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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Chapman, George A1 - Jonson, Ben A1 - Marston, John ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - Excerpts from Eastward Ho! T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 7.0 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/05 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/EAST3.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/EAST3.xml ER - Chapman, George, Ben Jonson, and John Marston. Excerpts from <title level="m">Eastward Ho! The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/EAST3.htm. Chapman, George, Ben Jonson, and John Marston. Excerpts from <title level="m">Eastward Ho! 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/EAST3.htm. Chapman, G., Jonson, B., & Marston, J. 2022. Excerpts from <title level="m">Eastward Ho! In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/EAST3.htm. Kate LeBere Kate LeBere KL

Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual and quickstart guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

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Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

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Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.

 Tye Landels-Gruenewald Tye Landels-Gruenewald TLG

Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.

 Melanie Chernyk Melanie Chernyk MJC

Research Assistant, 2004–2008. BA honours, 2006. MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Melanie Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.

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Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.

 Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).

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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.

 George Chapman George Chapman

Playwright, translator, and poet.

ODNB Wikipedia George Eld George Eld 1624/25

Printer.

BBTI Wikipedia William Aspley William Aspley

Bookseller.

 Sir Petronel Flash Sir Petronel Flash

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Ben Jonson Ben Jonson 1572/73 1637/38

Poet and playwright.

ODNB Wikipedia John Marston John Marston

Playwright and poet.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Satan Satan Lucifer

Principal devil in the Bible.

Wikipedia Slitgut Slitgut

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Security Security

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Fangs Fangs

Appears in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Golding Golding

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Francis Quicksilver Francis Quicksilver

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Touchstone Touchstone

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Mildred Mildred

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Captain Seagull Captain Seagull

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Bramble Bramble

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Winifred Winifred

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Wolf Wolf

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Drawer Drawer

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Gertrude Gertrude

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho!

 Luke the Evangelist the Evangelist

One of the ascribed authors of the canonical gospels in the Bible.

Wikipedia Worshipful Company of GoldsmithsGoldsmiths’ Company

The Goldsmiths’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Goldsmiths were fifth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is still active and maintains a website at https://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company and explains the company’s role in the annual Trial of the Pyx.

The coat of arms of the Goldsmiths’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
Source: Chapman, George, Ben Jonson, and John Marston. Eastward hoe As it was playd in the Black-friers. London: George Eld for William Aspley, 1605. STC 4971. The last page has been supplied from STC 4973. Chapman, George, Ben Jonson, and John Marston. Eastvvard hoe. London: George Eld for William Aspley, 1605. STC 4973. Christ Church Information is not yet available. (CHRI1.xml) Moorfields

A low-lying marshy area just northeast of Moorgate and on the way to the Curtain, Moorfields was home to a surprising range of activities and accompanying cultural associations in early modern London. Beggars and the mentally ill patients of neighbouring Bethlehem Hospital often frequented the area. Some used the public space to bleach and dry linen, and the Honorable Artillery Company also used it as an official training ground. Moorfields was even a popular suburban destination for ice skating when its water froze during the winter. Moorfields was generally full of noysome waters (Stow 2:77) until 1605–1607, when it was successfully drained, levelled, and beautified with tree-lined pedestrian pathways. At this point, it transformed into a fashionable place for the genteel to see and to be seen. The history of Moorfields provides insight into social, political, environmental, and medical issues in early modern London.

(MOOR1.xml) St. Mary Le Bow Information is not yet available. (STMA47.xml) King’s Bench Information is not yet available. (KING4.xml) Fleet Prison Information is not yet available. (FLEE4.xml) Wood Street Counter Information is not yet available. (COUN1.xml) Southwark Counter Information is not yet available. (SOUT4.xml) Blue Anchor

(BLUE2.xml) Billingsgate

Billingsgate (Bylynges gate or Belins Gate), a water-gate and harbour located on the north side of the Thames between London Bridge and the Tower of London, was London’s principal dock in Shakespeare’s day. Its age and the origin of its name are uncertain. It was probably built ca. 1000 in response to the rebuilding of London Bridge in the tenth or eleventh century.

(BILL1.xml) Cuckold’s Haven

Cuckold’s Haven or Cuckold’s Point and the horn-topped pole that stood on the banks of the Thames were notorious in early modern London. The location was known for adultery both committed and threatened, and was referred to widely in the period’s literature. The Horne Faire of Charlton celebrated the association of the site with an act of cuckoldry involving King John. Cuckoldry had its own vocabulary at the time, reflecting both the anxieties of the social structure and the difference in moral perceptions from our present time. The landmark is no longer present but renewed interest in the site and a revival of the Horne Faire in Horn Fair Park has begun in recent years.

(CUCK1.xml) London Bridge

As the only bridge in London crossing the Thames until 1729, London Bridge was a focal point of the city. After its conversion from wood to stone, completed in 1209, the bridge housed a variety of structures, including a chapel and a growing number of shops. The bridge was famous for the cityʼs grisly practice of displaying traitorsʼ heads on poles above its gatehouses. Despite burning down multiple times, London Bridge was one of the few structures not entirely destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.

(LOND1.xml) Eastcheap

Eastcheap Street ran east-west, from Tower Street to St. Martin’s Lane. West of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street, Eastcheap was known as Great Eastcheap. The portion of the street to the east of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street was known as Little Eastcheap. Eastcheap (Eschepe or Excheapp) was the site of a medieval food market.

(EAST2.xml) The Thames Information is not yet available. (THAM2.xml) St. Katherine’s Hospital

St. Katherine’s Hospital was a religious hospital founded in 1148. According to Stow, the hospital was founded by Queen Matilda. The hospital, the grounds of which contained a church, gardens, orchards, and residences, was at the southern end of St. Katherine’s Lane and north of the St. Katherine Steps, all of which is east of the Tower of London. Stow praised the choir of the hospital, noting how it was not much inferior to that of [St.] Paules [Cathedral] (Stow).

(STKA3.xml) PLACEHOLDER LOCATION

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(LLLL1.xml) Guildhall Information is not yet available. (GUIL1.xml) Greenwich

Greenwich Palace was a popular royal residence among the Tudors, specifically during the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Built in 1447 for Humphrey of Lancaster, Greenwich was the first visible sign as the traveller came from the mouth of the Thames in the east towards London (Bold 38). The land was originally the site of an Abbey until 1414 when it reverted back to the crown. In 1426, it was passed to Humphrey of Lancaster, who built the early palace and enclosed the land as a park. The house passed to Henry VI, whose wife, Margaret of Anjou, renamed it the Palace of Placentia or pleasant place. The name Greenwich Palace dates from Elizabeth’s reign. This location was east of the area depicted on the Agas map.

(GREE6.xml) Cheapside Street

Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.

(CHEA2.xml) Tyburn

Tyburn is best known as the location of the principal gallows where public executions were carried out from the late twelfth century until the eighteenth (Drouillard, Wikipedia). It was a village to the west of the city, near the present-day location of Marble Arch (beyond the boundary of the Agas Map). Its name derives from a stream, and its significance to Stow was primarily as one of the sources of piped water for the city; he describes how In the yeare 1401. this priſon houſe called the Tunne was made a Ceſterne for ſweete water conueyed by pipes of Leade frõ the towne of Tyborne, and was from thence forth called the conduite vpon Cornhill Stow 1598, sig. L3r.

(TYBU1.xml) Whitefriars

This page points to the district known as Whitefriars. For the theatre, see Whitefriars Theatre.

(WHIT4.xml) St. Mary Spital

St. Mary Spital was an Augustinian Priory and Hospital on the east side of Bishopsgate Street. The Priory dates from 1197. The old precinct of St. Mary Spital is visible on the Agas map. The church itself was demolished after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. By the time the Agas map was drawn, many of the priory buildings had been removed and the area appears sparse.

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Touch. Prentises recreations are seldome with their maisters profit. Worke vpon that now. You shall giue vp your cloake tho you be no Alderman. Heyday, Ruffins hall. Sword, pumps, heers a Racket indeed.

Qui. lets be no longer fooles to this flat-cap Touchstone. Eastward Bully: this Sattin belly, & Canuas backt Touchstone; Slife man his father was a Malt-man, and his mother sould Ginger-bread in Christ-church.

Goul. No, thou wilt vndoe thy selfe. Alas I behold thee with pitty, not with anger; thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies: mee thinkes I see thee already walking in Moore fields without a Cloake, with halfe a Hatte, without a band, a Doublet with three Buttons, without a girdle, a hose with one point and no Garter, with a cudgell vnder thine arme borrowing and begging three pence.

Mil. Well Sister, those that scorne their nest, oft flye with a sicke wing.

Gir. Boe-bell.

Gir. Boddy a truth, Chittizens, Chittizens. Sweet Knight, as soone as euer wee are married, take mee to to thy mercie out of this miserable Chittie, presently, carry me out of the sent of New-castle Coale, and the hearing of Boe-bell, I beseech thee downe with me for God sake.

Touch. Sir, Eastward hoe, will make you go Westward ho; I will no longer dishonest my house, nor endanger my stocke with your licence;

Pet. Faith to seeke her Fortune I thinke. I said I had a castle and land Eastward, and Eastward she will without contradiction; her coach, and the coach of the Sunne must meete full butt: And the Sunne being out shined with her Lady-ships glorie, she feares hee goes Westward to hange himselfe.

Qui. Gods me Knight, put ’hem in sufficient sureties, rather then let your Sworde bayle you; Let ’hem take their choice, eyther the Kings Benche, or the Fleete, or which of the two CountersI.e., Wood Street Counter and Southwark Counter. they like best, for by the Lord I like none of ’hem.

Pet. Welcome good Captaine Seagull, and worthy Gentlemen, if you will meete my friend Francke here, and me, at the blew Anchor Tauerne by Billinsgate this Euening, we will there drinke to our happy voyage, be merry, and take Boate to our Ship with all expedition.

Gyr. Mary hang you; Westward with a waniō te’yee.

Petronell. Well my kinde Compere, you haue now Th’assurance we both can make you; let mee now entreate you, the money wee agree’d on may bee brought to the Blewe Ancor, nere to Billings-gate, by Six a Clocke: where I and my cheife friends, bound for this voyage, will with Feastes attend you.

Sea. Come Drawer, pierce your neatest Hogsheades, & lets haue cheare, not fit for your Billingsgate Tauerne; but for our Virginian Colonel; he wilbe here instantly.

Secu. Well, God pardon her for my part, and I doe Ile bee sworne; and so Maister Francis, here’s to all that are going Eastward to night, towardes Cuckolds hauen; and so to the health of Maister Bramble.

Quick. I pledge it Sir, hath it gone rounde, Captaines?

Sea. It has sweet Franck, and the rounde closes with thee.

Quic. Wel Sir, here’s to al Eastward & toward Cuckolds, & so to famouse Cuckolds hauen so fatally remembred. Surgit.

Draw. Sir Petronell, here’s one of your water men come to tell you, it wilbe flood these three houres; and that t’will bee dangerous going against the Tyde: for the skie is ouer cast, & there was a Porcpisce, euen now seene at Londō bridge, which is alwaies the messenger of tempests, he sayes.

Secu. You must bend then Maister Bramble; So, now I am for you: I haue one corner of my braine, I hope, fit to beare one carouse more. Here Lady, to you that are encompast there, & are asham’d of our company. Ha, ha, ha, by my troth, (my learn’d counsaile Maister Bramble) my minde runnes so of Cuckolds hauen to night, that my Head runnes ouer with admiration.

Bram. But is not that your wife. Neighbour?

Secu. No by my troth Maister Bramble; ha, ha, ha, a Pox of all Cuckolds-hauens I say.

Pet. Gossip, laugh no more at Cuckolds-hauen Gossip.

Secu. What Winnie? Wife, I say? out of dores at this time! where should I seeke the Gad-flye? Billingsgate, Billingsgate, Billingsgate. Shee’s gone with the Knight, shee’s gone with the Knight; woe be to thee Billingsgate. A boate, a boate, a boate, a full hunderd Markes for a boate.

Slit. All haile, faire Hauen of married men onely, for there are none but married men Cuckolds. For my part, I presume not to arriue here, but in my Maisters behalfe, (a poore Butcher of East-cheape) who sends me to set vp (in honour of Saint Luke) these necessarie Ensignes of his homage: And vp I got this morning, thus early, to get vp to the toppe of this famous Tree, that is all fruite and no leaues, to aduance this Crest of my Maisters occupation. Vp then, Heauen and Saint Luke blesse me, that I be not blowne into the Thames as I clime, with this furious Tempest; Slight, I thinke the Deuill be abroade, in likenesse of a storme, to rob me of my Hornes: Harke how he roares. Lord! what a coyle the Thames keepes! she beares some vniust burthen I beleeue, that she kicks and curuets thus to cast it: Heauen blesse all honest passengers, that are vpon her back now, for the Bitte is out of her mouth I see, and shee will runne away with ’hem. So, so, I thinke I haue made it looke the right way, it runnes against London-Bridge (as it were) euen full butt. And now, let mee discouer from this loftie prospect, what pranckes the rude Thames playes in her desperate lunacie. O me, here’s a Boate has beene cast away hard by.

Secu. What! landed at Cuckolds hauen? Hell and damnation. I will runne backe and drowne my selfe. { He falles downe.

Slit. Poore man how weake hee is! the weake water ha’s washt away his strength.

Sec. Landed at Cuckolds hauen? if it had not bin to die twentie times a liue, I should neuer haue scapt death: I will neuer arise more: I will grouell here, and eate durt till I be choak’t: I will make the gentle earth doe that, which the cruell water ha’s denied me.

Slit. A womanly faith, a woman, though it be almost at S. Kath’rins, I discerne it to be a woman for al her bodie is aboue the water, & her clothes swim about her most handsomely. O they beare her vp most brauely! has not a woman reason to loue the taking vp of her cloathes the better while she liues, for this? Alas, how busie the rude Thames is about her? A pox a’ that waue. It wil drowne her, yfaith, twill drowne her.

Draw. Comfort your selfe; That power that preserued you from death: can likewise defend you from infamie, howsoeuer you deserue it. Were not you one that tooke Bote, late this night, with a Knight, and other Gentlemen at Billings-gate?

Wynn. Vnhappy that I am, I was.

Draw. I am glad it was my good happe to come downe thus farre after you, to a house of my friends heere in S. Kath’rines, since I am now happily made a meane to your rescue, from the ruthlesse tempest;

Slit. See, see, see! I hold my life, there’s some other a taking vp at Wapping, now!

1. Gen.I.e., First Gentleman. On the cost of Doggs Sir: Y’are ith’ Ile a Doggs I tell you. I see y’aue bene washt in the Thames here, & I beleeue ye were drownd in a Tauerne before, or els you would neuer haue tooke boate in such a dawning as this was.

Pet. Woe, woe is me, what shall become of vs? the last money we could make, the greedy Thams has deuourde; and if our Ship be attach’t, there is no hope can relieue vs.

Touch. I wonder I heare no news of my sonne Goulding! He was sent for to the Guild-hall, this Morning betimes, and I maruaile at the matter, if I had not layd vp Comfort, & hope in him, I should grow desperate of al.

Gould. They haue their degree of welcome, I dare affirme. The Colonell, and all his company, this morning putting forth drunke from Belinsgate, had like to haue been cast away o’this side Greenwich: and (as I haue intelligence, by a false Brother,) are come dropping to towne, like so many Masterlesse men, i’their doublets and hose, without Hatte, or Cloake, or any other—

Quic. Would it had beene my fortune, to haue beene trust vp at Wapping, rather then euer ha’ come here.

Touch. he was a Gentleman, and I a poore Cheapeside Groome one that married a daughter of mine, Ladefied her, turn’d two thousand poundes worth of good land of hers, into Cash, within the first weeke, bought her a new Gowne, & a Coach, sent her to seeke her fortune by land, whilst himselfe prepared for his fortune by sea, tooke in fresh flesh at Belingsgate, for his owne diet, to serue him the whole voyage, the wife of a certaine vsurer, cald Securitie, who hath bene the broker for ’hem in all this businesse: Please Maister Deputy, Worke vpon that now.

Touch. Now sonne, come ouer ’hem with some fine guird, as thus, Knight you shall be encountred, that is, had to the Counter;I.e., Wood Street Counter or Southwark Counter. or Quicksiluer, I will put you in a crucible or so.

Touch. They’le looke out at a window, as thou rid’st in triumph to Tiborne, and crye, yonder goes honest Franck, mad Quicksiluer;

Goul. Officers take ’hem to the Counter.I.e., Wood Street Counter or Southwark Counter.

Wolfe. And he has conuerted one Fangs a Sarieant, a fellow could neither write, nor read, he was call’d the Bandog o’the Counter:I.e., Wood Street Counter or Southwark Counter. and he has brought him already to pare his nailes, and say his prayers, and ’tis hop’d, he will sell his place shortly, and become an Intelligencer.

Fri.I.e., Friend. Is the Knight any, Scholler too?

Pris. 1.I.e., First Prisoner. No, but he will speake verie well, and discourse admirably of running Horses, and White-Friers, and against Baudes; and of Cocks; and talke as loude as a Hunter, but is none.

Qui. In Cheapside famous for Gold & (Plate, Quicksiluer I did dwel of late: I had a Master good, and kind, That vvould haue vvrought me to his (mind. Pet. I thanke you Francis. I thought by Sea to runne away, —But Thames, and Tempest did me stay. Quic. Still Eastward hoe vvas all my (word: But VVestward I had no regard. Nor neuer thought, vvhat vvould come (after As did alas his youngest Daughter, Quick. Farevvel Cheapside, farevvel svveet trade Of Goldsmithes all, that neuer shall fade Farevvell deare fellovv Prentises all And be you vvarned by my fall: Shun Vsurers, Bauds, and dice, and drabs. Auoide them as you vvould French scabs Seeke not to goe beyond your Tether, But cut your Thongs vnto your Lether So shall you thriue by little and little, Scape Tiborne, Coūters,I.e., Wood Street Counter and Southwark Counter. & the Spitle

Touch. Bring him forth, Maister Wolfe, and release his bands. This day shalbe sacred to Mercy, & the mirth of this Encounter, in the Counter.I.e., Wood Street Counter or Southwark Counter.—See, we are encountred with more Suters.

Gert. As heartely, as I would be forgiuen, Knight. Deare Father, giue me your blessing, and forgiue me too; I ha’ bene proud, and lasciuious, Father; and a Foole, Father; and being raisd to the state of a wanton coy thing, calld a Lady, Father; haue scorn’d you, Father; and my Sister; & my Sisters Veluet Cap, too; and would make a mouth at the Citty, as I ridde through it; and stop mine eares at Bow-bell: I haue said your Beard was a Base one, Father; and that you look’d like Twierpipe, the Taberer; and that my Mother was but my Midwife.

Touch. Haue you no apparell to lend Francis to shift him?

Quick. No sir, nor I desire none; but here make it my suite, that I may goe home, through the streetes, in these as a spectacle, or rather an example to the Children of Cheapside.

EPILOGVS.

STay Sir, I perceiue the Multitude are gatherd together, to view our comming out at the Counter.I.e., Wood Street Counter or Southwark Counter.