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 ClubZwookes, do you robbe your ghests? doe you lodge rogues and slaues, and scoundrels, ha? they ha stolne our doths here: why ostler?

OstlerA murrein choake you, what a bawling you keepe.

HosteHow now, what woulde the carrier haue? looke vp there.

OstlerThey say that the man and woman that lay by them haue stolne their clothes.

HosteVVhat, are the strange folkes vp yet that came in yester night?

Const.VVhat mine hoste, vp so early?

HosteVVhat, maister Maior, and maister Constable!

MaiorVVe are come to seeke for some suspected persons, and such as heere we found, haue apprehended.

Con.VVho comes heere?

ClubVVho comes here? a plague found ome, you bawle quoth a, ods hat, Ile forzweare your house, you lodgde a fellow and his wife by vs that ha runne away with our parrel, and left vs such gew-gawes here, come Kate, come to mee, thowse dizeard yfaith.

MaiorMine hoste, know you this man?

HosteYes maister Maior, Ile giue my word for him, why neibor Club, how comes this geare about?

KateNow a fowle ont, I can not make this gew-gaw stand on my head, now the lads and the lasses won flowt me too too

Const.How came this man and woman thus attired?

HosteHere came a man and woman hither this last night, which I did take for substantiall people, and lodgde all in one chamber by these folkes: mee thinkes, haue beene so bolde to change apparell, and gone away this morning ere they rose.

MaiorThat was that villaine traitour Old-castle, that thus escaped vs: make out huy and cry yet after him, keepe fast that traiterous rebell his seruant there: farewell mine hoste.

CarierCome Kate Owdham, thou and Ise trimly dizard.

KateI faith neame Club, Ise wot nere what to do, Ise be so flowted