he haue nothing else.

Harp.Well mine hoste, I pray thee helpe mee to a payre of faire sheetes, and Ile go lodge with him.

HosteBy the masse that thou shalt, a good payre of hem∣pen sheetes, were neuer laine in: Come.

MaiorWhat haue you searcht the towne?

Const.All the towne sir, we haue not left a house vnsearcht that vses to lodge.

MaiorSurely my lord of Rochester was then deceiude, Or ill informde of sir Iohn Old-castle, Or if he came this way, hees past the towne, He could not else haue scapt you in the search.

Const.The priuy watch hath beene abroad all night, And not a stranger lodgeth in the towne But he is knowne, onely a lusty priest VVe found in bed with a pretty wench,  That