1.  At the hangmans budget? why, this is a sack.

2.  And to speake indifferently, it is the hangman’s Budget; and because he thought too much of his labour to set this head upon the bridge, and the legs upon the gates, he flings them into the streete for men to stumble at, but If I get him in my boate, Ile so belabour him in a stretcher, that he had better be stretcht in one of his owne halfepeny halters.  If this be a good conceit, why so; if not, why so.

1.  Thou art deceiv’d, this head hath many wounds, And hoase and shoes remaining on the legs. Bull always strips all quartered traitors quite.

2.  I am indifferent whether you beleeve me or no; these were not worth taking of, and therefore he left them on.  If this be likely why so; if not, why so.

1.  Nay, then I see you growe from worse to worse. 
I heard last night, that one neere Lambert Hill
Was missing, and his boy was murthered. 
It may be this is a part of that same man;
What ere it be, ile beare it to that place.

2.  Masse I am indifferent; ile go along with you, if it be so, why so; if not why so.

[Exeunt.

[SCENE IV.]

Enter three neighbors knocking at Loneys doore:  Loney comes.

1.  Hoe, Maister Loney! here you any newes What is become of your Tennant Beech?

Lon.  No truely, sir, not any newes at all.

2.  What, hath the boy recovered any speach, To give us light of these suggestions That do arise upon this accident?

Lon.  There is no hope he should recover speech; The wives do say he’s ready now to leave This greevous world, full-fraught with treacherie.

3.  Methinkes if Beech himselfe be innocent,
That then the murtherer should not dwell farre off;
The hammer that is sticking in his head,
Was borrowed of a Cutler dwelling by,
But he remembers not who borrowed it: 
He is committed that did owe[33] the hammer,
But yet he standes uppon his innocence;
And Beeches absence causeth great suspition.

Lo.  If Beech be faulty, as I do not thinke,
I never was so much deceiv’d before. 
Oh had you knowne his conversation,
You would not have him in suspition.

3.  Divels seeme Saints, and in these[34] hatefull times, Deceite can beare apparraunt signes of trueth, And vice beare shew of vertues excellence.

    Enter the two Watermen.

1.  Pray is this Maister Beeches house?

Lo.  My friend this same was maister Beeches shop:  We cannot tell whether he live or no.

1.  Know you his head and if I shew it you?  Or can you tell me what hose or shooes he ware, At that same time when he forsooke the shoppe?

3.  What, have you head, and hose, and shooes to show, And want the body that should use the same?