The argument of the play I will set down in this epistle: Sir Hugh Lacy, Earl
of Lincoln, had a young gentleman of his own name, his near kinsman, that
loved the Lord Mayor’s daughter of London; to prevent and cross which love
the Earl caused his kinsman to be sent colonel of a company into France, who
resigned his place to another gentleman his friend, and came disguised like
a Dutch shoemaker to the house of Simon Eyre in Tower Street, who served the Mayor and his
household with shoes.
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Epistle,
6–15
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Lacy
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] The men of Hertfordshire lie at
Mile End;
Suffolk and Essex train in Tothill Fields;
The Londoners, and those of Middlesex,
With frolic spirits long for their parting hour.
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1.58–62
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Oatley
They have their imprest, coats, and
furniture,
And if it please your cousin Lacy come
And twenty pounds besides my brethren
Will freely give him to approve our loves
We bear unto my lord your uncle here.
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1.63–68
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1.70
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Lincoln
There presently I’ll meet you. Do not stay.
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1.95–96
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] I am Simon Eyre, the mad shoemaker of
Tower Street.
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1.129–30
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] Prince Arthur’s Round Table, by the
Lord of Ludgate, ne’er fed such a
tall, such a dapper swordman.
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1.173–75
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Dodger
[ To Lacy]
Stays with the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen,
And doth request you with all speed you may
To hasten hither.
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1.192–95a
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] Hold thee, Ralph, here’s five sixpences
for thee. Fight for the honour of the Gentle Craft, for the Gentlemen
Shoemakers, the courageous cordwainers, the flower of Saint Martin’s,
the mad knaves of Bedlam, Fleet Street, Tower Street, and Whitechapel. Crack me the crowns of the French knaves, a pox on
them--crack them. Fight, by the Lord of Ludgate, fight, my fine boy.
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1.221–27
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Sybil
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] My Lord Mayor your father, and Master
Philpot your uncle, and Master Scott your cousin, and Mistress Frigbottom,
by Doctors’ Commons, do all, by my
troth, send you most hearty commendations.
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2.21–25
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Sybil
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] I stood at our door in Cornhill, looked at him, he at me
indeed; spake to him, but he not to me, not a word.
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2.32–34
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Lacy
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] Here in Tower Street with Eyre the shoemaker
Mean I a while to work. I know the trade;
I learnt it when I was in Wittenberg.
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3.19–21
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Margery
Seek to rise! I hope ’tis time enough;
’tis early enough for any woman to be seen abroad. I marvel how many wives
in Tower Street are up so soon.
God’s me, ’tis not noon! Here’s a yawling.
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4.32–35
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] By the Lord of Ludgate, I love my men as my life.
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4.73–74
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Lacy
[ as Hans].
Mine liever broder Firk, bringt Meester Eyre tot den
signe van swannekin. Daer sal you
find dis skipper end me.
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7.9–11
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Firk
Yea, but can my fellow Hans lend my
master twenty porpentines as an earnest-penny?
Hodge
’Portagues’ thou wouldst say--here they
be, Firk: hark, they jingle in my pocket like Saint Mary Overy’s bells.
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7.23–27
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] By the life of Pharaoh, by the Lord of
Ludgate, by this beard, every
hair whereof I value at a king’s ransom, she shall not meddle with you.
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7.39–41
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Hodge
And if I stay, I pray God I may be turned to
a Turk and set in Finsbury for boys
to shoot at.
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7.63–64
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] Avaunt, kitchen-stuff; rip, you
brown-bread Tannikin, out of my sight! Have not I ta’en you from selling
tripes in Eastcheap, and set you in
my shop, and made you hail-fellow with Simon Eyre the shoemaker?
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7.67–71
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Eyre
Rip, you chitterling, avaunt! Boy, bid the
tapster of the Boar’s Head fill me a dozen cans of beer for my journeymen.
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7.76–78
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Hodge
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] Do you remember the ship my fellow
Hans told you of? The skipper and he are both drinking at the Swan. Here be
the portagues to give earnest.
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7.97–100
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Hammon
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] [ Aside]
There is a wench keeps shop in the Old
Change.
To her will I. It is not wealth I seek.
I have enough, and will prefer her love
Before the world.
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9.51–54a
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Scott
’Twas well, my lord, your honour and
myself
Grew partners with him; for your bills of lading
Show that Eyre’s gains in one commodity
Rise at the least to full three thousand pound,
Besides like gain in other merchandise.
Oatley
Well, he shall spend some of his
thousands now,
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9.66–72
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Oatley
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] I pray, let me entreat you to
walk before
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9.80–81
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Oatley
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] God’s Lord, ’tis late; to Guildhall I must hie.
I know my brethren stay my company.
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9.105–06
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Margery
I pray thee, run--do you hear--run to
Guildhall, and learn if my
husband, Master Eyre, will take that worshipful vocation of Master
Sheriff upon him. Hie thee, good Firk.
Firk
Take it? Well, I go. An he should not
take it, Firk swears to forswear him.--Yes, forsooth, I go to Guildhall.
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10.3–8
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Margery
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] And Roger, canst thou tell where
I may buy a good hair?
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10.42–44
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] When I go to Guildhall in my scarlet gown I’ll look as demurely
as a saint, and speak as gravely as a Justice of Peace.
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11.12–14
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Lacy
[as Hans]. Vare ben your edle fro? Vare ben your
mistress?
Sybil
Marry, here at our London house in Cornhill.
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13.62–63
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Servingman
Let me see, now, the Sign of the Last
in Tower Street. Mass, yonder’s the
house. What haw! Who’s within?
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14.1–3
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Ralph
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] Yes, sir, yes, by this shoe. I can
do’t. Four o’clock. Well. Whither shall I bring them?
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14.22–25
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Ralph
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] Very well, very well; but, I pray
you, sir, where must Master Hammon be married?
Servingman
At Saint Faith’s Church, under Paul’s.
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14.32–34
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Ralph
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] Hereof am I sure, I shall live
till I die,
Although I never with a woman lie.
Exit.
Firk
Thou lie with a woman--to build nothing
but Cripplegates!
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14.70–73
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Oatley
But art thou sure of this?
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16.110–12
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Lincoln
Where are they married? Dost thou know
the church?
Firk
I never go to church, but I know the name
of it. It is a swearing church. Stay a while, ’tis ’Ay, by the Mass’
--no, no, ’tis ’Ay, by my troth’ --no, nor that, ’tis ’Ay, by my faith’
--that, that, ’tis ’Ay by my Faith’s’ Church under Paul’s Cross.
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16.114–20
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Oatley
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] The earlier shall we stir, and at
Saint Faith’s
Prevent this giddy, hare-brained nuptial.
This traffic of hot love shall yield cold gains.
They ban our loves, and we’ll forbid their banns.
Lincoln
At Saint Faith’s Church, thou
sayst?
Firk
Yes, by their troth.
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16.139–46
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Firk
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] Soft, now, these two gulls will be
at Saint Faith’s Church tomorrow morning to take Master Bridegroom and
Mistress Bride napping, and they in the meantime shall chop up the
matter at the Savoy. But the
best sport is, Sir Roger Oatley will find my fellow, lame Ralph’s wife,
going to marry a gentleman, and then he’ll stop her instead of his
daughter. O brave, there will be fine tickling sport. Soft now, what
have I to do? O, I know--now a mess of shoemakers meet at the Woolsack
in Ivy Lane to cozen my
gentleman of lame Ralph’s wife, that’s true.
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16.151–61
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Eyre
Lady Madgy, Lady Madgy, take two or three
of my piecrust eaters, my buff-jerkin varlets, that do walk in black
gowns at Simon Eyre’s heels. Take them, good Lady Madgy, trip and go, my
brown Queen of Periwigs, with my delicate Rose and my jolly Rowland to
the Savoy, see them linked,
countenance the marriage, and when it is done, cling, cling together,
you Hamborow turtle-doves. I’ll bear you out. Come to Simon Eyre, come
dwell with me, Hans, thou shalt eat minced-pies and marchpane. Rose,
away, cricket. Trip and go, my Lady Madgy, to the Savoy. Hans, wed and to bed; kiss and away; go;
vanish.
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17.24–35
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] By the Lord of Ludgate, it’s a mad life to be a Lord Mayor.
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17.39–40
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] Soft, the King this day comes to
dine with me, to see my
new buildings.
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17.43–44
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents. (KL)[…] I promised the mad Cappadocians,
when we all served at the conduit together, that if ever I came to be
Mayor of London, I would feast them all; and I’ll do’t, I’ll do’t, by
the life of Pharaoh, by this beard, Sim Eyre will be no flincher.
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17.48–52
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Oatley
Villain, thou told’st me that my
daughter Rose
This morning should be married at Saint Faith’s.
We have watched there these three hours at least,
Yet see we no such thing.
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18.116–19
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Dodger
My lord, I come to bring unwelcome
news.
Your nephew Lacy and [to Oatley] your daughter
Rose
Early this morning wedded at the Savoy,
None being present but the Lady Mayoress.
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18.163–65
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Firk
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] Let’s march together for the honour
of Saint Hugh to the great new hall in Gracious
Street corner, which our master the new Lord Mayor hath built.
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18.197–200
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] Prince am I none, yet am I princely
born! By the Lord of Ludgate, my
liege, I’ll be as merry as a pie.
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21.17–18
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King
Nay, my mad Lord Mayor--that shall be thy
name--
If any grace of mine can length thy life,
One honour more I’ll do thee. That new building
Which at thy cost in Cornhill is
erected
Shall take a name from us. We’ll have it called
You found the lead that covereth the same.
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21.128–34
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Eyre
Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance.
Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] [ To the
King] They are all beggars, my liege, all for themselves; and
I for them all on both my knees do entreat that for the honour of poor
Simon Eyre and the good of his brethren, these mad knaves, your Grace
would vouchsafe some privilege to my new Leaden Hall, that it may be lawful for us to
buy and sell leather there two days a week.
King
Mad Sim, I grant your suit. You shall
have patent
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21.153–61
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