Beggars Bush eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about Beggars Bush.

Beggars Bush eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about Beggars Bush.

Ger. Buy any Brand Wine, buy any Brand Wine?

Boy. Have ye any Cony-skins?

2 [B.] My fine Canary-bird, there’s a Cake for thy Worship.

1 B. Come fill, fill, fill, fill suddenly:  let’s see Sir, What’s this?

Ger. A penny, Sir.

1 B. Fill till’t be six-pence, And there’s my Pig.

Boy. This is a Counter, Sir.

1 B. A Counter! stay ye, what are these then? 
O execrable Jugler!  O dama’d Jugler! 
Look in your hose, hoa, this comes of looking forward.

3 B. Devil a Dunkirk! what a Rogue’s this Jugler!  This hey pass, repass, h’as repast us sweetly.

2 B. Do ye call these tricks.

Enter Higgen.

Hig. Have ye any Ends of Gold, or Silver?

2 B. This Fellow comes to mock us; Gold or Silver? cry Copper.

1 B. Yes, my good Friend, We have e’n an end of all we have.

Hig. ’Tis well Sir, You have the less to care for:  Gold and Silver. [Exit.

Enter Prigg.

Pr. Have ye any old Cloaks to sell, have ye any old Cloaks to sell? [Exit.

1 B. Cloaks!  Look about ye Boys:  mine’s gone!

2 B. A ------ juggle ’em?
------ O they’re Prestoes:  mine’s gone too!

3 B. Here’s mine yet.

1 B. Come, come let’s drink then more Brand Wine.

Boy. Here Sir.

1 B. If e’r I catch your Sow-gelder, by this hand I’ll strip him:  Were ever Fools so ferkt?  We have two Cloaks yet; And all our Caps; the Devil take the Flincher.

All B. Yaw, yaw, yaw, yaw.

Enter Hemskirk.

Hem. Good do’n my honest Fellows, You are merry here I see.

3 B. ’Tis all we have left, Sir.

Hem. What hast thou?  Aqua vitae?

Boy. Yes.

Hem. Fill out then; And give these honest Fellows round.

All B. We thank ye.

Hem. May I speak a word in private to ye?

All B. Yes Sir.

Hem. I have a business for you, honest Friends, If you dare lend your help, shall get you crowns.

Ger. Ha!  Lead me a little nearer, Boy.

1 B. What is’t Sir?  If it be any thing to purchase money, Which is our want, [command] us.

Boors. All, all, all, Sir.

Hem. You know the young spruce Merchant in Bruges?

2 B. Who?  Master Goswin?

Hem. That he owes me money, And here in town there is no stirring of him.

Ger. Say ye so?

Hem. This day, upon a sure appointment, He meets me a mile hence, by the Chase side, Under the row of Oaks; do you know it?

All B. Yes Sir.

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