Excerpts from The Staple of News


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THE PROLOGVE FOR THE STAGE.
Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] Alas! what is it to his Scene, to know
How many Coaches in Hide-parke did show
Last spring, what fare to day at Medleyes was,
If Dunstan, or the Phœnix best wine has? Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…]
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THO. But the 4. Cardinall Quarters— P.IV. I, those Thom
THO. The Court, Sir, Pauls, Exchange, and Westminster-hall.
P.IV. Who is the Chiefe? which hath preceedencie?
THO. The gouernour o’the Staple, Master Cymball.
He is the Chiefe; and after him the Emissaries:
First Emissary Court, one Master Fitton,
He’s a Ieerer too. P.IV. What’s that? FAS. A Wit.
THO. Or halfe a Wit, some of them are Halfe-wits,
Two to a Wit, there are a set of ’hem.
Then Master Ambler, Emissary Paules,
A fine pac’d gentleman, as you shall see, walke
The middle Ile: And then my Froy Hans Buz,
A Dutch-man; he’s Emissary Exhange.
FAS. I had thought Mr. Burst the Marchant had had it.
THO. No,1
He has a rupture, hee has sprung a leake,

Emissarie Westminster’s vndispos’d of yet;
Then the Examiner, Register, and two Clerkes,
They mannage all at home, and sort, and file,
And seale the newes, and issue them.
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Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] CLE. Sir, I tell her, she must stay
Till Emissary Exchange, or Pauls send in,
And then I’ll fit her.
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CYM. And as they are issued. I haue the iust meoytie
For my part: then the other moeytie
Is parted into seuen. The foure Emissaries;
Whereof my Cozen Fitton here’s for Court,
Ambler for Pauls, and Buz for the Exchange,
Picklocke, for Westminster, with the Examiner,
And Register, they haue full parts: and then one part
Is vnder-parted to a couple of Clarkes;
And there’s the iust diuision of the profits!
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Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] CYM. True Paules bred,
I’the Church-yard. P. IV. And this at the West-dore,
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MIRTH. I remember it gossip, I went with you, by the same token, Mrs. Trouble Truth diswaded vs, and told vs, hee was a prophane Poet, and all his Playes had Diuels in them. That he kept schole vpo’ the Stage, could coniure there, aboue the Schole of Westminster, and Doctor Lamb too: Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…]
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SHV. What Lick-finger? mine old host of Ram-Alley? Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…]
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Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] SHV. Hee minds
A curtesie no more, then London-bridge,
What Arch was mended last.
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P. SE. Where is’t you eat? P. IV. Hard by, at Picklock’s lodging.
Old Lickfinger’s the Cooke, here in Ram-Alley.
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Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] P. CA. No ’faith,
Dine in Apollo2 with Pecunia,
At braue Duke Wadloos, haue your friends about you,
And make a day on’t.
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Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] FIT. From a right hand I assure (you,
The Eele-boats here, that lye before Queen-Hyth,
Came out of Holland.
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Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] THO. The perpetuall Motion,

Is here found out by an Alewife in Saint Katherines,
At the signe o’ the dancing Beares.
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SHV. Cannot your Office tell vs, what braue fellowes
Doe eat together to day, in towne, and where?
THO. Yes, there’s a Gentleman, the braue heire, yong Peny-boy.
Dines in Apollo.3 MAD. Come, let’s thither then,
I ha’ supt in Apollo!4
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P. SE. Well bring your sixe in. Where ha’ you left Pecunia?
BRO. Sir, in Apollo,5 they are scarce set.
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Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] P.SE. It is no pride in me!
But paine, paine; what’s your errand, Sir, to me?
Broker, returne to your charge, be Argus-eyed,
Awake, to the affaire you haue in hand,
Serue in Apollo,6 but take heed of Bacchus.
Goe on, Sir.
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CENSVRE. A notable tough Rascall! this old Peny-boy! right City-bred!
MIRTH. In Siluer-streete, the Region of money, a good seat for a Vsurer.
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TAT. Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] I haue had better newes from the bake-house, by ten thousand parts, in a morning: or the conduicts in Westminster! all the newes of Tutle-street, and both the Alm’ries! the two Sanctuaries long, and round Wool-staple! with Kings-street, and Chanon-row to boot!
MIRTH. I, my Gossip Tatle knew what fine slips grew in Gardiners-lane; who kist the Butchers wife with the Cowes-breath; what matches were made in the bowling-Alley, and what bettes wonne and lost; how much grieft went to the Mill and what besides: who coniur’d in Tutle-fields, and how many? when they neuer came there. And which Boy rode vpon Doctor Lambe, in the likenesse of a roaring Lyon, that runne away with him in his teeth, and ha’s not deuour’d him yet.
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Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] SHV. Haue at you, then Lawyer.
They say, there was one of your coate in Bet’lem, lately,
ALM. I wonder all his Clients were not there.
MAD. They were the madder sort.
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PIC. In all the languages in Westminster-Hall,
Pleas, Bench, or Chancery. Fee-Farme, Fee-Tayle,
Tennant in dower, At will, For Terme of life,
By Copy of Court Roll, Knights seruice, Homage,
Fealty, Escuage, Soccage, or Frank almoigne,
Grand Sergeanty, or Burgage.
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Notes

  1. This line appears to the side. (KL)
  2. I.e., room in the Devil’s Tavern. For more information about the Apollo, see Sugden 23-24. (KL)
  3. I.e., room in the Devil’s Tavern. For more information about the Apollo, see Sugden 23-24. (KL)
  4. I.e., room in the Devil’s Tavern. For more information about the Apollo, see Sugden 23-24. (KL)
  5. I.e., room in the Devil’s Tavern. For more information about the Apollo, see Sugden 23-24. (KL)
  6. I.e., room in the Devil’s Tavern. For more information about the Apollo, see Sugden 23-24. (KL)

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Jonson, Ben. Excerpts from The Staple of News. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/STAP1.htm.

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